Kombos Collective presents 100 Years of Hadjidakis, celebrating the centennial birthday of this beloved composer. Katerina Clambaneva (voice), Ellie Falaris Ganelin (flute) and Mary-Victoria Voutsas (piano) will perform a program of his songs and piano works. Read more
Over one full day at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, Homer in a Golden Age will gather together several translators, scholars, performers and producers of ancient Greek poetry for contemporary audiences. This colloquium is mostly but not exclusively devoted to translations of Homer, traditionally held to be the first epic poet in the Western tradition. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies mourns the passing of Michael C. J. Putnam. An alumnus of Harvard University (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D.) and long-time faculty member at Brown’s Department of Classics, Michael was a dedicated servant to the field of classics. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers four postdoctoral fellowship opportunities for the 2026-27 academic year. These programs encourage and support research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greek civilization. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Ryan Pasco as Associate Director of Fellowships and Academic Programs. Read more
Join us for a two-day gathering that celebrates the living spirit of the ancient Delphic Games through a contemporary lens—where myth breathes, music resounds, and the Muses rise anew. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the 2025-26 Fellows in Hellenic Studies. The fellowship programs encourage research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greece. Read more
By Rebecka Lindau, Chief Librarian Two famous and exquisite manuscript facsimiles are on display at the Center for Hellenic Studies. Both are of texts and images by ancient Greek writers, one a geographer, mathematician, astronomer, music theorist, and philosopher living in the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemaios, and the other a medical doctor, Pedanius Dioscorides living in the 1st century CE. Both were revolutionary for their time and their work… Read more
The CHS library is pleased to welcome Allison Thornton as its new library assistant. Most recently, she comes to us from St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana, where she was the City Branch Assistant Manager. Read more
Please join us on Tuesday, May 6 and Wednesday, May 7 for presentations from our Early Career fellows, Evgenia Tsafou, Angelos Gkotsinas, Sergios Menelaou, Georgios Koukovasilis, and Artemi Papandritsa, as well as a paper from fellow in Philhellenism, Chrysa Theologou. Read more
