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News | Funding of Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region

We are happy to share the good news on the future of the Swedish research institutes in Rome, Athens and Istanbul! Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research in Sweden, announced on November 18, 2014 that “the Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean region will continue to receive central government funding.” Ms Knutsson continued by saying that “the advance notice given of reduced central government funding for 2016 and 2017… Read more

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Hour 25: Continuing Content, Community, and Conversation

Hour 25 is a vibrant intellectual community that studies and creates open source content associated with and inspired by Gregory Nagy’s work on ancient Greek heroes. Drawing on the massive open online content (MOOC) known as HeroesX and in a collaborative partnership with the Center for Hellenic Studies, Hour 25 offers readers and scholars access to an evolving, informed conversation about ancient Greek literature that is based upon close reading… Read more

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New CHS Publication – Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic

The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic by David Schur through Harvard University Press. Since Friedrich Schleiermacher’s work in the 1800s, scholars interested in the literary dimension of Plato’s writings have sought to reconcile the dialogue form with the expository imperative of philosophical argument. It is now common for mainstream classicists and philosophers to attribute vital importance to literary form in… Read more

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Live Webcast: December 2014 Research Symposium

Join us on Saturday, December 6 for a live webcast of the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The stream will be 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 into the URL field. For Quicktime 7, go to File > Open URL and paste in… Read more

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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours: Plato and Beyond

Registration is now open for Module 5 of the Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours (Hours 22-24), “Plato and Beyond”, on edX. HUM 2.5x, the fifth and final module in The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, “Hours 22-24: Plato and Beyond” challenges the idea that Socrates was a hero, just as Plato’s Socrates himself challenges that same idea. And yet, as we will see from reading… Read more

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CHS Greece Event: Aristoula Georgiadou, “A journey to the moon: Lucian’s True History and utopian novels in ancient Greek literature”

Please join us on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 7:00 p.m., in Nafplion for the following lecture: “A journey to the moon: Lucian’s True History and utopian novels in ancient Greek literature” Lecturer: Aristoula Georgiadou, Associate Professor, Department of Philology, University of Patras Respondent: Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Lecturer, Department of Philology, University of Patras The lecture will be delivered (in Greek) in the “Nikos Mazarakis Family Lecture Hall” at Harvard University’s Center… Read more

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Εκδήλωση ΚΕΣ: Αριστούλα Γεωργιάδου, «Ένα ταξίδι στη σελήνη: Τα Αληθή Διηγήματα του Λουκιανού και το ουτοπικό μυθιστόρημα στην Αρχαιοελληνική Γραμματεία»

Με χαρά σας προσκαλούμε την Τετάρτη 19 Νοεμβρίου, 2014 στις 7:00 μ.μ., στο Ναύπλιο στην διάλεξη με θέμα: «Ένα ταξίδι στη σελήνη: Τα Αληθή Διηγήματα του Λουκιανού και το ουτοπικό μυθιστόρημα στην Αρχαιοελληνική Γραμματεία» Κεντρική Ομιλήτρια: Αριστούλα Γεωργιάδου,  Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών Συνομιλήτρια: Κατερίνα Οικονομοπούλου, Λέκτορας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών Η διάλεξη θα δοθεί στην ελληνική γλώσσα στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων «Οικογενείας Νίκου Μαζαράκη» στο Κέντρο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Πανεπιστημίου Harvard, στο Ναύπλιο. Read more

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Visiting Scholar Maria Schoina at CHS

This week Maria Schoina, Assistant Professor of English literature at the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, will be staying at CHS and using the library.  She is the author of Romantic Anglo-Italians: Configurations of Identity in Byron, the Shelleys, and the Pisan Circle (Ashgate 2009). Currently, she is working on a project that “aims to develop the work which has been done so far on English… Read more

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Dialogue with Professor Nagy – Live Event in Boston and Webcast

Heroes in Tragedy: A presentation and dialogue with Professor Gregory Nagy HeroesX participants living in the Greater Boston area and learners around the world are invited to participate in a dialogue session led by Professor Nagy on Monday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. (EST). Be introduced to the joy of reading ancient literature, and to seeing those ancient themes reflected in the works of our own time.  Incorporating materials from HeroesX… Read more