Harvard Classics Dept. Calendar

University Holiday: Columbus Day (Federal) Indigenous Peoples' Day (City of Cambridge)

Mon., Oct. 14, 2019

Department closed. No classes.

Alissa Mittnik (Harvard Medical School)

CGIS South, S020 Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Oct. 15, 2019, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

"Marriage, mobility and households in Bronze Age Germany: integrating ancient DNA, isotopes and archaeology."

Showing the power of traditional archaeological and newer archaeoscientific methods to illuminate life in Bronze Age Germany.
Professor Matthew Liebmann (Archaeology/Anthropology) will comment; a public reception will follow. The event is co-sponsored by the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP), the Standing Committee on Archaeology at Harvard (SCA), and the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM).

Davide Napoli (Harvard University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Oct. 16, 2019, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.

"A Sophistic Utopia: Herodotus' Ethiopia"

Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics"

Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA 02138
See your registration details for specific location.
Sat., Oct. 19 – Sun., Oct. 20, 2019

Application required. All spots are currently filled.
Co-sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Digital Scholarship Support Group.

More info: dssg.fas.harvard.edu…

Mark Janse (Ghent University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, William James Hall 105, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Oct. 21, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.

"From Katpatuka to Ionanistan: The Rise, Demise and Reawakening of Cappadocian Greek"
Followed by the documentary "Last Words" (seriousFilm, 2014)
Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek) is a Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Cappadocia (Central Turkey) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Cappadocian speakers were forced to emigrate to Greece, where they were resettled in various locations, especially in Central and Northern Greece. The Cappadocians rapidly shifted to Standard Modern Greek and/or regional varieties thereof and their language was thought to be extinct since the 1970s (Ethnologue, 15th edition, 2005). In June 2005, Mark Janse (Ghent University) and Dimitris Papazachariou (University of Patras) discovered Cappadocians in Central and Northern Greece who could still speak their native language. Amongst them are middle-aged, third-generation speakers who take a very positive attitude towards the language as opposed to their parents and and grandparents. The latter are much less (if at all) inclined to speak Cappadocian and normally switch to Greek and/or Turkish in their conversations. In his lecture, Professor Janse will relate the linguistic history of Cappadocia and the fascinating story of his search und ultimately discovery of the lost Cappadocian language. The lecture will be followed by the documentary film ‘Last Words’.

Mark Janse (is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse@ugent.be)

More info: docs.google.com…

Teaching Teatime

Boylston 203
Tue., Oct. 22, 2019, 3 – 4 p.m.

Contact Suzanne Paszkowski (paszkowski@g.harvard.edu) for more information.

Event Series: Teaching Teatime

Classics Faculty Meeting (All teaching faculty)

Boylston 237
Tue., Oct. 22, 2019, 3 – 5 p.m.

Mark Janse (Ghent University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Oct. 22, 2019, 5:30 – 7 p.m.

"Linguistic Convergence in Asia Minor: The Internal Development of Agglutinative Inflections in Cappadocian Greek"

Mark Janse is BOF-ZAP Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University and Associate in Greek Linguistics at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. (mark.janse@ugent.be)

Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”
More info: docs.google.com…

Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Oct. 23, 2019, 12 p.m.

Colloquium with Sinclair Bell: "Race in the Roman Empire: Black Africans as Subjects and Objects in Imperial Visual Culture"
Organized by the Hutchins Center

More info: africa.harvard.edu…

Simona Martorana (Durham University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Oct. 23, 2019, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.

"'Writing like a man, becoming-woman’: gender-queerness and literary creation in the Epistula Sapphus"

Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Critical and Comparative Approaches to Classics"

GSAS FAO Info Session

Boylston 203
Thu., Oct. 24, 2019, 5:05 – 6 p.m.

Information session about financial aid from our financial aid officer, Lisa Simpson. Targeted at students in G-years 1 through 4.

Advising session for Seniors on graduate school in the Classics

Boylston 237
Thu., Oct. 24, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.

Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mon., Oct. 28, 2019, 5 – 7 p.m.

"Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World"

Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions
More info: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…

Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Shelby Cullom (Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tue., Oct. 29, 2019, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

"Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia"
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop

More info: earlymod.fas.harvard.edu

Freshmen/Sophomore Info Party

Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall
Tue., Oct. 29, 2019, 6 – 7:30 p.m.

Student/Faculty Lunch

Harvard Faculty Club, Reading Room, 20 Quincy Street
Wed., Oct. 30, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.

Lunch open to members of the Classics community

Alex Purves (UCLA)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Oct. 30, 2019, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

"Reading Now: Tense and Time in Sappho"

Event Series: James Loeb Lecture

George Kalogeris (Suffolk University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Oct. 31, 2019, 5 p.m.

"On Poetry: A Reading"

Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Literature and Culture

“From Homer to History with the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center. Recent results from Bronze Age Investigations”

CGIS South: CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Nov. 1, 2019, 1 – 5 p.m.

German and U.S. team members from the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) will present some of our most remarkable discoveries from archaeoscience.
Followed by a public reception.

Event Series: Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean
More info: www.archaeoscience.org…

Lukas Kahl (Harvard University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Nov. 1, 2019, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

TBA

Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”

FAS Faculty Meeting

Faculty Room in University Hall
Tue., Nov. 5, 2019, 3 – 5 p.m.

*includes in camera degree proceedings
All regular meetings of the Faculty are held in the Faculty Room in University Hall on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tea is served at 2:30 p.m.

More info: wiki.harvard.edu…

Classical Archaeology Lecture 1

Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Tue., Nov. 5, 2019, 5 – 7 p.m.

Jeff Bourns (Northeastern University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Nov. 7, 2019, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

TBA

Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”

Veterans Day (Staff Holiday)

Mon., Nov. 11, 2019

Department offices closed. Classes will be held.

Study Abroad Info. Session

Boylston 237
Mon., Nov. 11, 2019, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

Graduate Student Meeting

Graduate Student Lounge
Mon., Nov. 11, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.

Event Series: Graduate Student Meeting

Teaching Teatime

Boylston 203
Tue., Nov. 12, 2019, 3 – 4 p.m.

Contact Suzanne Paszkowski (paszkowski@g.harvard.edu) for more information.

Event Series: Teaching Teatime

Classics Department Meeting

Harvard Faculty Club
Tue., Nov. 12, 2019, 3 – 5 p.m.

Classical Archaeology Lecture 2

Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Tue., Nov. 12, 2019, 5 – 7 p.m.

Department Thesis Colloquium

TBA
Fri., Nov. 15, 2019, 2 – 5 p.m.

Michael Weiss (Cornell University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Nov. 15, 2019, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

TBA

Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”

Classical Archaeology Lecture 3

Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Tue., Nov. 19, 2019, 5 – 7 p.m.

Volker Drecoll (University of Tübingen, Germany)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu., Nov. 21, 2019, 5:15 p.m.

"Venantius Fortunatus"

Julia Sturm (Harvard University)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., Nov. 22, 2019, 5 – 6:30 p.m.

TBA

Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”

Thanksgiving Recess

Wed., Nov. 27 – Sun., Dec. 1, 2019

No classes on Wednesday, November 27th.

GSAS degree applications due for March degree

Sun., Dec. 1, 2019

More info: gsas.harvard.edu…

Last Day of Fall Term Classes

Tue., Dec. 3, 2019

FAS Faculty Meeting

Faculty Room in University Hall
Tue., Dec. 3, 2019, 3 – 5 p.m.

All regular meetings of the Faculty are held in the Faculty Room in University Hall on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tea is served at 2:30 p.m.

More info: wiki.harvard.edu…

Reading Period

Wed., Dec. 4 – Mon., Dec. 9, 2019

Student/Faculty Lunch

Harvard Faculty Club, Library, 20 Quincy Street
Thu., Dec. 5, 2019, 12 – 2 p.m.

