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2023 May 29

The King's College in New York City visiting program

Mon - Fri, May 29 to Jun 2, 10:00am - 12:00pm

Location: 

CHS Greece, Philhellene Square & Otto Street, 21 100, Nafplio, Greece

Full title:

"Ancient Greek Philosophy in Archaeological and Geographical Context" Summer Study Program in Greece

Organized by:

The King's College in New York City

Academic coordination:

David Talcott (Associate Professor of Philosophy) and...

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Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Andreas Athanasakis on the Reception of the Distance-Period Relationship in the Capellan and Copernican Cosmologies

Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Andreas Athanasakis on the Reception of the Distance-Period Relationship in the Capellan and Copernican Cosmologies

May 9, 2023

Guest post by Andreas Athanasakis, Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23

Research topic during fellowship: The Platonic Forma Mundi Problem

The pre-doctoral fellowship in Hellenic Studies at CHS has afforded me a unique opportunity to undertake a comprehensive investigation of the Platonic forma mundi problem (i.e., the exact necessary order of the planets), particularly as it relates to the cosmological frameworks posited by the Capellan and Copernican perspectives. Although Plato did not solve the forma mundi problem, he did...

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2022 Jun 23

"Geography and Cosmography in the Byzantine and the Ottoman World" Workshop

Thu - Sun, Jun 23 to Jun 26, 1:30pm - 11:30am

Location: 

CHS Greece, Philhellene Square & Otto Street, 21 100, Nafplio, Greece

Organized by:

Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Boğaziçi University’s Byzantine Studies Research Center, in collaboration with CHS Greece, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Academic coordination:

...

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From the Himalayas to the Atlantic: the reception of Greek philosophy in the context of medieval Arabo-Islamic culture

Key information

  • Dates: February 5 - 6, 2022
  • Location: Nafplio (Greece)
  • Organized by: CHS Greece
  • Open to: All (up to 14 participants)
  • Application Period:  December 1, 2021 - January 7, 2022
  • Language: Greek
  • Academic Coordination: Georgios Steiris,...
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