Past Events
2003-2004
BODIES VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE: THE ERASURE OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN THE LIFE OF MODERN THESSALONIKI
Thomas W. Laqueur, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley Sponsored by the Anthropology Department
March 4th-11th , 2004
NEW DIRECTIONS IN MODERN GREEK LITERARY STUDIES
March 4 "Comparative Avant-gardes: the Greek perspective" Efthymia Rentzou (Sorbonne)
March 10 "Greece and the Balkans: A Cultural Poetics" Vangelis Calotychos (NYU)
March 11 "Odysseas Elytis's Translation of Sappho's Poetry" Elena Koutrianou (Oxford) Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
March 23rd, 2004
DIALOGUE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF GREEK IDENTITY Lucian on Greece's Monumental Past
David Ratzan, Department of Classics, Columbia University
"Aris Konstantinidis and the Suppression of 'True' Greek Architecture" Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Sponsored by the Classics Department March 29th, 2004
Yiorgos D. Kalogeras, Faculty of American Ethnic and Minority Literature at the English Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Sponsored by the Onassis Visiting Scholars Program Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
March 29th, 2004
THE CHADAEAN ORACLES: A LATE ANTIQUE HOLY BOOK
Polymnia Athanassiadi,
Faculty at University of Athens
Sponsored by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
April 12th, 2004
RESTORING BYZANTIUM: THE KARIYE CAMII IN ISTANBUL AND THE BYZANTINE INSTITUTE RESTORATION
The contemporary artist Zafos Xagoraris discusses his current work Sponsored by the Architecture, Planning and Preservation Department
April 13th -June 12th, 2004
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery presented an exhibition featuring the scholarly rediscovery and restoration of one of the most impressive Byzantine monuments to survive in the modern city of Istanbul: the church of the Chora Monastery, better known by its Turkish name Kariye Camii. Founded probably as early as the sixth century, rebuilt in the late eleventh and early twelfth century, and splendidly restored by the Byzantine humanist, poet, and later prime minister Theodore Metochites between 1316 and 1321, the church of the Chora Monastery is today considered an 'icon' of Late Byzantine art and architecture.
Sponsored by the Art History and Archaeology Department April 16th -17th, 2004
With: Holger Klein (Columbia University), Robert Ousterhout (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Paul Magdalino (University of St. Andrews), Sharon Gerstel (University of Maryland at College Park), Robin Cormack (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Caroll Wales (Boston University), Guiseppe C. Infranca (Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza”)
Sponsored by the Art History and Archaeology Department
April 15th, 2004
ART, INTERPRETATION AND THE REST OF LIFE
Alexander Nehamas, Professor in the Humanities and Comparative Literature at Princeton University
Sponsored by the Philosophy Department
April 22nd, 2004
CYPRUS, THE U.N. PEACE PLAN AND THE ROLE OF THE E.U.
Two days before the referendum of April 24
A lecture by Mr. Denis Chaibi, European Commission Visiting Fellow at Yale University (2003-2004) and First Secretary and Deputy Head of the European Commission Delegation in Cyprus (2000-2003)
With brief commentary by Dr. George Yiangou, Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Europe
Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Europe at Columbia University and the Transatlantic Student Group
May 6th, 2004
Interuniversity Faculty Seminar in Modern Greek Literature and Society Efthymia Rentzou (Sorbonne)