Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2024
Free Speech, the First Amendment, and
Parrhesia<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
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…
and Matt
Landauer<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__political-…
and Yael
Melamede<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.imdb.c…
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-ame…
The Archaeology of Identity in “Peripheries” of the Roman
World<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
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.…
[The Archaeology of Identity in “Peripheries” of the Roman World]
Paul Kosmin (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
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-r…od>.
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-forgi…
Maria Mavroudi (University of California,
Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
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@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>
Maria Mavroudi (University of California,
Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
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@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>
Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh
Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
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-…
Maria Mavroudi (University of California,
Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
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@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>
Emily Wilson (University of
Pennsylvania)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-cale…
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@bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>)
[Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)]
Sarah Olsen (Williams
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
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-gr…
Harvard-Columbia Workshop in Ancient
Philosophy<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
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.co…kjyGR3rl2TMLn5KdR58&e=>.
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?t…
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?t…
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…
BU Classical Studies Graduate Student
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
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-3…
Contact: buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com<mailto:buclassicsgradstudents@gmail.com>
Michael Grünbart (University of
Münster)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Mon., Apr. 29, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 203, Cambridge, MA 02138
contact: ariehle@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-calenda…
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=htt…fKXGgcP0cQTsOI-TA6A&e=>.
tinyurl.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tinyurl…
Contact:
colloquium.ancientrhetoric@gmail.com<mailto:colloquium.ancientrhetoric@gmail.com>
[Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric 2024 Spring Colloquium]
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