Past Events
2005-2006
The First Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Memorial Lecture
in the series
ARISTOTLE AND THE MODERNS Nikiforos P. Diamandouros
(The European Ombudsman)
'Rule of Law, Democracy and the Ombudsman in Contemporary Europe'
Monday, November 21st At the President’s Lounge, Faculty House, Columbia University
The Kimon A. Doukas Memorial Lecture Vassilis Lambropoulos
(C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan)
GREEK AMERICAN ACCENTS
Thursday, April 13th, 7:30 p.m. 301 Philosophy Hall
THE MODERN GREEK SEMINAR AT THE UNIVERSITY SEMINARS PROGRAM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hellenicstudies/seminar.html
The seminar is directed by Professor Vangelis Calotychos (Acting Director of Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics, Columbia University). Ms. Karen Emmerich,a graduate student in Columbia’s Department of English and Comparative Literature, who specializes in Greek poetry, serves as the seminar’s rapporteur and administrator. The seminar meets on a monthly basis throughout the academic year.
September 27, 2005 Speaker: Yiorgos Anagnostu, Ohio State University Topic: “Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America”
October 24th , 2005
THE ORIGINS AND EFFECTS OF THE EAST-WEST DICHOTOMY IN MODERN GREEK CULTURE
Speaker: Constantine Tsoukalas (Sociology, University of Athens)
Co-sponsored by the University Seminars Program, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)
November 10th , 2005
Speaker: Constantine Giannaris Topic: A Conversation with the director.
January 19th , 2006
PERCEPTIONS OF CORRUPTION IN GREEK POLITICS: BETWEEN COMMODITY FETISHISM AND GLOBALIZATION?
Speaker: Peter Bratsis (University of Salford, U.K.)
February 23rd , 2006
READING OF POETRY AND PROSE BY TWO NEW YORK GREEKS Speakers: Christos Tsiamis & John Chioles
March 23rd , 2006
DESERT ISLANDS: RANSOM OF HUMANITY
Speaker: Neni Panourgia, Columbia University
April 6th , 2006
TRANSATLANTIC SUBJECTS: THINKING ABOUT MOBILITY AND CULTURE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Speaker: Ioanna Laliotou (University of Thessaly)
RELATED EVENTS AT COLUMBIA
(i) The Balkans Lecture Series at the Harriman Institute
November 9th , 2005, 12:00pm
FROM INSTITUTION BUILDING TO CONFIDENCE BUILDING IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE
Dimitris Christopoulos (Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Athens)
Co-sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies
November 10th , 2005, 12:00pm
REGIONAL TENSIONS: GREEK-ALBANIAN RELATIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY, A HISTORICAL APPROACH
Elias G. Skoulidas (Senior Researcher and Fellow, Department of History, University of Ioannina, Greece)
March 10th, 2006
A EUROPEAN BRIDGEHEAD IN THE BALKANS: GREEK FOREIGN POLICY AND REALITIES IN THE REGION SINCE 1990
Dr. Theodoros Pangalos, MP (Greek Parliament) Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Former Minister of Culture
Co-sponsored by the University Seminars Program, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) & The Program in Hellenic Studies, Columbia University
March 30th , 2006
REGIONAL SECURITY IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE
Dr. Yannos Papantoniou, MP (Greek Parliament) Former Minister of National Defense, Former Minister of Finance
Co-sponsored by the University Seminars Program, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) & The Program in Hellenic Studies, Columbia University
(ii) Columbia University Center for International History
September 30th , 2005
THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE: THE ITALIAN OCCUPATION AND GREEK SOCIETY, 1941-1943
Lidia Santarelli (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University)
(iii) The Columbia University Hellenic Association
April 5th , 2006
GLOBAL HIERARCHY AND COMPARATIVE CRITIQUE: BODIES, OBJECTS, AND VALUES
Petros Papaconstantinou (Kathimerini) "International Politics and their Impact on Greece and Cyprus"
(iv) The Society of Fellows in the Humanities
The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University Thursday, February Michael Herzfeld (Anthropology, Harvard University)
February 23rd, 2005
THE ANTISOCIAL PROFILE: CULTURAL PATHOLOGIES
AND MORAL PERSONALITIES IN GREEK PSYCHIATRY
Elizabeth Anne Davis, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University
(v) The Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia
FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS
Eleni Varikas (Professor of Political Science, University of Paris VIII) “The Secret Life of Concepts: Gender Experience, Disidentification, Self-Definition”
Co-sponsored by Program in Hellenic Studies
CONFERENCES
THE PROGRAM IN HELLENIC STUDIES COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Convenes a Conference
“IN MEMORY OF THE POET MANOLIS ANAGNOSTAKIS (1925-2005): NEW YORK CITY, DAYS OF 2006 A.D.”
