Join us for the 20th Annual Frank M. Snowden Jr. Lecture given by Dr. Anika T. Prather! The lecture will take place at Howard University's Founder Library in the Browsing Room. Read more
No one has done more to shape legal interpretation of the first amendment than Floyd Abrams. Yet when Abrams litigated Citizens United, some proponents of free speech thought that this just gave big money the biggest voice. Read more
Earlier this month, our Director, Mark Schiefsky, members from the CHS and our sister institution CHS Greece, and graduates of the CHS Greece High School Summer Program participated in the 3-day conference "50 Years of the Metapolitefsi". Read more
The fifth annual Howard University workshop in collaboration with Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies and the University of Virginia's Center for the Liberal Arts will discuss new approaches to ancient authors, specifically the Latin authors Caesar, Pliny, and Vergil. Read more
Join us on Friday, November 17 at 11:00 a.m. for a roundtable discussion about genocide in antiquity, particularly Ancient Greece. Is genocide a purely modern concept and action, or has it been happening for millennia? Read more
This open roundtable discussion brings together different experiences and ideas on teaching humanities to residents within prisons, domestically and abroad. Read more
Please join us for a selection of poetry readings and performance by Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi and Giannisi’s poet-translator Brian Sneeden, in conversation with Laura Jansen. Read more
This July Kallion Leadership, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to creating communities for translating the study of the humanities into leadership, will host its first Facilitator Training Workshop at the CHS. Read more
Kyklos is a program that represents an ever-regenerated discourse on the Greek Epic Cycle (Greek Kyklos) and it is devoted to new and developing scholarship on the subject. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is proud to host and sponsor the Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric, who provides a regular venue for the exchange of ideas and presentation of work-in-progress on ancient rhetoric and its reception. Read more
