Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2024
Rhodora Vennarucci (University of Arkansas)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever Hall Room 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Exploring the Social Dynamics of Production in the Blacksmith’s Workshop at Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano, Italy)
Amy Russell (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive (3rd floor, opposite end of hallway & through doors by stairwell), Cambridge, MA 02139
"Gender and belonging: women as members of the political community, through a Roman lens"
From myth to contract theory to the Third Reich, understandings of the notion of political community have often been expressed by calling back to its origins. Historians of the distant past are well qualified to talk about origin myths: the populus Romanus is the blueprint for many later notions of the sovereign People. But how does a group of individuals coalesce into a community, and how is that process gendered? I will explore the relationship between gender and the populus in Republican Rome, before mobilizing feminist approaches to explore how the legal and symbolic moves that define We the People have historically encoded violence against women; nevertheless, the past also offers ideas for alternative ways to think about what it means to belong to a political community.
Amy Russell is a Roman political and cultural historian, with particular interests in Republican political culture, space, and gender. Her next major work will be a monograph on the institutional and cultural role of the populus Romanus, for which her preparations have included new collaborations with political scientists, historians, and lawyers on the construction of peoplehood across time and space.
Image: Nicholas Poussin, “The Abduction of the Sabine Women” (1634-5)
A battle with men grabbing women, who are black and white contrasting a mostly orange, beige image of the struggle.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
calendar.mit.edu…<https://calendar.mit.edu/event/amsgenderandbelonging>
Contact: lit(a)mit.edu<mailto:lit@mit.edu>
March 2024
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)]
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-lecture.aspx>
Contact: Jane Sancinito, Jane_Sancinito(a)uml.edu<mailto:Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu>
Skye Shirley (University College London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)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-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-greece>
Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-greece>
Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-university-graduate-studen…>
Contact: buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Under the Great Mother's Sway: An Excursion Through Martial Book Three"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
[Tom Sapsford (Boston College)]
Rhodora Vennarucci (University of Arkansas)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever Hall Room 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Exploring the Social Dynamics of Production in the Blacksmith’s Workshop at Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano, Italy)”
Amy Russell (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive (3rd floor, opposite end of hallway & through doors by stairwell), Cambridge, MA 02139
"Gender and belonging: women as members of the political community, through a Roman lens"
From myth to contract theory to the Third Reich, understandings of the notion of political community have often been expressed by calling back to its origins. Historians of the distant past are well qualified to talk about origin myths: the populus Romanus is the blueprint for many later notions of the sovereign People. But how does a group of individuals coalesce into a community, and how is that process gendered? I will explore the relationship between gender and the populus in Republican Rome, before mobilizing feminist approaches to explore how the legal and symbolic moves that define We the People have historically encoded violence against women; nevertheless, the past also offers ideas for alternative ways to think about what it means to belong to a political community.
Amy Russell is a Roman political and cultural historian, with particular interests in Republican political culture, space, and gender. Her next major work will be a monograph on the institutional and cultural role of the populus Romanus, for which her preparations have included new collaborations with political scientists, historians, and lawyers on the construction of peoplehood across time and space.
Image: Nicholas Poussin, “The Abduction of the Sabine Women” (1634-5)
A battle with men grabbing women, who are black and white contrasting a mostly orange, beige image of the struggle.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
calendar.mit.edu…<https://calendar.mit.edu/event/amsgenderandbelonging>
Contact: lit(a)mit.edu<mailto:lit@mit.edu>
March 2024
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)]
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-lecture.aspx>
Contact: Jane Sancinito, Jane_Sancinito(a)uml.edu<mailto:Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu>
Skye Shirley (University College London)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)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-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-greece>
Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Virtual Lecture (Zoom)
Title TBD
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(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
April 2024
Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Parrhesia<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-greece>
Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 – Sun., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
www.aah2024.org<https://www.aah2024.org/>
BU Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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.
classicalstudies.org…<https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-boston-university-graduate-studen…>
Contact: buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
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
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Under the Great Mother's Sway: An Excursion Through Martial Book Three"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
[Tom Sapsford (Boston College)]
Rhodora Vennarucci (University of Arkansas)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever Hall Room 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
Amy Russell (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive (3rd floor, opposite end of hallway & through doors by stairwell), Cambridge, MA 02139
"Gender and belonging: women as members of the political community, through a Roman lens"
From myth to contract theory to the Third Reich, understandings of the notion of political community have often been expressed by calling back to its origins. Historians of the distant past are well qualified to talk about origin myths: the populus Romanus is the blueprint for many later notions of the sovereign People. But how does a group of individuals coalesce into a community, and how is that process gendered? I will explore the relationship between gender and the populus in Republican Rome, before mobilizing feminist approaches to explore how the legal and symbolic moves that define We the People have historically encoded violence against women; nevertheless, the past also offers ideas for alternative ways to think about what it means to belong to a political community.
Amy Russell is a Roman political and cultural historian, with particular interests in Republican political culture, space, and gender. Her next major work will be a monograph on the institutional and cultural role of the populus Romanus, for which her preparations have included new collaborations with political scientists, historians, and lawyers on the construction of peoplehood across time and space.
Image: Nicholas Poussin, “The Abduction of the Sabine Women” (1634-5)
A battle with men grabbing women, who are black and white contrasting a mostly orange, beige image of the struggle.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
calendar.mit.edu…<https://calendar.mit.edu/event/amsgenderandbelonging>
Contact: lit(a)mit.edu<mailto:lit@mit.edu>
March 2024
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)]
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-lecture.aspx>
Contact: Jane Sancinito, Jane_Sancinito(a)uml.edu<mailto:Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu>
Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Virtual Lecture (Zoom)
Title TBD
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(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
April 2024
Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-greece>
Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 – Sun., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
www.aah2024.org<https://www.aah2024.org/>
BU Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-university-graduate-studen…>
Contact: buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2024
Book Launch and Discussion for "Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens," Seth Estrin (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Feb. 5, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Building, Lower Lecture Hall, Department of History of Art and Architecture, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Grief Made Marble (Yale University Press, 2023), Seth Estrin (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University) offers a new account of the relationship between art and emotion in ancient Greece through a revelatory study of the sculpted funerary monuments of Classical Athens. He is joined in discussion by Yukio Lippit (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University), Kathleen Coleman (Department of the Classics, Harvard University), and Nathan Arrington (Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University).
haa.fas.harvard.edu…<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-launch-and-discussion-grief-made-mar…>
[Book Launch and Discussion for "Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens," Seth Estrin (Harvard University)]
Delphi, the Navel of the World: Connecting Antiquity with the Future<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Feb. 8, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
CONSULATE GENERAL OF GREECE IN BOSTON, 86 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108
The Consulate General of Greece in Boston and the European Cultural Centre of Delphi cordially invite you to the presentation "Delphi, the Navel of the World: Connecting Antiquity with the Future."
Speakers:
Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; President of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University: Director of the Weatherhead Center for international Affairs
Reception to follow.
[Delphi, the Navel of the World: Connecting Antiquity with the Future]
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Rhodora Vennarucci (University of Arkansas)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Feb. 27, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
March 2024
Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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/>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Stephen Hinds (University of Washington, Seattle)]
Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Mar. 28, 5 – 7 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Virtual Lecture (Zoom)
Title TBD
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/>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
April 2024
Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-greece>
Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 – Sun., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
www.aah2024.org<https://www.aah2024.org/>
BU Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-university-graduate-studen…>
buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
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