Seminars

Modern Greek

Year Founded 2005

Seminar # 703

StatusActive

The seminar’s title emphasizes the language—modern Greek—over the metropolitan nation-state, modern Greece. By so doing, the seminar uses the enduring and versatile nature of the language as a symbol for broader themes that, both diachronically and synchronically, depict the tension between sameness and difference, between the continuities and discontinuities that comprise the Hellenic world. The seminar does not limit its focus to Modern Greece, even though it remains its foremost concern, instead it seeks to provide a forum for original interdisciplinary perspectives on Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greece and the Greek diaspora. Seminar participants from a wide variety of fields consider all aspects of the post-classical Greek world as well as the reception and creative appropriation of the classical Greek tradition both in Greece and abroad. The seminar examines Greek relations with Western Europe, the Balkans, the Mediterranean, the Caucasus and the Middle East, tracing also the cultural presence of historic Greek communities in these areas as well as in more recent diasporas, in the United States and Australia. The seminar also examines the presence of diverse communities within Greece.

Chair/s

Dimitrios Antoniou

Nikolas P. Kakkoufa

Rapporteur/s

Chloe Tsolakoglou

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Meeting Schedule

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Past Meetings

Cancelled

21
Nov

November 21, 20244:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Faculty House

What Can Participatory Music Practice Do for Liberal Democracy: A Rebetiko Case Study

Scheduled

14
Nov

November 14, 20244:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Faculty House

Chimeras in the Museum

Speaker/s

Phoebe Giannisi, University of Thessaly

Respondent/s

George Mantzios, Princeton University

Scheduled

16
Oct

October 16, 202412:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Zoom

What Has Become of Critique? Book Reviews in Greece

Speaker/s

Christos Mais, University of Thessaly

Vassilis Lambropoulos, University of Michigan

Scheduled

26
Sep

September 26, 20244:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Faculty House

Islam in Greece: An Ambivalent Accommodation

Speaker/s

Konstantinos Tsitselikis, University of Macedonia

Cancelled

18
Apr

April 18, 20241:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Faculty House

The Party: K.BHTA and Nikko Patrelakis Remember

Scheduled

21
Mar

March 21, 202412:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Zoom

Weird Entanglements of Fiction and Reality: Lost, Disappearing, and Virtual Islands, From the Aegean to the Pacific

Speaker/s

Maria Boletsi, University of Amsterdam / Leiden

Respondent/s

Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University

Scheduled

28
Feb

February 28, 20242:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Zoom

Scheduled

25
Jan

January 25, 20246:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

A Bag Full of Telephone Cards: Exhibiting the Archive of Albanian Immigration to Greece

Speaker/s

Ilirida Musaraj, The Contemporary Social History Archives

Respondent/s

Amy Starecheski, Columbia University

Scheduled

07
Dec

December 7, 20236:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Dodge Hall

Room 511

Columbia University

Screening of Queen of the Deuce and Discussion With the Director

Speaker/s

Valerie Kontakos, Filmmaker

Scheduled

14
Nov

November 14, 202312:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Faculty House

Greek Literature on Shifting Ground: Nationalism, Migration, and Belonging in the Modern Greek Literary Sphere

Speaker/s

Karen Emmerich, Princeton University

Nicholas J. Dames, Columbia University

Scheduled

06
Oct

October 6, 202312:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Faculty House

“I Lose My Screams”: Unmourned Bodies and Performances of the Lamenting Voice From Latin America to Greece

Speaker/s

Marios Chatziprokopiou, University of Thessaly

Respondent/s

Emma Ianni, Columbia University

Scheduled

29
Sep

September 29, 202312:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Zoom

Screening of “Hussies” (Tsoulakia, 2022, Dir. Despina Mavridou) and Discussion with the Creators

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