Modern Greek Studies Association's 11th Biennial Pedagogy Workshop on teaching Modern Greek Language and Culture
Please RSVP here by Monday, October 20.
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CCD, Room 1750, 665 Commonwealth Ave.
For more info visit www.bu.edu. Andrés Henao Castro (UMass Boston)
Harvard Classics Lectures
“Antigone’s fort/da".
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: classics@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Harvard Classics Departmental Seminar Series.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Natasha Thalluri (Harvard University)
Linguistics (semantics, correlatives).
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Friday, October 31, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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).
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)
Harvard Classics Lectures
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, TBD, 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.
New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series: Olaoluwatoni A. Alimi
"Augustine's Varieties of Natural Slavery."
Olaoluwatoni Alimi is an Assistant Professor in Religion and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
This event is free and open to the public.
Augustine is typically interpreted as having denied that there are natural slaves. Against the common interpretation, I argue that Augustine affirmed three separate natural slavery theses (and rejected only one). Aspects of Augustine’s accounts of natural slavery were central to 17th-century English rationalizations for slavery. However, they also left open several lacunae that these pro-slavers turned to Aristotle to fill. The methods for filling these lacunae were in turn central to the legal codification of some modern notions of race, including three familiar features: first, that race is immutable; second, that race is inheritable; third, that blacks are deficient to whites.
Event Series (if not listed): New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series.
Monday, December 8, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY; 725 Commonwealth Ave. B18 (basement).
77th Latin Carol Celebration
MOX EST CELEBRANDUM!
You are invited to the 77th Annual Brown University Latin Carol Celebration!
This joyful program features seasonal readings by President Christina H. Paxson and members of the Department of Classics. Musical prelude and accompaniment by University Organist, Mark Steinbach, plus the Chattertocks’ rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas and a special arrangement by the Brown Madrigal Singers.
Conducted entirely in Latin (with a bit of ancient Greek and Sanskrit). English translations are provided for those whose Latin is a little (or a lot!) rusty.
The Latin Carol Celebration is free and open to the public and lasts a little over an hour.
We are delighted to continue this time-honored tradition and look forward to seeing you there!
VENITE ~ AUDITE ~ CANTATE ~ OMNES.
Event contact to appear in listing: Classics_Department@Brown.edu.
Monday, December 8, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:15 PM.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Sayles Hall Auditorium. 81 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02912 & on Zoom.
For more info visit events.brown.edu.