What can ancient Rome teach leaders of today about vital issues of ambition, power, mercy, loyalty, ethics, longevity, and creativity? Join Harvard Professor Emma Dench, Dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, for a thought-provoking discussion on how leadership lessons from ancient Rome are relevant to leaders of today, and how she applies those lessons not only to inform her own leadership at Harvard but to shape the next generation of groundbreaking researchers and industry leaders.
Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (CST).
- 6:30 p.m.: Doors open for check-in
- 7:00 p.m.: Program begins
- 8:00 p.m.: Cocktail reception
Cost
Harvard Griffin GSAS alumni and Harvard Club of Shanghai members: $25
Non-GSAS Harvard Alumni and Guests: $30
Speakers
Emma Dench
Emma Dench is dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics. A Roman historian and classicist with appointments in the Departments of the Classics and History, Dench was appointed dean in 2018 after serving as interim dean in 2017.
During her term as dean, Dench has worked to enhance the quality of graduate students' academic and personal experiences. The Advising Project (TAP), which she spearheaded, works to enhance the advising of graduate students by identifying and communicating best practices in advising and offering mentoring training to faculty and mentoring-up training to students. Dench expanded on this work by engaging a group of faculty in the GSAS Admissions and Graduate Education Working Group, which considered what PhD education should look like in the 21st century. Harvard Griffin GSAS is now implementing its recommendations. Dench also makes student well-being a focus of her deanship and chaired the working group for graduate and professional students as part of the University’s task force on managing student mental health.
Since joining Harvard in 2007, Dench has earned a Harvard College Professorship in recognition of “outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and advising,” a John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling, and an Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for her mentorship of graduate students. Regarding her academic research, Dench’s most recent book, Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World, reviews 100 years of scholarship to identify how empire transformed the Roman world and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. She is also the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines and Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian. Dench has also published articles and reviews on many aspects of classical antiquity, including pre-Roman and Roman Italy, the workings of the Roman Empire and identity. Her current research explores the idea and practice of barbarian identity, as well as divine interaction in the Roman imperial world, and life and leadership lessons from Rome.
Dench grew up near Stratford-upon-Avon and studied at Wadham College, where she was awarded a double first in the classics. She also studied at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she obtained her DPhil in ancient history. She has taught the classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London; served as a Rome Scholar and a Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome; and been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. She was also a visiting professor of the classics and history at Harvard, a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow, and a Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In 2016, she delivered the prestigious J.H. Gray Lectures at the University of Cambridge.
Harvard University and the Graduate School Alumni Association encourage people with disabilities to participate in their programs and activities. If you anticipate needing an accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided at this event, please let us know in advance via email.
What can ancient Rome teach leaders of today about vital issues of ambition, power, mercy, loyalty, ethics, longevity, and creativity? Join Harvard Professor Emma Dench, Dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, for a thought-provoking discussion on how leadership lessons from ancient Rome are relevant to leaders of today, and how she applies those lessons not only to inform her own leadership at Harvard but to shape the next generation of groundbreaking researchers and industry leaders.
Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (CST).
- 6:30 p.m.: Doors open for check-in
- 7:00 p.m.: Program begins
- 8:00 p.m.: Cocktail reception
Cost
Harvard Griffin GSAS alumni and Harvard Club of Shanghai members: $25
Non-GSAS Harvard Alumni and Guests: $30
Speakers
Emma Dench
Emma Dench is dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics. A Roman historian and classicist with appointments in the Departments of the Classics and History, Dench was appointed dean in 2018 after serving as interim dean in 2017.
During her term as dean, Dench has worked to enhance the quality of graduate students' academic and personal experiences. The Advising Project (TAP), which she spearheaded, works to enhance the advising of graduate students by identifying and communicating best practices in advising and offering mentoring training to faculty and mentoring-up training to students. Dench expanded on this work by engaging a group of faculty in the GSAS Admissions and Graduate Education Working Group, which considered what PhD education should look like in the 21st century. Harvard Griffin GSAS is now implementing its recommendations. Dench also makes student well-being a focus of her deanship and chaired the working group for graduate and professional students as part of the University’s task force on managing student mental health.
Since joining Harvard in 2007, Dench has earned a Harvard College Professorship in recognition of “outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, mentoring, and advising,” a John R. Marquand Award for Exceptional Advising and Counseling, and an Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award for her mentorship of graduate students. Regarding her academic research, Dench’s most recent book, Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World, reviews 100 years of scholarship to identify how empire transformed the Roman world and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. She is also the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines and Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian. Dench has also published articles and reviews on many aspects of classical antiquity, including pre-Roman and Roman Italy, the workings of the Roman Empire and identity. Her current research explores the idea and practice of barbarian identity, as well as divine interaction in the Roman imperial world, and life and leadership lessons from Rome.
Dench grew up near Stratford-upon-Avon and studied at Wadham College, where she was awarded a double first in the classics. She also studied at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she obtained her DPhil in ancient history. She has taught the classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London; served as a Rome Scholar and a Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome; and been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. She was also a visiting professor of the classics and history at Harvard, a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow, and a Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In 2016, she delivered the prestigious J.H. Gray Lectures at the University of Cambridge.
Harvard University and the Graduate School Alumni Association encourage people with disabilities to participate in their programs and activities. If you anticipate needing an accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided at this event, please let us know in advance via email.