Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2023
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Mon., Mar. 27, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler 004, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Lydian tradition, Xanthus and post-military Lydia"
Professor Rosalind Thomas presents the third of her Jackson Lectures. Her lecture series
is titled "'...than the Chariots of the Lydians': Archaic Lydia and the
Greeks."
Poster photo: ©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard
College
Jackson Lecture Series
[Rosalind Thomas (University of Oxford)]
Biennial Lecture: Research and Excavations at
Sardis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Mar. 28, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
In this year’s Sardis Biennial lecture, Professor Nicholas D. Cahill of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison will discuss recent excavations at Sardis, one of the great ancient
cities of western Türkiye from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. The Archaeological
Exploration of Sardis has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University
since 1958 and is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Recent
accomplishments at the site include the discovery of some of the world’s earliest silver
coins in a historical context, the restoration of antiquity’s largest synagogue, and the
unearthing of Roman houses destroyed by a devastating earthquake.
Please see the Harvard Art Museums events calendar for full event details:
https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/research-and-excavations-at-sardis&l…
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
Sardis Biennial Lecture
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Contact: am_sardis@harvard.edu<mailto:am_sardis@harvard.edu>
[Biennial Lecture: Research and Excavations at Sardis]
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Mar. 29, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler 004, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Croesus and the Lydian empire: Some thoughts"
Professor Rosalind Thomas presents the fourth of her Jackson Lectures. Her lecture series
is titled "'...than the Chariots of the Lydians': Archaic Lydia and the
Greeks."
Poster photo: ©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard
College
Jackson Lecture Series
[Rosalind Thomas (University of Oxford)]
April 2023
C. Brian Rose (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
Sat., Apr. 1, 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Department of Archaeology, 22 Elm Street, Graham Hall, Hillyer,
Northampton, MA 01063
"Archaeology, Museums, and War"
Speaker: C. Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, University of
Pennsylvania and Past President, Archaeology Institute of America
The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria during the last two decades have profoundly
influenced scholars and how they deal with the art and material culture of antiquity. In
this lecture, archaeologist C. Brian Rose draws on his own experiences with museums,
foreign wars, and archaeology to discuss the ways in which the past now dominates the
present. He gives an overview of cultural heritage destruction and preservation programs
in conflict zones and considers the subject of museums and repatriation requests in an age
of increasing nationalism.
Public reception to follow in the BFAC Atrium.
Rebecca Davis (bdavis@smith.edu<mailto:bdavis@smith.edu>)
[C. Brian Rose (University of Pennsylvania)]
Kimberly Urbanski (UMass
Boston)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Mon., Apr. 3, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
UMass Boston (Remote via Zoom)
Developing second language literacy through Concept-Based Language Instruction and a
Division of Labor Pedagogy
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Christopher Cochran
(Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu<mailto:Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu>)
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 10, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 2 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Night Shifts”
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harva…
Alexander Vega (Harvard University) and Maxwell Wade (Boston
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Apr. 12, 5 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Augustine on Belief Formation in Interpersonal Relationships"
Speaker: Alexander Vega
"Plotinus' Theory of Intelligible Animals in Ennead VI.7.5-12"
Speaker: Maxwell Wade
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Thórhallur Eythorsson (University of
Iceland)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Apr. 13, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Oblique Subjects in Indo-European: a Reassessment
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
The Many Faces of James
Loeb<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Sun., Apr. 16, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Deknatel Room, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Venture with us into the world of James Loeb as three specialists from different fields
help us uncover his personality, examine his influence on ancient studies, and delight in
the small objects that filled his life. This event accompanies the exhibition “A World
within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection.”
Florian Knauss, director of the State Collections of Antiquities in Munich and lecturer at
the University of Augsburg and lecturer at the University of Augsburg, will discuss Loeb
as a collector and philanthropist. He will highlight objects from the collection, give an
overview of Loeb's collecting activities and the legacy of his charitable
achievements.
Mirte Liebregts, doctoral candidate at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History in
Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has delved deeply into the establishment of the Loeb Classical
Library, the bilingual publication series founded by James Loeb. She will examine Loeb’s
motivations for creating the series and their relationship to his collecting.
Richard Thomas, George Martin Lane Professor of Classics, Harvard University and Trustee
of the Loeb Classical Library Foundation will moderate a conversation after the two
presentations.
The galleries will be open until 5:00. You are encouraged to view the exhibition either
before or after the event.
This program is sponsored by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Harvard University and
organized in conjunction with the special exhibition “A World within Reach: Greek and
Roman Art from the Loeb Collection.” Support for the exhibition, on view at the Harvard
Art Museums, from January 28 – May 7, 2023, is provided by the Kelekian Fund. For
information contact:
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu<mailto:am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu>.
Photo: Woman with Mirror, Greek, Boeotia, late 4th century BCE, terracotta with traces of
pigment, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, München, SL 294, TL42482.42 ©
Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek.
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Contact:
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu<mailto:am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu>
[The Many Faces of James Loeb]
A Symposium: Antiochus III’s Edict(s) to Jerusalem: Between Imperial Stress and Local
Agency<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Thu., Apr. 20 – Fri., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street,, Cambridge, MA 02138
Rotem Avneri Meir and Julia Rhyder (co-organizers)
See
website<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochus-iiis-edicts…
for details.
cjs.fas.harvard.edu…<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochu…
Harvard Classics Graduate Student
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 21 – Sat., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Abundance and Scarcity in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
Keynote speaker: Eric Cline (George Washington University)
See the Call for
Papers<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-2023-graduate-s…
for details.
classics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-pap…
contact: harvardgradconf@gmail.com<mailto:harvardgradconf@gmail.com>
Following in the Footsteps of Hadrian: An Evening with Carole Raddato,
Photographer<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
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_…lAOFDR59hh13c05clXU&e=>.
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@wellesley.edu<mailto:bburns@wellesley.edu>
Melissa Mueller (UMass
Amherst)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
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.harva…
Σεβαστή: A Symposium in Honor of Ioli
Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
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.co…
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_…
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=http…
Contact: Ivan Drpić (drpic@sas.upenn.edu<mailto:drpic@sas.upenn.edu>) or Alicia
Walker (awalker01@brynmawr.edu<mailto:awalker01@brynmawr.edu>)
May 2023
Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia and
Princeton)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Wed., May 3, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
"Deus 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 at Princeton.
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