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CHS Visiting Artist:
Akis Goumas

To register for Akis Goumas’ visiting artist presentation taking place on Friday, March 26, 2021, at 11:30 am EDT, please visit the event page. Akis Goumas is a contemporary jewelry maker and researcher of mainly ancient crafting technologies of the Aegean region. He was born in Greece in 1952, and, after receiving his Diploma in Economics, […]

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2021 Spring Fellow:
Alessandro Buccheri

A poetic botany? My research aims to answer three interrelated questions: What did the botanical knowledge of the archaic and the classical Greek era look like? How and why did it offer Greek authors of the time convenient ways of thinking (analogically) about other aspects or areas of experience and speculation, such as the body, […]

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CHS Visiting Artist:
Matteo Tarasco

Despite the limitations of COVID-19, the CHS continues to recognize and support artists in all media whose work engages with ancient Greek culture. Over the next six months, the CHS will share profiles of the 2020-2021 cohort of CHS visiting artists. Matteo Tarasco is a theatre director who has extensively engaged with ancient Greece in his career. […]

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2021 Spring Fellow:
Marieke Dhont

Greek Poetry, Jewish Poets: Contextualizing Jewish Writings as Post-Classical Literature As a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, I am working on a project entitled Greek Poetry, Jewish Poets: Contextualizing Jewish Writings as Post-Classical Literature. I focus on situating Jewish poetry in Greek both within the world of Hellenistic literature as well as within our […]

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2021 Spring Fellow:
Ian Hensley

The Hellenistic Stoics defend a striking combination of claims within their physics, some of which appear to be in tension with others. First, they argue that only bodies can be causes, and all processes and conditions in the natural world result from bodies making contact with each other. However, they also maintain that an omnipresent […]

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Featured Visiting Artist: Phoebe Giannisi

Phoebe Giannisi was born in Athens in 1964. She studied architecture at the National Polytechnic School of Athens (1988) and received her PhD at the Centre Louis Gernet in Paris (1994), where she completed a dissertation on Ancient Greek poetry and architecture, focusing on the metaphor of the poem as a path (published later as […]

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Meet the Spring 2021 Francis Jones Graduate Assistants

The Francis Jones Graduate Assistantship Program is a newly created program aiming to support the study of the humanities and social sciences and to encourage service-based learning for pre-doctoral researchers who plan to pursue careers both within academia and beyond the academy. For the Spring 2021 semester, five Harvard graduate students have been awarded graduate […]

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CHS Visiting Artist | Marios Panagiotou

Despite the limitations of COVID-19, the CHS continues to recognize and support artists in all media whose work engages with ancient Greek culture. Over the next six months, the CHS will share profiles of the 2020-2021 cohort of CHS visiting artists. Marios Panagiotou works as an actor/performer, director, and facilitator in Αthens. Having graduated from the School […]