Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Student Open House
Since its founding in 1958 by Harvard and Cornell Universities, the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has excavated, conserved, and published on aspects of the ancient city of Sardis in western Türkiye from the prehistoric through the Islamic periods. The expedition is one of the longest-running international projects sponsored at Harvard and is one of the oldest classical archaeology projects in the Mediterranean. In July 2025, the ancient city of Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has offered students opportunities to gain academic, professional, cultural, and life skills while contributing to the entire process of archaeological research, documentation, conservation, and publication. Each summer the project has over seventy team members, largely from Türkiye and the US, as well as in recent years from twenty other countries.
This Worldwide Week at Harvard 2025 event will introduce activities of…
Event contact to appear in listing: Alyssa Martinez, alyssa_martinez@harvard.edu.
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF SARDIS
Barker Center 133, Plimpton Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit worldwide.harvard.edu. Harvard Classics Club Pumpkin Decorating!
Classics Concentrator Calendar
We’re very excited to see y’all at our first event of the year…
What: the tradition continues, pumpkin decorating :)
When: Thursday October 16th, 6-7pm
Where: your favorite, Boylston 237
Why: there will be soloniki donuts AND if 20 people sign up Lorenzo will read the Apocolocyntosis in its entirety out loud
How: sign up here!
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard.
For more info visit docs.google.com. Student-Faculty Lunch
Student-Faculty Lunches
Friday, October 17, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Harvard Faculty Club.
Homer Reading Group
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: lkiriakidi@g.harvard.edu.
Friday, October 17, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Boylston 203.
Cinzia Arruzza (Boston University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
"The corruption of Alcibiades' thumos across Plato's dialogues".
Event Series: Loeb Classical Lecture.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Big Ideas, Quick Talks
Special Events
Science of the Human Past Fall Research Talks
Featuring talks by Margaret Andrews (Classics), Jason Ur (Anthropology), Alison Barton (Science of the Human Past), Victoria Moses (Science of the Human Past), Reed Morgan (History), Alex Reed (Classics), and Anika Christensen (Human Evolutionary Biology).
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
CGIS S020 Belfer Rm, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For more info visit sohp.fas.harvard.edu. 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, October 22, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Alternating between Harvard University, Emerson 107, and Boston University, STH 525.
CANCELLED - Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop
Workshops
TBD.
Event Series (if not listed): Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Special session: Workshop with Sharmila Sen (Harvard University Press) and Michael Sharp (Cambridge University Press): From Thesis to Book, Part 1: Publishers’ Perspectives (followed, in the spring, by Part 2: Authors’ Perspectives, date TBD).
Open to all graduate students. Remote option available: contact classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, October 24, 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, October 24, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Boylston 203.
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, Barker 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
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, October 29, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Alternating between Harvard University, Emerson 107, and Boston University, STH 525.
Methods and Practice Workshop
Workshops
Presenter: Alanis Gonzalez
"Translating Imperial Histories and the Gazes of Futurity: A Comparative Analysis.
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Friday, October 31, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
Homer Reading Group
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: lkiriakidi@g.harvard.edu.
Friday, October 31, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Boylston 203.
FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
includes in camera degree proceedings.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu. Methods and Practice Workshop
Workshops
Presenter: Alexander Reed
"The Rural Peasantry of Roman Britain".
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
Course Registration begins (enroll in courses)
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, November 5, 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 5, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Alternating between Harvard University, Emerson 107, and Boston University, STH 525.
Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop
Workshops
"Radical Trans-Racial Empathy from Juan Latino to Claudia Rankine" (Mira Seo, Distinguished Provost's Fellow, Visiting Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Wesleyan University).
Event Series (if not listed): Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Boylston 203.
Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, November 7, 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 7, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Boylston 203.
New Approaches to Classics Lecture Series: Jared M. Hudson
"Pomponius Mela on the Periphery: Latin Geography and the Roman Empire."
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.
Veteran's Day--Classes are held.
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
Methods and Practice Workshop
Workshops
Presenter: Connor North
"Polybius and the Irrational".
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
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 12, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Alternating between Harvard University, Emerson 107, and Boston University, STH 525.
Senior Thesis Colloquium
Classics Concentrator Calendar
Friday, November 14, 2025, 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM.
TBD.
Homer Reading Group
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: lkiriakidi@g.harvard.edu.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Boylston 203.
Classics Department Meeting
Harvard Classics Department Meetings
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
TBD.
Course Registration Deadline
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, November 19, 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 19, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Alternating between Harvard University, Emerson 107, and Boston University, STH 525.
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, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For more info visit mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu. 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.
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
"Landscapes".
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.
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.
Fall Term Final Examinations Period
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – Friday, December 19, 2025.