Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2024
Richard Thomas (Harvard University) and Marco Zoppas (Independent
Scholar)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Mar. 27, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
A Bob Dylan Conversation
Speakers:
Richard Thomas, author of Why Bob Dylan Matters (2017), "Teaching Dylan"
Marco Zoppas, author of Ballando con Mr D (2016) and Bob Knows. Conversations with
Dylanologists (2023), "Interviewing Dylanologists"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and
Receptions<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/classical-traditio…
[Richard Thomas (Harvard University) and Marco Zoppas (Independent Scholar)]
Andrew Ntapalis (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 27, 6 – 7 p.m.
Barker Center, Room 218
"Lamentation and the Mourner’s 'Homecoming' in the Modernist Poetics of
Yannis Ritsos"
This talk outlines ways in which the Greek modernist poet, Yannis Ritsos, uses the
symbolic language of traditional lament culture and mortuary ritual to aestheticize his
views on the role of social poetry. Although the psychological transformations of Ritsos’
mourning mothers recall those of Gorky and Brecht’s maternal protagonists, Ritsos frames
her lament as a ritualized journey of reincorporation that parallels the death and
symbolic resurrection of the deceased proletariat hero. In doing so, Ritsos’ mourner can
be identified as the poet persona through whose “lament” he emphasizes social poetry’s
restorative potential, echoing as it were the poetic philosophies of Paul Éluard and Ilia
Ehrenburg. This talk therefore offers a much-needed discussion of modern Greek
appropriations of lament, while more broadly showing how Greek modernism’s handling of its
indigenous culture is less “conservative” or “national” than is often conceived.
Andrew Ntapalis is a PhD Candidate in Modern Greek in Harvard University's Department
of the Classics.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek
Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/modern-greek-studies&…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harva…
Seminar Chair: Professor P. Roilos
(roilos@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:roilos@fas.harvard.edu>)
Samuel Agbamu (University of
Reading)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Mar. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Virtual Lecture (Zoom)
"Putting the 'Human' in Humanism: Unsettling the Coloniality of
Antiquity"
Talk will take place at this Zoom
link<https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/91976119237?pwd=bjdXZXBLZVlDMUc3M0dtQTBIR2tudz09>.
Sponsors: Boston University Classical Studies, Core Curriculum, and the African American
& Black Diaspora Studies Program.
Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving
Forward<https://www.bu.edu/classics/dei/lecture-series/>
www.bu.edu…<https://www.bu.edu/classics/dei/lecture-series/>
Contact: classics@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading)]
April 2024
Free Speech, the First Amendment, and
Parrhesia<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Wed., Apr. 3, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
No one has done more to shape legal interpretation of the first amendment than Floyd
Abrams. Yet when Abrams litigated Citizens United, some proponents of free speech thought
that this just gave big money the biggest voice. By contrast in ancient democratic
Athens, parrhesia, free and frank speech, was thought to give voice to citizens who lacked
power. Join Floyd
Abrams<https://law.yale.edu/floyd-abrams-0> and Matt
Landauer<https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/Matthew-Landau… and Yael
Melamede<https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577336/> in a conversation about the value of
public speech and the relationship between free speech, equality and power, then and now.
We will be screening excerpts from Yael Melamede’s 2023 documentary Floyd Abrams: Speaking
Freely.
Organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of the Classics.
Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh
Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Rivaling Rome: Parthian and Sasanian Coins and Culture"
Join the Harvard Art Museums for a lecture by Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis about the art of
two ancient Iranian dynasties, and their continuing rivalry with ancient Rome.
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
harvardartmuseums.org…<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/ilse-and-l…
Emily Wilson (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
Thu., Apr. 11, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Higgins Hall 300, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
"Retranslating the Iliad"
Prof. Wilson’s presentation will outline her priorities in and approach to her new
translation of the Iliad. Among the topics to be covered, she will discuss how translating
ancient literature is a far different undertaking from the translation of contemporary
literature, as well as the specific challenges of translating ancient metrical verse. She
will also contextualize her translation within contemporary scholarly and popular
receptions of Homer and compare her translation to others. Finally, she will discuss how
Homeric translation is different from translating other ancient poets.
Free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations required.
Presented by the Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series and Boston College's Department
of Classical Studies.
Contact: Prof. Franco Mormando (mormando@bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>)
[Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)]
Sarah Olsen (Williams
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
Martin Hinterberger (University of
Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Apr. 16, 5 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual
Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Apr. 18 – Sun., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Science and Engineering Complex, 150 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134
www.aah2024.org<https://www.aah2024.org/>
BU Classical Studies Graduate Student
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Sat., Apr. 27
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"From Life to Literature? Genre and Performance in Hellenistic and Roman
Literature"
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Hunter (Cambridge)
See a full Call for Papers at the link below. We are accepting abstracts until February 9,
2024.
classicalstudies.org…<https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-boston-u…
Contact: buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of
Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 203, Cambridge, MA 02138
contact: ariehle@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ariehle@fas.harvard.edu>
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