The Center for Hellenic Studies

CHS Greece Newsletter | September – October 2019

Newsletter | Σεπτέμβριος – Οκτώβριος 2019

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  Νέος κύκλος του σχολικού προγράμματος της Ψηφιακής Βιβλιοθήκης του ΚΕΣ

Στις αρχές Οκτωβρίου ξεκίνησε το πρόγραμμα «Εισαγωγή στα Ψηφιακά Εργαλεία Γνώσης: Η Ψηφιακή Βιβλιοθήκη του Κέντρου Ελληνικών Σπουδών»που προσφέρει το ΚΕΣ για ένατη συνεχή χρονιά. Το πρόγραμμα απευθύνεται σε μαθήτριες και μαθητές…

2019-2020 CHS-CCS Fellows | Victoria Ferentinou

As a CHS-CCS Fellow 2019-2020 in Comparative Cultural Studies, I have explored the concept of myth in context of the Greek avant-garde movement of the 1960s, focusing on the Greek poet and critic Nanos Valaoritis and the Pali Group. Central to my research is the idea of modern mythogenesis and the ways that Greek intellectuals and artists associated with international Surrealism drew inspiration…

CHS Celebrates Open Access Week

              In keeping with its commitment to open access, the CHS has made the full text of its Hellenic Studies Series available online. The CHS has also obtained the necessary permissions to create electronic repositories of other books and articles, in addition to providing full-text English translations of a selection of works of classical Greek literature. These works are generally…

Online Open House | A Land Called Crete, with Andrew Koh

We are excited to welcome Andrew Koh, of the MIT Center for Materials Research and the Harvard Semitic Museum, for a Center for Hellenic Studies Online Open House discussion entitled ‘A Land Called Crete: From Harriet Boyd Hawes to the Cretan Collections Project’. The event will be streamed live on Thursday, October 24 at 11 a.m. EDT, and will be recorded.

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Starting in the picturesque seaside town of Nafplio, where the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies has its headquarters in Greece (CHS Greece), and ending in the great metropolis of Thessaloniki, this travel-study tour takes as its theme the development of scripts and of writing technologies, with a focus on their eventual employment, throughout the ages, in reproducing the sacred texts of the Bible. At museums and historical sites along the way, get up-close views of clay tablets, scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, printing presses, early printed Bibles, and more. While the historical survey will take a generally chronological approach, exceptions will be made in order to take advantage of each city’s offerings. Enjoy Greece’s stunning landscapes, its long history, and its mild winter season.

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Space is limited, and special rates apply; register until October 31. Follow this link to register. Should you have any questions, please contact Harvard Alumni Travels at [email protected] or by calling 617-496-0806.

Three poems by Carol Rumens, Michael Marks award-winning poet

British poet Carol Rumens, this year’s winner of the “Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets” participated in CHS’s Michael Marks Poets in Residence Program this past spring. During her stay in Greece, she arrived in Nafplio, where she participated in several cultural activities and met with renowned and aspiring Greek poets. After a few days, she joined the HAA – CHS travel study program for…

CHS 2019 Fall Fellows | Emilio Rosamilia

In the early 1920s, Italian archaeologists unearthed a white marble stele in the sanctuary of Apollo, Cyrene. This partially-preserved second-century-BCE inscription (LSCG suppl. 117; now IGCyr016800) includes both a set of regulations about the allowed and forbidden uses of sacred cups and an inventory of precious vessels. Until very recently, this document has been thought to emanate from the…

Kosmos Society Book Club | Greek and Roman Actors

For October’s Book Club, we will be reading selections from Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, edited by Pat Easterling and Edith Hall, which will provide the opportunity to read different perspectives about various aspects of theatrical performance in ancient Greece.

Our suggested readings are:

Chapter 1: “The singing actors of antiquity” by Edith Hall

Chapter 6: “Looking…

Now Online! | Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment, by William Brockliss

The CHS is pleased to announce the online publication of Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment, by William Brockliss, available in print through Harvard University Press.

Responding to George Lakoff’s and Mark Johnson’s analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets’ use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their audiences’ understanding…

CHS Visiting Researcher | Michael R. Halleran, William & Mary

Michael R. Halleran is a Professor of Classical Studies at William & Mary.  A graduate of Kenyon College (1975), he received his A. M. (1978) and Ph. D. (1981) in Classical Philology from Harvard University and has held academic positions.  His publications include Stagecraft in Euripides (1985), The Heracles of Euripides:  Translated with Introduction, Notes, and Interpretative Essay (1988), and 

Online Open House | Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology, with Gregory Nagy

We are excited to welcome back Gregory Nagy of Harvard University, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. for an Online Open House. The topic of the discussion is “Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology.” The event will be live-streamed on Thursday, October 10 at 11:00…

Event at CHS in Washington DC | Anthropological Writing as Activism

Featuring Michael Herzfeld and Manuela Pellegrino

Friday, October 18, 2019 6:00-8:00pm Doors open at 5:30pm House A

Directions and Visitor Information

Seating is limited. Please register at Eventbrite by October 10.

The event will be live-streamed. Please check the CHS website for viewing instructions the day of the event.

About the event

Can anthropological writing endorse political activism? What…

Early Career Fellowships in Hellenic Studies in Greece and Cyprus | Apply Now!

Academic Year 2020-21

Application deadline: Sunday, October 27, 2019 Recommendation letter deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2019

The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers two fellowships to postdoctoral researchers based in Greece and Cyprus. The program aims to support researchers whose work requires continued access to material on site (e.g. archives, artifacts, archaeological sites), and to…

CHS 2019 Fall Fellows | Yannis Kalliontzis

The shrine of the Valley of the Muses: an archaeological, historical and literary topos revisited

Sometimes the most important archaeological discoveries don’t come from new excavations, but from the study of old excavations and the material they have produced. The Shrine of the Muses in Askra is one of the best examples of this phenomenon. The Valley of the Muses in Boiotia, site of the…

New on the Hellenic Studies Series

We are very pleased to share that these two titles from the Hellenic Studies Series are available in print through Harvard University Press.

Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment, by William Brockliss

available here ~ Harvard University Press

Responding to George Lakoff’s and Mark Johnson’s analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets’ use of concrete concepts drawn…

CHS-AUTH 2018-2019 Fellows | Angelos Boufalis

Local Scripts in Archaic Macedonia

As a CHS-AUTh Fellow in Hellenic Studies, I studied the Local Scripts in Archaic Macedonia. This study sought to cover a void in Lilian H. Jeffery’s Local Scripts of Archaic Greece(1961) by reviewing the epigraphic material from Northern Greece that has been unearthed and published since then, and determining the extent to which alphabetic script was adopted and…

Now online | Classics@17: Digital Literacies

Edited by Paul Dilley

This volume of Classics@, now available on the CHS website, aims to explore and analyze how the present digital turn enables a renewed theoretical engagement with multimodal ancient literacies. Cultural transmission in Antiquity was primarily oral, supplemented by images and texts. Nevertheless, Classicists first employed the term “literacy” in the singular, according to its…