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Hours and Location Hours Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm Closed on federal holidays and from December 24-January 1 Address 3100 Whitehaven Street, NW Washington, DC 20008 Driving Directions Directions from Maryland (I-95 south) Follow Interstate Highway 95 to the Beltway (I-495) heading west toward Bethesda/Silver Spring. Take exit 39 for River Road, heading east towards Washington. Turn right onto Goldsboro Road. Turn left at the first traffic light onto Massachusetts Avenue. After… Read more

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2020 Early Career Fellows in Hellenic Studies in Greece:
Ioanna Moutafi

The Bioarchaeology of the Early Mycenaean period: An interdisciplinary study of human skeletal remains from Ayios Vasileios (Laconia) and Kirrha (Phokis) Death is a social process, associated with a series of collective acts (a.k.a. mortuary practices), which do not passively reflect reality but rather involve re-definition of identities, personhood and social relationships. Therefore, by studying the full spectrum of ancient mortuary practice, we can reach an emic understanding of complex social… Read more

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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Dr. Ryan Harte, postdoctoral fellow at Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China) | Challenging Mind-Body Dualism in Plato with the Phaedrus

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 second meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar. We would also like to thank Dr. Ryan Harte for his talk, which aimed at complicated-straightforward mind-body dualism in Plato. Harte argued that any account of soul/body in Plato should take account of the corporeal, physical… Read more