The CHS GR team is pleased to share recordings of the Events Series through its YouTube channel. So far, four of this year’s Events Series have taken place in venues around Greece. This year’s topic is ‘Societies in Crisis: Economy, Politics, Culture’. The Events Series feature lectures in Greek or English. Speakers so far have addressed the general topic through their own research, coming from different backgrounds. Here are… Read more
Join us on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 8:00 p.m., in Nafplio for a lecture with Theodore Pelagidis on “Populism, political risk and economic policy in the Greek case.” Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 7:00 p.m., in Ligourio for the following lecture: “Pausanias the traveler visits Epidaurus” Lecturer: Yorgis Yatromanolakis, Emeritus Professor of Classics, National and Capodistrian University of Athens and author Respondent: Rena Zamarou, Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Department of Philology, National and Capodistrian University of Athens The lecture will be held in the Cultural Center of St. Basil Church, Ligourio, Municipality of Epidaurus, and will be… Read more
Join us on Wednesday, February 15, 2017, in Nafplio as we welcome A. E. Stallings, poet, critic, and verse translator, who will discuss and read from her new verse translation of Hesiod's Works and Days, focusing on the experience of translating Hesiod (a poet deeply concerned with justice, work, debt, and hard times) in Greece during the Greek financial meltdown. Read more
Please join us on Friday, January 20, 2017 at 7:00 p.m., in Thessaloniki for the following lecture: “Disintegration and Reintegration of Society in Archaic Greek Poetry” Lecturer: Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of the Classics, Harvard University & Director, Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.), Harvard University Respondent: Keith Stone, Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Study of Ancient Texts,… Read more
Our own Yiannis Petropoulos shares a summary of the opening lecture of the Events Series 2017, ‘Societies in Crisis: Economy, Politics, Culture’: What would be the political and constitutional repercussions in another EU country if its citizens experienced a 40-50% reduction in salaries and pensions? To the credit of the Greeks and their constitution, the past 7 years of economic stagnation have not brought about political irregularity. The ship of state… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the first lecture of this year’s Events Series: “Divisive democracy: The Greek parliamentarianism between ‛regularity’ and aberration, 1843-2016” Lecturer: Nikos Alivizatos, Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law, Law School, University of Athens Respondent: Nikos Papaspyrou, Lecturer in Public Law, Law School, University of Athens The event will take place at the Municipal Auditorium of the Vouleftiko in Nafplio. Read more
CHS GR Event Please join us on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the last lecture of this year’s Events Series: “Ancient Greek cult statues in the Roman Empire: Globalization through theft, copying and repetition” Lecturer: Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University The event will take place at the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall”… Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., in Kranidi for the following lecture: “Tourism, globalization and social change. The insular worlds of South East Aegean in the 21st century” Lecturer: Despina Nazou, Social Anthropologist – Lecturer/Research Fellow at the University of the Aegean Respondent: Andreas Nikolovgenis, Architecture, M.Arch II, Harvard GSD The event will take place at the Lecture’s Hall of the General Lyceum… Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., in Nafplio for the following lecture: “Monolingualism versus linguistic polymorphy: the meaning of the mother tongue” Lecturer: George Babiniotis, Professor of Linguistics, former Rector of the University of Athens The event will take place at the Vouleftiko Lecture’s Hall in Nafplio. The lecture will be delivered in Greek. The Events Series 2016 is organized in cooperation… Read more
