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    2015 Oct 27

    Comparative Cultural Studies Program (CCSP) Alumni reunion

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Cambridge, MA, Harvard Department of the Classics

    Thirty-three Harvard students from programs since 2013 attended the event. Gregory Nagy and Nicolas Prevelakis welcomed the students; Harvard faculty and staff (Mark Schiefsky, Adrian Staehli, Cathy Coleman, Teresa Wu, and Daphne Maramaldi) also attended the reunion. Marina Cheilitsi (Coordinator of the Program) was also present and assisted in preparing the event. The reunion helped to strengthen the CHS’s ties with alumni, by whose word of mouth news of CHS programs reaches many prospective applicants.

     
    2015 Jul 16

    High School Summer Program/Teaching Internships Program (HSSP)

    Thu Jul 16 (All day) to Sat Aug 1 (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio, Greece

    The sessions were designed and implemented by the program’s director Nicolas Prevelakis (Lecturer in Harvard's Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Associate Director of Curricular Development, CHS DC) with imput from Kevin Caffrey (Lecturer in Harvard's Committee on Degrees in Social Studies), who taught all of the first week’s sessions. The two faculty members, along with Matina Goga (CHS Greece Communications Coordinator and Programs Development) and the teaching fellows supported all aspects of the coordination of the program. Sixteen high school students were selected from a...

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    2015 Jul 12

    “Evening of poetry”, Poets in Residence Program

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio, Greece

    During the “Evening of poetry”, co-organized by the CHS and the Fougaro Cultural Complex and held under the auspices of the Municipality of Nafplio, the British poets and poets from the Argolid read their works to a rapt audience. (The English poems were translated into flowing Greek by Anna Stavrakopoulou and read by local actors and poets. I. Petropoulos chaired the panels.) The British poets also toured Messolonghi, Delphi, and Athens, where they visited archaeological and other sites and participated in the Poetry and Translation “Paros Symposium”. The symposium allowed them to work...

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    2015 Jul 06

    4th International Scientific Symposium on “Sports, Society and Culture”

    Mon Jul 6 (All day) to Thu Jul 9 (All day)

    Location: 

    International Olympic Academy, 26 075, Ancient Olympia, Greece

    The program included interactive presentations as well as student workshops. CHS GR was instrumental to the organization of the event, which again proved a success. Christina Lafi, CHS GR Content Editor and Programs Assistant, along with Christos Giannopoulos, supported every stage of the symposium’s organization. The subject was “Exploring Excellence”.

    Speakers included Gregory Nagy, Ewen Bowie, Ioannis Petropoulos, Lucia Athanassaki, Stamatia Dova, Paul Christesen, Charles Stocking, and Janice Forsyth. A large number of undergraduates and postgraduates from 29 Greek university...

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    2015 May 25

    CHS Summer Internship Program in Greece

    Mon May 25 (All day) to Sun Jun 28 (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio and Athens

    Lectures and activities related to the interns’ field of study were introduced; interns met with Kenny Morrell, Nicolas Prevelakis, Katerina Flaka (head of EURES in Greece) and all supervisors. CHS GR’s new collaborations with academic departments from throughout Greece link the interns’ field of study more closely with the internships.

    Interns were assigned to local institutions (the National Archaeological Museum of Nafplio, the National Gallery/Nafplio Annex, the Fougaro Cultural Complex, the Europe Direct Information Center/Nafplio Office). In 2015, an additional...

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    2015 May 16

    Art of Prose Workshop

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio, Greece

    CHS in Greece in collaboration with the Municipality of Nafplio and the Municipality’s Cultural Organization (DOPPAT), launched in 2015 a creative writing workshop. The workshop was coordinated by Stratis Haviaras and Marty Lambrou. Haviaras was an author and teacher, the former curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room and founder of the quarterly Erato (which subsequently became The Harvard Book Review and still later The Harvard Review). Lambrou is a novelist.

    The first workshop, which was open to the public, was held in the Center. Stratis Haviaras gave an introductory lecture...

