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CHS Visiting Scholar | Georgia Kolovou, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Nanterre

April 21-26th This week, Dr. Georgia Kolovou, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Nanterre, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Kolovou works on the scholia to Homer’s Iliad. Her project has two parts: the first consists of making an essential corpus available to the international scholarly community in an appropriate digital environment–an open source website. This is realized through translations in other languages… Read more

CHS Open House: Aesop and Fable, with Arti Mehta

Everyone loves a good story: stories deliver action. Patterns of actions then reveal the choices and values of the story-tellers and their societies. This idea of repeating real life in the actions of stories is the principle behind folklore studies. Arti Mehta in “Fox and Jackal: The Individual Against the Collective” We are pleased to welcome Arti Mehta, Lecturer in Classics at Howard University,… Read more