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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

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

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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