Erynn Kim (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Rex Wallace (UMass Amherst)
Workshops
Title: ‘The Sabellic Languages of pre-Roman Campania’
Abstract: In the period before Roman expansion, ancient Italy was home to a diverse array of languages and cultures. In southern Italy, in the territory of Campania, the languages spoken before Roman expansion were Etruscan, Euboean Greek, and the Sabellic languages Pre-Samnite and Oscan. This lecture, which is organized into several sections, has as its prime topics the Pre-Samnite inscriptions recovered from the Sorrentine peninsula, which date to the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, and the Oscan inscriptions recovered from Pompeii, which date to the 4th century BCE and later. The examination of the Pre-Samnite and Oscan inscriptions also includes observations on the alphabets and writing systems, and on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the languages. The lecture includes a review of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family and presents groups of phonological, morphological, and lexical correspondences illustrating the linguistic…
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston Hall 237.
CANCELLED - Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, October 23, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Michèle Lowrie (University of Chicago)
"Caesar, Carmen, and the Rule of Law."
Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Seminar.
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Classical Traditions and Receptions.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Plimpton Room (Barker 133), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
James Uden (Yale University)
Classical Receptions Workshop.
Event Series (if not listed): Classical Receptions Workshop.
Friday, October 30, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 237.
Adam Aleksic (Independent Researcher)
Workshops
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Monday, November 2, 2026, 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Location and Time TBD.
FAS Faculty meeting
FAS Faculty Meetings
includes in camera degree proceedings.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit officeofthesecretary.fas.harvard.edu. Departmental Colloquium: Celebration of Margaret Andrews’ book, "The Subura of Rome: Landscape and Ideology from the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages"
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA.
Spring 2027 Course Registration begins (enroll in courses)
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, November 4, 2026.
Edith Foster (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Title TBD
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Summary: Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Dissertation Writers Workshop
Workshops
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.
Friday, November 6, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.
Boylston 237.
For more info visit classics.fas.harvard.edu. Department Meeting (Senior Faculty Only)
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Plimpton Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA.
Veteran's Day--Classes are held.
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
Christopher Atkins (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu.
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Black Cicero: A Conversation with Mathias Hanses
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Hutchins Center, Harvard University
Featuring Professor Mathias Hanses (Associate Professor of Classics, Penn State University) on his new book Black Cicero: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Ancient Romans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2026.
In conversation with:
· Hannah Čulik-Baird (Associate Professor of Classics, UCLA)
· Harriet Fertik (Associate Professor of Classics, Ohio State University)
· Andrea Kouklanakis (Associate Professor of Classics, CUNY)
· Professor Jesse McCarthy (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Harvard University)
· Jackie Murray (Associate Professor of Classics, SUNY Buffalo)
· Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Professor of Classics, Arizona State University)
· Diontay Wolfries-Thomas (Department of the Classics, Harvard University)
The panel will be followed by an EOS Reads event (from 3:30-5 pm), focusing on Du Bois’s classicism: details and readings to follow.…
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Venue: Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, 104 Mount Auburn Street.
Senior Thesis Colloquium
Friday, November 13, 2026.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; TBD.
Department Meeting
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 237.
Book Celebration in honor of Leah Whittington
Harvard Classics Lectures
Celebration in honor of Leah Whittington’s book, Antiquity Made Whole: The Renaissance Continuation of Ancient Literature.
Event Series: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome. Event Series (if not listed): The Early Modern Workshop at Harvard University.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Thompson Room, Barker Center, Cambridge, MA.
For more info visit emworkshop.fas.harvard.edu. Course Registration Deadline (for minimum enrollment)
Registrar's Calendar
Wednesday, November 18, 2026.
Joseph Badawi-Crook (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Harry Saunders (Harvard)
Workshops
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston Hall 335.
Nathaniel Hess (Warburg Institute)
"Indescribable Textures: Ecphrasis and the Problem of Images in the Latin Poetry of Reformation-era Italy".
Event Series (if not listed): Classical Receptions Workshop.
Friday, November 20, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 237.
Ian Wilson (Harvard University)
Event Series: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop.
Friday, November 20, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston Hall 237.
Thanksgiving Recess
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Wednesday, November 25, 2026 – Sunday, November 29, 2026.
Department deadline for traveling fellowships and GSAS merit fellowships
GSAS Calendar
Tuesday, December 1, 2026.
Submit applications in CARAT by noon.
For more info visit gsas.harvard.edu. Dalia Pratali Maffei (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard)
Workshops
Event Series: GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics”.
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston Hall 335.
Last Day of Fall Term Classes
Registrar's Calendar
Friday, December 4, 2026.
Workshop on Classical Pedagogies
Workshops
Laura Viidebaum from NYU
James Ker from Penn.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: Irene Peirano Garrison (peirano@fas.harvard.edu).
Friday, December 4, 2026, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA.
Fall Reading Period
Registrar's Calendar
Saturday, December 5, 2026 – Wednesday, December 9, 2026.
Department Meeting
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 237.
Fall Term Final Examinations Period
Registrar's Calendar
Thursday, December 10, 2026 – Saturday, December 19, 2026.
Malina Buturović (CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies)
Workshops
Weekly works-in-progress talks by residential CHS fellows. You can learn about the 2026–2027 fellows and their projects on the CHS website. Talk details will be circulated over email.
Event contact to appear in listing: Contact: fellowships@chs.harvard.edu. Event Series (if not listed): CHS Fellows' Talks.
Thursday, December 10, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, 3100 Whitehaven ST. NW, Washington, DC 20008 and via Zoom.
For more info visit harvard.zoom.us. Meeting: undergrad curriculum
Meeting of the ad hoc committee on the undergraduate curriculum.
Event contact to appear in listing: contact: kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu.
Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Boylston 237.
University Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Registrar's Calendar
Department offices closed.
Monday, January 18, 2027.