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
The CHS is opening applications for the following grants: Grants for Student Projects in Hellenic Studies, Grants for Research in Greece, and Grants for Course Development Initiatives. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) is now accepting program proposals for Academic Year 2024-25 and Summer 2025! 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 Iliad reveals a traditional oral poetic style, but many researchers believe that the poem cannot be treated as solely a product of oral tradition. In The Iliad and the Oral Epic Tradition, Karol Zieliński argues that neither Homer’s unique artistry nor references to events known from other songs necessarily indicate the use of writing… 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
An examination of the changes in the language used by the media in Greece since the fall of the dictatorship, Greek Media Discourse demonstrates the way language provokes critical debate, questions the forces that shape a discourse, and leaves unanswered: How pedagogical can a public discourse be when it loses… Read more
This collaborative volume focuses on imagined geography and the relationships among power, knowledge, and space. A sequel to Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space, Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond shares with its predecessor a strong focus on the role of empire and ideas of space viewed in… Read more
Love in the Age of War explores soldier characters in Menander’s situation comedies, the oldest of their kind. Menander came to dominate and define comedy for centuries, and a soldier served as the central character in many of his plays. This study reveals that these soldier characters are not the bragging… Read more
