Past Seminar Meetings
Spring 2005
April 4, 2005
Karen Van Dyck (Columbia University)
“Psycharis’s Reading Room”
May 2, 2005
Peter Mackridge (Oxford University)
“Greek as a Sacred Language: Modern Greek Translations of the New Testament”
Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
September 27, 2005
Yiorgos Anagnostu (Ohio State University)
“Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America”
October 24, 2005
Constantine Tsoukalas (University of Athens)
“The Origins and Effects of the East-West Dichotomy in Modern Greek Culture”
November 10, 2005
Discussion with Constantine Giannaris, filmmaker
in conjunction with screenings of three films:
From the Edge of the City (Apo tin akri tis polis), One Day in August (Dekapentavgoustos),
and Hostage (Omiros)
January 19, 2006
Peter Bratsis (University of Salford, U.K.)
“Perceptions of Corruption in Greek Politics: Between Commodity Fetishism and Globalization?”
February 23, 2006
Reading of poetry and prose by two New York Greeks
Christos Tsiamis and John Chioles (NYU)
March 23, 2006
Neni Panourgia (Columbia University)
“Desert Islands”
April 6, 2006
Ioanna Laliotou (University of Thessaly)
“Transatlantic Subjects: Thinking about Mobility and Culture in Historical Perspective”
Fall 2006 - Spring 2007
October 26, 2006
Christine Philliou (Columbia University)
“The Millet System and Its Discontents: Dealing with Difference in the Ottoman Empire”
November 3, 2006
Eleni Papagaroufali (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences)
“Town-Twinning In Greece: Towards The Construction of a New European Identity”
November 30, 2006
Elizabeth Ann Davis (Columbia University)
“A System in Doubt of Freedom: Responsibility and Reform in Greek Psychiatry”
December 7th, 2006
Poet Nikos Alexiou (Queen’s College) & translator Karen Emmerich (Columbia University)
in a bilingual reading in Greek and English from
Miltos Sachtouris’s Poems, 1945-1971. Translated by Karen Emmerich. (Archipelago Books, 2006) &Nikos Alexiou’s The Garden Of Lost Vespers: Poems 1983-2003 (Seaburn Press, 2006)
February 23, 2007
Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford University)
"C.P. Cavafy and Discourses of Sexuality"
Respondent: Dr. George Syrimis (Yale University)
April 9, 2007
Dr. Miltos Pechlivanos
(Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki)
Σημεία στίξεως της ανάγνωσης – ο Στρατής Τσίρκας από τη Λέσχη στις Ακυβέρνητες Πολιτείες. [Points of Punctuations in Reading – Stratis Tsirkas from The Club to Drifting Cities].
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
October 1, 2007
Constanze Guthenke (Princeton University)
“Looking for Foreign Friends: Solomos, Translation, and the German Influences”
November 2, 2007
Gail Holst-Warhaft (Cornell University)
“Electrifying the Nisiotika: Mariza Koch and Aegean Rock”
November 29, 2007
Evdoxios Doxiades (Princeton University)
“Sexual Crimes and Improprieties in Late Ottoman Greece, 1750-1829”
March 4, 2008
Poets, Translators, and Critics on the Poet, Translator and Critic George Seferis
Andriana Mastor (Columbia University)
“A Different Sort of Nostos in Seferis’s Logbook III”
Susan Matthias (NYU)
“Sensual, Light-Hearted, Lyrical, Magisterial: Translating Seferis’s Multi-Faceted Prose”
Kathryn Stergiopoulos (Princeton University)
“Translation In the Manner of Giorgos Seferis”
March 12, 2008
Eleni Papargyriou (Princeton University)
“Selective and Distant Images: George Seferis’s photographs of Cyprus”
March 27, 2008
Nikolaos Panou (Harvard University) & Mona Momescu (University of Constanta)
“He will shatter Kings on the Day of His Wrath: Faith, Fear, Power in Early Modern Balkans”
Respondent: Christine Philliou (Columbia University)
Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
October 9, 2008
Andre Gerolymatos (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
‘The December 1944 Events: A Reappraisal’
October 30, 2008
David Ricks (King’s College, London, U.K.)
‘Greek poets’ tributes to Cavafy'
November 20, 2008
Martin McKinsey (University Of New Hampshire)
“Issues In Trans/Punctuation”
&
Karen Emmerich (Columbia University)
“Punctuating Space In Modern Greek Poetry”
December 8, 2008
Maria Boletsi (University Of Leiden, Netherlands)
“When The Sound Of The Other Sounds Strangely Familiar:
The Balkan Neighbor, The Guest, The Barbarian”
February 11, 2009
Ipek Azime Celik (Department Of Comparative Literature, NYU)
“Papadiamandis And Dimitriou: Imagining Greece From Below”
March 12, 2009
Gerasimus Katsan (Queens College CUNY)
“The Sheep And The Shepherds: Censorship, Morality And
Contemporary Social Criticism”
April 1, 2009
Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth College)
“Daddy’s War: Greek American Stories: A Paramemoir”
Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
October 7, 2009
Yiorgos Kalogeras(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
“Entering through the Golden Door: Cinematic Representations of a Mythical Moment.”
