SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies

Modern Greek language education is at the core of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies’ mandate through its Greek courses at SFU and administration of the Ellinomatheia exams. The SNF New Media Lab also helped create StaEllinika, an online tool that brings the teaching and learning of Modern Greek to communities throughout the diaspora.

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An annual gathering of scholars and students, artists, and activists hosted by the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies on the Aegean island of Lesvos. Since the first workshop on “Sovereignty, Space and Aesthetics: Greece and Europe in the World" in 2019, the SNF Centre has dedicated funding to establish, on the island of Lesvos, a site of critical reflection where scholars will gather annually in the village of Molyvos to critically engage with a new contemporary theme every year.

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The SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies offers a wide range of financial supports for students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels who are interested in studying Greece's history, language, and culture, as well as an internship opportunity to a qualified student at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (one of the world’s leading private international philanthropic organizations) in Athens, Greece.

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Thanks to our many generous supporters and partners, the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies is able to attract top academic talent through its many endowed chairs and professorships, and to support emerging scholars through postdoctoral fellowships. At the same time, the SNF Centre supports the dissemination of research on Modern Greek history and culture through the online Journal of Modern Hellenism.

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The Journal of Modern Hellenism encourages scholarly contributions from emerging and established scholars on the history, language, and culture of Greece and the Greek Diaspora, from middle Byzantium to the Modern Era. This peer-reviewed journal is a joint publication of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies, the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Queens College, City University of New York, and the Hellenic Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento.

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The West Coast Byzantinists' Seminar (WCBS) is a cross-campus initiative that seeks to foster dialogue and reflection on all manner of themes Byzantine. The WCBS is an open forum where peers—both young researchers and more established faculty—meet once a month to discuss their work or ideas and questions that animate our field. Hosted by Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) and Dimitris Krallis (SFU), the WCBS is an interdisciplinary, informal forum where rigorous academic debate is made possible.

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Once a year since 2011, the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies releases their official publication, the Agora, which relates the year’s activities, events, and accomplishments of the Centre’s faculty and students.

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