On Thursday April 11, 2019, the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium (NEAHC) celebrated 40 years of its existence. The first meeting of this regional group of Ancient Historians of ancient Greece and Rome took place in November 1978 when the first presenter was Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University). Forty years later, Kurt Raaflaub was chosen to present a paper for this special Anniversary edition of the colloquium.

The topic, 'Caesar Historicus,' a paper that builds on his recent publication of The Landmark Caesar, and the respondent was Professor Cynthia Damon (Penn). The format remains very much the same as it was when Professor Ernst Badian of Harvard University established the series. A pre-circulated paper is addressed by a respondent, and a Q&A session follows in the context of an evening dinner. The host for the evening, Professor Kathleen Coleman, Chair of Classics at Harvard, introduced the meeting and described the NEAHC as the foremost regional Ancient History organization in North America.

The current and longstanding organizer of NEAHC is Professor Emeritus Allen Ward (Brown, 1964) who continues to find hosts and speakers for this biannual meeting. A strong contingent of Brown Faculty and Graduate students attended what was the largest ever gathering of the NEAHC. The meeting took place at Harvard's Faculty Club and was sponsored generously by the University's Classics Department. Allen Ward and Corey Brennan (Rutgers) prepared and circulated a published list of the known details of all events held in the last forty years of the NEAHC.