Events

2018 Mar 02

Sports for All – The Development of the Running Movement with Polyxeni Argeitaki and Andreas Dimitrakis, Nafplio Marathon Event

8:00am

Location:

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

Title:

Sports for All – The Development of the Running Movement

Speaker:

Polyxeni Argeitaki (National and Kapodistrian University in Athens, SEGAS-the Athletic Federation of Greece, Hellenic Olympic Committee)

Respondent:

Andreas Dimitrakis (Greek Track and Field National Team)

Language:

Greek

Organizers:...

2018 Feb 28

Digital Library Program for Schools

10:30am to 11:30am

Location:

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

Full title:

Introduction to Digital Resources for Knowledge: The Digital Library of the CHS Greece

Coordinator:

Matina Goga (CHS Greece)

Language:

Greek

Synopsis of the program:

The Center welcomes students of the Lyceum of Skopelos. CHS Greece hosts several hundreds of high school students in this program, every year. This...

2018 Feb 24

Playwriting Workshop

Sat - Sun, Feb 24 to Feb 25, 10:00am - 2:00pm

Location:

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

Coordinator:

Thanasis Triaridis

Language:

Greek

Organizer:

CHS Greece

Synopsis of the workshop:

This is the second/last out of two weekends of this activity. The coordinators select a topic and the promising playwrights are asked to submit a playwriting. The coordinators’ expectation is for new theatrical material plays to be produced...

Leadership, Science and Social Welfare with Despina Sanoudou, Events Series 2018

7:00pm

Location:

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

Title:

Leadership, Science and Social Welfare

Lecturer:

Despina Sanoudou, PhD, FACMG, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens

Language:

Greek

Collaboration with:

Harvard Club of Greece

2018 Feb 10

Dionysios Solomos as the Founder of the National Language with Giorgos Kentrotis

7:00pm

Location:

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

Title of the lecture:

Dionysios Solomos as the founder of the national language

Lecturer:

Giorgos Kentrotis (Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University)

Language:

Greek

Organizers:

Argolis Association of Philologists, CHS Greece

Synopsis of the...

2018 Feb 08

Digital Library Program for Schools

11:00am to 12:00pm

Location:

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

Full title:

Introduction to Digital Resources for Knowledge: The Digital Library of the CHS Greece

Coordinator:

Matina Goga (CHS Greece)

Language:

Greek

Synopsis of the program:

The Center welcomed students of the 2nd Gymnasium of Argos who had previously attended the first part of the program. CHS Greece hosts several hundreds of...

2018 Feb 02

Harvard's Office of International Education Photo Contest

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location:

Lamont Library, Forum Room, Harvard University, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

Language:

English

Organizers:

Office of International Education (OIE), Harvard College

Synopsis of the event:

This annual Photo Contest attracts Harvard students college-wide, who wish to exhibit their photography skills and share special moments and views from their international trips during the past academic year. Since 2013, the Center for Hellenic Studies contributes to the photo contest by...

2018 Jan 26

Sophocles’ Theban Rulers and Aristotle's Tyrant: Classical Greek Lessons on Deliberation and Concord with Edith Hall, Events Series 2018

7:00pm

Location:

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

Title:

Sophocles’ Theban Rulers and Aristotle's Tyrant: Classical Greek Lessons on Deliberation and Concord

Lecturer:

Edith Hall,Professor of Classics at King's College London & Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University (APGRD)

Language:

English

Synopsis of the lecture:

This...

2018 Jan 23

Digital Library Program for Schools

10:30am to 11:30am

Location:

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

Full title:

Introduction to Digital Resources for Knowledge: The Digital Library of the CHS Greece

Coordinator:

Matina Goga (CHS Greece)

Language:

Greek

Synopsis of the program:

The Center welcomed students of the 1st Gymnasium of Nafplio. CHS Greece hosts several hundreds of high school students in this program, every year. This...

2018 Jan 19

Digital Library Program for Schools, Part II

11:30am

Location:

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

Full title:

Introduction to Digital Resources for Knowledge: The Digital Library of the CHS Greece, Part II

Coordinator:

Matina Goga (CHS Greece)

Language:

Greek

Synopsis of the program:

The Center welcomed a project team of students from the 1st Lyceum of Nafplio. CHS Greece hosts several hundreds of high school students in this...

