Visitors Series

The Ancient Studies Visitors Series brings two scholars to campus per year to offer a lecture and a masterclass.

March 2022

Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)

Lecture: Tuesday, 22nd March at 6 p.m. in Sever 113
"Archives, Archaeology, and the Anthropocene: Reconciling Disparate Epistemic Foundations in a Time of Precarity"

Workshop: Wednesday, 23rd March at 3 p.m. in Boylston 103
"Ritualized Production and Cultivated Distinctions on the Early Deccan: Re-Centering Perspectives of Early Historic (ca. 500 BCE – CE 500) Indian Ocean Trade"

October 2021

Chapurukha Kusimba (University of South Florida)

Lecture: Tuesday, 12th October at 5pm in Sever 113
“Innovation, Trade, and Leadership: State Foundings in Pre-Modern Eastern Africa”

Masterclass: Wednesday, 13th October at 12pm in Barker 133
“What Role did Climate Change and Disease Play in the Decline and Collapse of Swahili Urbanism?”

March 2021

Lisa Raphals (UC Riverside, Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies)

Lecture: Wednesday, March 24, 4:30 p.m., "Mind-Body Dualism and the Tripartite Self"

Registration required.

Workshop: Thursday, March 25, 3–5:45 p.m. Part of the Ancient Studies graduate-student seminar: ANCSTD 201. “Oracles and Divination in the Ancient Mediterranean.” Prof. Raphals’ seminar class, “Divination and Risk in Early China and Greece: Evidence from Dodona and Shuihudi” is open to interested students (graduate and advanced undergraduate). Please write to both rachel_love@fas.harvard.edu and gbazzana@hds.harvard.edu if you would like to attend.