CHS Gallery In this section, the Center for Hellenic Studies features photographs from its various activities and events as well as artistic contributions from the CHS community. CHS Events Annual May Party CHS celebrated its annual end-of-year party on May 17, 2005. This year’s Persian-themed party was held under a tent on the lawn behind the Director’s house with Persian food and musicians. This sketch of the Persian musicians… Read more
The following link accesses a site designed to outline and track current CHS initiatives (restricted): Center for Hellenic Studies Projects Portfolio Announcements CHS Projects Portfolio is up and running. Its wiki formatting allows all users to edit content; given this capability, and the ever-expanding nature of CHS Projects, we encourage users to update content for projects with which they are affiliated. … Read more
Greeks on Greekness Colloquium INTRODUCTION TO THE COLLOQUIUM ABSTRACTS BY DAVID KONSTAN back to Past Conferences main page The abstracts that follow summarize the papers distributed and discussed at the colloquium, “Greeks on Greekness: The Construction and Uses of the Greek Past among Greeks under the Roman Empire,” held at the Center for Hellenic Studies on 25-28 August 2001. The eleven participants who presented the papers were joined… Read more
Theocritus Colloquium The Theocritus Colloquium was held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in May 2003. This joint colloquium of graduate students and professors of the Classics departments at Harvard and Yale focused on Theocritus and the city of Syracuse as a context of a major part of Theocritus’ poetry. Papers by the following authors are available: Ayelet Lushkov, Yale, “Watching Daphnis: Frustration of Viewing in Idylls 1… Read more
Greek Priests from Homer to Julian Conference Greek Priests from Homer to Julian Organized by Professor Beate Dignas, the University of Michigan and Professor Kai Trampedach, the University of Konstanz back to Past Conferences main page From the conference program: The intent of the symposium is to bring together scholars of Greek history and religion in order to present their work and discuss the social… Read more
Women and Property in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Societies August, 2003 back to Past Conferences main page Introduction, by conference organizers and editors, Deborah Lyons and Raymond Westbrook Scholars in the two disciplines of Classics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies have recently focused a great deal of attention on the economic roles of women in the societies that they each study. In societies that are generally labeled “patriarchal,”… Read more
Perspectives on Plato’s Symposium ‘Perspectives on Plato’s Symposium‘: Issues in Interpretation and Reception August 16-18, 2005 back to Past Conferences main page Plato’s Symposium occupies a special place in Western thought. Not only is it an acknowledged classic of ancient Greek philosophy and literature, it is also one of the most influential works ever created. From the time of Plotinus in the third century of the common… Read more
Boundaries Between Bodies Symposium Boundaries Between Bodies: Human, Animal, Divine April 28-30, 2006 In the classical world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, humans and animals, mortals and immortals, women and men, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices. But things… Read more
CHS 2009 Graduate Summer Seminar tragic pathos: body and mind in Greek tragedy June 22-July 6, 2009 This summer graduate seminar at the CHS focuses on how and why the experience of pathos is central to Greek tragedy, with particular attention to the interconnection between body and mind. The seminar combines close readings of two extant tragedies (Sophokles’ Philoktetes and Euripides’ Hekuba), one comedy (Aristophanes’ Frogs), and… Read more
The Summer Internship Program in Nafplion, Greece 2010 The application for 2010 has closed. May 24 – July 25, 2010 Overview | Application Information | Detailed Internship Descriptions | Modern Greek Language Component | Faculty OVERVIEW The Center for Hellenic Studies Summer Internship Program offers Harvard students the opportunity to spend the summer living and working in Nafplion, Greece. Nafplion was the first capital… Read more
