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    CHS GR Event: Despina Nazou, “Tourism, globalization and social change. The insular worlds of South East Aegean in the 21st century”

    CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., in Kranidi for the following lecture: “Tourism, globalization and social change. The insular worlds of South East Aegean in the 21st century” Lecturer: Despina Nazou, Social Anthropologist – Lecturer/Research Fellow at the University of the Aegean Respondent: Andreas Nikolovgenis, Architecture, M.Arch II, Harvard GSD […]

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    Forthcoming | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

    The CHS team is pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of  Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– […]

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    Forthcoming | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds

    The CHS team is pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of  Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– […]

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    CHS Visiting Scholar | Rhodes Pinto, PHD in Classics at the University of Cambridge

      This week, Dr. Rhodes Pinto, Postgraduate in Classics at the University of Cambridge, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. CurrentlyDr. Pinto works on issues of physics, metaphysics, cosmology, psychology, and theology within ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He is particularly interested in motion, a topic that cuts across all of these areas, and is […]

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    CHS Open House: The Táin, with Richard Martin

    We are pleased to welcome Professor Richard Martin, Anthony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford University, for our CHS Open House discussion on the Táin, concentrating on The Cattle-Raid of Cooley. Numbers 7-7b. The discussion will take place on Thursday, May 5 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. For the live stream event, other resources related to this […]

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    Join us for the Spring 2016 Symposium!

    Join us on Saturday, April 30 for a live webcast of the biannual Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium! The stream will be available at https://media.video.harvard.edu/core/live/harvard-chs-live.html. No special software is required. Persons interested in watching the stream should click on the link above and the stream will play in their web browser. Abstracts will be available on […]

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    CHS through time | Q&A with Jennifer Kellogg

    The CHS team had the chance to connect with Jennifer Kellogg, former executive assistant for the Center for Hellenic Studies to discuss about her travels to Greece and her previous work with the Center. Below, Jennifer reflects on her experience as a former CHS staff member and describes the role of CHS in her later […]

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    CHS through time | Q&A with Jennifer Kellogg

    The CHS team had the chance to connect with Jennifer Kellogg, former executive assistant for the Center for Hellenic Studies to discuss about her travels to Greece and her previous work with the Center. Below, Jennifer reflects on her experience as a former CHS staff member and describes the role of CHS in her later […]

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    CHS Visiting Scholar | Georgia Kolovou, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Nanterre

    April 21-26th This week, Dr. Georgia Kolovou, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Nanterre, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Currently, Dr. Kolovou works on the scholia to Homer’s Iliad. Her project has two parts: the first consists of making an essential corpus available to the international scholarly community in an appropriate […]