Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2024
Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Parrhesia<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__law.yale.edu_floyd-2Da…> and Matt Landauer<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__political-2Dscience.uc…> and Yael Melamede<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.imdb.com_name_nm05…> 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.
chs.harvard.edu…<https://chs.harvard.edu/event/free-speech-the-first-amendment-and-parrhesia/>
The Archaeology of Identity in “Peripheries” of the Roman World<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 5, 2 – 5 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 635 Commonwealth Ave., Room 101, Boston, MA 02215 or via Zoom
"The Archaeology of Identity in 'Peripheries' of the Roman World: An Emerging Scholar Symposium”
This panel brings together emerging scholars and senior scholar discussants to discuss how archaeological methods can illuminate personal identity among “peripheral” communities of the Roman world. We position the concept of “periphery” in both the geographic sense (e.g., Roman Britain, Africa, and the Roman east) and the cultural sense, including communities systematically disadvantaged by Roman society (e.g., women, slaves, racialized populations).
Keynote: Irene Soto Marín (Harvard University).
Presenters: Amia Davis (Yale University), Megan Gatton (New York University), Beth Minney (Stanford University).
Please register in advance for in-person or remote participation (Zoom link available upon registration).
Sponsored by the Archaeology Program and the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University. Funded by Boston University Diversity & Inclusion and College of Arts & Sciences, with additional support from the Boston Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America.
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_archaeology…>
[The Archaeology of Identity in “Peripheries” of the Roman World]
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 8, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
REAL COLEGIO COMPLUTENSE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 and via Zoom
"The Making of the Southern Sea: Forging a Coastal Rim in the Hellenistic Period"
Zoom link available on event page<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/making-southern-sea-forging-coastal-rim-helle…>.
Organized by: Unai Iriarte Asarta (RCCHU Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University)
Speaker: Paul Kosmin (Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History, Harvard University)
rcc.harvard.edu…<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/making-southern-sea-forging-coastal-rim-helle…>
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Apr. 8, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138
CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures
The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries
April 8: The historiographical stakes
April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents
April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences
Speaker: Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
These lectures are dedicated to the memory of Cornell Fleischer.
Maria Mavroudi was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied Philology at the University of her native city before earning a Ph.D. in Byzantine studies at Harvard. Her scholarly work begun by focusing on a tenth-century Byzantine book on dream interpretation that had been widely received in Latin and the European vernaculars and counted as the Christian dreambook of the Middle Ages. While generally viewed as a Byzantine invention partly based on the second-century manual of Artemidorus, she showed that it was a Christian adaptation of Arabic Islamic material and one among a larger group of texts originally written in Arabic or Persian and received into Greek between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries.
During the next two decades, she worked on identifying the place of these translations within Byzantine literary culture and its reception in “East” and “West’ during the medieval and early modern period. This begs reconsidering the position of the ancient Greek classics within the Byzantine, Arabic, and Latin intellectual traditions, as well as the supposed marginality of Byzantium within a broader medieval intellectual universe. Her work was recognized with a MacArthur fellowship in 2002.
Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies)<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event-series/gibb>
contact: elizabethflanagan(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 9, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138
CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures
The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries
April 8: The historiographical stakes
April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents
April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences
Speaker: Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies)<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event-series/gibb>
contact: elizabethflanagan(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>
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
"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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardartmuseums.org_…>
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Knafel 262, Bowie-Vernon Rm, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138
CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures
The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries
April 8: The historiographical stakes
April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents
April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences
Speaker: Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies)<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event-series/gibb>
contact: elizabethflanagan(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>)
[Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)]
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
"The Virgin’s Promise: Intimacy and Futurity in Euripides’ Helen”"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Harvard-Columbia Workshop in Ancient Philosophy<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Apr. 13, 9 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robbins Library, Emerson Hall Room 211, 29 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Breakfast and lunch are provided for those who register before March 31. Please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…>.
