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
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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
A Monument More Lasting than Bronze: Classics in the University of Malawi, 1982–2019
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 a Department of Classics was to be established—teaching the history and languages of the ancient Mediterranean world at Zomba, on… Read more
The New Euripides
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
Consider the ancient history and glory of Olympics | Harvard Gazette
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
Ancient Medicine, Science, and Magic Seminar
29 July 2024
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
Cultural Heritage Preservation
16 May 2024, 10:00 am ET
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
Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century
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 reshaped and destabilized the very notion of tradition. This collection of essays spans disciplinary perspectives from Classics and comparative literature… Read more
Teaching Transformative Texts from Antiquity and the African Diaspora
19 April 2024, 2:00 pm ET
Join us Friday, April 19, at 2:00 p.m. for this pedagogical workshop, with keynote speakers Dr. Anika Prather and Dr. Carolivia Herron! Read more
Meet the 2024-2025 Fellows in Hellenic Studies
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the 2024-25 Fellows in Hellenic Studies. The fellowship programs encourage research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greece. Read more