Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Latin Reading Group
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: lkiriakidi@g.harvard.edu.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Boylston 203.
Greta Galeotti (Harvard University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
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.
Department deadline for traveling fellowships and GSAS merit fellowships
GSAS Calendar
Tuesday, November 25, 2025.
Submit applications in CARAT by noon.
For more info visit gsas.harvard.edu. Methods and Practice Workshop
Workshops
Presenter: Phoebe Lakin
"'Rosemary from a vanished world': Landscapes and Nostalgia in Virgilian Reception".
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
Thanksgiving Recess
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 – Sunday, November 30, 2025.
Greek Philosophical Texts Reading Group
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: Peter Osorio (posorio@fas.harvard.edu). Event Series: Greek Philosophical Texts Reading Group.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Alternating between Harvard University, Emerson 107, and Boston University, STH 525.
FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu. Last Day of Fall Term Classes
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
Greek Philosophical Texts Reading Group
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: Peter Osorio (posorio@fas.harvard.edu). Event Series: Greek Philosophical Texts Reading Group.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Alternating between Harvard University, Emerson 107, and Boston University, STH 525.
Fall Reading Period
Registrar's Calendar
Thursday, December 4, 2025 – Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
Metaphysics and Theology Workshop (Department of Philosophy, Harvard University)
Friday, December 5 | 8:30am - 4:30pm (Emerson 211)
Saturday, December 6 | 8:30am - 1:30pm (Robbins Library)
Speakers:
Julia Borcherding (Cambridge University), "Divine Minds: Leibniz on the imago Dei Thesis and the Commonwealth of Spirits"
Therese Cory (University of Notre Dame), "A Puzzle about Intellectual Memory: Three States of Mental Forms in Aquinas"
Sam Newlands (University of Notre Dame), "Panentheism, Idealism, and Monism"
Dominik Perler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), "One Substance and Many Attributes: Spinoza and the Scholastic Background“
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford University), "What Kind of Trope Theorist Was Hume?"
Stephan Schmid (Universität Hamburg), "Spinoza’s Attributes as Ways of Being"
Organizers:
Clara Carus (Harvard University)
Jeff McDonough (Harvard University)
Co-Sponored by the Abigail Adams Institute and the Harvard Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities.
Friday, December 5, 2025, 8:30 AM – Saturday, December 6, 2025, 1:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Emerson Hall Rm. 211 & Robbins Library.
Homer Reading Group
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: lkiriakidi@g.harvard.edu.
Friday, December 5, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Boylston 203.
Classics Department Meeting
Harvard Classics Department Meetings
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
TBD.
Department of the Classics Holiday Party
Please join us after the faculty meeting for our holiday party! Drinks and light refreshments will be served!
Please RSVP here.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 2nd floor.
Fall Term Final Examinations Period
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – Friday, December 19, 2025.
University Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Monday, January 19, 2026.
Check-In Deadline for All Students
Registrar's Calendar
Monday, January 26, 2026.
First meeting of spring term classes.
Registrar's Calendar
Monday, January 26, 2026.
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
Title TBD.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: classics@fas.harvard.edu. Event Series: Harvard Classics Departmental Seminar Series.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD.
Methods and Practice Workshop
Workshops
TBD.
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Friday, January 30, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
Classics Department Meeting
Harvard Classics Department Meetings
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
TBD.
Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. University Holiday: President's Day
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Monday, February 16, 2026.
Prospective Graduate Student Visit
GSAS Calendar
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 – Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
Hold for event
GSAS Calendar
Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
TBD.
Workshop: Scott McGill and Susannah Wright (Rice University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
Dr. Susannah Wright and Dr. Scott McGill will talk about their new translation of the Aeneid, published by W. W. Norton in August 2025, and lead a public workshop.
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Rethinking Translation.
Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For more info visit mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu. Lecture: Scott McGill and Susannah Wright (Rice University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
Dr. Susannah Wright and Dr. Scott McGill will talk about their new translation of the Aeneid, published by W. W. Norton in August 2025.
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Thursday, February 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For more info visit mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu. Methods and Practice Workshop
Workshops
TBD.
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Friday, February 20, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.