We are excited to welcome Robert Romanchuk for an Online Open House entitled “Oral tradition as rhetorical resource in the Old Slavic translation of Digenis Akritis.” The event will take place on Friday, April 9 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and will be recorded. You can watch the live-streaming on the Center… Read more
Rohan Sikri (University of Georgia) on the burden and promise of comparative philosophy. Read more
Part of the CHS Visiting Artist Presentation Series, the event features Steriani Tsintziloni, a dance researcher, curator, lecturer, dramaturg, and former dancer. Read more
A live reading and discussion of Euripides' Helen, hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with guest speaker Lyndsay Coo (University of Bristol) and special guests Pria Jackson (Princeton University) and Ria Modak (Harvard University). The reading offers a chance to reflect on one year of Reading Greek Tragedy Online and return to the first play that started the series. This special episode features a new translation by Diane Rayor and… Read more
Michael Puett (Harvard University) on re-thinking some of our categories in the study of religion from a comparative perspective. Read more
We are excited to welcome Scarlett Kingsley and Timothy Rood for an Online Open House entitled “The End of the Histories.” The event will take place on Friday, March 19 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and will be recorded. You can watch the live-streaming on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube Channel. Read more
Part of the CHS Visiting Artist Presentation Series, this presentation features Akis Goumas, a contemporary jewelry maker and researcher of ancient crafting technologies in the Aegean. Read more
This one-semester seminar series investigates current research and methodologies in comparatism, a key issue in Classical Studies, both within the ancient Mediterranean and more broadly. Read more
Michael Herzfeld (Harvard and Leiden Universities) on the role of hierarchy in modern democracies and their lien on ancient pasts. Read more
The Kosmos Society is excited to welcome Julia Shear (CHS fellow in Hellenic Studies) for an Open House entitled “Lysias, his Funeral Oration, and Collective Memories in Classical Athens.” The event will take place on Friday, March 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST and will be recorded. You can watch the live-streaming… Read more
