Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2020
Seth Schein (University of California,
Davis)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Oct. 13, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required below.
Workshop on Iliad commentary
This will be an interactive workshop. Participants are asked to prepare by reading Iliad
1.551-611 (in Greek) in advance.
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required by Friday, October 9th, at midnight. Zoom link and readings will be shared in
advance to those who register by the deadline.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
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Deborah Sneed (California State University Long
Beach)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Wed., Oct. 14, 6 – 7 p.m.
Zoom
"Disability and Infanticide in Ancient Greece"
www.brandeis.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__w…
Contact: classics@brandeis.edu<mailto:classics@brandeis.edu> for Zoom login
information
[Deborah Sneed (California State University Long Beach)]
Philip Wilson (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Oct. 21, 5 – 6 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
Dicta Sibyllae, Fix-a-Sibyllae: metrical queries in a Latin apocryphal manuscript
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for Zoom link.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law
School)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Oct. 22, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required at link below.
"Extracting Modern Lessons from Classical Athenian History"
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to receive the Zoom link.
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
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Contact: Nate Herter (nherter@g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>)
John Kachuba (Ohio
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Oct. 22, 7 – 8 p.m.
Zoom. Register at link
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"Shapeshifters: A Brief History from Antiquity to Modern Times"
Award-winning author John Kachuba will speak about the myths, magic, and meaning
surrounding shapeshifters—creatures that capture our imagination, appealing to our animal
nature, our “dark side,” our desire to break free of the bonds of society and proper
behavior. Real or imaginary, shapeshifters lurk deep in our psyches and remain formidable
cultural icons.
Sponsored by the UMass Amherst Department of Classics
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Lisa Marie Smith (lisa@classics.umass.edu<mailto:lisa@classics.umass.edu>)
[John Kachuba (Ohio University)]
Emily Kneebone (University of
Nottingham)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Oct. 23, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Zoom. See event website.
Book Launch Event: Johanna Hanink interviews Emily Kneebone on her recent book
Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic
events.brown.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__e…
contact: classics_department@brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu>
Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Oct. 23, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Zoom
(This is co-hosted with the Harvard Linguistics Circle Colloquium)
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
Sarah Iles Johnston (The Ohio State
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Oct. 27, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Zoom:
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"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: Classics and the Unseen Realm at the Fin de
Siècle"
The Classics Department will host this year’s Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Memorial
Lecture via Zoom.
The fin de siècle saw the development of the literary ghost story into the distinctive
genre that we still enjoy today, under the masterly pens of authors such as Joseph
Sheridan LeFanu, Arthur Machen and M.R. James. A recurrent preoccupation in the works of
these authors is the persistence of the ancient world and its effect on those who engage
with it. Did ‘the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome’ cloak dangers to
the spiritual, mental and bodily health of those who consumed them? Six ghost stories will
provide lens through which different answers to this question can be considered.
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contact: classics_department@brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu>
[Sarah Iles Johnston (The Ohio State University)]
November 2020
Kelsey Eldridge and Julia Judge (both of Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Nov. 4, 5 – 6 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
Panel: “Did the Ptolemies carve in porphyry?" and "Reframing the sanctuary of
Zeus at Olympia in Late Antiquity"
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for Zoom link
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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Samantha Richter (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 5, 6 – 7 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required below.
Framing the Transformative Nature of the Greater Panathenaia within a Modern Urban Theory
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required.
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
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Ann Marie Yasin (University of Southern
California)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Nov. 18, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required.
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for Zoom link.
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
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Danielle Allen (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Nov. 19, 6 – 7 p.m.
Zoom. Registration required at link below.
Title TBA
Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond
J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
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to receive the Zoom link.
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
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Contact: Nate Herter (nherter@g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>)
Laura Grestenberger (University of
Vienna)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Fri., Nov. 20, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Zoom
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
February 2021
Sarah Eisen (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Feb. 25, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
Zoom/Virtual
"Developing a Synesthetic Approach to Classical Archaeology"
Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
Contact: nherter@g.harvard.edu<mailto:nherter@g.harvard.edu>;
davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
March 2021
Joshua Billings (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Thu., Mar. 25, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
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Contact: davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu<mailto:davidenapoli@g.harvard.edu>
July 2021
Classical Association of New England Summer
Institute<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar…
Mon., July 12 – Sat., July 17
Brown University, Providence, RI (dates will be confirmed in Jan. 2021)
On the theme “Power and the Individual in the Ancient Mediterranean World”
graduate credit available
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Please direct questions to the CSI director Amanda Loud at
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Amanda Loud (summerinst@caneweb.org<mailto:summerinst@caneweb.org>)
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