Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2024
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]
Migrations, Mediterranean to Slavic<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 16, 4 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall Room 110, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 and via Zoom
"Migrations, Mediterranean to Slavic: Ancient DNA reveals the Roman Empire’s cosmopolitan Danube frontier from Domitian to the Slavs"
Come learn how the humanities are using biomolecules, archaeology and history to discover a dramatic new vision of the Roman Empire and its enduring impact. Stunning new ancient DNA evidence from the SoHP/MHAAM research team reveals the Roman Empire’s cosmopolitan society on the Danube Balkans frontier down to the Slavic migration.
Speakers will include:
Kyle Harper, G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty and Professor of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma
Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University; Chair, SoHP; Director at Harvard, MHAAM
Iñigo Olalde, Ikerbasque Research Fellow, BIOMICS research group, University of Basque Country
David Reich, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
With comments provided by: Margaret M. Andrews, Assistant Professor of Classics, Harvard University; Victoria Moses, Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, MHAAM, Harvard University; Solenn Troadec, Lounsbery Postdoctoral Fellow, MHAAM, Harvard University.
Remote attendees: please register in advance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…> for the live webinar.
sohp.fas.harvard.edu…<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/event/migrations-mediterranean-slavic-ancient-…>
[Migrations, Mediterranean to Slavic]
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
“Levels of Greek in 14th-Century Byzantine Literature”
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, Terrace Lounge, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"From Life to Literature? Genre and Performance in Hellenistic and Roman Literature"
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Hunter (Cambridge)
Please register at the link below.
docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…>
Contact: buclassicsgradstudents(a)gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
[BU Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference]
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
“Counting Pigs and Finding the Right Bed: Forms of Drawing Lots in the Byzantine Empire”
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
April 2024
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
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
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, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., 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>
[Sarah Olsen (Williams College)]
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]
Migrations, Mediterranean to Slavic<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 16, 4 – 6:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall Room 110, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 and via Zoom
"Migrations, Mediterranean to Slavic: Ancient DNA reveals the Roman Empire’s cosmopolitan Danube frontier from Domitian to the Slavs"
Come learn how the humanities are using biomolecules, archaeology and history to discover a dramatic new vision of the Roman Empire and its enduring impact. Stunning new ancient DNA evidence from the SoHP/MHAAM research team reveals the Roman Empire’s cosmopolitan society on the Danube Balkans frontier down to the Slavic migration.
Speakers will include:
Kyle Harper, G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty and Professor of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma
Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University; Chair, SoHP; Director at Harvard, MHAAM
Iñigo Olalde, Ikerbasque Research Fellow, BIOMICS research group, University of Basque Country
David Reich, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
With comments provided by: Margaret M. Andrews, Assistant Professor of Classics, Harvard University; Victoria Moses, Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, MHAAM, Harvard University; Solenn Troadec, Lounsbery Postdoctoral Fellow, MHAAM, Harvard University.
Remote attendees: please register in advance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…> for the live webinar.
sohp.fas.harvard.edu…<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/event/migrations-mediterranean-slavic-ancient-…>
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)
See a full Call for Papers at the link below. We are accepting abstracts until February 9, 2024.
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]
Sergio Casali (University of Rome)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., May 8, 12 – 2 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Writing Aeneid commentaries”
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