Lunch open to members of the Classics community

Graduate Student Meeting

Graduate Student Lounge
Mon., Dec. 9, 2019, 6 – 7 p.m.

Event Series: Graduate Student Meeting

Final Examinations Period

Tue., Dec. 10 – Thu., Dec. 19, 2019

Classics Faculty Meeting (Ladder faculty)

Harvard Faculty Club
Tue., Dec. 10, 2019, 3 – 5 p.m.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Univ. Holiday)

Mon., Jan. 20, 2020

Department closed.

Dissertations due for March degree

Tue., Jan. 21, 2020

More info: gsas.harvard.edu…

Bok Center Winter Teaching Week

Wed., Jan. 22 – Fri., Jan. 24, 2020

More info: bokcenter.harvard.edu…

First Meeting of Spring Term Classes

Mon., Jan. 27, 2020

Graduate Committee Advising for G1s and G2s

Tue., Jan. 28, 2020, 3 – 6 p.m.

Course Registration Deadline

Fri., Jan. 31, 2020

Spring term Course Registration for all students including Special Students due by 11:59 pm.
Students must submit enrollments for their minimum course load â€“ typically 16 credits -
at my.harvard by 11:59 pm. Students who do not submit enrollments by this time will be charged a late fee each week.
After this date students must obtain permission from all instructors to enroll in courses.

FAS Faculty Meeting

Faculty Room in University Hall
Tue., Feb. 4, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

*includes in camera degree proceedings
All regular meetings of the Faculty are held in the Faculty Room in University Hall on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tea is served at 2:30 p.m.

More info: wiki.harvard.edu…

Graduate Student Meeting

Graduate Student Lounge
Mon., Feb. 10, 2020, 6 – 7 p.m.

Event Series: Graduate Student Meeting

Teaching Teatime

Boylston 203
Tue., Feb. 11, 2020, 3 – 4 p.m.

Contact Suzanne Paszkowski (paszkowski@g.harvard.edu) for more information.

Event Series: Teaching Teatime

Classics Department Meeting

Harvard Faculty Club
Tue., Feb. 11, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

President's Day (Univ. Holiday)

Mon., Feb. 17, 2020

Department closed. No classes.

Teaching Teatime

Boylston 203
Tue., Feb. 25, 2020, 3 – 4 p.m.

Contact Suzanne Paszkowski (paszkowski@g.harvard.edu) for more information.

Event Series: Teaching Teatime

Classics Faculty Meeting (All teaching faculty)

Boylston 237
Tue., Feb. 25, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

Student/Faculty Lunch

Harvard Faculty Club, Library, 20 Quincy Street
Fri., Feb. 28, 2020, 12 – 2 p.m.

Lunch open to members of the Classics community

FAS Faculty Meeting

Faculty Room in University Hall
Tue., Mar. 3, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

All regular meetings of the Faculty are held in the Faculty Room in University Hall on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tea is served at 2:30 p.m.

More info: wiki.harvard.edu…

Teaching Teatime

Boylston 203
Tue., Mar. 3, 2020, 3 – 4 p.m.

Teaching with objects and images
Contact Suzanne Paszkowski (paszkowski@g.harvard.edu) for more information.

Event Series: Teaching Teatime

Graduate Student Meeting

Graduate Student Lounge
Mon., Mar. 9, 2020, 6 – 7 p.m.

Event Series: Graduate Student Meeting

Teaching Teatime

Boylston 203
Tue., Mar. 10, 2020, 3 – 4 p.m.

Contact Suzanne Paszkowski (paszkowski@g.harvard.edu) for more information.

Event Series: Teaching Teatime

Classics Department Meeting

Harvard Faculty Club
Tue., Mar. 10, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

Department Thesis Writers' Party

Boylston 2nd
Fri., Mar. 13, 2020, 12 – 1 p.m.

