Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2022
Rita Copeland (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
Mon., Oct. 31, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 110 (the Thompson Room), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Author Rita Copeland, Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities and
Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of
Pennsylvania, discusses her new book Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle
Ages (Oxford University Press, 2022) with Nicholas Watson, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot
Professor of English Literature and Chair of the Committee on Medieval Studies. This event
is part of the Medieval Studies Seminar's 2022-2023 series Re-Writing the Middle
Ages.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval
Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/medieval-studies>
medieval.fas.harvard.edu…<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahindr…
Contact: Sean Gilsdorf (gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu>)
November 2022
Ancient Studies Visitors Series: Carolina López-Ruiz (University of
Chicago)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 1, 5:30 p.m.
The Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University
The recovery of Phoenician intellectual history: problems and insights
The Phoenicians pose for us a fascinating puzzle and object of study. Belonging broadly to
the Canaanite cultural zone, they made their mark well beyond the Levant, indeed across
the entire Mediterranean. Yet the study of their culture is awkwardly situated between
disciplines (Classics, Near Eastern and Biblical Studies, Iron Age Archaeology), and is
only slowly breaking out from a hyperspecialized niche. As our knowledge of their material
culture is rapidly increasing, their intellectual legacy and the other intangible aspects
of their culture remain largely in the dark. We have few and mostly secondary sources, but
the reconstruction effort is worthwhile. Focusing on religious-mythological trends, I will
argue that the Phoenicians were active participants in broader Mediterranean trends in
intellectual history.
Free, and open to the public.
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors
Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
ancientstudies.harvard.edu…<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/events?tr…
[Ancient Studies Visitors Series: Carolina López-Ruiz (University of Chicago)]
John DeVoy (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Nov. 9, 5 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Xwedodah: Zoroastrian Incest from Herodotus to Heraclius"
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Philipp Stockhammer (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Max Planck Harvard Research Center for
the Archaeoscience of the Ancient
Mediterranean)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cal…
Mon., Nov. 14, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South: Belfer Case Study Room, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge
Street in Cambridge, MA
Prof. Philipp Stockhammer, archaeologist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich
and Deputy Director for MHAAM in Germany, will present his latest discoveries with MHAAM
about family, foods, and health in Bronze Age Greece. This talk will be followed by a
public reception!
sohp.fas.harvard.edu…<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming>
Lecture: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne) and Thomas Sagory (French Ministry of
Culture)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 15, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Syrian archaeological archives and cultural heritage
Open to the public.
Organized by the Forum on Cultural Heritage at Harvard
[Lecture: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne) and Thomas Sagory (French Ministry of
Culture)]
A. E.
Stallings<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Wed., Nov. 16, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
UMASS AMHERST, Integrative Learning Center 240, 650 N Pleasant St, Amherst MA 01003
"Myth as Method: an American Poet in Greece, through modern Crises"
Sponsored by the Department of Classics at UMass Amherst with the support of the
Departments of Classics at Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges.
A. E. Stallings is an American poet and translator who lives in Athens, Greece. She has
published four volumes of poetry (most recently Like, which was a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize) and has a selected poems (This Afterlife) forthcoming in December from
FSG. She has also published three volumes of verse translation, including Lucretius'
The Nature of Things, Hesiod's Works and Days, and the Pseudo-Homeric Battle Between
the Frogs and the Mice. She is currently working on a Georgics for Liveright. She has
received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations and a grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. Since 2015, she has run a poetry for refugee women at the Melissa Network for
Migrant Women in Athens.
Contact: Brian Breed (bbreed@umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@umass.edu>)
María Luisa Aguilar García (University of Valencia and Collegium
Latinitatis)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
Tue., Nov. 29, 3 – 4 p.m.
Remote, via Zoom
"Learning vocabulary in a second language: what it is, how it works, which strategies
can lead to a rich and stable vocabulary knowledge"
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Contact: Christopher Cochran
(Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu<mailto:Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu>)
March 2023
Alexander Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,
NYU)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Wed., Mar. 1
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Also sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Diagrams Across Disciplines:
History, Theory,
Practice<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/diagrams-ac…ce>.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Mar. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 1
Jackson Lecture Series
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Mar. 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 2
Reception to follow lecture.
Jackson Lecture Series
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Mon., Mar. 27, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 3
Jackson Lecture Series
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Mar. 29, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 4
Jackson Lecture Series
April 2023
A Symposium: Antiochus III’s Edict(s) to Jerusalem: Between Imperial Stress and Local
Agency<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Thu., Apr. 20 – Fri., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street,, Cambridge, MA 02138
Rotem Avneri Meir and Julia Rhyder (co-organizers)
See
website<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochus-iiis-edicts…
for details.
cjs.fas.harvard.edu…<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochu…
A Symposium in Honor of Ioli
Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 28 – Sun., Apr. 30
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Building, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
02138<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.co…
Students and colleagues will gather to celebrate the career of Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton
Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art, Harvard University. The symposium will feature papers by
her students. This event is free and open to the public.
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