Every June, Sunoikisis faculty gather at the CHS in Washington, D.C. to develop the upcoming fall semester courses. They hold two 4-day planning seminars, one for the Greek course and another for the Latin course, in order to develop the course syllabi. The 2016 courses will emphasize team-teaching. Whenever possible, two or more faculty will collaborate to design each… Read more
This week, Dr. Gonda Van Steen, Andronicos Nicholas Cassas Chair in Greek Studies and Professor of Classics at the University of Florida, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. While at the CHS, Dr. Van Steen will be researching themes marked in Sophocles Theban Plays for a new book project in the making. This project will be a study of the interactions of biopolitics and… Read more
This week, Dr. Gonda Van Steen, Andronicos Nicholas Cassas Chair in Greek Studies and Professor of Classics at the University of Florida, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. While at the CHS, Dr. Van Steen will be researching themes marked in Sophocles Theban Plays for a new book project in the making. This project will be a study of the interactions of biopolitics and adoptee… Read more
Dates: May 25-June 19, 2016 Program Cost: $4,200 (includes lodging, most meals, and program costs but not airfare). Scholarship support will be awarded to applicants on the basis of merit. Application Deadline: Monday, February 15, 2016 Recommendation Deadline: Monday, February 22, 2016 The Center for Hellenic Studies and Sunoikisis announce the 2016 Archaeological Program at Kenchreai, the port of Corinth in southern Greece. The four-week summer program introduces students… Read more
This week, Dr. Maria Kazanskaya, Research Fellow at the Institute for Linguistic Studies in Saint-Petersburg and Assistant Professor of Classics at Saint-Petersburg State University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Throughout her academic career, she has studied Herodotus and archaic Greek poetry, in particular from a stylistic and narratological angle. While at the CHS, Dr. Kazanskaya will work on her book on speeches… Read more
This week, Dr. Maria Kazanskaya, Research Fellow at the Institute for Linguistic Studies in Saint-Petersburg and Assistant Professor of Classics at Saint-Petersburg State University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Throughout her academic career, she has studied Herodotus and archaic Greek poetry, in particular from a stylistic and narratological angle. While at the CHS, Dr. Kazanskaya will work on her book on speeches and… Read more
CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Argos for the following lecture: “Ecology and economy: the garden as cosmos and a microcosm” Lecturer: Fay Zika, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Theory of Art, Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts Respondent: Eleana Yalouri, Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, School of Political Sciences, Panteion University The event… Read more
We are very pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of these two books from the Hellenic Studies Series at the CHS website: Pepper, Timothy, editor, A Californian Hymn to Homer Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to A Californian Hymn to Homer draw upon Homeric scholarship as inspiration for pursuing new ways of looking at texts, both… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend a warm welcome to our Spring 2016 Fellows! Please allow us to introduce them: Cédric Brélaz (PhD University of Lausanne, Dr. habil. École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) is an Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Strasbourg, France. He was Member of the Swiss Institute in Rome, Foreign Member of the French School of Archaeology at Athens and Visiting… Read more
Now available in open-access, full-text edition in the curated books section of the CHS website: The Singer Resumes the Tale, by Albert Bates Lord Long before writing was invented, people told stories and sang songs. But how is an oral poem composed? How is it transmitted beyond its circle of listeners to future generations? One of the preeminent folklorists of his time, Albert Bates Lord (1912-1991) here continues… Read more
