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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Memorial for Calvert Watkins,Victor H. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus
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SUMMARY:Memorial for Calvert Watkins,Victor H. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus
DESCRIPTION:<p>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. <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/calvert-watkins-dies-at-80/" data-url="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/calvert-watkins-dies-at-80/">http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/calvert-watkins-dies-at-80/</a></p><p>A reception will follow.</p><p>The Inaugural Whatmough Lecture on April 19, 2006: Calvert Watkins, Department of Classics and Program in Indo-European Studies, UCLA;</p><p>Title: "The Golden Bowl. Thoughts on the new Sappho and its Asianic Background" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8GQVUPQj0" data-url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8GQVUPQj0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8GQVUPQj0</a></p><p></p><p></p>
LOCATION:Loeb House, 17 Quincy St.
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20131004T180000Z
DTEND:20131004T210000Z
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