Please note that registration is currently open<https://caneweb.org/csi/> for the CANE Summer Institute (listed below), which will take place July 10–15. Regular registration will remain open until May 15; late registration runs May 16–31. Tuition grants are available for first-generation undergraduate students (Class of 2013 to current), early-career educators (in the first 10 years, at any level), and graduate students and contingent faculty who do not have access to internal funding.
Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2023
Σεβαστή: A Symposium in Honor of Ioli Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 29, 9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lower-Level Auditorium, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.com_-3Fq-3D…>
Confirmed speakers include:
Frances St. Amant, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Diliana Angelova, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Merih Danalı, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
Ivan Drpić, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Konstantina Karterouli, Research Associate, Dumbarton Oaks
Janet T. Marquardt, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Eastern Illinois University
Bissera V. Pentcheva, Professor, Stanford University
Katherine M. Taronas, Byzantine Studies Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks
Courtney Tomaselli, Instructor, Loyola University, Chicago
Nicolette S. Trahoulia, Professor, Deree-The American University of Greece
Alicia Walker, Professor, Bryn Mawr College
This event is free and open to the public; attendees are asked to register in advance.
For the complete symposium program and registration, go to SebasteSymposium.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__SebasteSymposium.org&d=…>
Sponsored by The Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, The Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, and The Byzantine Studies Program, Dumbarton Oaks.
www.sebastesymposium.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.sebastesymposium.o…>
Contact: Ivan Drpić (drpic(a)sas.upenn.edu<mailto:drpic@sas.upenn.edu>) or Alicia Walker (awalker01(a)brynmawr.edu<mailto:awalker01@brynmawr.edu>)
Comedy On and Off Stage<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 29, 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union (Terrace Lounge), 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
From its early development in the Archaic period through its transformation by Roman poets, the genre of comedy in the ancient Mediterranean is both enduring and adaptive. On the one hand, comedy was a performative genre, providing its audience with humor and levity. On the other, it offers us a unique lens through which to better understand the world its audience and authors inhabited. Despite the paucity of surviving works from important comic playwrights such as Menander, we can still observe the impression comedy made on other genres from satire to philosophy and from oratory to the novel. Comedy remains a fruitful area of study for its ability both to reflect and to reshape the world in which it was produced.
Our Keynote speaker will be Prof. Jeffrey Henderson, Aurelio Professor of Greek, Emeritus. The title of his talk is “Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography.”
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
[Comedy On and Off Stage]
May 2023
Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia and Princeton)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., May 3, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
"Magister ex machina or AI? Who really wrote the student poetry of the Old Society of Jesus?"
Presented by Professor Yasmin Haskell, Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism Classics and Ancient History at The University of Western Australia, Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member, Institute for Advanced Study
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/magister-ex-machina-or-ai-…>
[Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia and Princeton)]
Classical Association of Massachusetts Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., May 6, 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G 03, Waltham, MA 02453
Program Schedule for "Civics Education: What can we learn from Greece and Rome?"
The last decade of politics in America has shown us the importance of an informed and responsible citizenry. But what, exactly, should that consist of? We look at how the Greeks and Romans defined what citizenship was, what rights and responsibilities accompanied it, and how we can use these in the classroom.
9:00 AM – Coffee and Reception
9:30 AM – Civics Education: Athenian, Roman and American Ideas of Citizenship (Jay Samons, Professor of Classical Studies, Boston University)
10:15 AM – Coffee Break
10:30 AM – Civics and Conflict in the Iliad (Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University)
11:00 AM – Teaching Athenian Government & Ciceronian Public Discourse (7th and 9th Grades) (Stewart Thomsen, Roxbury Latin School)
11:30 AM – The CLARC Collection: How to Use Material Objects to Give Lessons in Civics (Alexandra Ratzlaff, Asst. Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University and Brandeis Masters Students)
12:00 PM – CAM Business Meeting: Brief updates and announcements
12:10 PM – Lunch, Mandel Center Room 303, and CLARC object investigations
1:00 PM – Elections in Ancient Pompeii and Latin Graffiti (Abbi Holt, Ottoson Middle School, Arlington)
1:30 PM – A Nuanced Look at the “Great and Wonderful” Past We Were Taught (Stephen Guerriero, High Rock Middle School, Needham)
2:00 PM – Discussion and breakout groups: Implementing civics educational requirements in the classroom
2:45 PM – Closing Questions
Registration deadline: Tuesday, May 2, 2023. PDPs available upon request.
sites.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_site_…>
Christopher Cochran (Christopher.Cochran(a)umb.edu<mailto:Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu>)
Matthew Briel (Assumption University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., May 10, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Han Kang at the Brattle Theatre<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., May 15, 6 p.m.
BRATTLE THEATRE, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Bookstore and the Brattle Theatre present Han Kang discussing her novel Greek Lessons with Yung In Chae, introduced by Emily Greenwood.
This is a ticketed event. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
www.harvard.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvard.com_event_…>
July 2023
CANE Summer Institute (Registration Now Open)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., July 10 – Sat., July 15
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Providence, RI and ZOOM
Registration is now open for the CANE Summer Institute!
