Archives: Events

Posted on

Muse Lee

How do we sing Homer’s immortal stories in this moment of isolation? Emerging writer Muse Lee answers this question with a dazzling project: Aristos: the Musical, a queer pop/rock adaptation of The Iliad produced remotely during the pandemic. 

Posted on

Panel Discussion on The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary

Edited by Paschalis Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas Date: November 4, 2021 Time: 1:00–2:30pm EDT • 5:00–6:30 GMT • 7:00–8:30pm EET The Greek war for independence (1821–1830) often goes missing from discussion of the Age of Revolutions. Yet the rebellion against Ottoman rule was enormously influential in its time, and its resonances are felt across modern […]

Pythagoras and the Fisherman, Salvator Rosa, 1662 Posted on

Proximity and Scientific Explanations

Conversation Series on Philosophy and Ideas Date: Friday, October 29, 2021Time: 12:00–1:30pm EDT What can we learn from the Ancients? From astronomical to social phenomena, what do we do when we explain something? What does it mean to say that something is the cause of something else? What are different ways in which biases enter […]

Posted on

Allyson Vieira

Visiting Artist Presentation Series Date: Friday, October 15, 2021Time: 11:00am EDT Join artist and professor, Allyson Vieira, as she discusses the trajectory of her artistic practice and traces the influence of the ancient world within it. In Vieira’s work, time is often stretched, folded, and twisted: the present and future treated as if they belong to […]

Posted on

Visiting Artist Presentation Series 2021-22

Explore contemporary artistic responses to ancient Greek culture through a series of presentations by the current cohort of CHS Visiting Artists. The series will take place via Zoom and will be recorded. Registration is required. Please Note: Beginning in 2022, each talk will have a separate Zoom link. Please visit the talk pages to register […]