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The Reawakening of an “Extinct” Language: The Case of Cappadocian Greek

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

CHS Visiting Scholar | Travis Derico, Huntington University

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

CHS Visiting Scholar | Travis Derico, Huntington University

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

CHS Visiting Scholar | Noemi Moncunill, Paris Sorbonne University, King's College London

This week, Dr. Noemí Moncunill will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Dr. Moncunill is currently a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at Paris Sorbonne University and King’s College London, where she works on her project  “The dawn of writing in Western Mediterranean: a comparative approach to the Iberian epigraphic corpus”. Her main research interests focus on how local protohistoric populations in the Iberian Peninsula shifted from… Read more

CHS Visiting Scholar | Noemi Moncunill, Paris Sorbonne University, King’s College London

This week, Dr. Noemí Moncunill will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Dr. Moncunill is currently a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at Paris Sorbonne University and King’s College London, where she works on her project  “The dawn of writing in Western Mediterranean: a comparative approach to the Iberian epigraphic corpus”. Her main research interests focus on how local protohistoric populations in the Iberian Peninsula shifted from… Read more

Call for Applications | Academy Stavros Niarchos Foundation Senior Fellowship for Greek Citizens

Applications Now Open! Application Deadline: October 31, 2016 The Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs is now inviting applications for experienced leaders and practitioners to spend six months in London as an Academy Stavros Niarchos Foundation Senior Fellow. Beginning in February 2017, the fellowship is open to citizens of Greece. Applications are now open and will close on Monday 31 October 2016 at 17.00… Read more

Call for Applications | Academy Stavros Niarchos Foundation Senior Fellowship for Greek Citizens

Applications Now Open! Application Deadline: October 31, 2016 The Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs is now inviting applications for experienced leaders and practitioners to spend six months in London as an Academy Stavros Niarchos Foundation Senior Fellow. Beginning in February 2017, the fellowship is open to citizens of Greece. Applications are now open and will close on Monday 31 October 2016 at 17.00 GMT. Academy… Read more

CHS Open House: The Beauty of Homeric Similes, with Deborah Beck

Deborah Beck of University of Texas will join the CHS Community for an Open House discussion on “The Beauty of Homeric Similes in Iliad 16.” The event takes place on September 29 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. To prepare for the event, you may like to read  Iliad 16 with the special focus on similes. Watch the live broadcast on the  Hour 25 website or on the YouTube channel. Homer Iliad 16.482-92… Read more

CHS Visiting Scholar | Panagiotis Doukellis, Panteion University of Athens

This week, Dr. Panagiotis Doukellis will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Dr. Doukellis is a professor of Ancient Societies at the Panteion University of Athens, where his main research interests include social and political matters of the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, as well as the historicity of cultural landscapes in both the archaeological and phenomenological dimensions. Currently, he prepares the annual book review of… Read more

CHS Visiting Scholar | Panagiotis Doukellis, Panteion University of Athens

This week, Dr. Panagiotis Doukellis will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Dr. Doukellis is a professor of Ancient Societies at the Panteion University of Athens, where his main research interests include social and political matters of the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, as well as the historicity of cultural landscapes in both the archaeological and phenomenological dimensions. Currently, he prepares the annual book review of… Read more