Friday, April 14th, 2006, 9 a.m. – 6: 30 p.m. At Hamilton Hall 202, Office of the Core Curriculum 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, Columbia University
9:15 a.m. Welcoming Remarks, Vangelis Calotychos, Conference Organizer
9:30 – 10:40 a.m. Liana Theodoratou (NYU ): Manolis Anagnostakis and the Love of Writing
Karen Emmerich (Columbia): "Sense Variously Drawn": The Visual Poetics of Miltos Sachtouris & Manolis Anagnostakis
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. George Syrimis (Yale): Between Populism & Elitism: Theodorakis Takes on Anagnostakis
Elsa Amanatidou (Brown University): Anagnostakis & the Critics: Readings, re-readings and mis-readings”
Vangelis Calotychos (Columbia): Self-Anagnosis: The Poet as Ethos
2:00 p.m.
FILM SCREENING: Lakis Papastathis’s Manolis Anagnostakis (from Paraskinio, ERT)
3:00 – 4:10 p.m. Yiorgos Chouliaras (poet): The issue is what you say now. Lives of the Poets: The Anagnostakis Case
Marinos Pourgouris (Brown University): Silent Poets: What is poetry for…?
4:45 – 6:30 Stathis Gourgouris (UCLA): Today -Communism & Poetry Without Compromises
Vassilis Lambropoulos (Michigan University): Farewell to the Revolution Comment: ANTONIS LIAKOS (University of Athens)
With the gracious support of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) & The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
(ii) CONSTANTINE GIANNARIS AT THE PROGRAM IN HELLENIC STUDIES COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
THREE FILMS BY ACCLAIMED GREEK FILMMAKER
1. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH, 7 p.m. DODGE HALL 511, FROM THE EDGE OF THE CITY (1998) in cooperation with Focus Group, Graduate Film Division, Columbia
- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 7:30 p.m. HAVERMAYER HALL, 209 15TH OF AUGUST (2001)
- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, 8:15 p.m. SCHERMERHORN HALL 501, HOSTAGE (2004)
All Films In Greek With English Subtitles. Free Admission The Director Will Be Present At All Screenings And A Discussion With Him Will Follow Each Film. All Events On Columbia Campus (1 Subway to 116th Street and Broadway)
(iii) The Program in Hellenic Studies hosted the following conference:
The American Hellenic Institute Foundation in cooperation with the Foundation for Hellenic Studies Hellenic American National Council Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York
Presents the 4th Annual Conference on
THE FUTURE OF HELLENISM IN AMERICA
NOVEMBER 18-19, 2005
Columbia University
- The International Affairs Building
- Altschul Auditorium (Room 417)
•420 W. 118th St. Between Amsterdam &Morningside Ave
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2005 Guided Tour of the Ancient Greek and Byzantine art galleries, and the Onassis Library of Greek & Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2005: Participants included: Charles Moskos, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University; Professor John O. Iatrides, Professor Emeritus of International Politics, Connecticut State University; Ted. G. Spyropoulos, Hellenic American National Council; Professor Andre Gerolymatos, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.; Professor Van Coufoudakis, Rector, Intercollege, Cyprus; Dr. Helen C. Evans; Ambassador Loucas Tsilas, Executive Director, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA); Eleni Gage, Author; Mr. Stylianos S. Zavvos, Chairman, Continental American Capital; John Metaxas, Anchor and Reporter, WCBS News Radio,