Past Events
2008-2009
September 16th, 2008
The Program in Hellenic Studies, Classics Department at Columbia University, with the support of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Italian Department,
invite you to attend
FEMININE ANCIENT ICONS OF HORROR: MEDUSA AND MEDEA
a public lecture by
Adriana Cavarero
Date: Tuesday, September 16th, 7:00 p.m. Location: Philosophy Hall 301
Adriana Cavarero is one of the most significant feminist philosophers of our time. She offers new and invigorating ways to think philosophical narratives -from Plato, Sophocles, and Homer to Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin and contemporary literary theory. Her work, a work of remarkable range and erudition, combines political theory, classics, feminist theory, and literary critique. It explores questions of the body and the political, reconfiguring the bond between logos and politics, and exposing the paradoxes that permeate notions of “the body politic” in Western political philosophy. Cavarero’s work opens new ways of studying the formation of subjectivity and identity, the relationship between selfhood and narration, as well as the disjunction of ontology and politics. Adriana Cavarero teaches philosophy of politics at the University of Verona and she is regularly a visiting professor at New York University, Berkeley and Harvard. Among her books are: _In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy_ (Routledge 1995), _Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood_ (Routledge 2000), _Stately Bodies: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Gender_ (Michigan University Press 2001), _For More than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression_ (Stanford University Press 2005), and _Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence_ (Columbia University Press, in press).
October 6th, 2008
The Fourth Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Lecture
in the series
ARISTOTLE AND THE MODERNS
GREEK IDEALS AND WORLD ORDER IN THE 20TH CENTURY
by
Professor Mark Mazower
(Columbia University, History Department)
March 5-7, 2009
The Harriman Institute
Together with The Program in Hellenic Studies, The School of the Arts Film Division and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
and with the gracious support of The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival The Consulate General of the Hellenic Republic The Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia The Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia and the Romanian Cultural Institute
present
NEW BALKAN FILM
March 5 -7, 2009 Columbia University in the City of New York
The fall of the Iron Curtain and the secessionist wars in the ex-Yugoslavia provoked considerable international interest in the Balkans throughout the last decade of the twentieth-century. These same events also engaged the creative powers of a set of film directors—Angelopoulos, Kusturica, Manchevski—, whose films garnered wide acclaim at festivals and sparked controversy in discussions of film. This multidisciplinary conference considers contemporary Balkan film made after this tumultuous decade. For while events in the region may have calmed, directors from the region continue to leave their mark. The conference features six films released within the last five years, to be screened in the presence of, and in conversation with, their directors. It also brings together scholars from Columbia University with an international group of critics drawn from the disciplines of film studies, literary, cultural and gender studies, sociology, and art history. Together, they will discuss new trends, transformations, and concerns of a new generation of Balkan filmmakers.
April 21, 2009
The Program in Hellenic Studies, Columbia University In a project generously supported by The Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Presents
A Kimon A. Doukas Memorial Event
A Celebration of the Languages of Music, Play, Dance In the company of
Emily Fragos
poet & editor of anthologies "Dance" and "Music's Spell" (Everyman) &
Zoe Keramea
artist
with readings in English and Greek by John Chioles, Peter Constantine, David Plante, & Vangelis Calotychos
on On Tuesday, April 21st At 8 p.m., 301 Philosophy Hall
A Book Signing and Reception will follow
October 13, 2009
Readings from 'The Scattered Papers of Penelope
November 20, 2009
An Evening with Kyriakos Charalambides
December 10, 2009
Greek Poets
December 16, 2009
Presentation by Fullbright Art Scholar Sotirios Bahtsetzis