Boston Area Classics Calendar
December 2021
Kelly Dugan (Trinity
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Dec. 1, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Zoom
"Ancient Worlds in Our Community: Service Learning and Community Building in Ancient
Studies"
Zoom
registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__https-3…
Dr. Kelly P. Dugan is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and 2021–2022
Community Learning Faculty Fellow. She holds a PhD in Language and Literacy Education from
the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on antiracist teaching and teacher
training in ancient studies. She also studies systems of enslavement and abolition from
antiquity to today. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Dugan has a background as a
writing coach and years of experience in designing and teaching academic success courses
for transfer and first-generation college students. This academic year, she is teaching
Latin, mythology, Ancient Worlds in Our Community, and Ethiopia and the Ancient
Mediterranean.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha…
[Kelly Dugan (Trinity College)]
Patrice Rankine (University of
Chicago)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Dec. 1, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Online. See registration link.)
Professor Rankine is the author of Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and
African American Literature. Faculty and students are encouraged to read his article in
advance of the talk: “The Classics, Race, and Community-Engaged or Public Scholarship”
(2019)
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ev…vsfsJdhkNDSdfan9BlI&e=>.
Co-sponsors: Classics Department, the Core Curriculum, African American Studies and the
NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.…
73rd Latin Carol
Celebration<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Dec. 6, 8 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Sayles Hall, Providence, RI 02912
www.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
Shane Bobrycki (University of Vienna,
Austria)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Dec. 13, 5:15 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (on Zoom, registration required)
"Plague, War, Migration, Climate Change, Sex, and the Demographic Riddle of the Early
Middle Ages
Zoom
registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zo…
Abstract: The medieval historian Marc Bloch wrote that the “fundamental characteristic” of
early medieval Europe (c. 500–1000 CE) was “the great and universal decline in population”
that opened the period. Many economic and social historians have agreed. Between the fifth
and the seventh centuries, cities and towns diminished by orders of magnitude; some
vanished entirely. Settlement density declined almost everywhere. Only gradually did
cities and populations recover, a process that gained speed only after 1000. Few question
that this demographic pattern had profound economic, social, and political consequences
for early medieval history. But historians are less sure why it happened in the first
place. What caused populations to drop off in the post-Roman West? Why did they remain low
for so long? Why did the demographic fate of the West differ from that of its “sibling
cultures” around the Mediterranean, the Byzantine and Islamic worlds? In this talk, I
reassess the usual suspects for early medieval European demographic history: epidemic
disease, endemic warfare, migration, climate change, and the reproductive choices of early
medieval families. I will argue that in each case we need to spend more time thinking
about the mechanics of causation.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
mit.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mit.zo…
[Shane Bobrycki (University of Vienna, Austria)]
February 2022
Maurizio Bettini (University of
Siena)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Feb. 2, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Zoom
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
Andrew Bauer (Stanford
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Feb. 8, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Lecture: TBA
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors
Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Feb. 28, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD
Book launch for the The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
March 2022
Patrick Finglass (University of
Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Mar. 18, 4 – 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
Topic TBA
Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities
Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient
World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_cl…
April 2022
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Zoom (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
TBA
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
Rebecca Ammerman (Colgate
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Ammerman, a classical archaeologist, will speak about votive imagery and the cult of the
nymphs at Metaponto.
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