Student-Faculty Lunch
Student-Faculty Lunches
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Harvard Faculty Club.
Tori Lee (Boston University)
Workshops
"Violence, Power, and Ecofeminism in Pastoral Contest".
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
Last Day of Spring Term Classes
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
Henriette-Rika Benveniste (University of Thessaly)
Harvard Classics Lectures
"Greek Jews, Survivors of the Shoah: Difficult Return and Starting Anew"
All audiences are welcome; for people who are interested in this event, please click into the weblink and register the zoom meeting through the webpage.
Event contact to appear in listing: Seminar Chair: Panagiotis Roilos, panroilos@gmail.com. Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Modern Greek Studies.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 2:00 PM.
Via Zoom.
For more info visit mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu. Spring Reading Period
Registrar's Calendar
Thursday, May 1, 2025 – Wednesday, May 7, 2025.
Classics Prospectus Colloquium
GSAS Calendar
1:00 p.m. William Edwards: "A Practical Philosophy in the Prose of Seneca the Younger"
1:25 p.m. Luby Kiriakidi: "A VI MENTIS: Vates, Epiphanies, and Etymological Wordplay in Ovid’s Fasti"
1: 50 p.m. Alexander Reed: "Peasant Economies of the Roman West (1–150 CE)".
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM.
Boylston 105.
Ancient Studies Today
Ancient Studies at Harvard brings together faculty and graduate students who study the ancient world. Join us for an informal symposium featuring short presentations from faculty and researchers who have recently joined Harvard's community.
Featuring: Amy Clark (Anthropology), Caitlin Clerkin (Harvard Art Museums), Penelope Coombs (Harvard Art Museums), Andrew Danielson (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Céline Debourse (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Seth Estrin (History of Art and Architecture), Mohsen Goudarzi (Divinity School), Shayla Monroe (Anthropology)
The event will begin at 3:00pm, and a reception will follow at 6:00pm.
(Image: Votive terracotta eye, from the Harvard Art Museums.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Barker Center, Room 133.
Comparative Approaches to Language Learning in the Premodern World
“Commentary traditions and Pedagogy: some examples from Rabbinic and Early Chinese Exegesis”
Presenters: Ishay Rosen-Zvi and Michael Puett
Organizers:
Céline Debourse, NELC
Joe Glynias, Harvard Society of Fellows
Ivy Livingston, Classics
Irene Peirano Garrison, Classics
If you plan to attend, please fill out this RSVP form.
Friday, May 2, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138.
John Ma (Columbia University)
"Depth and Scale in the History of the Polis"
Harvard Graduate Student Loeb Lecture.
Event Series: James Loeb Lecture.
Monday, May 5, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Room 110, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Classics Degree Meeting
Harvard Classics Department Meetings
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Harvard Faculty Club.
FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit secfas.fas.harvard.edu. Spring Term Final Examinations Period
Registrar's Calendar
Thursday, May 8, 2025 – Saturday, May 17, 2025.
Dissertation Writers Workshop: Elevator Pitch Workshop
Workshops
Open to all Classics graduate students. Please RSVP.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Public Dissertation Defense: Emily Mitchell
Special Events
Friday, May 9, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Barker 110 (Thompson Room).
University Holiday: Memorial Day
Registrar's Calendar
Department Offices Closed.
Monday, May 26, 2025.
FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
degree meeting only.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 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 28, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St.
Harvard University Commencement
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Thursday, May 29, 2025.
Department Closed
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Friday, May 30, 2025.
University Holiday: Juneteenth
Registrar's Calendar
Department Offices Closed.
Thursday, June 19, 2025.
Summer School Begins
Registrar's Calendar
Monday, June 23, 2025.
University Holiday: Independence Day.
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Friday, July 4, 2025.