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Glimpses of the 2016 Harvard Summer Program in Greece

Alumni describe their participation in the program as life-changing, unforgettable, culturally and intellectually enriching. The 2016 Harvard Summer Program in Greece (Comparative Cultures Seminar) came to an end on July 31. The five-week-long Comparative Cultures Seminar is the oldest continuously running and one of the most successful Harvard study-abroad programs. Divided between the seaside town of Nafplio […]

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CHS Open House: Odysseus and the Poetics of katabásis, with Stamatia Dova

Stamatia Dova of the Hellenic College Holy Cross will join the CHS Community for an Open House discussion on Odysseus and the Poetics of katabásis, on October 13 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Watch the live event and/or join in the conversation on the Hour 25 website or the CHS YouTube channel! Homer Odyssey 11.472–473 The psūkhē of the fleet descendant of Aiakos knew me and spoke piteously, saying, ‘Resourceful […]

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The Enduring Legacy of El Greco

Monumental Works in Toledo and Escorial a talk by Professor Marina Lambraki-Plaka with a reception to follow Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:30-8:30pm in House A free and open to the public advance registration required, click here to register In collaboration with the Society for the Preservation of Greek Heritage This event will be streamed and […]

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CHS News | Michael Marks award-winning poets reading their own work

2016 Poets in Residence Program Poets Gill Mc Evoy and Jennifer Elliott, this year’s winners of the “Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets” in London and Edinburgh (a.k.a. the Callum MacDonald Award), participated in the Michael Marks Poets in Residence Program for two weeks during the past summer. The CHS had prepared a program full of activities in Nafplio, Ancient […]

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The Reawakening of an “Extinct” Language: The Case of Cappadocian Greek

A screening of “Last Words” (seriousFilm, 2014) with an introduction by linguist-philologist Mark Janse Friday, October 14, 2016 7-9pm in House A Admission: Free and open to the public; advance registration required Overview The Cappadocian variety of Greek, spoken in Asia Minor until the population exchanges between Greek and Turkey in the 1920s, has been of considerable interest to […]