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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

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Kyklos 2021: Contributors and Abstracts

The Greek Epic Cycle and its Reception In the Arts, Literature, Vase-Painting, Theatre, Film, and Video Games (in Antiquity, as well as in the Contemporary World) Conference Date: June 30, 2021 Starting time: 6:00 AM MDT, 7:00 AM CDT, 8:00 AM EDT, 9:00 AM BRT, 1:00 PM BST, 2:00 PM CEST, 3:00 PM EEST, 9:00 PM Tokyo The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the contributors to the… Read more

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Recap: Johannes Haubold on Disciplinary Perspectives

Comparatism from a Disciplinary Perspective: The Case of Classics and Assyriology 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 Professor Johannes Haubold for his talk, “Comparatism from a Disciplinary Perspective: The Case of Classics and Assyriology.” Haubold’s talk considered how… Read more

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Visiting Artist: Piero Marconi

To register for Piero Marconi’s visiting artist presentation taking place on Friday, May 7, 2021, at 11:30 am EDT, please visit the event page. Piero Marconi is an Italian musician currently teaching at the “Rossini” Conservatory, Pesaro, in the Department of Music Education. His interests connect philosophy, composition, piano, and music history. As a musicologist, he has often referred to Classical antiquity. He has investigated the… Read more

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Visiting Artists: Mnemosyne Initiative with William Adair

Mnemosyne – Traversing Boundaries on Meandering Routes of Memory Mnemosyne A memory is dependent on the episode that occurs, and only with the passage of time, when this episode remains or is transformed into a memory, does the episode itself acquire greater meaning, as something worthy of remembering. Each memory, then, is an act of creation. That which is remembered is transformed through our consciousness and imagination into an entirely… Read more

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Visiting Artists: Mnemosyne Initiative with Eunsook Lee

Mnemosyne – Traversing Boundaries on Meandering Routes of Memory My Childhood Elementary School Alumni As social media gets popular and childhood memories increasingly come to mind, one thousand elementary school alumni from the 1960’s gathered and reunited. Having grown up in what was once the poorest country but is now the South Korea of today, my generation and I were there as a part of history. As a result, for the… Read more