CHS Learning Module

CHS Essentials | Origins of Charisma

“Where do people believe charisma comes from and where does it actually come from?” Watch this week’s CHS Essentials featured video and find out! Nicolas Prevelakis Nicolas Prevelakis is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Assistant Director of Curricular Development at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. He has a Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy from the University… Read more

CHS Essentials | Origins of Charisma

“Where do people believe charisma comes from and where does it actually come from?” Watch this week’s CHS Essentials featured video and find out! Nicolas Prevelakis Nicolas Prevelakis is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Assistant Director of Curricular Development at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. He has a Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)… Read more

CHS Open House: From Homer to Ferdowsi with Olga M. Davidson

We are delighted to welcome Olga M. Davidson for a CHS Open House discussion on Thursday, November 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST when she will be talking about why she went on from Homer to Ferdowsi, and introducing his epic Shāhnāma. In her book Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings: Olga M. Davidson argues that….whenever the Shāhnāma was performed by the poet or by later practitioners of his poetry, the performer could… Read more