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Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Parrhesia

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 and Matt Landauer and Yael Melamede 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. Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. For more info visit chs.harvard.edu.

Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)

"The Making of the Southern Sea: Forging a Coastal Rim in the Hellenistic Period" Zoom link available on event page. 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). Monday, April 8, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. REAL COLEGIO COMPLUTENSE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 and via Zoom. For more info visit rcc.harvard.edu.

Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)

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 with 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… Event contact to appear in listing: contact: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies). Monday, April 8, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)

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 with 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… Event contact to appear in listing: contact: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies). Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis

"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. Event Series: llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture. Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. For more info visit harvardartmuseums.org.

Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)

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 with 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… Event contact to appear in listing: contact: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies). Thursday, April 11, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Knafel 262, Bowie-Vernon Rm, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Sarah Olsen (Williams College)

Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome. Friday, April 12, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Harvard-Columbia Workshop in Ancient Philosophy

Breakfast and lunch are provided for those who register before March 31. Please register here. Speakers: Rachana Kamtekar, Mariana Beatriz Noé Taylor Pincin, Katja Voct 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. Saturday, April 13, 2024, 9:00 AM – 6:45 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Robbins Library, Emerson Hall Room 211, 29 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Diontay Wolfries-Thomas (Ancient History)

TBD. Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop. Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. Boylston 237.

Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)

TBD. Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting

Thursday, April 18, 2024 – Sunday, April 21, 2024. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Science and Engineering Complex, 150 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134. For more info visit www.aah2024.org.

Jennifer Devereaux (Human Evolutionary Biology)

TBD. Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop. Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. Boylston 237.

Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)

Event contact to appear in listing: contact: ariehle@fas.harvard.edu. Monday, April 29, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 203, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Umberto Verdura, Columbia University (Classics)

TBD. Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop. Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. Boylston 203.

Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric 2024 Spring Colloquium

"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. Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: colloquium.ancientrhetoric@gmail.com. Friday, May 3, 2024, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM. Via Zoom (registration required). For more info visit tinyurl.com.

Phoebe Hyun (Ancient History)

TBD. Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop. Friday, May 3, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM. Boylston 203.