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December 1st, 2009

A Time of Hope and Stagnation: Greece in the Late 1980s
Part of the series: Modernizing: Political, Social, and Cultural Change in Greece after 1974. A speaker series based on the films of Nicos Perakis. Following its transition to democracy in 1974, Greece entered a process of rapid and uneven change that has transformed society, politics, and culture. The Hellenic Studies Program proposes a reappraisal of the last four decades with a series of talks on post-1974 Greece, which address the turning points and formative transitions of the country with an eye on the cultural representations of the specific periods. The springboard for each talk will be a film by director Nicos Perakis whose films address and record the wider transformation of Greek society. The lecture will be followed by film screening of "Living Dangerously," directed by Nicos Perakis
Speaker: Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University


November 19th, 2009

Entering through the Golden Door: Cinematic Representations of a Mythical Moment
Speaker: Yiorgos Kalogeras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki


November 13th, 2009

Politics & Ideology in post-1974 Greece
Part of the series: Modernizing: Political, Social, and Cultural Change in Greece after 1974. A speaker series based on the films of Nicos Perakis. Following its transition to democracy in 1974, Greece entered a process of rapid and uneven change that has transformed society, politics, and culture. The Hellenic Studies Program proposes a reappraisal of the last four decades with a series of talks on post-1974 Greece, which address the turning points and formative transitions of the country with an eye on the cultural representations of the specific periods. The springboard for each talk will be a film by director Nicos Perakis whose films address and record the wider transformation of Greek society. The lecture will be followed by film screening of "ARPA COLLA," directed by Nicos Perakis
Speaker: Alexander Kitroeff, Haverford College


November 9th, 2009

Sacred Commodities? Icons from Venetian Crete
Maria Georgopoulou, Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Speaker: Maria Georgopoulou, Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens


October 29th, 2009

Church and State in Cyprus, 1931-1939: Reinventing Politics in a British Colonial Setting
Speaker: Alexis Rappas, Princeton University


October 12th, 2009

Beyond Zorba and Captain-Michael: Music Tradition & Globalization through the Work of Nikos Kazantzakis
Speaker: Maria Hnaraki, Drexel University


September 28th, 2009

"Health to you, Marko, with your Bouzouki!": Spoken Interaction among Musicians in Historic Recordings of Greek Urban and Rural Musics
Speaker: Michael Kaloyanides, University of New Haven


September 24th, 2009

The Inadvertent Subversion of Traditional Values by Their Self-Appointed Guardians

Part of the series: Modernizing: Political, Social, and Cultural Change in Greece after 1974. A speaker series based on the films of Nicos Perakis. Following its transition to democracy in 1974, Greece entered a process of rapid and uneven change that has transformed society, politics, and culture. The Hellenic Studies Program proposes a reappraisal of the last four decades with a series of talks on post-1974 Greece, which address the turning points and formative transitions of the country with an eye on the cultural representations of the specific periods. The springboard for each talk will be a film by director Nicos Perakis whose films address and record the wider transformation of Greek society. The lecture will be followed by film screening of "LOAFING AND CAMOUFLAGE," directed by Nicos Perakis
Speaker: George Mavrogoradatos, Constantine Karamanlis Professor of Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies, Tufts University


April 20th, 2009

Comparing Revolutions and Societies: Serbs and Greeks, 1800 -1830
Speaker: Maria Efthymiou, University of Athens and Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow, Princeton University


April 7th, 2009

The Role of the International Monetary Fund in the Global Financial Crisis
Speech by the Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, Ms. Miranda Xafa Q & A will follow Miranda Xafa serves as the representative for countries such as Italy, Greece and Portugal. She previously worked as a staff member at the International Monetary Fund where she focused on the design and monitoring of stabilization programs, focusing particularly on Latin America. She holds a P.h.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught economics at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. Also, the author of several published articles on international trade policy, the Latin American debt crisis and European monetary unification.
Speaker: Miranda Xafa, Alternate Executive Director of the IMF


March 23rd, 2009

The Memories of Conflicts: Toward a Classification
New date: MARCH 23, 2009 & New location: 202 Luce
Speaker: Dr. Giorgos Antoniou, University of Cyprus