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    2015 Apr 22

    The Examined Life visiting program

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio, Greece

    Administered by the Newton, Massachusetts Public Schools in cooperation with Brandeis University, “The Examined Life: Greek Studies in the Schools” professional program encourages US teachers and administrators, K-12, to apply for Greek Study Fellowships. The program is aimed at strengthening Greek studies in schools. Program leaders and thirty-three fellows visited Greece in April and CHS on April 22, 2015. The group used the Center’s lecture hall and digital facilities. Author in residence Gregory Maguire (whose book Wicked was turned into a Broadway play) gave an autobiographical...

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    2015 Apr 17

    Workshop on current developments in obesity and diabetes, Harvard Medical School, Academy of Athens, CHS

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio, Greece

    CHS hosted a two-day scientific workshop on current developments in obesity and diabetes. The workshop was organized by Christos Mantzoros, a native of Nafplio and Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Harvard Medical School. The event was held in collaboration with the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens and the CHS. The thirty-five participants were selected medical students and junior doctors from Greek universities, including the Military School of Medicine in Thessaloniki. Speakers included Professor Mantzoros, researchers and professors from...

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    2015 Mar 30

    4th Panhellenic Philosophical Competition

    (All day)

    Location: 

    University of Patras, Greece

    The 4th Panhellenic Philosophical Competition was organized by the Department of Philosophy, University of Patras, the Greek Philosophical Society, and the CHS with the support of the Panhellenic Association of Philologists. The topic of this year’s competition was “Philosophy and Art”. 556 students from 82 schools and 22 prefectures participated. The final round was held at the University of Patras in March, and as in the past, Christos Giannopoulos awarded book prizes to the winners.

     
    2015 Mar 11

    Harvard Alumni Association annual spring-break trip to Greece

    Wed Mar 11 (All day) to Thu Mar 19 (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio, Olympia, Delphi, and Athens

    For a seventh year the Center supported this important HAA initiative, which featured a number of special events in Nafplio, including a reception at the CHS. Gregory Nagy led the group of undergraduate and postgraduate students and alumni on the tour. Huntington Lambert, Dean of Continuing Education, participated in the trip and visited the Center, where he discussed study abroad programs in Greece.

     
    2015 Mar 07

    Digital resources of knowledge and their contribution to philology - 3rd session

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio, Greece

    This workshop aims at introducing philology instructors to concepts such as digital literacy and information fluency, research methods in digital environments, with an emphasis on digital resources in the humanities, both in Greek and English.

    See the workshop's extended description on our website.

     
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    2014 Dec 21

    Digital resources of knowledge and their contribution to philology - 2nd session

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio, Greece

    This workshop aims at introducing philology instructors to concepts such as digital literacy and information fluency, research methods in digital environments, with an emphasis on digital resources in the humanities, both in Greek and English.

    See the workshop's extended description on our website.

     
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    2014 Nov 01

    Digital resources of knowledge and their contribution to philology - 1st session

    Sat Nov 1 (All day) to Sun Nov 2 (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio, Greece

    This workshop aims at introducing philology instructors to concepts such as digital literacy and information fluency, research methods in digital environments, with an emphasis on digital resources in the humanities, both in Greek and English.

    See the workshop's extended description on our website.

     
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    2014 Jun 30

    Comparative Cultural Studies Program

    Mon Jun 30 (All day) to Sun Aug 3 (All day)

    Location: 

    Nafplio and Thessaloniki

    This intensive program, the oldest continuously running “Harvard Summer School” abroad, brought twenty-five undergraduates to Greece (19 of them studying at Harvard), for the fourteenth session of annual seminars and site visits. Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard/CHS) was the academic coordinator; Anna Stavrakopoulou (CHS/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) offered her invaluable advice and expertise particularly during the program’s session in Thessaloniki. Faculty included Sahar Bazzaz (College of the Holy Cross), Emma Dench (Harvard), Michael Puett (Harvard), Dimiter Angelov, (Harvard),...

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