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
The 6th season of Reading Greek Tragedy Online concludes with The Battle Between the Frogs and Mice! Translated by A. E Stallings. Read more
This workshop aims to explore two things: how different genres and knowledge domains in Greek antiquity over time harnessed the concept of wonder (e.g., philosophy, art history, poetry, religion, and medicine), and how different subfields in Classics and in adjacent disciplines conceptualize wonder as a valuable analytical category. Read more
On Wednesday, May 17th at 3:00 pm EDT, Reading Greek Tragedy Online returns with Seneca’s Medea! Read more
