Inger Kuin (University of Virginia)
In the first two centuries CE, inhabitants of the Roman Empire of all persuasions considered going through
life without gods, or without recognition of divine interference, as a potential feature of human psychology
deserving serious attention. Many saw it as a threat both to the well-being of individuals and to the socio ethical fabric of communities, while for some it was their own lived experience and a wholesome outlook
worth propagating. Atheism and disbelief were understood to be integral components of the over-all
phenomenology of belief systems and ways of life that could not be ignored.
In my paper I will present from my research project in progress which aims to produce the first
book-length study of atheism in the mediterranean in the first and second centuries CE. Earlier research on
atheism and disbelief in antiquity has focused either on classical Athens, or taken a diachronic approach
covering both the Greek and Roman periods. My project combines a narrow synchronic focus with a
uniqu…
Event Series: Harvard Classics Departmental Seminar Series.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Barker Center 133.
Francesca Beretta (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Graduate School Information Session
Classics Concentrator Calendar
Event contact to appear in listing: emmi_farrell@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, September 25, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 203.
Meeting: undergrad curriculum
Meeting of the ad hoc committee on the undergraduate curriculum.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 237.
Jan Sienkiewicz (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Prospective Concentrators AntquiTea Party
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall.
Add/drop deadline
GSAS Calendar
5th Monday - Fall Term - Course Add/ Drop deadline for College and GSAS.
Monday, October 5, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Zhixi Wang (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Thursday, October 8, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, October 9, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. University Holiday: Columbus Day (Federal) Indigenous Peoples Day (City of Cambridge)
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Monday, October 12, 2026.
Department Meeting
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
TBD.
Odysseus Returns: Reflections on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Center for Hellenic Studies.
Featuring a panel discussion with Emily Greenwood (Harvard University), David Elmer (Harvard University), and Jie Li (Harvard University), moderated by Robin Kelsey (Mahindra Humanities Center).
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Student & Faculty Lunch
Friday, October 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Harvard Faculty Club.
Student-Faculty Lunch
Student-Faculty Lunches
Friday, October 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Harvard Faculty Club.
Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop (Speaker TBD)
Speaker TBD.
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Friday, October 16, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston Hall 237.
Meeting: undergrad curriculum
Meeting of the ad hoc committee on the undergraduate curriculum.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 237.
Erynn Kim (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Rex Wallace (UMass Amherst)
Workshops
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston Hall 335.
Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, October 23, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Michèle Lowrie (University of Chicago)
"Caesar, Carmen, and the Rule of Law.".
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and Receptions.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; TBD.
Departmental Colloquium: Celebration of Margaret Andrews’ book, "The Subura of Rome: Landscape and Ideology from the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages"
Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; TBD.
FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
includes in camera degree proceedings.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit officeofthesecretary.fas.harvard.edu. Spring 2027 Course Registration begins (enroll in courses)
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, November 4, 2026.
Edith Foster (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Title TBD
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Summary: Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, November 6, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Department Meeting (Senior Faculty Only)
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
TBD.
Veteran's Day--Classes are held.
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
Christopher Atkins (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu.
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Black Cicero: A Conversation with Mathias Hanses
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Hutchins Center, Harvard University
Featuring Professor Mathias Hanses (Associate Professor of Classics, Penn State University) on his new book Black Cicero: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Ancient Romans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2026.
In conversation with:
· Hannah Čulik-Baird (Associate Professor of Classics, UCLA)
· Harriet Fertik (Associate Professor of Classics, Ohio State University)
· Andrea Kouklanakis (Associate Professor of Classics, CUNY)
· Professor Jesse McCarthy (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Harvard University)
· Jackie Murray (Associate Professor of Classics, SUNY Buffalo)
· Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Professor of Classics, Arizona State University)
· Diontay Wolfries-Thomas (Department of the Classics, Harvard University)
The panel will be followed by an EOS Reads event (from 3:30-5 pm), focusing on Du Bois’s classicism: details and readings to follow.…
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Venue: Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, 104 Mount Auburn Street.
Senior Thesis Colloquium
Friday, November 13, 2026.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; TBD.
Department Meeting
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
TBD.
Book Celebration in honor of Leah Whittington
Harvard Classics Lectures
Celebration in honor of Leah Whittington’s book, Antiquity Made Whole: The Renaissance Continuation of Ancient Literature.
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome. Event Series (if not listed): The Early Modern Workshop at Harvard University.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Thompson Room, Barker Center, Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit emworkshop.fas.harvard.edu. Course Registration Deadline (for minimum enrollment)
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, November 18, 2026.
Joseph Badawi-Crook (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Harry Saunders (Harvard)
Workshops
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston Hall 335.
Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop (Speaker TBD)
Speaker TBD.
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Friday, November 20, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston Hall 237.
Thanksgiving Recess
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Wednesday, November 25, 2026 – Sunday, November 29, 2026.
Department deadline for traveling fellowships and GSAS merit fellowships
GSAS Calendar
Tuesday, December 1, 2026.
Submit applications in CARAT by noon.
For more info visit gsas.harvard.edu. Dalia Pratali Maffei (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard)
Workshops
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston Hall 335.
Last Day of Fall Term Classes
Registrar's Calendar
Friday, December 4, 2026.
Workshop on Classical Pedagogies
Workshops
TBD.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: Irene Peirano Garrison (peirano@fas.harvard.edu).
Friday, December 4, 2026, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA.
Fall Reading Period
Registrar's Calendar
Saturday, December 5, 2026 – Wednesday, December 9, 2026.
Department Meeting
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
TBD.
Fall Term Final Examinations Period
Registrar's Calendar
Thursday, December 10, 2026 – Saturday, December 19, 2026.
Malina Buturović (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Thursday, December 10, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Meeting: undergrad curriculum
Meeting of the ad hoc committee on the undergraduate curriculum.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu.
Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 237.