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CHS Open House: The Children of Odysseus, with Joel Christensen

The Hour 25 Community is pleased to welcome Professor Joel Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio) who returns for the first 2015 CHS Open House discussion on Thursday January 15 at 11:00am EST, to discuss the children of Odysseus, and multiformity in myth. To prepare for the discussion, participants might like to follow these links to posts in Sententiae Antiquae: Odysseus’ Children: Fourteen and Counting! The Sons of… Read more

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AIA and SCS Joint Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA

AIA and SCS Joint Annual Meeting | January 8-11, 2015, New Orleans, LA Join us at the CHS’ booth at the 2015 AIA and SCS Joint Meeting! Stop by to learn more about our publications (in print and online), the Center’s programs and symposiums that happen all year round. The 2015 Joint Meeting will take place January 8 through January 11 in New Orleans, LA. For more information on the program and registration process, visit the Society… Read more

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Apply now for a CHS Summer Internship in Washington, DC!

From June 1 to August 1, 2015, the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) Summer Internship Program will employ undergraduate students at the CHS campus in the heart of Washington, DC to work in conjunction with CHS directors, staff, and affiliates on projects related to Publications and Curricular Development. Over the course of the summer, interns will work approximately 270 hours, typically 9am to 4pm, Monday through Friday, with an hour… Read more

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Apply Now for the CHS and Sunoikisis Undergraduate Research Workshop!

Dates: March 6-8, 2015 This spring, Sunoikisis and the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C. will invite undergraduate students to share their research on Greek comedy or Latin literature of the Late Republic 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

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont

This week, Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont, will be staying at CHS and using the library. His academic interests include orality studies, Near Eastern influences on classical literature, especially on Greek literature of the archaic period (Homer, Hesiod and the lyric poets), and ancient philosophy (the writings of Plato and Seneca in particular). Currently, he is working on a book entitled Sustainability, Complex Systems, and the… Read more

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Visiting scholar at CHS | Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont

This week, Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont, will be staying at CHS and using the library. His academic interests include orality studies, Near Eastern influences on classical literature, especially on Greek literature of the archaic period (Homer, Hesiod and the lyric poets), and ancient philosophy (the writings of Plato and Seneca in particular). Currently, he is working on a book entitled Sustainability, Complex Systems, and the… 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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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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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