Applications are open for the workshop "Travel as a Thread of Civilization" until February 8

Workshop dates: March 14-15, 2026, 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Location: CHS Greece, Nafplio

Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece organizes the workshop "Travel as a Thread of Civilization. From Troy to Utopia and from Boston to the Digital World," which will be coordinated by Christos N. Tsironis, Professor at the School of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Harvard University CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2018-19.

The workshop approaches travel as a historical, social, and cultural practice that runs through human experience from the mythical journeys of antiquity to contemporary digital forms of movement. Travel will be explored not as a simple movement through space, but as an experience, as a bearer of meaning and memory, and as a way through which societies construct and narrate their civilization. Travel thus constitutes a thread of civilization: it shapes the social canvas on which various cultural expressions are inscribed and at the same time continually weaves new cultural horizons.

Learn more about the workshop on "Travel as a Thread of Civilization."