Hour 25 welcomes Panayotis Fragkiskos League, PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology of Harvard University, for a discussion on CHS Open House. The video discussion will be on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. EST, and will be recorded. The topic of this ‘Open House’ is ‘Performance Traditions in Greece.’ You can watch the event below or on the event page. Members of the… Read more
CHS Open House series of 2016 would like to invite you all to the first gathering of the year on January 14 at 11:00 a.m. EST. Jacqueline Vayntrub, who is NECL Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard, 2015–2016, will be the visiting scholar. The discussion topic is The Epic of Gilgamesh, with the focus on ‘The Search for Everlasting Life’ (section 4 in the edition linked). Bitterly Gilgamesh… Read more
“The poetry of Virgil, I take it as a given, rivals that of Homer. Historically, Virgil the Classic even displaced Homer the Classic in the Latin culture of the Roman empire (though not in the Greek) – already in the age of Virgil. But the question is: what is it exactly about the poetry of Virgil that made it rival the poetry of Homer in the first… Read more
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
We are in the heart of the fall season of CHS Open House discussions. These are the discussions that have taken place so far: Casey Dué, University of Houston ‘The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age’ Paul O’Mahony, actor, writer, and educator ‘The Power of Performance: Mythology and Outreach Today’ Olga Levaniouk, University of Washington ‘The Dreams of Barchin and Penelope’ Forthcoming CHS Open House… Read more
We are pleased to welcome back Joel Christensen (University of Texas, San Antonio) for our next CHS Open House discussion, on Thursday, October 22 at 11 a.m. EDT, when we will be talking about ‘Epos and Eris: Composition, Competition and the ‘Domestication’ of Strife’ which was originally given as a keynote talk at the 2015 Heartland Graduate Workshop in Ancient Studies. To prepare for the discussion, participants might like to read… Read more
We are pleased to welcome back Prof. Olga Levaniouk of the University of Washington to CHS Open House to discuss “The dreams of Barchin and Penelope” with a comparative approach on October 8 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. The webcast can be viewed below or you can submit your question via Q&A on the Google+ event page. To prepare for this conversation, participants might… Read more
We are pleased to welcome actor, writer, and educator Paul O’Mahony for a CHS Open House discussion on ‘The Power of Performance: Mythology and Outreach Today’, which will take place on Thursday, September 24 at 11 a.m. EDT. He introduces the topic as follows: I would like to talk about our reception of classical texts and our approaches to performance—finding new and exciting ways to re-imagine them. I will… Read more
