Monumental Works in Toledo and Escorial Tonight, Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:30pm EDT To view the slides, download the PDF. If you are unable to view the embedded video above, click here to watch live! Prof. Marina Lambraki-Plaka will present select masterpieces of the great Renaissance painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (“El Greco”), including The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, View of Toledo, and The… Read more
Alumni describe their participation in the program as life-changing, unforgettable, culturally and intellectually enriching. The 2016 Harvard Summer Program in Greece (Comparative Cultures Seminar) came to an end on July 31. The five-week-long Comparative Cultures Seminar is the oldest continuously running and one of the most successful Harvard study-abroad programs. Divided between the seaside town of Nafplio… Read more
Stamatia Dova of the Hellenic College Holy Cross will join the CHS Community for an Open House discussion on Odysseus and the Poetics of katabásis, on October 13 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Watch the live event and/or join in the conversation on the Hour 25 website or the CHS YouTube channel! Homer Odyssey 11.472–473 The psūkhē of the fleet descendant of Aiakos knew me and spoke piteously, saying, ‘Resourceful Odysseus, noble son of Laertes and… Read more
A workshop sponsored by the CHS This past April, Charles Bartlett and James Townshend, members of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University, convened a workshop entitled “Law, Economics, and Society: Purchase and Sale in Ancient Law.” The event included scholars from numerous universities across the United States and Europe, and addressed topics such as the origins of the Roman law of sale, the question of symbolic sale, the… Read more
Gallery Talk with Micro-Monuments Juror Anne Reeve Saturday, October 8, 2016, 4 pm Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies The Washington Sculptors Group is pleased to present a Gallery Talk about Micro-Monuments with juror Anne Reeve at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. The Talk is free and open to the public; reservations required RSVP to programs@washingtonsculptors.org… Read more
Gallery Talk with Micro-Monuments Juror Anne Reeve Saturday, October 8, 2016, 4 pm Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies The Washington Sculptors Group is pleased to present a Gallery Talk about Micro-Monuments with juror Anne Reeve at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. The Talk is free and open to the public; reservations required RSVP to programs@washingtonsculptors.org This program combines… Read more
Monumental Works in Toledo and Escorial a talk by Professor Marina Lambraki-Plaka with a reception to follow Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:30-8:30pm in House A free and open to the public advance registration required, click here to register In collaboration with the Society for the Preservation of Greek Heritage This event will… Read more
2016 Poets in Residence Program Poets Gill Mc Evoy and Jennifer Elliott, this year’s winners of the “Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets” in London and Edinburgh (a.k.a. the Callum MacDonald Award), participated in the Michael Marks Poets in Residence Program for two weeks during the past summer. The CHS had prepared a program full of activities in Nafplio, Ancient Olympia, Delphi, and Athens. Once in Ancient Olympia, our two brilliant… Read more
A screening of “Last Words” (seriousFilm, 2014) with an introduction by linguist-philologist Mark Janse Friday, October 14, 2016 7-9pm in House A Admission: Free and open to the public; advance registration required Overview The Cappadocian variety of Greek, spoken in Asia Minor until the population exchanges between Greek and Turkey in the 1920s, has been of considerable interest to Hellenists and linguists more generally because of the… Read more
This week, Dr. Travis Derico will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Derico is a contingent lecturer in religion at Huntington University. His research interests focus on an investigation of early Christian oral tradition and its role in the composition of the Synoptic Gospels and other early Christian literature. Having cleared some methodological ground along these lines in his first book, Oral Tradition… Read more
