Now Accepting Program Proposals for AY 2025-26!
The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) is now accepting program proposals for Fall 2025 and Summer 2026! Read more
Archive
Suzanne Marchand, Distinguished Lecturer
5 February 2025, 6:30 pm ET
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
An Archaeology of Disability in 2024
In February of 2022, the Center for Hellenic Studies hosted a roundtable discussion of the research station “An Archaeology of Disability,” curated by David Gissen, Jennifer Stager, and Mantha Zarmakoupi for the Venice Biennale Architettura 2021 and opening on January 21, 2022 at La Gipsoteca di Arte Antica, Pisa. Read more
Welcoming Rebecka Lindau, Chief Librarian
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Rebecka Lindau as Chief Librarian at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies. Read more
Reckoning with The Primal Wound
14 December 2024, 2:00 pm ET
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
Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries
4 December 2024, 9:45 am ET
Join us on Wednesday, December 4 for a seminar organized by current CHS Fellow, Simone Mucci. Read more
Restoring the Acropolis Monuments
22 November 2024, 6:30 pm ET
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
Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry
Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry tackles this fundamental question through a study of five Hellenistic poems dated to the third and second centuries BCE: Aratus’s Phaenomena, Nicander’s Theriaca, Callimachus’s Aetia, Apollonius of Rhodes’s Argonautica, and Lycophron’s Alexandra. Situating these poetic works in their intellectual and literary milieu, Kathleen Kidder applies the philosophic concept of the criterion of truth, arguing that each… Read more
Education and AI Ethics
8 October 2024, 6:00 pm ET
Please join us in Cambridge on Tuesday, October 8 for a discussion on Education and AI Ethics as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard University. Read more
Apply Now: 2025-26 Fellowships in Hellenic Studies
Apply now! The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers four postdoctoral fellowship opportunities for the 2025-26 academic year. These programs encourage and support research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greek civilization. Read more