Ancient & Medieval Studies (AMS) Colloquium Series

The AMS Colloquium is a series of lectures throughout the Fall and Spring semesters that bring faculty and lecturers from within MIT and outside of MIT to share their expertise in the field of Ancient and Medieval Studies.

Spring 2025

March 4, 2025

What Aristotle Thinks Void Is

Bridget Brasher, MIT

Time: 5:15PM
Location: MIT, Building 14E-304

March 18, 2025

Fall of the Scribes, and the Rise of Literati in Han China

Christopher Foster, Library of Congress

Time: 5:15PM
Location: MIT, Building 14E-304

April 9, 2025

How East Asia Transformed Chinese Classical Literature and Book Culture: the Case of Korea

Johann Noh, MIT, Korea University

Time: 5:15PM
Location: MIT, Building 14E-304

April 22, 2025

Hedonism, Ancient and Modern: A Discussion of Plato’s Philebus

Sasha Rickard, MIT, Boston College

Time: 5:15PM
Location: MIT, Building 14E-304

 

Spring 2024

February 27, 2024

Gender and Belonging: Women as Members of the Political Community Through A Roman Lens

Amy Russell, Brown University

Time: 5:15pm
Location: MIT, Building E14-304

May 7, 2024

Political Order and The Spartan Ideal: An Ancient Debate for a World in Conflict

Susan Collins
Associate Professor Department of Political Science
University of Notre Dame

Time: 5:15PM
Location: Building 14, Room 14E-304

Fall 2024

October 28, 2024

Old voices saying new things: Re-writing classical literature at the monastery of Fulda in the mid-ninth century

Matthew Edholm, Visiting Fellow at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts

Time: 6:00PM
Location: MIT, Building E51-275

November 12, 2024

Editing Tolkien

Wayne G. Hammond, emeritus Chapin Librarian of Williams College
Christina Scull, former Librarian of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London

Time: 5:15pm
Location: MIT, Building 2-190