Past Events

2002-2003

September 10th -12th , 2002
STRATIS THE SAILOR MEETS THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA: SEFERIS IN EGYPT LOVE AND DEATH IN SOLOMOS'S 'KRITIKOS'
Onassis Visiting Scholar: Peter Mackridge, Professor of Modern Greek, Fellow of Saint Cross College, Oxford Two seminars:

 

September 16, 2002
WOMEN IN POLITICS: GREECE AND BEYOND
Sophia Kalantzakos, Member of the Greek Parliament, Delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Europe

 

October 30-31, 2002
SIKELIANOS READING SIKELIANOS
Poetry Reading, Eleni Sikelianos A workshop on Modern Greek poetry and translation with Eleni Sikelianos Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

 

November 26, 2002
THE SACRED ROCK AND THE PROFANE SETTLEMENT: CONTESTING PLACE UNDER THE ACROPOLIS
Roxane Caftanzoglou, Anthropologist, EKKE, Athens Co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the School of Architecture

 

February 25, 2003
NOT TEXT BUT TEXTURE: POEMS OF C.P. CAVAFY UNREAD, UNFINISHED, UNWRITTEN
A seminar with Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University

 

March 3, 2003
FIXING NATIONAL SUBJECTS IN THE 1920'S SOUTHERN BALKANS: INTERNATIONAL BUREAUCRATS AND BORDERLINE DECISIONS
Kimon A. Doukas Lecture Jane Cowan, Sussex University

 

March 31, 2003
AGAINST THE CURRENT
An Evening Celebrating the Writing of Kay Cicellis with John Chioles, Edmund Keeley, Ersi Sotiropoulou, Karen Van Dyck, and others

 

April 28, 2003
C/O PARADISE a reading by Aris Fioretos Co-sponsored by the Deutsches Haus

 

These Program in Hellenic Studies events were organized by Elena Tzelepis and Karen Van Dyck with the administrative support of the Classics Department in collaboration with the Columbia University community and funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture. Our language teaching position was funded by the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, and the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.