International Scholars' Symposium on Sports, Society, and Culture: After the Agon: Olympic Memory in Ancient and Modern Athletics
Gregory Nagy (CHS/Harvard), Stamatia Dova (Hellenic College), Maša Culumovic (CHS), Efimia Karakantza (University of Patras), Peter Miller (University of Winnipeg), Nigel Spivey (University of Cambridge), Sofie Remijsen (University of Amsterdam), Sebastian Scharff (University of Mannheim)
English
International Olympic Academy (IOA), CHS US, CHS Greece
The international group of undergraduate and graduate student-participants, spend 4 days in Olympia, taking advantage of the environment, the IOA premises, the Olympia site, and the workshop sessions and lectures with the participating faculty. In addition to lectures, the symposium places emphasis on the blended learning approach. Students have access to a list of core readings in advance of the symposium. Presentations are followed by workshops during which the students reflect on the themes of the presentations in small groups. The symposium is open to junior and senior undergraduate students, masters, and PhD candidates from departments in Greece and abroad, and application is required.