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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

News

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

Curated Articles

Orality and Literacy (Persian translation)

Gregory Nagy Translated into Persian by Farnoosh Shamsian [[This article was first published in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ed. T. O. Sloane; Oxford 2001) 532-538. It is currently available in English here: https://chs.harvard.edu/curated-article/gregory-nagy-orality-and-literacy/.]] شفاهیّت و کتبیّت گرگوری ناژ برگردان فارسی: فرنوش شمسیان مفهوم شفاهیّت [1] از توصیف قو‌م‌شناسانه‌ی شعر شفاهی [2] به طور خاص و همچنین سنت شفاهی… Read more

Online Event

Kyklos Conference 2021

30 June 2021, 8:00 am ET

The Greek Epic Cycle and its Reception In the Arts, Literature, Vase-Painting, Theatre, Film, and Video Games (in Antiquity, as well as in the Contemporary World) Time: 8:00am–3:30pm EDT Kyklos is a program devoted to new and developing scholarship concerning the Greek Epic Cycle. Its primary purpose is to foster a new generation of classical scholars by offering them, at an early stage in their academic careers, an opportunity to… Read more

Programs & Events News

Recap: Lisa Raphals on Psyche Reconsidered

Written by Ryan Harte The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the last meeting of the Comparatism Seminar. We would also like to thank Lisa Raphals for her talk: “Considering Comparables: Psyche Reconsidered.” In contrast to many other talks in this seminar series that began from considerations of comparative methodology, Raphals jumped immediately into early Greek… Read more

A festive gathering in honor of Gloria Ferrari Pinney’s 80th birthday

4 June 2021, 12:00 pm ET

Those who have been fortunate to be Gloria’s students or colleagues carry the distinctive imprint of her scholarship in their consciousnesses. This imprint includes specific details of her brilliant studies, so often proving invaluable in our research; but also the style of thinking, the perception of the world, which can be only approximately described with words such as clarity, elegance, originality, courage, and precision.   Gloria’s research shows how thinking about… Read more

Curated Books

La isla de los antípodas – Tradición clásica y poetas cubanos contemporáneos: Luis R. Nogueras, Delfín Prats, José Triana y Magali Alabau

RESUMEN Este trabajo explora la tradición clásica en la poesía de los autores cubanos Luis R. Nogueras (1944-1985), Delfín Prats (1945), José Triana (1931-2018) y Magali Alabau (1945). Tras la introducción, se presenta un breve marco teórico donde se señalan los presupuestos de la disciplina que dan lugar al planteamiento utilizado (capítulo1), y una breve historia de la tradición clásica en Cuba, con énfasis en hechos determinantes para la formación de… Read more

Programs & Events News

Meet the Summer 2021 Digital Humanities Interns

We are pleased to introduce our four Digital Humanities interns who will be joining the Open Greek and Latin Project- Volunteer Program as trainers during the Summer 2021 session. As part of this project, they will manage the work of volunteers from all over the world in an effort to help the First Thousand Years of Greek Project finish digitizing its… Read more

Proximity and Classics

11 June 2021, 12:00 pm ET

What ideas of proximity can we find in Classical Greek literature? How was intimacy understood, from Homer to Plato? What is the connection between proximity and friendship? What is the role of supplication? How can these ideas be mobilized to shed light on the notion of proximity today? Read more