Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece

CHS Greece

The Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS Greece) is one of Harvard's 20+ global offices supporting the University's faculty, students, and researchers in their work worldwide and connecting local individuals, organizations, and alumni to Harvard. In addition, CHS Greece unites the humanistic pursuits of its twin institution, CHS in Washington, DC (CHS US), with the homeland of Hellenism.

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In the spotlight

Summer programs are beginning

In collaboration with Harvard departments and centers, as well as institutions in Greece and worldwide, CHS Greece's summer seminar-based programs and internships are now underway or about to begin.

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Tribute to Stratis Haviaras

The online event "Tribute to Stratis Haviaras – Traces of Writing, Shards of Memory," held on March 3, 2026, is now available on the CHS Greece YouTube channel.

Event titled "Tribute to Stratis Haviaras – Echoes of the Word, Shards of Memory." On the right, a watercolor-style illustration of Stratis Haviaras as an older man with gray hair, beard, and round glasses, wearing a white shirt and reading from a sheet of paper. The poster includes details about the venue and date of the event, the speakers, and the logos of the collaborating organizations.

CHS meetings

In May 2026, Naomi Weiss, Chair of Harvard's Classics Department and incoming Director of the CHS (effective July 1), along with CHS executives, had a series of meetings in Greece and France aimed at expanding existing and forging new collaborations.

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Programs

The Center for Hellenic Studies offers a wide range of activities and opportunities to high school and university students, faculty, alumni, researchers, lifelong learners, administrators, and other professionals from Harvard and other academic institutions worldwide. CHS Greece programs and activities are offered for free, and some of them are organized with other Harvard and non-Harvard entities.

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Events and Other Initiatives

The Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, though it prioritizes programs directed to the Harvard and Greek educational communities, it also offers a large number of events & other initiatives, including symposia, conferences, events, introductory programs to the CHS Greece digital library, online resources from CHS, etc. These initiatives are addressed to Greek and international audiences and many of them are based on important synergies developed by the Center or based on proposals for collaborations by other institutions.

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Activities

Field Archaeology Internship in Kythera
Jun. 22 - Jul 11, 2026
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All day
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Island of Kythera (Greece)
In Person

This program provides a unique opportunity to gain archaeological fieldwork skills on the island of Kythera in Greece through first-hand experience in aspects such as excavation, post-excavation processing and recording, object photography, Geographic...

Poster for the Field Archaeology Internship in Kythera, Greece (June–July 2026) with details and QR code.

Internship at Harvard's CHS Greece
Jun. 22 - Aug 14, 2026
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All day
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Nafplio, and other locations where CHS Greece programs are implemented
In Person

Harvard's CHS Greece is offering a seven-week internship position for the summer of 2026.

Poster for a June 22-August 14, 2026 internship with Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece for university students in Greece in at least their third undergraduate year, with a March 25, 2026 application deadline.

Harvard Summer School Program in Greece
Jun. 27 - Aug 2, 2026
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All day
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Thessaloniki and Nafplio (Greece)
In Person

Τhis seminar-based program for university students has in its scope the promotion of cross-cultural understanding by focusing on the circulation of peoples, ideas, representations, and organisms from a comparative, interdisciplinary and environmental...

Poster for the Harvard Summer Program in Greece, running June 27 to August 2, 2026. Background features collage images of students at archaeological sites, coastal paths, and historic ruins. Text highlights the program’s focus on political and natural environments of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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CHS Greece and Harvard University

Harvard Worldwide

The University's international engagement activities, overseen and supported by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, strengthen Harvard's ties with our global community and our impact on campus and abroad.

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CHS in the US

The Center for Hellenic Studies, located in Washington, DC (CHS US) is the sister institution to the CHS Greece. Founded in 1960, it is a premier research institution dedicated to the reassertion of the humanism of the ancient world.

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