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Dissertation Writers Workshop

Workshops Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu. Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM. Boylston 237. For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu.

Teaching Colloquium: Pizza & Pedagogy

GSAS Calendar Open to Classics graduate students. Event contact to appear in listing: contact: lzweig@g.harvard.edu. Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Boylston 203.

College: last to to withdraw from a course

Registrar's Calendar 11th Monday - Spring Full Term - Last day upon which students may withdraw from a spring term course. Monday, April 1, 2024.

Ben Gregson (G2, Comparative Literature)

Workshops "Hip Hop Music and Classics". Event Series (if not listed): Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop. Monday, April 1, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Boylston 203.

FAS Faculty meeting

FAS Faculty Meetings Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu.

Course Registration for Fall 2024 begins

Registrar's Calendar College & GSAS Course Registration for Fall 2024 begins. Wednesday, April 3, 2024.

Fall 2024 Course Registration begins for returning students

Registrar's Calendar Wednesday, April 3, 2024.

Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Parrhesia

Harvard Classics Lectures No one has done more to shape legal interpretation of the first amendment than Floyd Abrams. Yet when Abrams litigated Citizens United, some proponents of free speech thought that this just gave big money the biggest voice.  By contrast in ancient democratic Athens, parrhesia, free and frank speech, was thought to give voice to citizens who lacked power. Join Floyd Abrams and Matt Landauer and Yael Melamede in a conversation about the value of public speech and the relationship between free speech, equality and power, then and now. We will be screening excerpts from Yael Melamede’s 2023 documentary Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely.  Organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of the Classics. Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. For more info visit chs.harvard.edu.

Dissertation Writers Workshop

Workshops Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu. Friday, April 5, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM. Boylston 237. For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu.

Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)

Harvard Classics Lectures "The Making of the Southern Sea: Forging a Coastal Rim in the Hellenistic Period" Zoom link available on event page. Organized by: Unai Iriarte Asarta (RCCHU Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University) Speaker: Paul Kosmin (Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History, Harvard University). Monday, April 8, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. REAL COLEGIO COMPLUTENSE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 and via Zoom. For more info visit rcc.harvard.edu.

Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)

Harvard Classics Lectures CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries April 8: The historiographical stakes April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences with Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures These lectures are dedicated to the memory of Cornell Fleischer. Maria Mavroudi was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied Philology at the University of her native city before earning a Ph.D. in Byzantine studies at Harvard. Her scholarly work begun by focusing on a tenth-century Byzantine book on dream interpretation that had been widely received in Latin and the European vernaculars and counted as the Christian dreambook of the Middle Ages. While generally viewed as a Byzantine invention partly… Event contact to appear in listing: contact: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies). Monday, April 8, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Classics Department Meeting

Harvard Classics Department Meetings Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Harvard Faculty Club.

Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)

Harvard Classics Lectures CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries April 8: The historiographical stakes April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences with Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures These lectures are dedicated to the memory of Cornell Fleischer. Maria Mavroudi was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied Philology at the University of her native city before earning a Ph.D. in Byzantine studies at Harvard. Her scholarly work begun by focusing on a tenth-century Byzantine book on dream interpretation that had been widely received in Latin and the European vernaculars and counted as the Christian dreambook of the Middle Ages. While generally viewed as a Byzantine invention partly… Event contact to appear in listing: contact: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies). Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis

Harvard Classics Lectures "Rivaling Rome: Parthian and Sasanian Coins and Culture" Join the Harvard Art Museums for a lecture by Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis about the art of two ancient Iranian dynasties, and their continuing rivalry with ancient Rome. Event Series: llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture. Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. For more info visit harvardartmuseums.org.

Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley)

Harvard Classics Lectures CMES is pleased to present the 2024 Annual H.A.R. Gibb Lectures The Byzantine and Ottoman intellectual encounter, 14th–16th centuries April 8: The historiographical stakes April 9: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: archival documents April 11: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences with Maria Mavroudi, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley, with additional appointments at the departments of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures These lectures are dedicated to the memory of Cornell Fleischer. Maria Mavroudi was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and studied Philology at the University of her native city before earning a Ph.D. in Byzantine studies at Harvard. Her scholarly work begun by focusing on a tenth-century Byzantine book on dream interpretation that had been widely received in Latin and the European vernaculars and counted as the Christian dreambook of the Middle Ages. While generally viewed as a Byzantine invention partly… Event contact to appear in listing: contact: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Gibb Lecture Series (Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies). Thursday, April 11, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Knafel 262, Bowie-Vernon Rm, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Sarah Olsen (Williams College)

Harvard Classics Lectures Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome. Friday, April 12, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Bok Center Workshop: Developing Your Teaching Materials for the Job Market

GSAS Calendar Friday, April 12, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Boylston 203.

Visitas Breakfast

Classics Concentrator Calendar Monday, April 15, 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM. Boylston Lounge.

Roger Travis (University of Connecticut)

Workshops “The Cooperative Adventure Card Game as Recompositional Epic”. Event Series (if not listed): Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop. Monday, April 15, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Boylston 203.

Diontay Wolfries-Thomas (Ancient History)

Workshops TBD. Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop. Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. Boylston 237.

Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)

TBD. Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Course Registration for Fall 2024 Deadline

Registrar's Calendar Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

Fall 2024 Course Registration Deadline for returning students

Registrar's Calendar Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting

Harvard Classics Lectures Thursday, April 18, 2024 – Sunday, April 21, 2024. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Science and Engineering Complex, 150 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134. For more info visit www.aah2024.org.

Dissertation Writers Workshop

Workshops Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu. Friday, April 19, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM. Boylston 237. For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu.

Jennifer Devereaux (Human Evolutionary Biology)

Workshops TBD. Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop. Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. Boylston 237.

Last Day of Spring Term Classes

Registrar's Calendar Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

Spring Reading Period

Registrar's Calendar Thursday, April 25, 2024 – Wednesday, May 1, 2024.

Lowell Exam

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Boylston 203.

Student-Faculty Lunch

Student-Faculty Lunches Friday, April 26, 2024, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM. Harvard Faculty Club.

Postdoctoral Fellowships Session

GSAS Calendar Registration requested. Monday, April 29, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Zoom.

Michael Grünbart (University of Münster)

Event contact to appear in listing: contact: ariehle@fas.harvard.edu. Monday, April 29, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Room 203, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Umberto Verdura, Columbia University (Classics)

Workshops TBD. Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop. Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. Boylston 203.

GSAS: Last day to petition to withdraw from a course

Registrar's Calendar GSAS Spring Full term - Last day on which students may submit approved Petition to Withdraw from spring term course to the Office of Student Affairs. Wednesday, May 1, 2024.

Spring Term Final Examinations Period

Registrar's Calendar Thursday, May 2, 2024 – Saturday, May 11, 2024.

Phoebe Hyun (Ancient History)

Workshops TBD. Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop. Friday, May 3, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM. Boylston 203.

Dissertation Writers Workshop

Workshops Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu. Friday, May 3, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM. Boylston 237. For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu.

Classics Degree Meeting

Harvard Classics Department Meetings Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.

FAS Faculty meeting

FAS Faculty Meetings Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu.

GSAS: Last day to submit work for Fall 2023 INC

Registrar's Calendar Last day to submit work for a course with an incomplete (INC) grade for the fall term. Saturday, May 11, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

FAS Faculty meeting

FAS Faculty Meetings Monday, May 20, 2024, 4:30 PM. For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu.

Harvard University Commencement

Registrar's Calendar Department offices closed. Thursday, May 23, 2024.

Department Closed

Registrar's Calendar Friday, May 24, 2024.

University Holiday: Memorial Day

Registrar's Calendar Department Offices Closed. Monday, May 27, 2024.

University Holiday: Juneteenth

Registrar's Calendar Department Offices Closed. Wednesday, June 19, 2024.

Summer School Begins

Registrar's Calendar Monday, June 24, 2024.