Justine McConnell (King's College London)
Playing the Myths: Zora Neale Hurston and the Ancient Greek World
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Weekly Colloquium Series.
Event Series (if not listed): W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Weekly Colloquium Series.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 2R, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For more info visit hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu. AntiquiTea (Exploring Fields of Study: Classics)
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RSVP here.
AntiquiTea is a relaxed opportunity to: Gather with Classics faculty, graduate students, and fellow undergraduates! , Ask questions about courses, concentrations, language citations, and study abroad opportunities! , Learn more about how Classics can fit with your academic and career plans! , Enjoy some tea, snacks, and conversation about all things ancient (and modern!) , Pick up a "Yale Delenda Est" pin, courtesy of the Harvard Classical Club! Whether you’re already a Classics concentrator or just curious about Latin, Greek, ancient history, archaeology, or the ancient world in general, you are warmly welcome to stop by - come for a few minutes or stay for the whole hour.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 2nd floor lobby.
For more info visit docs.google.com. Christelle Alvarez (Brown University)
Monumental Ritual Texts in Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
Hybrid Lecture
Monumental Ritual Texts in Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
Wednesday, February 25, 6:00–7:00 pm ET (advance registration recommended for online and in-person attendance.)
Speaker: Christelle Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Brown University
The earliest large-scale records of ancient Egyptian religious literature come from Saqqara, an important royal cemetery from Egypt’s Old Kingdom period. For nearly two centuries, the subterranean chambers beneath some of Saqqara’s pyramids were inscribed with hundreds of ritual texts carved in hieroglyphs. In this lecture, Christelle Alvarez will discuss the final Old Kingdom pyramid to bear such inscriptions: the tomb of King Qakare Ibi. Smaller than its predecessors, badly damaged, and marked by architectural and textual idiosyncrasies, this monument has often been dismissed as marginal to the main Pyramid Text tradition. Alvarez argues that Qakare Ibi’s pyramid actually provides a rare…
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit hmsc.harvard.edu. I-Kai Jeng (Yenching Institute)
Harvard Classics Lectures
Justice in Wasps, Assembly Women, and Acharnians: An (Anti-)Platonic Reading
This talk belongs to part of a project to complicate what Plato calls "a sort of age-old quarrel (παλαιὰ μέν τις διαφορά) between philosophy and poetry" in Republic 607b5. Both the context and the τις suggest that the conflict or opposition between the two is not absolute but subtle. In the first part of my talk, I argue that Plato aims to replace the poets' exhortations with an aspirational and idealistic vision of personal and political justice. But this suggests that, contrary to what Plato said about poetry, tragedies in general share a similar outlook. Even while their respective notions of justice might differ, tragic poetry and philosophy both teach us to admire and emulate heroes who have something larger than themselves to live and die for. Where philosophy and poetry are truly at odds, I suggest, might be discerned in the portrayal of justice in comedy. In the second half of my talk I turn to three of Aristophanes'…
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Department deadline for Graduate Society Summer Predissertation Fellowships
GSAS Calendar
Students should apply for GSAS Society Summer Predissertation Fellowships (intended for language study and preliminary dissertation research at the pre-prospectus stage) by this date.
Friday, February 27, 2026.
Submit applications in CARAT by noon.
For more info visit gsas.harvard.edu. Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, February 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu. HSS Fellowship Deadline
GSAS Calendar
Deadline to apply for Harvard Summer School Tuition Fellowships for language study.
Thursday, March 5, 2026.
Submit applications in CARAT by 12 p.m.
For more info visit gsas.harvard.edu. Opening Conversation for Celtic Art Across the Ages
Harvard Classics Lectures
Free admission, but seating is limited and registration is encouraged. Register here.
We invite you to the opening conversation for the special exhibition Celtic Art Across the Ages, on view from March 6 through August 2, 2026. Susanne Ebbinghaus, Laure Marest, Penny Coombe, and Catherine McKenna will take a close look at elaborate Celtic bronze objects and gold coins, examine religious imagery from Roman Gaul, and highlight moments of Celtic revival in modern times.
Celtic Art Across the Ages offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore masterful metalwork, including exquisitely decorated weaponry, jewelry, and horse and chariot trappings of the first millennium BCE Iron Age and early medieval times, all brought to light through archaeological discoveries of the last 200 years. See how imagery transformed under Roman rule, and trace the revival of Celtic art and identities in the modern era. From shape-shifting ancient ornaments to the more well-known Celtic iconography of medieval Ireland and Scotland,…
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA , Enter at Broadway for evening programs.
For more info visit harvardartmuseums.org. Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. 7th Monday
Registrar's Calendar
Last day for GSAS students to change to or from SAT/UNS grading option for designated language courses.
Last day for GSAS students to add (or enroll in) spring courses.
Monday, March 9, 2026.
Information Session on 2026 Commencement Latin Oration Competition
Classics Concentrator Calendar
Event contact to appear in listing: emmi_farrell@fas.harvad.edu.
Monday, March 9, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Fong Auditorium (Boylston 110).
Classics Department Meeting
Harvard Classics Department Meetings
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
TBD.
