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Dates: May 25-June 19, 2016 Program Cost: $4,200 (includes lodging, most meals, and program costs but not airfare). Scholarship support will be awarded to applicants on the basis of merit. Application Deadline: Monday, February 15, 2016 Recommendation Deadline: Monday, February 22, 2016 The Center for Hellenic Studies and Sunoikisis announce the 2016 Archaeological Program at Kenchreai, the port of […]
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This week, Dr. Maria Kazanskaya, Research Fellow at the Institute for Linguistic Studies in Saint-Petersburg and Assistant Professor of Classics at Saint-Petersburg State University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Throughout her academic career, she has studied Herodotus and archaic Greek poetry, in particular from a stylistic and narratological angle. While […]
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This week, Dr. Maria Kazanskaya, Research Fellow at the Institute for Linguistic Studies in Saint-Petersburg and Assistant Professor of Classics at Saint-Petersburg State University, will be staying at the CHS and using the library. Throughout her academic career, she has studied Herodotus and archaic Greek poetry, in particular from a stylistic and narratological angle. While […]
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CHS Greece Event Please join us on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., in Argos for the following lecture: “Ecology and economy: the garden as cosmos and a microcosm” Lecturer: Fay Zika, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Theory of Art, Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts Respondent: Eleana Yalouri, Assistant Professor in Social […]
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We are very pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of these two books from the Hellenic Studies Series at the CHS website: Pepper, Timothy, editor, A Californian Hymn to Homer Much as an ancient hymnist carries a familiar subject into new directions of song, the contributors to A Californian Hymn to Homer draw upon Homeric […]
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The Center for Hellenic Studies would like to extend a warm welcome to our Spring 2016 Fellows! Please allow us to introduce them: Cédric Brélaz (PhD University of Lausanne, Dr. habil. École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) is an Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Strasbourg, France. He was Member of the Swiss Institute in […]
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Now available in open-access, full-text edition in the curated books section of the CHS website: The Singer Resumes the Tale, by Albert Bates Lord Long before writing was invented, people told stories and sang songs. But how is an oral poem composed? How is it transmitted beyond its circle of listeners to future generations? One of the […]
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Now available in open-access, full-text edition in the curated books section of the CHS website: The Singer Resumes the Tale, by Albert Bates Lord Long before writing was invented, people told stories and sang songs. But how is an oral poem composed? How is it transmitted beyond its circle of listeners to future generations? One of the […]
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Hour 25 welcomes Panayotis Fragkiskos League, PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology of Harvard University, for a discussion on CHS Open House. The video discussion will be on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. EST, and will be recorded. The topic of this ‘Open House’ is ‘Performance Traditions in Greece.’ You can watch the event below or […]
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International Conference in Athens, Greece 12 ‒ 14 December 2016 The origins of western science and philosophy are customarily traced to 6th century B.C.E. Ionia, to Thales of Miletos and the school he founded, whose famous pupils included not only […]