This Harvard Griffin GSAS Research Workshop aims to support advanced Classics graduate students in writing and presenting their dissertations. One initial focus will be strategies for time-management and work habits: who does not struggle to balance demands such as teaching and all the rest of...

The Department of Classics at Harvard University conducts a public lectureship in memory of Carl Newell Jackson (Harvard College Class of 1898). The Jackson Lectures are delivered annually by a scholar on a classical subject. Below is a chronological list of lectures.

An interdisciplinary discussion group on race in Medieval Studies, Classics, and Early Modern Studies. Readings pre-circulated. Open to Harvard faculty, graduate students, and senior undergraduates.

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The John Duffy Society promotes the interests of graduate students in the Department of Classics who have traditionally been under-represented by sponsoring and co-sponsoring events dedicated to issues traditionally under-studied in classics departments. The society also aims to enhance...

This Harvard Griffin GSAS Research Workshop offers a space for graduate students and invited speakers to present works in progress and case studies, and to discuss questions of methodology in our field, drawing from fields as diverse as translation studies, Greek tragedy, Athenian...

This seminar investigates the reception, elaboration, and revaluation of ancient and classical traditions from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to modernity and postmodernity. To this end, it welcomes a variety of theoretical approaches and innovations, including philological research,...

This seminar functions as a forum for lectures and intellectual exchanges on cultural politics across disciplines and national or historical boundaries. The main focus of the seminar is on cultural politics across nations in the era of globalization. Synchronic as well as diachronic explorations of current debates on the tensions between hegemonizing and marginal, local, or minor cultural discourses are presented and commented on by policy makers and scholars in a variety of fields including critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, political science, history, and law. The seminar is chaired by Panagiotis Roilos, professor of comparative literature and of Greek studies.