Programs & Events News

CHS Summer Internship in Washington, DC

General Information Overview Dates: May 27-August 3, 2014. (Interns will be off for the Independence Day holiday, July 3-7.) The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) Summer Internship Program offers students the opportunity to work at the CHS in Washington, D.C. on projects related to Publications and Fellowships and Curricular Development (FCD) from May 27-August 3, 2014. Interns will have access to the library resources and will have opportunities… Read more

2014 Information Fluency Workshop

Information Fluency in Classics: A Workshop for Undergraduates July 8-17, 2014 The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC offers a workshop to introduce undergraduates to important sources of information for the study of classics and develop their ability to access, evaluate, and manage resources in a variety of formats. Workshop participants will also explore the broader landscape of scholarly communication and how it is currently evolving. As a practical application… Read more

Chat with Joel Christensen about the Odyssey and Breaking Bad

Professor Joel Christensen will chat with registered members of Hour 25 on Thursday, February 27th from 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. EST (Boston, MA) to discuss the Odyssey and Breaking Bad. This event will be held in the Project Chatroom. [Look up the time of this chat in your time zone.] We hope you will join this live session! Professor Christensen will also join our asynchronous conversation in the discussion  forum during the days… Read more

Kenchreai Archaeological Field School 2014

Archaeology, History, and Culture in Greece — 2014 The Center for Hellenic Studies is collaborating with Sunoikisis to offer scholarships for 2 Harvard students and 1 Sunoikisis student for the archaeological school at Kenchreai, the port of Corinth in Greece.  The scholarship will cover the cost of the program and will provide each student with a $1500.00 stipend to offset the costs of travel and incidentals. DATES: May 27-June 22, 2014… Read more

CHS Opportunities for undergraduates

The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) is offering a range of opportunities for undergraduates this spring and summer. May 27-June 22 The Kenchreai Archaeological Field School introduces students to the archaeology, history and culture of Greece through participation in a field school and accompanying seminars and excursions. The Kenchreai Excavations, directed by Professor Joe Rife, provide a unique opportunity to learn about the past first-hand at one… Read more

CHS Summer Internship Program in Washington, DC

The CHS Summer Internship Program invites students to work at the CHS in Washington, D.C. on projects related to Publications and Fellowships and Curricular Development from May 27-August 3, 2014. During their time at the CHS, interns will have access to the library resources and an opportunity to engage with the scholarly community. Interns will work approximately 270 hours over the course of the summer and receive $12.00… Read more

Dr. Christensen awarded the 2013 American Philological Association Award for Excellence in Collegiate Teaching

The CHS team wishes to express its sincerest congratulations to Dr. Joel P. Christensen for being awarded the highly prestigious 2013 American Philological Association Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level. The APA honored Dr. Christensen for his many exceptional achievements, including his outstanding teaching performance and true dedication on student development. Joel P. Christensen is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas… Read more

Artist Anthony Schiavo and the Center for Hellenic Studies’ Meière Mosaics

Anthony Schiavo has been designing and executing mosaics for almost eight decades. On November 9th a small group of classicists, artists, and visiting scholars gathered outside Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. to mark the arrival of two mosaic panels designed by renowned artist Hildreth Meière. The panels were part of a large-scale, triptych mural with the center panel depicting Hercules’ passage through the Straight of Gibraltar, and the two side panels featuring the Pillars of Hercules. Large mosaics such as these are often a collaborative endeavor, and Anthony Schiavo, who stood among the group that day, had worked on these panels twice. As a young man, he directed the team that fabricated the mosaic. Over 50 years later an unexpected sequence of events brought the mosaics back into his life. Schiavo says the story of how these masterpieces were created, lost, and restored is "a mosaic of a mosaic”, with each individual taking their own place in the progression of the story. The movement or flow created by the arrangement of tesserae in a mosaic is called the andamento, from the Italian verb meaning ‘to move’. This key concept guides the artist during composition, and also when dividing or joining individual sections of the work. For Schiavo, the andamento dei fatti or ‘turn of fate’ leading to this moment began in his hometown, long ago before the first tile was set in place. Read more

Lectures and Events: Gregory Nagy at Archaiologiki Etaireia in Athens, January 20, 2014

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that Gregory Nagy will give a public talk on January 20th, 7:00 pm, at the Archaiologiki Etaireia (Panepistimiou Street) in Athens under the auspices of the Centre for Odyssean Studies (https://cods.upatras.gr). Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies,… Read more

Hadrian's Villa Launch at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in DC

IDIA Lab has designed a virtual simulation of the villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site located outside of Rome in Tivoli, Italy. This project has been produced in collaboration with the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory (VWHL) at Indiana University (IU), directed by Dr. Bernard Frischer and funded by the National Science Foundation. This large-scale recreation virtually interprets the entire villa complex in consultation… Read more