Seminars, Workshops, and Lecture Series

Through consideration of topics reflecting the entire range of Classical studies, this Mahindra Humanities Center seminar examines Greek and Roman literature, philology, history, religion, archaeology, and philosophy; the application of literary and...

This workshop provides a space for graduate students and faculty to read, share, and discuss various approaches to classical reception. We explore reception’s methodological, social, and ideological implications—within Classics and literary studies, as...

This Mahindra Humanities Center 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, the seminar welcomes a variety of...

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.

This Harvard Griffin GSAS Research Workshop aims to support advanced Classics graduate students in writing and presenting their dissertations.

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...

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...

This Mahindra Humanities Center seminar on Modern Greek Studies performs transhistorical and cross-disciplinary explorations of aspects of Greek literature, societies, politics, and culture from the twelfth century to postmodernity. Presentations, which...