#  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"

   ![Andrew Bauer poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/ancientstudies/files/bauer_poster_defdef.png?itok=C-_5q0DV) 

 

## 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?”

   ![Chap Kusimba poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/ancientstudies/files/harvard_ancient_studies_presents_2_1.jpg?itok=jl2cPhNE) 

 

## 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](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuceygrDgrGdXhsDFRS_faEpuVihsXaxxG) 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](mailto:rachel_love@fas.harvard.edu) and <gbazzana@hds.harvard.edu> if you would like to attend.

   ![Lisa Raphals poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/ancientstudies/files/raphals_lisa_ancient_studies.png?itok=hNvDkyeB) 

 

   ![Raphals Lisa seminar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/ancientstudies/files/raphals_lisa_seminar.png?itok=NtVpCoVD) 

 



## September 2020

### Eckart Frahm (Yale University)

   ![eckart_frahm_lectures_3.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/ancientstudies/files/eckart_frahm_lectures_3.jpg?itok=j58UJVwx) 

 

Wednesday, September 16, 12–2:30 p.m.: Lecture &amp; Workshop

Friday, September 18, 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.: Open Conversation with Graduate Students

[Theogony of Dunnu\_Lambert edition\_MC 16](/file_url/250)

[Dunnu\_hand copy\_CT 46](/file_url/253)

[Arnaud\_AuOr 33\_Cosmogonie lydienne](/file_url/251)

[Lambert Walcot\_Kadmos 4\_Dunnu](/file_url/252)


## February 2020  


### Annette Reed (NYU)

   ![Annette Reed poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/ancientstudies/files/annetteyreedposter5x6.5.png?itok=zb61x8-X) 

 

Masterclass: Wednesday, February 26th at 3 p.m. (location TBA)

Lecture: Thursday, February 27th at 5:15 p.m. (location TBA)

## October 2019  


### Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)

   ![Henkelman flyer](/sites/g/files/omnuum9421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/ancientstudies/files/henkelman.flyer_.ancientstudies.png?itok=0924IpZK)