Speakers: Rachana Kamtekar, Mariana Beatriz Noé, Taylor Pincin, Katja Vogt
Commentators: William Edwards, Elliot Hueske, Lucas Hustick, Luke Lea
Sponsored by Harvard's Workshop in the History of Philosophy, the Columbia Philosophy Department, Columbia's Classical Studies Graduate Program, and the Abigail Adams Institute.
[Harvard-Columbia Workshop in Ancient Philosophy]
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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.aah2024.org_&d=DwM…>
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)
classicalstudies.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__classicalstudies.org_s…>
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 203, Cambridge, MA 02138
contact: ariehle(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ariehle@fas.harvard.edu>
May 2024
Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric 2024 Spring Colloquium<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., May 3, 12 – 2 p.m.
Via Zoom (registration required)
"Writing Histories of Greco-Roman Rhetoric: A Forward-Looking Reappraisal of Kennedy’s
A New History of Classical Rhetoric"
Join us for CAR’s Spring Colloquium, featuring six distinguished panelists in a critical reappraisal of Kennedy’s New History of Classical rhetoric. Is there a need for larger narratives on ancient rhetoric? Which audiences should such macroscopic work address? Which areas are over- or under-emphasized in the study of the history of ancient rhetoric? Where might such a study successfully intersect with other categories of analysis, such as social history, gender, reception, performance, literary aesthetics, and the visual arts?
Featuring Rita Copeland, Jaś Elsner, Jon Hesk, Michele Kennerly, Alexander Riehle, and Henriette van der Blom.
For registration and further details, visit tinyurl.com/CARspring2024<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tinyurl.com_CARspring20…>.
tinyurl.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tinyurl.com_CARspring20…>
Contact: colloquium.ancientrhetoric(a)gmail.com<mailto:colloquium.ancientrhetoric@gmail.com>
[Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric 2024 Spring Colloquium]
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2024
Richard Thomas (Harvard University) and Marco Zoppas (Independent Scholar)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-traditions>
[Richard Thomas (Harvard University) and Marco Zoppas (Independent Scholar)]
Andrew Ntapalis (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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.harvard.edu/event/lamentation-and-mourner%E2…>
Seminar Chair: Professor P. Roilos (roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:roilos@fas.harvard.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)
"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, 3:30 – 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-Landauer> 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?trumbaEmbed=…>
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-leo-mildenberg-memorial-lec…>
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>)
[Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)]
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 203, Cambridge, MA 02138
contact: ariehle(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ariehle@fas.harvard.edu>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2024
Women's Literacy in Afghanistan Panel<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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 & 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(a)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?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.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Commensuration and Currency in Plato's Phaedo"
Abstract: In the so-called ‘right exchange’ passage at Phaedo 69a-c, Plato introduces some important ideas about the commensuration in value of heterogeneous items necessary for practical reasoning and rational choice. I argue that reading this passage as concerned with commensuration explains why Socrates calls the virtues of nonphilosophers, ordinary people who do not pursue wisdom single-mindedly, 'strange’, ‘unreasonable’, ‘illusory’ and ‘slavish’, on the grounds that nonphilosophers use pleasure (and perhaps also pains, fears, etc., or bodily conditions in general) as their currency (or currencies). In particular, I argue that Socrates' names point not to intrinsic defects of nonphilosophers (e.g. taking pleasure as their end, or being unwilling or unable to appreciate non-bodily values), but to the fact that the context-relativity of pleasure (or bodily conditions in general) makes it an inconstant basis for judgements about virtue (e.g. about the courage and moderation of particular acts or people), and hence unfit to be a measure.
Rachana Kamtekar is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Cornell University and a Visiting Professor of Classics in Harvard‘s Department of the Classics.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
[Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University; Visiting Professor of Classics at Harvard University)]
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
"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-leo-mildenberg-memorial-lec…>
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 11, 5:30 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(a)bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>)
[Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)]
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 203, Cambridge, MA 02138
contact: ariehle(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ariehle@fas.harvard.edu>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
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>
Women's Literacy in Afghanistan Panel<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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(a)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?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
"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?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 203, Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact: ariehle(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ariehle@fas.harvard.edu>
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