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Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature Series

Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord

In the 1930s, Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord, two pioneering scholars of oral poetry, conducted adventurous fieldwork in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and northern Albania, collecting singularly important examples of Albanian epic song. Wild Songs, Sweet Songs presents these materials, which have not previously been published, for the first time. Nicola Scaldaferri and his collaborators provide a complete catalogue of the Albanian texts and recordings collected by Parry and Lord; a selection… Read more

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Apply Now: Early Career Fellowships in Hellenic Studies in Greece and Cyprus 2022-23

Application deadline: Monday, November 1, 2021Reference letter deadline: Sunday, November 7, 2021 The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers two fellowships to postdoctoral researchers based in Greece and Cyprus. The program aims to support researchers whose work requires continued access to material on site (e.g. archives, artifacts, archaeological sites), and to encourage research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greek civilization. Fellowships include a stipend of $12,000 and the opportunity… Read more

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2020/2021 Digital Humanities Interns Share Their Experience

Taylor Cassidy ​​As a summer Digital Humanities intern at the CHS, I had anticipated spending a sweltering summer in DC, working on converting XML files to go up on the Perseus Scaife Viewer and enjoying the CHS campus with undergrads from across the country. Covid had other plans, though. We interns pivoted to working on an entirely different part of the Open Greek and Latin Project… Read more

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Meet the Fall Fellows and Visiting Scholars

The CHS welcomes the following Postdoctoral Fellows in Hellenic Studies and Visiting Scholars in Hellenic Studies to its campus for the Fall 2021 semester. Postdoctoral Fellows in Hellenic Studies Afroditi Angelopoulou is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include Greek Drama, Homeric epic, lyric poetry, Plato and Aristotle, and Hellenistic literature. While at the CHS, she will be working on her… Read more

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2021-22 Visiting Artists

The CHS Visiting Artist Program facilitates exchange between arts practitioners and researchers and supports contemporary artistic responses to ancient Greek culture. The program offers artists the opportunity to consult with the CHS research community and access its library resources on a short-term basis. The artists also share their work-in-progress; select presentations are available on the CHS YouTube Channel. The CHS Visiting Artists for the 2021-22 academic year… Read more

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Announcing Our New Director

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Below, we share with you an announcement from Harvard’s Dean of Arts and Humanities, Professor Robin Kelsey, concerning the transition in directorship of the Center for Hellenic Studies: From: Arts and Humanities Division Subject: CHS Director Announcement Date: July 13, 2021 Dear Colleagues of the Center for Hellenic Studies, It gives me great pleasure to confirm that, as of July 1, Mark Schiefsky, the C. Lois… Read more