2018 Jan 18

Digital Library Program for Schools, Part II

1:30pm

Location:

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

Full title:

Introduction to Digital Resources for Knowledge: The Digital Library of the CHS Greece, Part II

Coordinator:

Matina Goga (CHS Greece)

Language:

Greek

Synopsis of the program:

The Center welcomes a project team of students from the 1st Lyceum of Nafplio who had previously attended the first part of the program. CHS Greece...

2018 Jan 13

Playwriting Workshop

Sat - Sun, Jan 13 to Jan 14, 10:00am - 2:00pm

Location:

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

Coordinator:

Thanasis Triaridis

Language:

Greek

Synopsis of the workshop:

This is the first out of two weekends of this activity. The coordinators select a topic and the promising playwrights are asked to submit a playwriting. The coordinators’ expectation is for new theatrical material plays to be produced, all emerging from the specific topic, which can be either a complete play or another type...

City University of New York - Queens College visiting program

9:40am

Location:

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

Full title of the program:

City University of New York - Queens College: Winter Study Abroad program in Greece

Faculty:

Nicolas Alexiou (City University of New York - Queens College)

Synopsis of the visiting program:

In the context of their Winter Study Abroad program in Greece, twelve students of the Queens College, City University of New York, visit the Center on January 12,...

2018 Jan 09

Rutgers University visiting program

11:00am to 3:00pm

Location:

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

Title of the program:

Lifestyles of the Mediterranean. Rutgers University winter program.

Faculty:

Labros Sidossis (Rutgers)

...

2018 Jan 05

Louisiana State University visiting program

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

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

Title of the program:

Food and Culture in Greece

Faculty:

Judy Myhand (Louisiana State University)

Synopsis of the visiting program:

Three undergraduate students from Louisiana State...

2017 Dec 20

The Emperor Theodore Laskaris: Humanist and Philosopher between the Medieval East and West with Dimiter Angelov, Events Series 2018

7:00pm

Location:

Museum of Byzantine Culture, 2 Stratou Avenue, Thessaloniki, Greece

Title:

The Emperor Theodore Laskaris: Humanist and Philosopher between the Medieval East and West

Lecturer:

Dimiter Angelov, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, Harvard University

Language:

Greek

Collaboration with:

Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki

Synopsis of the...

2017 Dec 15

World History with David Armitage, 22nd Dimaras lecture of the National Hellenic Research Foundation

7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

National Hellenic Research Foundation, Leonidas Zervas auditorium, 48 King Constantine avenue, 11635, Athens, Greece.

Full title:

World History as Oceanic History: Beyond Braudel

Lecturer:

David Armitage, Lloyds C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University

Language:

English

Organizers:

Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), supported by CHS Greece

...

2017 Dec 05

Harvard's Office of Career Services Fair

1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

Harvard University, Harvard SOCH, 59 Shepard Str, Cambridge, MA 02138, US

Full title:

Harvard's Office of Career Services Summer Programs & Funding Fair

Language:

English

Organizer:

Office of Career Services (OCS), Harvard University

Synopsis of the event:

Every December the Office of Career Services hosts the Summer Programs & Funding Fair, for the purpose of informing Harvard students about summer...

2017 Dec 01

Memory and Mnemo-techniques workshop

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

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

Full Title:

Memory and Mnemo-techniques. A workshop of the Orality and Performance in the Greek Tradition project

Speakers:

G. Kostopoulos (Patras) as keynote speaker, Ι. Petropoulos (Thrace/CHS), K. Savrami (Patras), K. Trianti Latelis (Athens), E. Panou (Patras), Ν. Tsironis (Athens), G. Calofonos (Athens), Th. Kampianaki (Oxford/Athens), M. Athanassopoulou (Thessaloniki), D. Skliris (Athens), K. Theologou (Athens)

Language:...

2017 Nov 30

Digital Library Program for Schools

10:00am to 11:00am

Location:

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

Full title:

Introduction to Digital Resources for Knowledge: The Digital Library of the CHS Greece

Language:

Greek

Synopsis of the program:

The Center welcomes students from the "Junior High School of Asklipieion, Argolis." CHS Greece hosts several hundreds of high school students in this program, every year. This digital library program (DLP) is designed to introduce participants to the digital...