Spring Recess

Sat., Mar. 14 – Sun., Mar. 22, 2020

Classics Faculty Meeting (All teaching faculty)

Boylston 237
Tue., Mar. 24, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

Prospective Graduate Student Visit

Wed., Mar. 25 – Thu., Mar. 26, 2020

Student/Faculty Lunch

Harvard Faculty Club, Reading Room, 20 Quincy Street
Thu., Mar. 26, 2020, 12 – 2 p.m.

Lunch open to members of the Classics community

Teaching Teatime

Boylston 203
Tue., Mar. 31, 2020, 3 – 4 p.m.

Contact Suzanne Paszkowski (paszkowski@g.harvard.edu) for more information.

Event Series: Teaching Teatime

GSAS degree applications due for May degree

Wed., Apr. 1, 2020

More info: gsas.harvard.edu…

FAS Faculty Meeting

Faculty Room in University Hall
Tue., Apr. 7, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

All regular meetings of the Faculty are held in the Faculty Room in University Hall on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tea is served at 2:30 p.m.

More info: wiki.harvard.edu…

Teaching Teatime

Boylston 203
Tue., Apr. 7, 2020, 3 – 4 p.m.

Syllabus design & leading discussion sections
Contact Suzanne Paszkowski (paszkowski@g.harvard.edu) for more information.

Event Series: Teaching Teatime

Advising Fortnight Party

TBA
Tue., Apr. 7, 2020, 6 – 7:30 p.m.

Graduate Student Meeting

Graduate Student Lounge
Mon., Apr. 13, 2020, 6 – 7 p.m.

Event Series: Graduate Student Meeting

Teaching Teatime

Boylston 203
Tue., Apr. 14, 2020, 3 – 4 p.m.

Contact Suzanne Paszkowski (paszkowski@g.harvard.edu) for more information.

Event Series: Teaching Teatime

Classics Department Meeting

Harvard Faculty Club
Tue., Apr. 14, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

Information session for Juniors about theses

Boylston 237
Thu., Apr. 16, 2020, 6 – 7:30 p.m.

VISITAS Breakfast

Boylston 2nd
Mon., Apr. 20, 2020, 9 – 10:15 a.m.

Vesta Curtis (British Museum)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wed., Apr. 22, 2020

Event Series: llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture

Classics Faculty Meeting (All teaching faculty)

Boylston 237
Tue., Apr. 28, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

Last day spring classes

Wed., Apr. 29, 2020

Spring Reading Period

Thu., Apr. 30 – Wed., May 6, 2020

Student/Faculty Lunch

Harvard Faculty Club, Reading Room, 20 Quincy Street
Mon., May 4, 2020, 12 – 2 p.m.

Lunch open to members of the Classics community

FAS Faculty Meeting

Faculty Room in University Hall
Tue., May 5, 2020, 3 – 5 p.m.

All regular meetings of the Faculty are held in the Faculty Room in University Hall on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tea is served at 2:30 p.m.

More info: wiki.harvard.edu…

Spring Examination Period

Thu., May 7 – Sat., May 16, 2020

Classics Degree Meeting

Faculty Club
Tue., May 12, 2020, 10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Meeting is followed by lunch.

Graduate Committee Advising for G3+

Wed., May 13, 2020

Dissertations due for May degree

Thu., May 14, 2020

More info: gsas.harvard.edu…

Memorial Day (Univ. Holiday)

Mon., May 25, 2020

Department closed. No classes.

FAS Faculty Meeting

Faculty Room in University Hall
Tue., May 26, 2020, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

**in camera degree meeting (begins at 4:30 p.m.)
All regular meetings of the Faculty are held in the Faculty Room in University Hall on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tea is served at 2:30 p.m.

More info: wiki.harvard.edu…

Commencement Reception

Harvard Faculty Club
Wed., May 27, 2020, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Harvard Univ. Commencement

Thu., May 28, 2020

Department closed.

Summer School Begins

Mon., June 22, 2020

Summer School Ends

Fri., Aug. 7, 2020