Join us on Saturday, December 3 for the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The symposium features presentations by six of the fall term fellows. To learn more about the presenters and their research, visit the CHS website.
Attending the Symposium
The symposium will take place in House A on the CHS campus. To reserve a seat, please register online.
The symposium will also be available to watch online as a live webcast at https://media.video.harvard.edu/core/live/harvard-chs-live.html. No special software is required. Viewers interested in watching the stream should click on the link above and the stream will play in their web browser.
Have questions for the presenters? Contact us via the online form.
Program Details
Saturday, December 3
Session 1, 2:00-3:30 pm (EST)
“Herodotean Democracies”
Joel Schlosser, Bryn Mawr College
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“The Cyclic Views of the Human Condition in Thucydides’ ‘Archaeology’ and Sima Qian’s ‘Preface to Historical Records’”
BAI Chun Xiao, Zhejiang University
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“Improving the Public Image through Athletics. Young Victors in Hellenistic Thebes”
Sebastian Scharff, University of Mannheim
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Session 2, 4:00-5:30 pm (EST)
“Aristotelian Piety Reconsidered”
Joachim Aufderheide, King’s College London
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“Constructing Periander in Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages”
Zoe Stamatopoulou, Washington University in St. Louis
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“Logical Categories and Parts of Speech as Structuring Devices in Pollux’ Onomasticon”
Stylianos Chronopoulos, University of Freiburg
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