Events

Call for Contributions: “Humanities in the Text”

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) and the École Normale Supérieure - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (ENS–PSL) are pleased to invite researchers to contribute to the program “Humanities in the Text.” Please submit proposals or inquiries by November 1, 2025. Read more

Spring Symposium 2025

Please join us on Tuesday, May 6 and Wednesday, May 7 for presentations from our Early Career fellows, Evgenia Tsafou, Angelos Gkotsinas, Sergios Menelaou, Georgios Koukovasilis, and Artemi Papandritsa, as well as a paper from fellow in Philhellenism, Chrysa Theologou. Read more

Suzanne Marchand, Distinguished Lecturer

Please join us the evening of February 5 for a lecture by Suzanne Marchand, LSU Systems Boyd Professor of European Intellectual History. This paper will discuss the ways in which the significance of the date 480/79 was elevated in the course of historiographical developments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Read more

Reckoning with The Primal Wound

On Saturday, December 14 the Center will host a private screening of the documentary Reckoning with The Primal Wound, followed by a discussion with the film's producer, Rebecca Autumn Sansom, as well as Dr. Gonda Von Steen, Dr. Amanda Baden, Demetria Kalodimos, and Lisa Coppola. Read more

Restoring the Acropolis Monuments

Please join us November 22 for a lecture by the Director of the Acropolis Restoration Service, Vasiliki Eleftheriou. This event is held in celebration of the opening of the Center's new exhibition, Chisel and Memory: The contribution of marble craftsmanship to the restoration of monuments, curated by the Acropolis Restoration Service. Read more