Apply Now: CHS Fellowships in Hellenic Studies 2019-20
The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) is now accepting fellowships applications for the 2019-20 academic year. The application deadline is October 1, 2018. Read more
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5000 Years of Comments
8 August 2018
The Development of Commentary from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Age of Information August 8-9, 2018 Sponsored and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies Organized by Joel P. Christensen (Brandeis University) and Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale University) About the conference Commentary on the written word is nearly as old as writing itself and has developed alongside scholarship, literature and the writing cultures in critical and influential ways. As an activity,… Read more
Two poems by Leonard McDermid, Michael Marks award-winning poet
Poet Leonard McDermid, this year’s winner of the “Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets” in Edinburgh, shares two of his poems with the CHS community. Read more
CHS-AUTH 2017-2018 Fellows | Maria Chriti
"However, I was even more fortunate as a post-doctorate applicant of the Center for Hellenic Studies, in its first official collaboration with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, when my research proposal on “Aristotle as a name-giver from a cognitive linguistic aspect” was embraced by the CHS a little more than a year ago." Read more
CHS-AUTH 2017-2018 Fellows | Maria Chriti
"However, I was even more fortunate as a post-doctorate applicant of the Center for Hellenic Studies, in its first official collaboration with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, when my research proposal on “Aristotle as a name-giver from a cognitive linguistic aspect” was embraced by the CHS a little more than a year ago." Read more
Kosmos Society Book Club | Argonautica, Books 1 & 2
“Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks, sped well-benched Argo in quest of the golden fleece.” In July and August CHS community members will be reading the complete Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. Read more
Kosmos Society Book Club | Argonautica, Books 1 & 2
“Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks, sped well-benched Argo in quest of the golden fleece.” In July and August CHS community members will be reading the complete Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. Read more
Meet the Teaching Fellows for the High School Summer Program in Nafplio, Greece!
From July 5 until July 21, 2018, four Harvard College students fill internships teaching the CHS High School Summer Program (HSSP) in Greece. Read more
CHS GR Events Series 2018 on YouTube
CHS GR shares videos of the 2018 Events Series on YouTube. This year's Events Series focused on ‘Leadership and Humanism’ with speakers from different academic backgrounds addressing the general topic through their own research. Read more