Guest post by Christos Aliprantis, Early Career Fellow in Philhellenism 2022-23

Research topic during fellowship: The Habsburg Empire and ‘Imperial Philhellenism’ in the Greek Revolution of 1821

Philhellenism has been widely recognized as a highly influential intellectual and political movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which brought together more often than not classicist aesthetics, liberal ideas, and Christian principles. The Philhellenic mobilization in Europe and North America in favor of the Greek cause above all during the Greek...

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Workshop's dates: Saturday 10 – Sunday 11, June 2023, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

CHS Greece announces the beginning of the applications' submission to the...

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CHS Greece congratulates Harvard graduates, Costis Paniyiris (MArch II '92), Professor at the University of Thessaly and Andreas Nikolovgenis (MArch II '15), Assist. Professor at the University of Ioannina and Associate in Architecture at CHS, for the assumption of the curation of the Greek participation in the 18th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, and contributes as supporting institution to the Greek participation, recognizing the great value...

Guest post by Konstantinos Kalantzis, Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2022-23

Research topic during fellowship: Picturing the Political: Photography, Crisis, and Imagination in Contemporary Greece

The project I am pursuing during my CHS Fellowship in Comparative Culture Studies explores contemporary Greek political imagination through the scope of visual culture. By visual culture, I refer to how people experience vision and visibility, their uses of imagery, cameras, and social media, but also, I refer to how I use visual media ethnographically...

Guest post by Theodora Patrona, Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2022-23

Research topic during fellowship: Borders, Migration, and Ethnicity in Historical Perspective: Greek Americans and Italian Americans in Context

In mid-February 2022 I applied for a CHS Fellowship in Comparative Cultural Studies. Being a junior member of staff (Special Teaching Fellow-"ΕΔΙΠ") of the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Ι was surprised to note the affinity of my research field -Greek and Italian migration to the US and their return...

Workshop's dates: Saturday 18 – Sunday 19, March 2023

CHS Greece announces the beginning of the applications' submission to the new workshop "Philhellenism across the Ages"...

Application deadline: March 1^st, 2023

The Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and the...