(RESCHEDULED) Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
"The Cultural Politics of Imagination: From 'Paganism' to Christianity"
This lecture focuses on the ways in which ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of phantasia (imagination) were adjusted to early Christian and later Byzantine discursive contexts. Emphasis is placed on the exploration in such discourses of 1). the inherent liminality of phantasia as a cognitive faculty, and 2). the conceptual/theological/moral binary opposition Christ=Logos (truth) vs. Satan=phantasia (falsity). The lecture will illustrate pivotal aspects of the methodological model of “cognitive historical anthropology” that the speaker has put forward in his research on the specific topic.
This event has been rescheduled from Tuesday, 2/24/26 due to inclement weather. .
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: classics@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Harvard Classics Departmental Seminar Series.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, location TBD.
Segal Fellowship Applications Due
Classics Concentrator Calendar
Friday, March 13, 2026.
Party for Thesis Writers
Classics Concentrator Calendar
Friday, March 13, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Boylston second floor.
Spring Recess
Registrar's Calendar
Saturday, March 14, 2026 – Sunday, March 22, 2026.
Fall 2026 Crimson Cart opens
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, March 18, 2026.
9th Monday
Registrar's Calendar
Last day for GSAS students to drop a spring course.
Monday, March 23, 2026.
Kimberly Cassibry (Wellesley College)
Harvard Classics Lectures
Influence, Fame, and Infamy: Legacies of Classical Celts in Ancient Art.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: classics@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Harvard Classics Departmental Seminar Series.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133 (tentative), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, March 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Greg Woolf (NYU ISAW)
Harvard Classics Lectures
"The Resilience of Empire and the Weakness of the Emperors".
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classics@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Loeb Classical Lecture.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Fall 2026 Course Registration begins
Registrar's Calendar
Course Registration begins for continuing students.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, April 3, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. 11th Monday
Registrar's Calendar
Last day upon which College students may withdraw from a spring term course.
After this date, no College student may change a course from letter-graded to Pass/Fail or from Pass/Fail to letter-graded status for the spring term.
Monday, April 6, 2026.
Margaret Andrews (Harvard University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
Solving a Problem like the Sabines in Mid-Republican Rome.
Event contact to appear in listing: Christopher Cochran (Christopher.Cochran@umb.edu).
Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
UMASS BOSTON, Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room 3545.
FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu. Student-Faculty Lunch
Student-Faculty Lunches
Friday, April 10, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Harvard Faculty Club.
Classics Department Meeting
Harvard Classics Department Meetings
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
TBD.
Course Registration Deadline
Registrar's Calendar
Course Registration Deadline for continuing students.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026.
Brian Krostenko (University of Notre Dame)
TITLE TBD
Krostenko’s research centers on the culture and law of the Late Roman Republic, Cicero, rhetoric, and Latin linguistics. He is the author of Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance (Chicago, 2001), which discusses the problem of aestheticism in Roman culture by means of historical semantics. He is also the author of The Voices of the Consul: The Rhetorics of Cicero's de lege agraria I and II (Oxford, 2024), the first book-length study of the rhetoric of those speeches, which uses the techniques of discourse analysis to reveal how and why Cicero lays claim to contested political slogans and ideologies in the turbulent late Republic.
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; LOCATION TBD.
Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, April 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Rebecca Moorman (Boston University)
Workshops
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA.
Arsen Nisanyan (Harvard University)
Workshops
TBD.
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Friday, April 24, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
Last Day of Spring Term Classes
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, April 29, 2026.
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture, David G. Wigg-Wolf (Leicester University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture: "Gods? Beasts? Warriors? Interpreting the Imagery of Celtic Coinages"
Speaker:
David G. Wigg-Wolf, Honorary Professor, Leicester University
Free admission, but seating is limited and registration is encouraged. Register here.
Celtic coins present a remarkable world of varied, often fantastic images. The earliest coinages were generally close copies of Hellenistic coins from the Mediterranean world, but gradually they developed a distinct visual language. Elements of the original prototypes were adapted or became disjointed; because these were combined with new elements, the resulting designs can be difficult to understand today. Different regions also followed different iconographical traditions, leading to a wide variety of designs. In a later phase, the arrival of Rome on the political stage led to the re-appearance of coinages with a classical look, particularly in Britain. In this lecture, David G. Wigg-Wolf, of Leicester University, will trace the iconography…
Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For more info visit harvardartmuseums.org. Spring Reading Period
Registrar's Calendar
Thursday, April 30, 2026 – Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
Conference—Past and Present: Cultural Politics in Byzantium and Beyond
Harvard Classics Lectures
TBD.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: roilos@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, May 1, 2026 – Saturday, May 2, 2026.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge MA.
Classics Degree Meeting
Harvard Classics Department Meetings
Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
TBD.
FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu. Spring Term Final Examinations Period
Registrar's Calendar
Thursday, May 7, 2026 – Saturday, May 16, 2026.
Course Evaluation (Q Guide) closes.
Registrar's Calendar
Course Registration Deadline for continuing students.
Monday, May 18, 2026.