Robert McCabe (Photographer) & Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University)
"Greece after the War and the Art of Photography: Robert McCabe in Conversation with Panagiotis Roilos"
"When photographer Robert A. McCabe first came to Greece as a college student in 1954, he found a country still scarred by the Axis occupation of World War II and the civil war that followed: poverty was widespread, and the infrastructure was underbuilt and battered. But, at the same time, these were years of hope: new ventures ranging from shipping lines to state-sponsored tourist hotels to ice cream distribution heralded the nation’s rapid development into a modern European state. And all around were visible the beauty of the Greek landscape, the splendor of the Greek archaeological heritage, and the optimism of the Greek people, who maintained age-old cultural traditions even in the most challenging conditions.
This volume, published on the occasion of an important exhibition at the European Culture Centre of Delphi, collects 118 of the most compelling photographs that McCabe took in Greece between 195…
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Studies.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom (Please email jiwang@g.harvard.edu for Zoom link and code of this event.).
Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop
"Radical Trans-Racial Empathy from Juan Latino to Claudia Rankine" (Mira Seo, Distinguished Provost's Fellow, Visiting Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Wesleyan University).
Event Series (if not listed): Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Boylston 203.
New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series: Jared M. Hudson
"Pomponius Mela on the Periphery: Latin Geography and the Roman Empire."
This event is free and open to the public.
Pomponius Mela’s first-century CE geography (De Chorographia) offers a unique portrait of what purports to be the entire world articulated in highly artistic rhetorical Latin prose. Once a central text in antiquity and beyond, this detailed geographical handbook has since become practically forgotten. Tracing some of the historical causes for this neglect, this paper examines some of the distinctive features of this fascinating and unclassifiable text, arguing that Pomponius Mela’s written geography represents an important cultural shift in unofficial Roman representations of the layout and knowability of global space.
Event Series (if not listed): New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY; 725 Commonwealth Ave. B18 (basement).
Methods and Practice Workshop
Presenter: Connor North
"Polybius and the Irrational".
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
Indigenous Traditions: Stickball in the 21st Century
Indigenous Traditions: Stickball in the 21st Century,
Thursday, November 13, 6:00–7:00 pm ET, Advance registration recommended for online and in-person attendance,
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA,
Audrey Jacob, Tribal Member, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Team Member, Tvshka Homma Ohoyo,
Bailey Brown, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma & Cherokee Nation; Team Member, Oakhill Community and Tiak Hikiya
Iysiahs Manny York, Tribal Member, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; Harvard College Student,
Moderated by James Walkingstick, Academic Engagement Coordinator, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology; Team Member and Stick Maker, Harvard Stickball,
Stickball is one of the oldest team sports in the world and has been played by Native American tribes for centuries. Historically, the game was used as a diplomatic tool. Instead of going to war, Native American tribes played stickball to settle large disputes. This earned the game the nickname The Little Brother of War. Once outlawed and…
Event contact to appear in listing: hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.
For more info visit hmsc.harvard.edu. Paul Russell (Harvard University)
Celtic Languages and Literatures (Celtic historical linguistics).
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Emily Hauser (University of Exeter)
Dr. Emily Hauser will talk about her bestselling book, Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It (Chicago 2025).
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Lecture Hall, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For more info visit mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu. Greta Galeotti (Harvard University)
Classics (Greek dialectology, Lesbian Greek).
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Methods and Practice Workshop
Presenter: Phoebe Lakin
"'Rosemary from a vanished world': Landscapes and Nostalgia in Virgilian Reception".
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
Mavericks: Three Visionary Pharaohs of Egypt
Wednesday, October 15, 6:00–7:00 pm ET, Advance registration recommended for online and in-person attendance
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Lawrence M. Berman is John F. Cogan, Jr. and Mary L. Cornille Chair, Art of Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and the Near East, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Hatshepsut, Amenhotep III, and Akhenaten each ruled Egypt for long periods, leaving a lasting impact on its art, politics, and religion. Though all were powerful leaders, each tells a distinct story. In this lecture, Lawrence M. Berman explores the reigns and legacies of these three remarkable Eighteenth Dynasty pharaohs, considering questions such as: What made them successful—or controversial? How were they viewed in their own time, and how have archaeologists and the public interpreted them since? The talk also examines broader themes—from the power of images and identity to iconoclasm and the writing of history—inviting reflection on who gets to shape history, and why it still matters…
Event contact to appear in listing: hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu.
Monday, December 15, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit hmsc.harvard.edu. Walter Scheidel (Stanford University)
Title TBD.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: classics@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Harvard Classics Departmental Seminar Series.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD.
Methods and Practice Workshop
TBD.
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Friday, January 30, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.