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
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… Read more
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! 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
Formed in 1964, the year of independence, the University of Malawi promised more than the distant University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland—founded 1952—ever could. A decade and a half later, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, by then Life President of the Republic of Malawi, let it be known to the University that… Read more
On June 13 and 14, 2024, the Center for Hellenic Studies hosted 15 scholars from across the globe to compare their research on one of the most significant discoveries in Greek tragedy in nearly 60 years. Read more
Last month, CHS US and Greece welcomed Harvard students to partake in the Sport and Education Program. The four-day intensive program took place in Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games. Read more
Through readings, presentations, and guided discussions drawn from medicine, philosophy, engineering, astronomy, and astrology, participants will explore ancient Greek science, medicine, and magic from a broad perspective that can be used to design a wide range of instructional materials. Read more
The students of Geology at the University of Patras, enrolled in the course "Protection of Geological, Geographical and Human Heritage" and their tutors will discuss with our Fellows in Hellenic Studies about Heritage Preservation and its multiple perspectives. Read more
Grounded in the intellectual legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry (1902–1935) and Albert Lord (1912–1991), Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century gathers reflections on what the study of oral poetry might mean today across diverse poetic traditions, especially in light of ongoing global transformations that have dramatically… Read more