October 26th, 2009
Fotini Tsalicoglou(Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens)
November 5, 2009
Mark Janse(Ghent University, Belgium)
“Dead or Alive? The Resurrection of Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek)”
Co-sponsored by The Department of Slavic Languages & Literature & The Linguistics Society
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Dimitris Vardoulakis (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
December, 16, 2009
Sotirios Bahtsetzis(Fulbright Art Scholar, Columbia University
“Cinematism against Visual Regimes:Undoing Gender in Contemporary Art in Greece”
Co-organized with The School of the Arts, Columbia University
February 18, 2010
Dimitris Papadimitriou (University Of Manchester, U.K.) & Argyris Mamarelis(London School Of Economics)
“The Last Ottomans: Passivity And Resistance Within The Muslim Community Of Western Thrace During The Second World War And The Greek Civil War”
March 25, 2010
Alexis Rappas(Ted and Elaine Athanassiades Post-Doctoral Fellow)
(Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University) with respondent
Lidia Santarelli (Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU)
“National Allegiance and Imperial Loyalty: Greeks Under European Colonial Rule”
Thursday, April 1, 2010
A discussion with film director Yorgos Lanthimos
Director of the film “DOGTOOTH” in cooperation with The Film Division, Columbia University
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Nikolaos Mavrelos (Demokrition University Of Thrace, Komotini)
“’Narcissistic’ Techniques In 18th- And 19th- Century Greek Fiction As Vehicles Of Modernity”
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Lidia Santarelli (Center For European And Mediterranean Studies, New York University)
“Barbarous Greece: Antihellenic Racial Theories In Fascist Italy”
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Dimitris Damaskos (University Of Ioannina, Western Greece)
“Archaeology And National Identity In The Greek Museum”
Andreas Kalyvas (New School University)
“An Anomaly? Some Reflections On The Greek December 2008”
With Respondents Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University) & Peter Bratsis (Salford University, U.K.)
Friday, February 11, 2011
"New Directions in Greek-Ottoman Studies: A Roundtable"
featuring Evangelos Kechriotis--Assistant Professor, History Department, Bogazici University &
Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Studies Program, Princeton University
'Post-colonial criticism and Muslim-Christian relations in the (very) Late Ottoman Empire: the case of Izmir /Smyrna'
& Ilektra Kostopoulou-Ted And Elaine Athanassiades Postdoctoral Fellowship, Program In Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
"Hybrid Ottoman Geographies: Revisiting the Bi-religious Polity of Autonomous Crete."
Respondent: Christine Philliou, Assistant Professor of Ottoman History, Columbia University
Co-organized with Ottoman/Turkish Studies Seminar
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Heath Cabot, Mary Seeger O’Boyle Fellow, Program In Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
“Aesthetics, Knowledge, and Judgment at an Asylum Advocacy NGO in Athens”
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Prof. Margaret E. Kenna--Emeritus Professor Of Social Anthropology, Department Of Geography, College Of Science, Swansea University, Wales, U.K.
"Anthropological Theory And Practice And The Role Of Serendipity: 45 Years Of Research On Anafi"
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Efterpi Mitsi -- Associate Professor, Faculty Of English Studies, National & Capodistrian University Of Athens, Greece
“Representations Of Greece In Early English Travel Writing”
Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Georgia Gotsi -- University of Patras, Greece & Visiting Scholar, Remarque Institute, NYU
"Beyond “Home Identity” Immigrant Voices in Contemporary Greek Fiction"
Friday, November 11, 2011
A reading & discussion with Gazmend Kapllani -Author and Journalist
about his latest book "My Name Is Europe"
Monday, December 5, 2011
Maria Oikonomou -Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna
"On the Clinical Picture of Nostalgia—and a Remote Literature”
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Gonda Van Steen-Cassas Chair in Greek Studies, University of Florida &
Visiting Fellow, Center in Hellenic Studies, Princeton
""Aris Alexandrou's _Antigone_ (1951): A Critique of the 'blank pages on
which the revolution writes its instructions'?"
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Konstantinos Kalantzis, Mary Seeger Post-Doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
"Highland Crete as anti-Germany: Questions of Epistemology and Imagination 'in Crisis'."
Friday, April 20, 2012
Pantelis Voutouris (University of Cyprus) & Marinos Pourgouris (University of Cyprus)
Seminar on the Poetry of Odysseas Elytis
Pantelis Voutouris-"Linguistic geography and identity in The Axion Esti"
Marinos Pourgouris- "Philosophical Influences in the Development of Elytis' Theory of Analogies"
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Konstantinos Tsoukalas (Alexander S. Onassis Fellow & Visiting Professor in Political Science & ICLS;
Emeritus Professor, Capodistrian University of Athens)
"The Greek Crisis in a European Perspective" (co-sponsored by ICLS & the Heyman Center for the Humanities)