Jackson Colloquium
Harvard Classics Lectures
"Nationalism, origins, and the politics of Latin literature"
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This international conference has as its objective the critical re-examination of narratives (both ancient and modern) on the origin of Latin literature. Romans told themselves stories about how, when, and why Latin literature came into being, and classical scholars have relied on these ancient aetiologies to construct a model of Latin literary history that has remained largely static since Friedrich Leo’s Geschichte der römischen Literatur (1913). As is well known, narratives of the origins of Latin literature are deeply entangled with histories of translation and transference. At times these accounts have suppressed wider and more complex dynamics of inter-cultural and inter-linguistic exchange in the Mediterranean from the fifth to third centuries BCE (Beyond Greek, Feeney, 2016). More recent work has highlighted the role of cultural appropriation, plunder, and enslavement in the…
Event Series: Jackson Lecture Series.
Friday, September 19, 2025 – Saturday, September 20, 2025.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA and Zoom Webinar.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Irene Soto Marín (Harvard University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
"The Nile Flows with Gold: Money and the Global Economy of Roman Egypt".
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: classics@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Harvard Classics Departmental Seminar Series.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD.
New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series: Melissa Mueller
"Democracy and the Earth in Aeschylus' Suppliants."
Melissa Mueller is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
This event is free and open to the public.
Event Series (if not listed): New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series.
Friday, October 3, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY; CAS B18.
Josh Billings (Princeton University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
TBA.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA.
Cinzia Arruzza (Boston University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
TBA.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: Irene Soto Marín (irenesotomarin@fas.harvard.edu). Event Series: Loeb Classical Lecture.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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, TBD.
New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series: Jared M. Hudson
"Pomponius Mela on the Periphery: Latin Geography and the Roman Empire."
Jared M. Hudson is an Associate Professor of the Classics at Harvard University.
This event is free and open to the public.
Event Series (if not listed): New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY; CAS B18.
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, 12 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138.
For more info visit mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu. 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.
Event Series (if not listed): New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series.
Monday, December 8, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY; CAS B18.