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Sunoikisis | Faculty Development and Internships at CHS
Course Planning and Faculty Development Dates: June 10-20, 2016 Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies (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. All participants will receive a stipend. The… Read more
Sunoikisis | Faculty Development and Internships at CHS
Course Planning and Faculty Development Dates: June 10-20, 2016 Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies (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. All participants will receive a stipend. The application… Read more
CHS Open House: ‘From Homer to Virgil’, with Gregory Nagy
“The poetry of Virgil, I take it as a given, rivals that of Homer. Historically, Virgil the Classic even displaced Homer the Classic in the Latin culture of the Roman empire (though not in the Greek) – already in the age of Virgil. But the question is: what is it exactly about the poetry of Virgil that made it rival the poetry of Homer in the first… Read more
Now Available Online | The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics
The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics, by Christos Tsagalis The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the online publication of The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics, by Christos Tsagalis on the CHS website. The work is also available for purchase in print through Harvard University Press. Oral intertextuality is an innate feature of the web of myth, whose interrelated fabrics allow the audience of epic song… Read more
CHS GR Event: Josiah Ober, “Τhe Rise and Fall of Classical Greece”
Εκδήλωση ΚΕΣ Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 18 Νοεμβρίου, 2015 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην πρώτη διάλεξη της εφετινής σειράς εκδηλώσεων Events Series 2015-2016 με θέμα: «Η Άνοδος και η Πτώση της Κλασικής Ελλάδας» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University & Leventis Visiting Professor of Classics, University of Edinburgh Συνομιλητής: Νικόλαος Κυριαζής, Καθηγητής, πρώην Πρόεδρος, Τμήμα Οικονομικών Επιστημών, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας & Επισκέπτης Ερευνητής, Κέντρο Διεθνών Σχέσεων, Πανεπιστήμιο Harvard… Read more
Apply Now for the CHS and Sunoikisis Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Dates: March 4-6, 2016 This spring, the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C. will invite undergraduate students to share their research on Greek 4th Century Literature or Latin Neronian Literature in a workshop setting. Students will have the opportunity to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their work in progress, develop ideas, collect bibliographical suggestions, and gain perspectives from their peers and faculty representing a range of institutions. Read more
Σειρά εκδηλώσεων ΚΕΣ | Events Series 2016
Events Series 2016 November 2015 – June 2016 Ξεκινά στις 18 Νοεμβρίου η σειρά εκδηλώσεων του Κέντρου Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, “Events Series 2016”. Η θεματική της εφετινής σειράς είναι: «Παγκοσμιοποίηση και τοπικά ιδιώματα: πολιτισμικές και θεσμικές αλληλεπιδράσεις» Το Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών συμπράττει κάθε χρόνο με διαφόρους φορείς στον σχεδιασμό και την υλοποίηση των εκδηλώσεων. Εφέτος το Κέντρο συνεργάστηκε με τους Δήμους Ναυπλιέων, Άργους-Μυκηνών, Ερμιονίδος και Επιδαύρου καθώς και την Φιλεκπαιδευτική… Read more
Visiting scholar at CHS | Emmanuela Bakola, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick
Nov. 7-14th This week, Dr. Emmanuela Bakola, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Emmanuela Bakola is working on a chapter entitled, “‘Aeschylus’, earth and the cult of the tomb: a case of fifth-century reception?”. Using key passages from Aristophanes’ Frogs, she argues that 5th-century audiences were aware of the… Read more
Visiting scholar at CHS | Emmanuela Bakola, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick
Nov. 7-14th This week, Dr. Emmanuela Bakola, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Emmanuela Bakola is working on a chapter entitled, “‘Aeschylus’, earth and the cult of the tomb: a case of fifth-century reception?”. Using key passages from Aristophanes’ Frogs, she argues that 5th-century audiences were aware of the… Read more