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Εκδήλωση ΚΕΣ: Μιχάλης Δαφέρμος, «Εκατό χρόνια Γενικής Σχετικότητας: 1915-2015»

Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 17 Δεκεμβρίου, 2014 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Εκατό χρόνια Γενικής Σχετικότητας: 1915-2015» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Μιχάλης Δαφέρμος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, Πανεπιστήμιο Princeton, ΗΠΑ Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» στο Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, στο Ναύπλιο. Η σειρά εκδηλώσεων Events Series 2015 διοργανώνεται σε συνεργασία με τους Δήμους Ναυπλιέων, Άργους-Μυκηνών, Ερμιονίδας και Επιδαύρου. Παλαιό… Read more

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Now Available Online – Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars

Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III The CHS is pleased to announce the online publication of  Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III. This text attempts to document the public monuments of the Persian Wars that were erected by the Greeks of the 5th century and to support this knowledge by evidence that will take the form of cataloguing. “The Greeks… Read more

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Live Now: December 2014 Research Symposium

Join us now for a live webcast of the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The stream is available at rtsp://stream.chs.harvard.edu/HouseA, viewable with VLC Media Player or Quicktime 7. To connect via VLC, go to File > Open Network and paste the link into the URL field. For Quicktime 7, go to File > Open URL and paste in the link. Have… Read more

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Now Available Online – Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato

Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato, by Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré The CHS is pleased to announce the first ever publication of Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré’s 1920 dissertation Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato. This text offers an in-depth and enlightening analysis of the concept of τέχνη in Plato. Jeffré’s thesis was approved for publication but only two pages were published in 1922. This text is an edited combination of two handwritten manuscripts: one held… Read more

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Third International Workshop on the establishment of MOOC multimedia annotations

The Third International Workshop on the establishment of MOOCs with multimedia annotations (III Workshop internacional sobre Creación de MOOC con anotaciones multimedia) has published the pre-print versions of its proceedings from March 2014. The initiative that universities like Harvard, MIT and Stanford launched in 2012 with the edX platform for MOOCs generated numerous opportunities not only for university education but also for education in general all… Read more

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Now Available Online – The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry

The CHS is pleased to announce that The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy is now available online on the CHS website. Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of The Best of… Read more

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CHS in Greece | Events Series 2014-2015

EVENTS SERIES 2014-2015 Ξεκίνησε στις 19 Νοεμβρίου η σειρά εκδηλώσεων του Κέντρου Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, “Events Series 2015”. Η θεματική της φετινής σειράς είναι: “Η Φαντασία στην Επιστήμη και την Τέχνη” Το Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών συμπράττει κάθε χρόνο με διαφόρους φορείς στον σχεδιασμό και την υλοποίηση των εκδηλώσεων. Αυτή την χρονιά το Κέντρο συνεργάστηκε με τους Δήμους Ναυπλιέων, Άργους-Μυκηνών, Ερμιονίδος και Επιδαύρου καθώς και την Φιλεκπαιδευτική Εταιρεία, το… Read more

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Now Available Online – Dialoguing in Late Antiquity

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Dialoguing in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron is now available online on the CHS website! Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical, others more literary, theological, or Platonic; Aristotle also came into the picture as time went on. Sometimes the written works claim to be records of actual public debates, and we know that… Read more

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News | Funding of Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region

We are happy to share the good news on the future of the Swedish research institutes in Rome, Athens and Istanbul! Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research in Sweden, announced on November 18, 2014 that “the Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region will continue to receive central government funding.” Ms Knutsson continued by saying that “the advance notice given of reduced central government funding for 2016 and… Read more

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News | Funding of Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region

We are happy to share the good news on the future of the Swedish research institutes in Rome, Athens and Istanbul! Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research in Sweden, announced on November 18, 2014 that “the Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region will continue to receive central government funding.” Ms Knutsson continued by saying that “the advance notice given of reduced central government funding for 2016 and 2017… Read more