Gallery Talk with Micro-Monuments Juror Anne Reeve Saturday, October 8, 2016, 4 pm Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies The Washington Sculptors Group is pleased to present a Gallery Talk about Micro-Monuments with juror Anne Reeve at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. The Talk is free and open to the public; reservations required RSVP to programs@washingtonsculptors.org This program combines… Read more
Monumental Works in Toledo and Escorial a talk by Professor Marina Lambraki-Plaka with a reception to follow Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:30-8:30pm in House A free and open to the public advance registration required, click here to register In collaboration with the Society for the Preservation of Greek Heritage This event will… Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
