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Third International Scholars’ Symposium: “Sports, Society, and Culture: Revisiting the Past, Understanding the Present”

July 9 – July 12, 2014 Ancient Olympia, Greece The International Olympic Academy (IOA), in cooperation with Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), is organizing the Third International Scholars’ Symposium on “Sports, Society, and Culture” in Ancient Olympia, on July 9-12, 2014. As in the past years, the Symposium will host scholars from around the world and bring together more than a hundred students and professors from Greek… Read more

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New Senior Fellow for 2014-19

The CHS is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Senior Fellow: Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Chair of the Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy. He will begin his five-year appointment in the fall following the conclusion of Angelos Chaniotis’s term as a senior fellow. As leading scholars in major subdisciplines of the study of Ancient… Read more

Hellenic Studies Series

Dialoguing in Late Antiquity

Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical, others more literary, theological, or Platonic; Aristotle also came into the picture as time went on. Sometimes the written works claim to be records of actual public debates, and we know that many such debates did take place and continued to do so. Dialoguing in Late Antiquity takes up a challenge laid down by recent scholars… Read more

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CHS Greece Event: Vassileios Lambrinoudakis, “How near is our past? The heritage of the classical world in life and art”

Please join us on Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 8:00 p.m., in Ligourio for the following lecture: “How near is our past? The heritage of the classical world in life and art” Lecturer: Vassileios Lambrinoudakis, Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Chairman, The Committee for the Restoration of Epidaurus Monuments Respondent: Maria – Xeni Garezou, Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, Archaeologist, Ministry of Culture and Sports Τhe talk will be… Read more

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Εκδήλωση ΚΕΣ: Βασίλειος Λαμπρινουδάκης, «Πόσο κοντά είναι το παρελθόν μας; Η κληρονομιά του κλασικού κόσμου στην ζωή και την τέχνη»

Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη, 7 Μαΐου, 2014 στις 8:00 μ.μ., στο Λυγουριό στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Πόσο κοντά είναι το παρελθόν μας; Η κληρονομιά του κλασικού κόσμου στην ζωή και την τέχνη» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Βασίλειος Λαμπρινουδάκης, Ομότιμος Kαθηγητής Κλασικής Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Πρόεδρος Επιτροπής Συντήρησης Μνημείων Επιδαύρου Συνομιλήτρια: Μαρία-Ξένη Γαρέζου, Διδάκτωρ Κλασικής Αρχαιολογίας, Αρχαιολόγος Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στο Πνευματικό… Read more

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Live Broadcast of Hangout with Gregory Nagy, May 1st

On Thursday May 1st, at 12:00 p.m. EDT, Professor Gregory Nagy (Harvard) will join members of Hour 25 for a live discussion and broadcast via Google Hangout. To join the live Q&A, visit the associated event page on Google+. Members of Hour 25 can leave questions and comments for Professor Nagy in advance on this thread in the Lyceum. You can watch the broadcast at the appointed day… Read more

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CHS Greece Event: Andreas Ioannides, “The use of Greek antiquity under German totalitarianism”

Please join us on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 8:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “The use of Greek antiquity under German totalitarianism” Lecturer: Andreas Ioannides, Vice-Rector, Associate Professor of Modern Greek Art from the 19th century until the present, Department of the Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s… Read more

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Live Webcast: CHS Research Symposium

The CHS disseminates the outcomes of the fellows‘ work through two venues:  the online Research Bulletin, and the annual Research Symposium. Each of these offers a vehicle for engaging with others who share fellows’ interests both here at the CHS and beyond (including some past and future fellows) and for refining ideas and ways of communicating them. During the symposium, fellows will present a short synopsis… Read more

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Εκδήλωση ΚΕΣ: Ανδρέας Ιωαννίδης, «Η χρήση της ελληνικής αρχαιότητας στον γερμανικό ολοκληρωτισμό»

Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη, 30 Απριλίου, 2014 στις 8:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Η χρήση της ελληνικής αρχαιότητας στον γερμανικό ολοκληρωτισμό» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Ανδρέας Ιωαννίδης, Αντιπρύτανης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Νεοελληνικής Τέχνης από τον 19ο αιώνα έως σήμερα, Τμήμα Θεωρίας και Ιστορίας της Τέχνης, Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» στο Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, στο Ναύπλιο. Η σειρά εκδηλώσεων Events… Read more

Hellenic Studies Series

Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus

The Derveni Papyrus is the oldest known European “book.” It was meant to accompany the cremated body in Derveni Tomb A but, by a stroke of luck, did not burn completely. Considered the most important discovery for Greek philology in the twentieth century, the papyrus was found accidentally in 1962 during a public works project in an uninhabited place about 10 km from Thessaloniki, and it is now preserved in… Read more