Date:
Friday, October 4, 2013, 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Loeb House, 17 Quincy St.
There will be a memorial observance for Calvert Watkins, Victor H. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, on Friday, October 4, at 2:00 PM in Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street. Professor Watkins, a giant figure in Indo-European linguistics and poetics, was a past president of the Linguistic Society of America and for many years chair of the Department of Linguistics. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/calvert-watkins-dies-at-80/
A reception will follow.
The Inaugural Whatmough Lecture on April 19, 2006: Calvert Watkins, Department of Classics and Program in Indo-European Studies, UCLA;
Title: "The Golden Bowl. Thoughts on the new Sappho and its Asianic Background" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8GQVUPQj0
See also: Special programs