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Meet the Fall Fellows and Visiting Scholars

The CHS welcomes the following Postdoctoral Fellows in Hellenic Studies and Visiting Scholars in Hellenic Studies to its campus for the Fall 2021 semester. Postdoctoral Fellows in Hellenic Studies Afroditi Angelopoulou is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include Greek Drama, Homeric epic, lyric poetry, Plato and Aristotle, and Hellenistic literature. While at the CHS, she will be working on her… Read more

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2021-22 Visiting Artists

The CHS Visiting Artist Program facilitates exchange between arts practitioners and researchers and supports contemporary artistic responses to ancient Greek culture. The program offers artists the opportunity to consult with the CHS research community and access its library resources on a short-term basis. The artists also share their work-in-progress; select presentations are available on the CHS YouTube Channel. The CHS Visiting Artists for the 2021-22 academic year… Read more

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Announcing Our New Director

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Below, we share with you an announcement from Harvard’s Dean of Arts and Humanities, Professor Robin Kelsey, concerning the transition in directorship of the Center for Hellenic Studies: From: Arts and Humanities Division Subject: CHS Director Announcement Date: July 13, 2021 Dear Colleagues of the Center for Hellenic Studies, It gives me great pleasure to confirm that, as of July 1, Mark Schiefsky, the C. Lois… Read more

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Recap: Lisa Raphals on Psyche Reconsidered

Written by Ryan Harte The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the last meeting of the Comparatism Seminar. We would also like to thank Lisa Raphals for her talk: “Considering Comparables: Psyche Reconsidered.” In contrast to many other talks in this seminar series that began from considerations of comparative methodology, Raphals jumped immediately into early Greek… Read more

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Meet the Summer 2021 Digital Humanities Interns

We are pleased to introduce our four Digital Humanities interns who will be joining the Open Greek and Latin Project- Volunteer Program as trainers during the Summer 2021 session. As part of this project, they will manage the work of volunteers from all over the world in an effort to help the First Thousand Years of Greek Project finish digitizing its… Read more

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Recap: Yiqun Zhou on Bad Emperors Obsessed with Foreign Cultures

Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the sixth meeting of the Comparatism Seminar. We would also like to thank Yiqun Zhou for her talk “Bad Emperors Obsessed with Foreign Cultures.” Nero (r. 54-68 CE) and Emperor Wu of the Han (r. 141-87 BCE) were known for their extravagant personalities, their exhibitionism… Read more

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Meet the May/June 2021 Francis Jones Graduate Assistants

The Francis Jones Graduate Assistantship Program is a newly created program aiming to support the study of the humanities and social sciences and to encourage service-based learning for pre-doctoral researchers who plan to pursue careers both within academia and beyond the academy. For the May/June 2021 session, four Harvard graduate students have been awarded graduate assistantships and will be working with the New Alexandria Commentary Platform, which facilitates the creation… Read more

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Recap: Cléo Carastro on Polytheisms and Cosmologies

Comparative Perspectives on Ancient Greece and Contemporary Nuna Societies (Burkina Faso, West Africa) Written by Alba Curry The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend their greatest thanks and appreciation to all of those who participated in the fourth meeting of the Comparatism Seminar. We would also like to thank Cléo Carastro for her talk, “Polytheisms and Cosmologies-Comparative perspectives on ancient Greece and contemporary Nuna societies (Burkina Faso, West… Read more

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Visiting Artist: Cynthia Word

Ms. Word has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas/Austin and began her professional Modern Dance training at the University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana, with in-depth experience in the technique and choreography of Doris Humphrey and Jose Limon. In 1992 she received her Master in Fine Arts from The George Washington University/Department of Theater and Dance, where she served on the teaching faculty. From 1990 to 2005, Word travelled throughout the United States and Europe as a teaching artist for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts/Washington, DC, and the Wolf Trap Center for the Arts/Fairfax, Va. In 2005, in the midst of her performing and teaching career, Ms. Word had the delightful surprise of discovering the technique and choreography of Isadora Duncan. She immediately began intense study with Dr. Jeanne Brescianni, Director of the Isadora Duncan International Institute. Read more