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Hour 25: Continuing Content, Community, and Conversation

Hour 25 is a vibrant intellectual community that studies and creates open source content associated with and inspired by Gregory Nagy’s work on ancient Greek heroes. Drawing on the massive open online content (MOOC) known as HeroesX and in a collaborative partnership with the Center for Hellenic Studies, Hour 25 offers readers and scholars access to an evolving, informed conversation about ancient Greek literature that is based upon close reading… Read more

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Live Webcast: December 2014 Research Symposium

Join us on Saturday, December 6 for a live webcast of the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The stream will be 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… Read more

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Visiting Scholar Maria Schoina at CHS

This week Maria Schoina, Assistant Professor of English literature at the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, will be staying at CHS and using the library.  She is the author of Romantic Anglo-Italians: Configurations of Identity in Byron, the Shelleys, and the Pisan Circle (Ashgate 2009). Currently, she is working on a project that “aims to develop the work which has been done so far on English… Read more

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Dialogue with Professor Nagy – Live Event in Boston and Webcast

Heroes in Tragedy: A presentation and dialogue with Professor Gregory Nagy HeroesX participants living in the Greater Boston area and learners around the world are invited to participate in a dialogue session led by Professor Nagy on Monday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. (EST). Be introduced to the joy of reading ancient literature, and to seeing those ancient themes reflected in the works of our own time.  Incorporating materials from HeroesX… Read more

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Apply Now | Course Planning Seminars 2015

Summer Seminars 2015 Latin Literature from the Neronian Period Dates: June 6-9, 2015 Consultant: James Ker (University of Pennsylvania) Greek Literature from the 4th Century BCE Dates: June 11-14, 2015 Consultant: Hakan Tell (Dartmouth College) Overview Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C.* to develop the upcoming fall semester courses. They hold two 4-day planning seminars, one for… Read more

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Apply Now | Course Planning Seminars 2015

Summer Seminars 2015 Latin Literature from the Neronian Period Dates: June 6-9, 2015 Consultant: James Ker (University of Pennsylvania) Greek Literature from the 4th Century BCE Dates: June 11-14, 2015 Consultant: Hakan Tell (Dartmouth College) Overview Every June the Sunoikisis faculty gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C.* to develop the upcoming fall semester courses. They hold two 4-day planning seminars, one for… Read more

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Upcoming Symposium – Undergraduate Research Symposium

Application Deadline: December 19, 2014 Apply Now! Undergraduate Research Symposium Dates: March 5-6, 2015 Overview This spring, 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… Read more

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CHS Fellowships in Hellenic Studies

Deadline: October 15, 2014 Link to online application: https://wp.chs.harvard.edu/chs-forms/fellowship-application/ The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers fellowships to scholars working on the ancient Greek world in all its varieties, for example, in the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, literary criticism, philology, philosophy, pedagogical applications, reception, and interdisciplinary studies. Fellows are appointed for a term of up to eighteen weeks in the fall (Monday, August 24, 2015… Read more

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CHS Open House: Within the Kyklos ‘Whose Plan is This?’ with Efimia D Karakantza & Justin Arft

The Hour 25 Community is happy to welcome Efimia D. Karakantza (University of Patras, Greece), and Justin Arft (University of Missouri) for an Open House discussion: ‘Within the Kyklos: Whose plan is this? Divine plans and poetic narrative in the Iliad and Odyssey’. This open discussion is taking place within the Kyklos, the intergenerational project of the CHS focusing on the Greek Epic Cycle and its interface with other genres, namely… Read more