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.
|
Year |
Lecturer(s) |
Title |
|---|---|---|
|
2023 |
Rosalind Thomas |
"'...than the Chariots of the Lydians': Archaic Lydia and the Greeks" |
|
2015 |
Barbara Borg |
"The Roman art of commemoration" |
|
2014 |
John Haldon |
"Goldilocks in Byzantium: the paradox of East Roman survival" |
|
2013 |
Mark Griffith |
"Music and difference in Ancient Greece" |
|
2011 |
Brad Inwood |
"Ethics after Aristotle" |
|
2008 |
Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg |
"Isaac Casaubon" |
|
2005 |
Crawford Greenwalt |
"Sardis" |
|
2002 |
First Jackson Colloquium |
"War, culture, and imperialism in the Roman Republic" |
|
2000 |
Claude Calame |
"Time in ancient Greece: heroic narrative, poetic memory, ritual pragmatics" |
|
1998 |
Katherine Dunbabin |
"Conspicuous conviviality: images of the Roman banquet" |
|
1996 |
Myles Burnyeat |
"Freedom, anger, tranquillity: an archaeology of feeling" |
|
1994 |
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood |
"Greek tragedy and Athenian religion" |
|
1992 |
Peter Dronke |
"Verse with prose: from Petronius to Dante" |
|
1990 |
Anna Davies |
"Greek dialects" |
|
1987 |
Fergus Millar |
"The Roman Near East" |
|
1984 |
Machteld Mellink |
"Greeks and West Anatolians" |
|
1982 |
Walter Burkert |
"Ancient mysteries: faith and functions" |
|
1980 |
E. J. Kenney |
"Ovid" |
|
1978 |
Eugene Vanderpool |
"Marathon" |
|
1976 |
Peter Brown |
"The making of late Antiquity: social and religious change from Aelius Aristides to St. Anthony" |
|
1974 |
Jacqueline de Romilly |
"Magic and rhetoric in ancient Greece" |
|
1972 |
Denys Page |
"Folk tales in Homer’s Odyssey" |
|
1968 |
Arnaldo Momigliano |
"The development of Greek biography" |
|
1966 |
Roger Mynors |
"The transmission of the Latin classics" |