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. Nadav Asraf (Harvard University)
"ὁ δεῖνα ἐποίει: 'X was making [this]’: The Employment of the Imperfect in Artists’ Signatures in Light of Homeric and Herodotean Usage".
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Friday, March 27, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Greg Woolf (NYU ISAW)
Harvard Classics Lectures
"The Resilience of Empire and the Weakness of the Emperors"
Roman historians have been aware for a generation of the severe limitations placed on imperial action by the slowness of communication across the Empire. Yet we have remained committed to the view that, in Olivier Hekster’s phrase, “Caesar Rules”. Solutions to the apparent paradox have been found in the symbolic unity of the empire, in the power of ideology communicated by ceremony and images, and in the notion of “government by correspondence”. I shall be asking how plausible these solutions are, and indeed whether emperors did, in any meaningful sense, rule the empire. They, and some members of metropolitan and provincial élites, were committed to the view that the empire was steered from above. But can we infer this from the simple persistence of imperial structures over the centuries? What happens if instead of focusing on success stories and imperial claims we look at failures, and also initiatives that seem to have been abandoned after brief…
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, Sever 213, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Fall 2026 Course Registration begins
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Course Registration begins for continuing students.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Classics graduate students and recent alumni are invited to the second part of our graduate student workshop From Thesis to Book. This time, we will hear from two authors who recently published their dissertations: our own Meg Andrews, whose book The Subura of Rome: Landscape and Ideology from the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages will appear with CUP in just a few weeks; and David Ungvary (PhD '18) and is now Associate Professor of Classics at Bard College (for his book Converting Verse: The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul, published with OUP in fall 2024. Meg and David will each speak for 10–15 minutes about their experience; we will then have time for questions and open discussion. Although targeted primarily at graduate students in the dissertation stage, the workshop is open to all graduate students as well as to recent alumni. Recent alumni can email classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu to request the Zoom link.
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
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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. Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop
Workshops
'Reshaping the Canon'---A workshop led by Dr Justine McConnell (King's College London)
Exploring the role of canonicity in classical reception, this workshop will ask how researchers can avoid re-entrenching canons when examining texts that are in dialogue with Greco-Roman literature; why it might be desirable to do so; and whether canonisation can ever be part of the dismantling of coloniality. We’ll consider how we can reshape canons and whether we should, drawing on the experience and research of the workshop’s participants to see how these questions play out in different contexts.
Event Series (if not listed): Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop.
Monday, April 20, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM.
Boylston 203.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Master Class: "Persecution, Victimhood, and Storytelling in the Dead Sea Scrolls" - Prof. Alex Jassen (NYU)
Workshops
"Persecution, Victimhood, and Storytelling in the Dead Sea Scrolls"
A Master Class with Prof. Alex Jassen (NYU)
Violence is one of the key themes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It captured the imagination of the Sectarians who wrote these scrolls, and who saw themselves as victims of persecution. In this class, we will explore a wide range of passages where the Dead Sea Scrolls Sectarians tell stories about themselves as perpetual victims of empowered others: Rome and the local Jewish priestly and political authorities. Most scholars read these passages through a historical lens, seeking data about the origins and historical development of the Dead Sea Scrolls Sectarians. We will draw on social psychological approaches to violence and victimhood in order identify these texts as a form of storytelling that seeks to narrate the Sectarians’ perception of collective victimhood and a siege mentality. The Sectarians’ perception of the world is told through master narratives such as the biblical commentaries that present…
Event Series: Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Barker 133
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street.
Senior Thesis Information Session
Classics Concentrator Calendar
Join current seniors as we explore the process of writing a senior thesis! Pizza will be provided. RSVP here.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 237.
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.
Alex Jassen (NYU)
Harvard Classics Lectures
"Rediscovering the Discovery: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Their First Audience"
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times. This presentation examines the first public exhibition of the scrolls in 1949 as a case study into how scholars, journalists, and public figures taught the world about the scrolls in the early years after their discovery. The Library of Congress exhibit “Ancient Hebrew Scrolls” showcased three scrolls. The impact of this event on public excitement about the scrolls cannot be overstated. The scrolls were brought to Washington D.C. under the protection of the Secret Service. Extended hours accommodated the overwhelming interest as thousands of guests visited over two weeks. The world’s most famous Bible scholar, William F. Albright, gave an opening night lecture to a packed audience in the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium. Paramount News and Fox Movietone News sent crews to document the opening night and these newsreels played in theaters and h…
Event Series: Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Sever Hall 103
Quincy Street, 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
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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
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Thursday, May 7, 2026 – Saturday, May 16, 2026.
Course Evaluation (Q Guide) closes.
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Course Registration Deadline for continuing students.
Monday, May 18, 2026.
University Holiday: Memorial Day
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Department Offices Closed.
Monday, May 25, 2026.
FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
in camera degree meeting only.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu. Commencement Reception
Celebration for invited members of the Classics community.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St.
Harvard University Commencement
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Department offices closed.
Thursday, May 28, 2026.
University Holiday: Juneteenth
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Department Offices Closed.
Friday, June 19, 2026.
Summer School Begins
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Monday, June 22, 2026.