We are pleased to welcome Alexander Hollmann (University of Washington) for our next Open House discussion, which will be about Herodotus. The event will be streamed live on Thursday March 10, at 11 a.m. EST, and will be recorded. His book, The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories, is available at the CHS website. You can watch this discussion live in the… Read more
Left to right: Edgar Garcia, Anna Simas, Konnor Clark, Emma Brobeck, Eunice Kim, Fanaye Yirga, Olga Levaniouk ~A Guest Post by Olga Levaniouk~ In two postings on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy (2016.01.15 ) and I (2016.01.31) previewed A concise inventory of Greek etymologies (hereafter CIGE), an ongoing publication by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu) in the online journal named… Read more
Left to right: Edgar Garcia, Anna Simas, Konnor Clark, Emma Brobeck, Eunice Kim, Fanaye Yirga, Olga Levaniouk ~A Guest Post by Olga Levaniouk~ In two postings on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy (2016.01.15 ) and I (2016.01.31) previewed A concise inventory of Greek etymologies (hereafter CIGE), an ongoing publication by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu) in the online journal named… Read more
Dates: June 1-July 31, 2016 Deadline for Applications: April 1, 2016 Deadline for Recommendations: April 8, 2016 As part of its mission of bringing together a variety of research interests centered on Hellenic civilization and sharing them with a wider audience, the Center for Hellenic Studies publishes books, journals, proceedings of colloquia, discussions, databases, lectures, and other materials, both online and in print. The Center for… Read more
In February 2016 the award ceremony for the 12th annual Harvard Office of International Education (OIE) photo contest took place at Harvard. Eligible contestants must have participated in Harvard’s programs abroad. The Center for Hellenic Studies participated in the contest by awarding one prize and honorable mentions to students that took photos during the past year in Greece. Frank DuBose received the CHS prize for the best picture… Read more
This week, Dr. Laura Jansen, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol and Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Humanities, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Jansen is completing a monograph on Borges and antiquity for Cambridge University Press, titled Borges’ Classicism. She is also the editor of a new series of monographs by Bloomsbury Publishing on Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing. Her… Read more
This week, Dr. Laura Jansen, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol and Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Humanities, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Jansen is completing a monograph on Borges and antiquity for Cambridge University Press, titled Borges’ Classicism. She is also the editor of a new series of monographs by Bloomsbury Publishing on Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing. Her other… Read more
We are pleased to welcome Timothy Power (Rutgers University) for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘Rhapsodes, Kitharôidia, and Performance in Ancient Greece’. This event will be streamed live on Thursday February 25, at 11:00 a.m. EST, and will be recorded. To prepare for the event, you might like to read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Timothy Power’s book The Culture of Kitharôidia, available for free… Read more
CHS Director Gregory Nagy (Harvard) and Gloria Ferrari Pinney (Harvard) are giving two presentations at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC, today, February 18, at 3:30 p.m. EST and next Thursday, February 25, on two different topics. Both events are free and open to the public. Find more information here: A priestess or a goddess: The Problem of Identity in Some Female Hellenistic Sculptures… Read more
The CHS team and staff was very happy to be at the SCS conference once again this year, where friends from the wider CHS community had a chance to meet, discuss and exchange updates on their careers and recent research progress. We are sharing the three following videos below featuring Glynnis Fawkes, Richard Martin, and Suzanne Lye. All of the featured people have exciting stories to share, each from their… Read more
