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Body and Mind Seminar Fall 2020 with Dr. Ryan Harte, postdoctoral fellow at Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China) | Challenging Mind-Body Dualism in Plato with the Phaedrus

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 second meeting of the Body and Mind Seminar. We would also like to thank Dr. Ryan Harte for his talk, which aimed at complicated-straightforward… Read more

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CHS 2020 Fall Fellows:
Dieter Gunkel

Tonal Ochlophobia in Greek: Evidence from the Musical Documents As a linguist and philologist, I am interested in the accentuation of ancient Greek. I think of the accentuation of the language as a window that provides a view on a variety of things, including the linguistic evolution of Greek, the… Read more

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CHS 2020 Fall Fellows: Aimee M. Genova

My project at the CHS, “In Times of War and Crisis: Regional Identities and Greek Archaeology,” offers a social-historical analysis of Greek archaeology by integrating the identity politics of Ottoman Macedonia and Crete into the broader, transnational narratives of Greek resistance prior to their unification in 1913. Although the London… Read more

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CHS 2020 Fall Fellows: Milena Anfosso

My current project as a CHS Fellow is to further develop the results of a substantial chapter of my dissertation in order to produce my first monograph in English, with the provisional title Entwining Greek with Asian Speech. In my dissertation –– originally written in French and entitled Problèmes linguistiques… Read more

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CHS 2020 Fall Fellows: Denise Demetriou

Phoenicians Among Others: How Migration and Mobility Transformed the Mediterranean Zeno of Kition arrived in Athens sometime in the fourth century BCE in spectacular fashion. The ship he was on, a merchant vessel carrying a quintessential Phoenician product, purple dye, was wrecked off the Attic coast. Zeno, a Phoenician speaker… Read more

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Call for Contributions | # After Lockdown

The Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS Greece) invites you to share a short recording (less than 2:30 minutes in length) in which you will recount your experience undergoing the peculiar circumstances that the pandemic has imposed on you. Join your voice and share your story with the Harvard community and beyond! Read more