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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Dr. Tom Angier, University of Cape Town | Aristotle on Mind/Body, Male/Female, Master/Slave: The Relevance of Technē

Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the first meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar. We would also like to thank Dr. Tom Angier for his talk on the relevance of Aristotle’s conception of technē as an explanation for three key hierarchical relations, namely those between mind/body, male/female, and master/slave. He… Read more

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CHS 2020 Fall Fellows: Milena Anfosso

My current project as a CHS Fellow is to further develop the results of a substantial chapter of my dissertation in order to produce my first monograph in English, with the provisional title Entwining Greek with Asian Speech. In my dissertation –– originally written in French and entitled Problèmes linguistiques du rapport entre Grec(s) et Phrygien(s) (2019, Sorbonne University, Paris, 488 pages) –– I studied the complex relationship between Greeks… Read more

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CHS 2020 Fall Fellows: Denise Demetriou

Phoenicians Among Others: How Migration and Mobility Transformed the Mediterranean Zeno of Kition arrived in Athens sometime in the fourth century BCE in spectacular fashion. The ship he was on, a merchant vessel carrying a quintessential Phoenician product, purple dye, was wrecked off the Attic coast. Zeno, a Phoenician speaker himself, washed ashore, made his way to a bookstore, became enamored with philosophy, and eventually founded the Stoic school of… Read more

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Channels of Expression in Times of Change | 24 Hours of Harvard music and dance session

The Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS Greece),the Center for Hellenic Studies in the USA (CHS US),the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in Brazil (DRCLAS Brazil) &the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute in India (The Mittal SAI New Delhi)are pleased to invite you to the event: Channels of Expression in Times of Change: Music and Dance across Continents Wednesday, October 7, 2020, at 1:00-2:00pm… Read more