Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2024
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington,
Seattle)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Fri., Mar. 1, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Room B36, Boston, MA 02215
"Latin poetry across languages: micro-negotiating classical tradition, with Joachim
Du Bellay and John Milton"
Description: A try-out of material from my soon-to-be-completed Latin Poetry across
Languages: Adventures in Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition (working title),
framed with remarks on the book’s era-straddling plan. I will lead off with some
observations about the poetic interaction of Latin and Greek in the ancient Roman world
(from Part I of my book), focusing on paradoxical elements in that much-studied
relationship. Then, moving forward in time, I will sample two early modern case studies
from Part II, ‘Readings between Latin and vernacular’: (a) ‘Du Bellay in Rome, between
Latin and French’ (drawing on that poet’s French Antiquitez de Rome and his Latin elegy
Romae descriptio, both from the 1550s), and (b), more briefly, ‘Reverse-engineering
Milton’ (in which, against the background of Milton’s 1645 double book of Poems English
and Latin, I conjure up a virtual Latin ‘twin’ for the great epic which Milton did not
write in Latin, Paradise Lost. Poetic conversations throughout will be driven by close
engagement across space and time with (especially) Horace, Ovid and Virgil.
Sponsors: This event has been generously funded by the Boston University Center for the
Humanities.
Boston University: New Approaches to
Classics<https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/new-approaches/>
www.bu.edu…<https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/new-approaches/>
Contact: classics@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)]
Johanna Hanink (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Mar. 14, 6 – 8 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, 255 Coburn Hall, 850 Broadway St, Lowell, MA 01854
"Athens in America: Ancient Greece and the Making of the New Nation"
In the decades between the death of George Washington and the presidential election of
Abraham Lincoln, America’s nation makers became infatuated with a dream of Greece.
This lecture will reconsider the American “Greek Revival” and its enduring significance,
in the context of both the recent bicentennial of the Greek Revolution and the upcoming
commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence.
This event is sponsored by the UML History Department and the College of Fine Arts
Humanities and Social Sciences
A reception follows the talk and off-campus guests can park in the Wilder Lot at 3
Solomont Way, Lowell, MA 01854
www.uml.edu…<https://www.uml.edu/hellenic-studies/zamanakos-endowed-lect…
Contact: Jane Sancinito, Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu<mailto:Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu>
Women's Literacy in Afghanistan
Panel<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Mon., Mar. 18, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Ave,
Boston, MA 02215
"Women's Literacy in Afghanistan Panel"
A discussion featuring Dr. Seth Holm (Teacher of Latin and Ancient Greek at the Hun School
of Princeton & Director of AESOP Afghanistan Inc.) and Dr. Homeira Qaderi (Writer in
Residence at Yale University & Founder of The Golden Needle Literary Association).
Sponsored by:
Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
Department of World Languages and Literatures
CURA (Pardee School)
Boston University Center for Humanities
Department of Classical Studies
NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship
Institute for Forced Displacement
Contact: classics@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Women's Literacy in Afghanistan Panel]
Skye Shirley (University College
London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Mar. 19, 3:30 – 5 p.m.
UMASS BOSTON, Integrated Science Center, 3rd Fl., Room 3300, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston,
MA 02125
"When your Latin Teacher is a Statue: Marta Marchina (1600-1646) and Pasquino"
A research talk sponsored by the Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural
Studies and the UMass Boston Department of Classics and Religious Studies.
This event is free and open to all. A livestream on Zoom will be available. Use this link
to register for the Zoom
livestream<https://umassboston.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YoAZuALOQ2ucskzhbFVN1A>.
Contact: Christopher Cochran
(Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu<mailto:Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu>)
[Skye Shirley (University College London)]
Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University; Visiting Professor of Classics at Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 22, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
TBD
Title TBD.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
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 – 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Room 110, Cambridge, MA 02138
A discussion featuring the first amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, documentary film-maker
Yael Melamede, and others.
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
"Rivalling 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
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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