For CSI's 40th anniversary, this year's program is organized around the theme of "Classical antiquity": a global phenomenon in local contexts. Faculty hailing from public and private educational institutions from all six New England states and beyond, representing disciplines across the humanities, will lead institute participants in a week of mini-courses, professional development workshops, and Greek and Latin reading groups, and deliver research talks as part of the week's free public lecture series. For more information on this year's program, which takes us to ancient and modern Egypt, England, Gandhara, Germany, North Africa, Numidia, Ireland, Italy, Syria, the Ukraine-Russia War, and the United States, please visit caneweb.org/csi.
CANE is launching a tuition grant program for first-generation undergraduate students (Class of 2013 to current), early-career educators (in the first 10 years, at any level), and graduate students and contingent faculty who do not have access to internal funding. Members of any of these groups may request a tuition grant for the in-person or online program. Tuition grants will be made on a rolling basis until all these funds have been disbursed.
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__caneweb.org_csi&d=DwMF…>
summerinst(a)caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>
[CANE Summer Institute (Registration Now Open)]
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.
View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>.
Submit events using our event submission form<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/event-submission>.
Contact calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu> with questions or additions/corrections.
Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2023
Harvard Classics Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 21 – Sat., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Abundance and Scarcity in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
Keynote speaker: Eric Cline (George Washington University)
Keynote Address:
Friday, April 21, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever Hall, Room 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Papers:
Saturday, April 22, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 110, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
See the Call for Papers<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-2023-graduate-student-con…> for details.
abundancescarcity2023.wordpress.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__abundancescarcity2023.…>
Contact: harvardgradconf(a)gmail.com<mailto:harvardgradconf@gmail.com>
[Harvard Classics Graduate Student Conference]
Sarah Derbew (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 25, 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 2r, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sarah F. Derbew<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.sarahderbew.com_&d…> (assistant professor of Classics at Stanford University, former Junior Fellow at Harvard University Society of Fellows) writes, teaches, and speaks widely about ancient Greece’s literary and visual heritage, considering its representations of black people that nimbly provoke—and cut through—hierarchies. In conversation with Emily Greenwood (Professor of the Classics and Comparative Literature), Derbew will highlight the key interventions of her recent book, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cambridge.org_us_a…> (2022), an anti-racist study of blackness in the ancient Greek world. More broadly, she will discuss the benefits of studying Classics alongside Black Studies and African Studies.
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-derbew-untangling-blackn…>
[Sarah Derbew (Stanford University)]
T. J. Bolt (Lafayette College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 27, 4 – 5 p.m.
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Ruane Center for the Humanities LL05, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI 02918
T.J. Bolt (Lafayette College) will visit Providence College on Thursday, April 27 to deliver a lecture, “Bleeding through Time: Seneca’s Tragedies and Contemporary Horror Films” (4 pm in Ruane LL05). The talk explores Seneca through the French theater of cruelty, tracing modern horror’s roots in Senecan tragedy.
Sponsored by the Department of History and Classics through a generous endowment from the Gladys Brooks Foundation.
Rebecca Moorman (rmoorman(a)providence.edu<mailto:rmoorman@providence.edu>)
[T. J. Bolt (Lafayette College)]
Following in the Footsteps of Hadrian: An Evening with Carole Raddato, Photographer<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 27, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA 02138
So far, Carole Raddato has photographed over 1,000 sites and museums focusing on the classical past (especially Roman), many outside continental Europe. Her images, archived since 2019 at the American Academy in Rome, are reproduced in hundreds of academic books. Raddato is currently engaged in a 17-year project to follow Hadrian’s journeys in the order in which he undertook them, as recounted in her photo blog, FollowingHadrian.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__FollowingHadrian.com&d=…>. Her visit to the east coast of the US in April 2023 marks her first lecture tour in North America.
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.
contact: Bryan Burns, bburns(a)wellesley.edu<mailto:bburns@wellesley.edu>
Melissa Mueller (UMass Amherst)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 28, 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
“Reading Sappho and Homer with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick”
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/reading-sappho-and-homer-e…>
[Melissa Mueller (UMass Amherst)]
Σεβαστή: A Symposium in Honor of Ioli Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 29, 9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lower-Level Auditorium, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.com_-3Fq-3D…>
Confirmed speakers include:
Frances St. Amant, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Diliana Angelova, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Merih Danalı, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
Ivan Drpić, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Konstantina Karterouli, Research Associate, Dumbarton Oaks
Janet T. Marquardt, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Eastern Illinois University
Bissera V. Pentcheva, Professor, Stanford University
Katherine M. Taronas, Byzantine Studies Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks
Courtney Tomaselli, Instructor, Loyola University, Chicago
Nicolette S. Trahoulia, Professor, Deree-The American University of Greece
Alicia Walker, Professor, Bryn Mawr College
This event is free and open to the public; attendees are asked to register in advance.
