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Berkeley Classics Hosts International Conference on “The Genres of Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models”

The CHS team is happy to share the news of the International Conference on “The Genres of Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models”, September 24 through 27. The conference, hosted by the Classics Department at Berkeley, will open with a keynote address by Professor Gregory Nagy, on Thursday, September 24 at 7 p.m. Professor Nagy’s talk is entitled “Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited.” The conference is open to… Read more

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Bárbara Álvarez Rodríguez, Clarín-COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics Department at Stanford University

September 21-26, 2015 This week, Bárbara Álvarez Rodríguez, Clarín-COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow in the Classics Department at Stanford University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Álvarez Rodríguez is working on her postdoctoral project, namely Exclusion and marginalization in the Greek epic. A study on the relations with the otherness in the Iliad. Using… Read more

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Bárbara Álvarez Rodríguez, Clarín-COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics Department at Stanford University

September 21-26, 2015 This week, Bárbara Álvarez Rodríguez, Clarín-COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow in the Classics Department at Stanford University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Álvarez Rodríguez is working on her postdoctoral project, namely Exclusion and marginalization in the Greek epic. A study on the relations with the otherness in the Iliad. Using the Iliad… Read more

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CHS Open House: The Power of Performance: Mythology and Outreach Today, with Paul O’Mahony

We are pleased to welcome actor, writer, and educator Paul O’Mahony for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘The Power of Performance: Mythology and Outreach Today’, which will take place on Thursday, September 24 at 11 a.m. EDT. He introduces the topic as follows: I would like to talk about our reception of classical texts and our approaches to performance—finding new and exciting ways to re-imagine them. I will… Read more

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Rosa Andújar, A.G. Leventis Research Fellow at University College London

September 14–20, 2015   This week, Rosa Andújar, A.G. Leventis Research Fellow at University College London will be staying at the CHS and using the library. She is currently in the process of completing her book, Playing the Chorus: Greek Tragedy Beyond the Choral Ode. By exploring its activities beyond the singing of  odes, Andújar aims to prove that the tragic chorus… Read more

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Rosa Andújar, A.G. Leventis Research Fellow at University College London

September 14–20, 2015   This week, Rosa Andújar, A.G. Leventis Research Fellow at University College London will be staying at the CHS and using the library. She is currently in the process of completing her book, Playing the Chorus: Greek Tragedy Beyond the Choral Ode. By exploring its activities beyond the singing of  odes, Andújar aims to prove that the tragic chorus was a… Read more

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A Collaborative Fellowship at the CHS

Now that the application period for 2016-17 CHS Fellowships has opened, we would like to draw the attention of interested scholars to an innovative project from the last Fellowship season, a first in the Center’s history: a paper conceived, researched, and written together by two Fellows, Alberto Quiroga-Puertas and Ryan Fowler. The paper, “Silence and Rumor as Rhetorical Strategies in Basil’s Letters” in CHS Research Bulletin 3, no. 1 (2014),… Read more

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CHS Open House: The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age, with Casey Dué

We are pleased to welcome Casey Dué for the first in our series of CHS Open House sessions for fall 2015. The discussion, on the Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age, will take place on Thursday, September 10, at 2 p.m. EDT. She introduces the topic as follows: How old is the Iliad? The Trojan War has traditionally been dated since antiquity to about 1250 BCE, and the Iliad is usually dated five hundred… Read more

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CHS Fellows in Hellenic Studies 2015-16

The CHS supports scholars and their research with a variety of configurations. All fellows receive an appointment for at least one academic year. Fellows receive varying levels of support and may reside at the Center for a term up to 18 weeks, depending on the scope and needs of their proposed projects. For more information about their research, see the CHS Research Bulletin.   Peter Agócs grew up… Read more

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CHS Workshops in the Press

In July, Dartmouth College published a profile of Hakan Tell, a former CHS fellow and author of Plato’s Counterfeit Sophists. Earlier this summer, he served as a consultant for the Sunoikisis course planning seminar on Plato’s Alcibiades. Read more at Darthmouth Now. In an article published this month, Franklin and Marshall College featured Jacob Lichtblau, a presenter at the Sunoikisis Undergraduate Research Workshop held at the CHS in March… Read more