Senior Thesis Colloquium
Classics Concentrator Calendar
Schedule
9:00-9:10 am - Welcome & Introduction
9:20-9:30 am - Kiesse Nanor, “Poetics of Complementarity in Archaic Greek Epic and Lyric”
9:30-9:50 am - Sophia Downs, “Leges Sine Moribus: The Lex Papia Poppaea & Institutionalization of Family”
9:50-10:10 am - Frances Campos, “Reaching a Dead End: Representations of Satyrs and Prostitutes in Classical Athens ”
10:10-10:30 am - Christine Corcoran, “Conan the What?! Construction of the Barbarian in Greece, Rome, and Byzantium”
10:30-10:50 am - Break
10:50-11:10 am - Mac Mertens, “Edward Everett and Early American Classical Learning”
11:10-11:30 am - John Rogers, “Structis cantat avenis: Pastoral Voices in Augustan Poetry”
11:30-11:50 am - Theo Glaeser, “Walter Map's Construction of the Phantasm in De Nugis Curialium”
12:00-1:30 pm - Department Lunch (Ticknor Lounge)
1:30-1:50 pm - Livingston Zug, “Diminishing Returns: Underdevelopment in Troy VIII and IX”
1:50-2:10 pm - Elena Lu, “From Authority to History: Comparison and its Limits in 17th- and 18th-Century…
Friday, November 14, 2025, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 104.
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.
Paul Russell (Harvard University)
Harvard Classics Lectures
Celtic Languages and Literatures (Celtic historical linguistics).
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Harvard Classical Club: Harvard-Yale Curse Tablet Making
Special Events
What: We will be making ancient-style curse tablets against our ultimate hostis: Yale
When: Monday, November 17th, 6-7pm
Where: Lowell House E-305 (J Entryway)
Why: There will be Insomnia Cookies and other snacks, and you can pick up your very own YALE DELENDA EST button to wear to the game!!!
RSVP HERE.
Monday, November 17, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Lowell House E-305 (J Entryway).
For more info visit docs.google.com. 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, Sackler Lecture Hall, Sackler Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For more info visit mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu. Alessandro Carrera (University of Houston)
PEDAGOGIES FOR LIFE: Staging Political Virtue: Plato’s Republic and the Drama of Desire
Speaker: Alessandro Carrera, University of Houston
Discussant: Martin Puchner, Harvard University
Plato's Republic has shaped how we think about politics, ethics, and justice for more than two millennia. In On Political Virtue: Plato’s Republic and the Politics of Desire, the Italian philosopher Carlo Sini reinterprets this foundational dialogue in a strikingly original way. Rather than treating it as a straightforward defense of reason or ideal governance, Sini reads Plato’s work as a theatrical piece : a carefully staged philosophical performance that hides its message even as it delivers it. Through this lens, politics appears not as a purely rational enterprise, but as something animated by desire, exclusion, and spectacle.
In this conversation, Alessandro Carrera, the book’s editor and translator, will guide us through Sini’s provocative re-reading of Plato. He will explore what it reveals about the origins of…
Event Series (if not listed): Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Pedagogies for Life.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; CGIS South, S020 (Belfer Case Study Room); 1730 Cambridge St, 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.
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.
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.
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.