For the complete symposium program and registration, go to SebasteSymposium.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__SebasteSymposium.org&d=…>
Sponsored by The Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, The Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, and The Byzantine Studies Program, Dumbarton Oaks.
www.sebastesymposium.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.sebastesymposium.o…>
Contact: Ivan Drpić (drpic(a)sas.upenn.edu<mailto:drpic@sas.upenn.edu>) or Alicia Walker (awalker01(a)brynmawr.edu<mailto:awalker01@brynmawr.edu>)
Comedy On and Off Stage<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 29, 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, George Sherman Union (Terrace Lounge), 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
From its early development in the Archaic period through its transformation by Roman poets, the genre of comedy in the ancient Mediterranean is both enduring and adaptive. On the one hand, comedy was a performative genre, providing its audience with humor and levity. On the other, it offers us a unique lens through which to better understand the world its audience and authors inhabited. Despite the paucity of surviving works from important comic playwrights such as Menander, we can still observe the impression comedy made on other genres from satire to philosophy and from oratory to the novel. Comedy remains a fruitful area of study for its ability both to reflect and to reshape the world in which it was produced.
Our Keynote speaker will be Prof. Jeffrey Henderson, Aurelio Professor of Greek, Emeritus. The title of his talk is “Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography.”
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
[Comedy On and Off Stage]
May 2023
Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia and Princeton)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., May 3, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
"Magister ex machina or AI? Who really wrote the student poetry of the Old Society of Jesus?"
Presented by Professor Yasmin Haskell, Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism Classics and Ancient History at The University of Western Australia, Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member, Institute for Advanced Study
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/magister-ex-machina-or-ai-…>
[Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia and Princeton)]
Classical Association of Massachusetts Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., May 6, 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G 03, Waltham, MA 02453
Program Schedule for "Civics Education: What can we learn from Greece and Rome?"
The last decade of politics in America has shown us the importance of an informed and responsible citizenry. But what, exactly, should that consist of? We look at how the Greeks and Romans defined what citizenship was, what rights and responsibilities accompanied it, and how we can use these in the classroom.
9:00 AM – Coffee and Reception
9:30 AM – Civics Education: Athenian, Roman and American Ideas of Citizenship (Jay Samons, Professor of Classical Studies, Boston University)
10:15 AM – Coffee Break
10:30 AM – Civics and Conflict in the Iliad (Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University)
11:00 AM – Teaching Athenian Government & Ciceronian Public Discourse (7th and 9th Grades) (Stewart Thomsen, Roxbury Latin School)
11:30 AM – The CLARC Collection: How to Use Material Objects to Give Lessons in Civics (Alexandra Ratzlaff, Asst. Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University and Brandeis Masters Students)
12:00 PM – CAM Business Meeting: Brief updates and announcements
12:10 PM – Lunch, Mandel Center Room 303, and CLARC object investigations
1:00 PM – Elections in Ancient Pompeii and Latin Graffiti (Abbi Holt, Ottoson Middle School, Arlington)
1:30 PM – A Nuanced Look at the “Great and Wonderful” Past We Were Taught (Stephen Guerriero, High Rock Middle School, Needham)
2:00 PM – Discussion and breakout groups: Implementing civics educational requirements in the classroom
2:45 PM – Closing Questions
Registration deadline: Tuesday, May 2, 2023. PDPs available upon request.
sites.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_site_…>
Christopher Cochran (Christopher.Cochran(a)umb.edu<mailto:Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu>)
Matthew Briel (Assumption University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., May 10, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBD
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Han Kang at the Brattle Theatre<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., May 15, 6 p.m.
BRATTLE THEATRE, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Bookstore and the Brattle Theatre present Han Kang discussing her novel Greek Lessons with Yung In Chae, introduced by Emily Greenwood.
This is a ticketed event. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
www.harvard.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvard.com_event_…>
July 2023
CANE Summer Institute (Registration Now Open)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., July 10 – Sat., July 15
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Providence, RI and ZOOM
Registration is now open for the CANE Summer Institute!
For CSI's 40th anniversary, this year's program is organized around the theme of "Classical antiquity": a global phenomenon in local contexts. Faculty hailing from public and private educational institutions from all six New England states and beyond, representing disciplines across the humanities, will lead institute participants in a week of mini-courses, professional development workshops, and Greek and Latin reading groups, and deliver research talks as part of the week's free public lecture series. For more information on this year's program, which takes us to ancient and modern Egypt, England, Gandhara, Germany, North Africa, Numidia, Ireland, Italy, Syria, the Ukraine-Russia War, and the United States, please visit caneweb.org/csi.
CANE is launching a tuition grant program for first-generation undergraduate students (Class of 2013 to current), early-career educators (in the first 10 years, at any level), and graduate students and contingent faculty who do not have access to internal funding. Members of any of these groups may request a tuition grant for the in-person or online program. Tuition grants will be made on a rolling basis until all these funds have been disbursed.
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__caneweb.org_csi&d=DwMF…>
summerinst(a)caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>
[CANE Summer Institute (Registration Now Open)]
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.
View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>.
Submit events using our event submission form<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/event-submission>.
Contact calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu> with questions or additions/corrections.
