Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2022
Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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/mahindra-humanities-center-medieval-…>
Contact: Sean Gilsdorf (gilsdorf(a)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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventi…>
[Ancient Studies Visitors Series: Carolina López-Ruiz (University of Chicago)]
John DeVoy (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)umass.edu<mailto:bbreed@umass.edu>)
María Luisa Aguilar García (University of Valencia and Collegium Latinitatis)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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"
Use this form <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_SLAClassic…> to sign up to receive the Zoom link.
UMass Boston SLA and Classics Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.umb.edu_classics…>
blogs.umb.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.umb.edu_classics…>
Contact: Christopher Cochran (Christopher.Cochran(a)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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-across-discipl…>.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Rosalind Thomas (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-to-jerusal…> for details.
cjs.fas.harvard.edu…<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochus-iiis-edicts-to-jerusal…>
A Symposium in Honor of Ioli Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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.com_-3Fq-3D…>
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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Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2022
Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Oct. 24, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
"Medieval Fixers: History, Literature, and the Politics of Translation"
Zrinka Stahuljak is Director of the University of California Los Angeles (CMRS) Center for Early Global Studies
Abstract: Ever since the western involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, and then Syria, the term “fixer” became commonplace. It designates almost exclusively men who perform a range of services for foreign journalists and armies. Acting as interpreters, local informants, guides, drivers, mediators, brokers, these men are intermediaries, enablers who possess multiple skills and bodies of knowledge. Fixers existed already in the Middle Ages, in situations of multilingual encounter, such as crusades, pilgrimages, proselytization, trade, translation. Fixers are the invisible men and women of history, then as now. This talk aims to restore their presence in a productive conversation between the fixers of the past and of the present. To look at history, literature, and politics through the lens of fixers changes our relationship to the world and how we structure it, and invites reflection on 'intermediary states.’
Bio: Zrinka Stahuljak is Director of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her work has been recognized with major fellowships (Guggenheim; Fulbright; IAS Princeton), several visiting professorships including at the Collège de France (2018), in Iceland and Taiwan (2022), and at EHESS (2023), and in 2020 she was elected to the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has authored or co-authored seven books, most recently Les Fixeurs au Moyen Âge: histoire et littérature connectées (Seuil, 2021), Médiéval contemporain: pour une littérature connectée (Macula, 2020), Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation (UPenn, 2013; French trans. PUR, 2018), and she has just completed Fixers: Agency, Translation, and Literary History of the Middle Ages (forthcoming UP Chicago, 2023).
Open and free to public.
Non-MIT community members should register in MIT’s Tim Tickets system in order to get access to building: https://bit.ly/3rXSTvz <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bit.ly_3rXSTvz&d=DwMFA…>
Sponsors: MIT French+ Initiative, MIT Literature, MIT Global Languages, Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
calendar.mit.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__calendar.mit.edu_event…>
Contact: tranvoj(a)mit.edu<mailto:tranvoj@mit.edu>
[Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)]
Jeffrey Murray, 'Classics in Natal, 1843-2000'<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 26, 12:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138
This event will be in-person & live-streamed on YouTube<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_BX3EN2JX1-2Dk…>.
Jeffrey Murray<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jeffrey-murray> is the Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/jeffrey-murray-classics-natal-…>
New England Ancient History Colloquium Fall 2022<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 26, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Waltham, MA 02453
We are pleased to announce the fall meeting of the New England Ancient History Colloquium (NEAHC). On the evening of October 26th, Brandeis University will host a meeting to discuss a pre-circulated paper by Professor Roberta Stewart of Dartmouth College entitled, “Coping with the Lot,” followed by comments from Professor Dominic Machado of the College of the Holy Cross.
Registration information will be sent before the end of September. Brandeis will host a reception, followed by dinner and discussion. Links to Professor Stewart’s paper will be sent two weeks in advance of the meeting.
Brandeis is easily accessible by car and public transportation. Parking is available on campus near the location of the meeting. Further details on catering choices and location will be provided on the registration form.
We hope you will consider joining us on campus! This event will be hybrid, and those who attend online will be able to join in the conversation and question period.
To join the NEAHC mailing list, please write to: classics_department(a)brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu>
New England Ancient Historians Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.neahc.us_&d=DwMFAw…>
Contact: Caitlin Gillespie and Cheryl Walker (Brandeis University)
Inspiring Greek Women Writers and the Importance of Their Translation<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Oct. 28, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, PHO 206. 8, St Mary's St, Boston, MA
Join us for an afternoon discussion of the life and works of two prominent Greek authors, Amanda Michalopoulou and Kallia Papadaki, and a celebration of the importance of women writers to contemporary cultural life in Greece. The authors will read from their works, and Prof. Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University of Greece) will moderate a discussion and Q & A. All attendees will have a chance to meet the authors and experts at a reception afterwards. This event is free and open to students, scholars, and the general public. Tickets available through Eventbrite<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventbrite.com_e_i…>.
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
Contact: classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Inspiring Greek Women Writers and the Importance of Their Translation]
Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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/mahindra-humanities-center-medieval-…>
Contact: Sean Gilsdorf (gilsdorf(a)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?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Nov. 1, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBA
“The Recovery of a Phoenician Intellectual History: Problems and Insights”
Details to follow.
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
John DeVoy (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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
María Luisa Aguilar García (University of Valencia and Collegium Latinitatis)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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"
Use this form <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_SLAClassic…> to sign up to receive the Zoom link.
UMass Boston SLA and Classics Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.umb.edu_classics…>
blogs.umb.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.umb.edu_classics…>
Contact: Christopher Cochran (Christopher.Cochran(a)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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-across-discipl…>.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Rosalind Thomas (University of Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-to-jerusal…> for details.
cjs.fas.harvard.edu…<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochus-iiis-edicts-to-jerusal…>
A Symposium in Honor of Ioli Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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.com_-3Fq-3D…>
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.
View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list> to weekly emails.
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