Reading Greek Tragedy Online Season 5!
Join us for the 5th season of Reading Greek Tragedy Online, in partnership with The Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre! Read more
Archive
The Story of Oedipus in the African Diaspora
22 October 2022, 8:00 am ET
The fourth annual Howard University workshop in collaboration with Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies and the University of Virginia's Center for the Liberal Arts will discuss the story of Oedipus in the African Diaspora. Read more
Fellowships in Hellenic Studies 2023-24
The Center for Hellenic Studies is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2023-24 academic year. The program encourages and supports postdoctoral research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greek civilization. Read more
Liberal Arts Roundtable on Policing
29 September 2022, 2:00 pm ET
This roundtable brings together scholars from different disciplines in the liberal arts to discuss the issue of policing in the 21st century. Read more
In Memoriam: Corinne Ondine Pache
On Friday, November 4th at 5:00 pm CST, there will be a memorial service for Corinne Pache. For those who will not be able to attend in person, the memorial will be live-streamed on the Trinity website. Read more
TA-U-RO-QO-RO: Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez
José Luis Melena Jiménez is a peerless scholar of editing the texts written in the Mycenaean writing system of the late second millennium BCE and explicating their linguistic and “historical” contents. This volume takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation markers and numbers in the Linear B tablets and the values of specific signs, to personal names and place names… Read more
Announcing 3 new grant opportunities
The CHS would like to announce three new grant opportunities – one for Harvard faculty, one for Harvard graduate students, and one for both Harvard faculty and graduate students. Read more
Panos Kouros
10 June 2022, 11:00 am ET
In this artist talk, Panos Kouros will discuss certain directions in his artistic practice which touch on the experiential and political dimension of archaeology. Read more
Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics
This text first considers the character of Penelope from the Odyssey as the object of male gazes and as a subject acting from her own desire, and then it develops the notion of “possible plots” as structures in the poem that co-exist with the plots Penelope actually plays out. “This book explores Homer’s construction of the character of Penelope, and his more general theory of poetic production and reception. Read more
Ion – Euripides
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17 May 2022
On Wednesday, May 18th at 3:00pm EDT, Reading Greek Tragedy returns with Euripides's Ion. Read more