Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2022
Zrinka Stahuljak
(
UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Mon., Oct. 24, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14, 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive,
Cambridge, MA 02142
"Medieval Fixers: History, Literature, and the Politics of Translation"
Zrinka Stahuljak is Director of the University of California Los Angeles (CMRS) Center for
Early Global Studies
Abstract: Ever since the western involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, and then Syria, the
term “fixer” became commonplace. It designates almost exclusively men who perform a range
of services for foreign journalists and armies. Acting as interpreters, local informants,
guides, drivers, mediators, brokers, these men are intermediaries, enablers who possess
multiple skills and bodies of knowledge. Fixers existed already in the Middle Ages, in
situations of multilingual encounter, such as crusades, pilgrimages, proselytization,
trade, translation. Fixers are the invisible men and women of history, then as now. This
talk aims to restore their presence in a productive conversation between the fixers of the
past and of the present. To look at history, literature, and politics through the lens of
fixers changes our relationship to the world and how we structure it, and invites
reflection on 'intermediary states.’
Bio: Zrinka Stahuljak is Director of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and
Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA). Her work has been recognized with major fellowships (Guggenheim;
Fulbright; IAS Princeton), several visiting professorships including at the Collège de
France (2018), in Iceland and Taiwan (2022), and at EHESS (2023), and in 2020 she was
elected to the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has authored or co-authored
seven books, most recently Les Fixeurs au Moyen Âge: histoire et littérature connectées
(Seuil, 2021), Médiéval contemporain: pour une littérature connectée (Macula, 2020),
Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation
(UPenn, 2013; French trans. PUR, 2018), and she has just completed Fixers: Agency,
Translation, and Literary History of the Middle Ages (forthcoming UP Chicago, 2023).
Open and free to public.
Non-MIT community members should register in MIT’s Tim Tickets system in order to get
access to building:
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Sponsors: MIT French+ Initiative, MIT Literature, MIT Global Languages, Ancient &
Medieval Studies Colloquium
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
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Contact: tranvoj@mit.edu<mailto:tranvoj@mit.edu>
[Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA)]
Jeffrey Murray, 'Classics in Natal,
1843-2000'<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-ca…
Wed., Oct. 26, 12:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3R, Cambridge, MA
02138
This event will be in-person & live-streamed on
YouTube<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_BX…SJyFIG2mDRHUDC-jr_0&e=>.
Jeffrey
Murray<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jeffrey-murray> is the
Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/e…
New England Ancient History Colloquium Fall
2022<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Wed., Oct. 26, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Waltham, MA 02453
We are pleased to announce the fall meeting of the New England Ancient History Colloquium
(NEAHC). On the evening of October 26th, Brandeis University will host a meeting to
discuss a pre-circulated paper by Professor Roberta Stewart of Dartmouth College entitled,
“Coping with the Lot,” followed by comments from Professor Dominic Machado of the College
of the Holy Cross.
Registration information will be sent before the end of September. Brandeis will host a
reception, followed by dinner and discussion. Links to Professor Stewart’s paper will be
sent two weeks in advance of the meeting.
Brandeis is easily accessible by car and public transportation. Parking is available on
campus near the location of the meeting. Further details on catering choices and location
will be provided on the registration form.
We hope you will consider joining us on campus! This event will be hybrid, and those who
attend online will be able to join in the conversation and question period.
To join the NEAHC mailing list, please write to:
classics_department@brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu>
New England Ancient Historians
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Contact: Caitlin Gillespie and Cheryl Walker (Brandeis University)
Inspiring Greek Women Writers and the Importance of Their
Translation<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Oct. 28, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, PHO 206. 8, St Mary's St, Boston, MA
Join us for an afternoon discussion of the life and works of two prominent Greek authors,
Amanda Michalopoulou and Kallia Papadaki, and a celebration of the importance of women
writers to contemporary cultural life in Greece. The authors will read from their works,
and Prof. Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University of Greece) will moderate a discussion and Q
& A. All attendees will have a chance to meet the authors and experts at a reception
afterwards. This event is free and open to students, scholars, and the general public.
Tickets available through
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Contact: classics@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Inspiring Greek Women Writers and the Importance of Their Translation]
Rita Copeland (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
Mon., Oct. 31, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 110 (the Thompson Room), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Author Rita Copeland, Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities and
Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of
Pennsylvania, discusses her new book Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle
Ages (Oxford University Press, 2022) with Nicholas Watson, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot
Professor of English Literature and Chair of the Committee on Medieval Studies. This event
is part of the Medieval Studies Seminar's 2022-2023 series Re-Writing the Middle
Ages.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Medieval
Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/medieval-studies>
medieval.fas.harvard.edu…<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/mahindr…
Contact: Sean Gilsdorf (gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu>)
November 2022
Ancient Studies Visitors Series: Carolina López-Ruiz (University of
Chicago)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 1, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBA
“The Recovery of a Phoenician Intellectual History: Problems and Insights”
Details to follow.
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors
Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
John DeVoy (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Nov. 9, 5 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Xwedodah: Zoroastrian Incest from Herodotus to Heraclius"
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Philipp Stockhammer (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Max Planck Harvard Research Center for
the Archaeoscience of the Ancient
Mediterranean)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cal…
Mon., Nov. 14, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CGIS South: Belfer Case Study Room, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge
Street in Cambridge, MA
Prof. Philipp Stockhammer, archaeologist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich
and Deputy Director for MHAAM in Germany, will present his latest discoveries with MHAAM
about family, foods, and health in Bronze Age Greece. This talk will be followed by a
public reception!
sohp.fas.harvard.edu…<https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming>
Lecture: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne) and Thomas Sagory (French Ministry of
Culture)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Tue., Nov. 15, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topic: Syrian archaeological archives and cultural heritage
Open to the public.
Organized by the Forum on Cultural Heritage at Harvard
María Luisa Aguilar García (University of Valencia and Collegium
Latinitatis)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
Tue., Nov. 29, 3 – 4 p.m.
Remote, via Zoom
"Learning vocabulary in a second language: what it is, how it works, which strategies
can lead to a rich and stable vocabulary knowledge"
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Contact: Christopher Cochran
(Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu<mailto:Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu>)
March 2023
Alexander Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,
NYU)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Wed., Mar. 1
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
TBA
Also sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Diagrams Across Disciplines:
History, Theory,
Practice<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/diagrams-ac…ce>.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Mar. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 1
Jackson Lecture Series
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Mar. 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 2
Reception to follow lecture.
Jackson Lecture Series
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, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 3
Jackson Lecture Series
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, TBA, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Lecture 4
Jackson Lecture Series
April 2023
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…
A Symposium in Honor of Ioli
Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 28 – Sun., Apr. 30
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Building, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
02138<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.co…
Students and colleagues will gather to celebrate the career of Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton
Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art, Harvard University. The symposium will feature papers by
her students. This event is free and open to the public.
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