Dates: March 6-8, 2015 This spring, Sunoikisis and the Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C. will invite undergraduate students to share their research on Greek comedy or Latin literature of the Late Republic in a workshop setting. Students will have the opportunity to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their work… Read more
The CHS is pleased to announce that Tarik Wareh’s The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers is now available online on the CHS website. The Theory and Practice of Life is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek… Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, December 17, at 7.00 p.m. in Nafplion for the following lecture: “One hundred years of General Relativity: 1915 – 2015” Lecturer: Michael Dafermos, Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, U.S.A. The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall… Read more
This week, Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont, will be staying at CHS and using the library. His academic interests include orality studies, Near Eastern influences on classical literature, especially on Greek literature of the archaic period (Homer, Hesiod and the lyric poets), and ancient philosophy… Read more
This week, Mark Usher, Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Vermont, will be staying at CHS and using the library. His academic interests include orality studies, Near Eastern influences on classical literature, especially on Greek literature of the archaic period (Homer, Hesiod and the lyric poets), and ancient philosophy… Read more
Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 17 Δεκεμβρίου, 2014 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Εκατό χρόνια Γενικής Σχετικότητας: 1915-2015» Κεντρικός ομιλητής: Μιχάλης Δαφέρμος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, Πανεπιστήμιο Princeton, ΗΠΑ Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» στο Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, στο Ναύπλιο. Read more
Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III The CHS is pleased to announce the online publication of Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars, by William Custis West, III. This text attempts to document the public monuments of the Persian Wars that were erected by the Greeks… Read more
Join us now for a live webcast of the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The stream is available at rtsp://stream.chs.harvard.edu/HouseA, viewable with VLC Media Player or Quicktime 7. To connect via VLC, go to File > Open Network and paste the link… Read more
Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato, by Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré The CHS is pleased to announce the first ever publication of Friedrich Bernhard Jeffré’s 1920 dissertation Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato. This text offers an in-depth and enlightening analysis of the concept of τέχνη in Plato. Jeffré’s thesis was approved for publication… Read more
The Third International Workshop on the establishment of MOOCs with multimedia annotations (III Workshop internacional sobre Creación de MOOC con anotaciones multimedia) has published the pre-print versions of its proceedings from March 2014. The initiative that universities like Harvard, MIT and Stanford launched in 2012 with… Read more