March 5th, 2009

Greek Jewry and the Holocaust
Kateřina Králová Fulbright-Masaryk Visiting Research Fellow October 2008 - June 2009 Kateřina Králová received her first degree in International Area Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (2000). As a bilateral inter-university scholar, she completed her master studies at Philipps Universität in Marburg, Germany, where she received the national DAAD-Award for the Best Foreign Student of the Year (2002). Subsequently, she continued her doctoral studies at Charles University (Prague) where she finished her PhD thesis on Greek-German Relations after the Second World War in the Shadow of Nazi Past (2007). During her doctoral studies she obtained numerous scholarships for research abroad, for one year at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki (2003-2004) and in other European countries (Germany, Austria, UK). Currently she is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer at the Institute of International Studies, Charles University (Prague) where she teaches contemporary Greek history and modern history of the Balkans. In her research she focuses on the post-war social position of victims of political/civil injustice in general and during the Nazi occupation, anti-Semitism, and the fate of its victims in southeastern Europe and in particular Greece. She presents the results of her research at international conferences, co-edits volumes in Czech and German, and publishes articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Speaker: Katerina Kralova


March 2nd, 2009

Cultural Resistances Under Authoritarianism: The Re-Invention of Tradition in Greece and Spain in the 1960s
Speaker: Dr. Kostis Kornetis, Brown University


February 23rd, 2009

Britain and the Greek Colonels, 1967-1974: The Anatomy of an 'Unheroic' Stance
Speaker: Dr. Konstantina Maragkou, Visiting Lecturer, Hellenic Studies Program & History Department, Yale University


February 19th, 2009

IN THE SERVICE OF THE SULTAN AND THE GREEK STATE: The Transformation of the Eastern Mediterranean from Multiethnic Empire to Nation States reflected through the life of Bodosakis-Athanasiadis
Bodosakis was born in Bor in Cappadocia around 1890 and died in Athens in 1979. He lived the first three decades of his life in the Ottoman Empire and his career there included, among other things, serving the Ottoman troops and the personal on the Berlin-Baghdad Railway as one of their main suppliers during the First World War. He forged professional contacts with leading Ottoman military men, including Mustafa Kemal, German officers and representatives of leading German firms. In the wake the Greek-Turkish exchange of population Bodosakis decided to leave Anatolia and he lived the remainder of his life in Greece. He continued, however, to a wide extent to base his business on his Ottoman past, i.e. on the acumen he had developed during that time, not least by making use of the personal acquaintances, the local knowledge and the regional networks that he had forged when he was still a citizen of the Ottoman Empire. Mogens Pelt received his Dr.Phil. in 2003 from the University of Copenhagen and his Ph.D. in 1993 from the same place, both in Contemporary History. Currently he is a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.
Speaker: Mogens Pelt, Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University and Associate Professor in International History at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen


February 6th, 2009

Foreign Policy in the Era of the European Union and Globalisation
Alexandros Yannis has extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy with the European Union and the United Nations; including working with the European Union Special Envoy to Somalia (1994-1997), the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in Kosovo (1999-2000) and in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva (2001). Between 2002-2008 worked in the Council of the European Union in Brussels and for the European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Dr Javier Solana, focusing on the Balkans and the Caucasus, including being member of the EU Kosovo Status negotiations team. Has extensive field experience in the Balkans, the Caucasus and Africa and has lectured and published widely in Europe and the USA; Research Associate in the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens (2001-present), member of the Advisory Board of the Balkan Trust Fund for Democracy in Belgrade (2003-present), Research Fellow in the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies in Geneva (2000-2002).
Speaker: Alexandros Yannis, Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts Univ.


January 28th, 2009

Stavros Niarchos Lecture: "A Strategy for Greece"
Stefanos Manos a liberal, has been a member of the Greek parliament for 30 years and has held several ministerial positions. Manos is a graduate of Zurich 's Institute of Technology school of mechanical engineering and has an MBA from Harvard. After a career in business, he was elected to Parliament in 1977 with the New Democracy (ND) party and has held portfolios in Public Works, Industry and Energy, Environment and Town Planning, Economy and Finance. He was ousted from ND in 1998 and the next year founded the Liberals party. In the last parliamentary elections of 1997 he did not stand for re-election. View poster.
Speaker: Stefanos Manos, Politician & former Minister and Member of Parliament


December 11th, 2008

Whose Truth is True?

Whose Truth is True? The Challenge of Developing Commemorative Cultures in the Balkans A conversation with Sandra Breka, Yale World Fellow from Germany. Sandra Breka manages a range of international programs for the Robert Bosch Foundation, focusing on Southeast Europe. She was a senior staff member for the International Commission on the Balkans and the first chairman of the Transfuse Association (Transatlantic Networking for the Future of Southeastern Europe).
Speaker: Sandra Breka, World Fellow Yale 2008


November 20th, 2008

Is a Voluntary Population Exchange Possible? The Emigration of Minorities between Bulgaria and Greece
"Is a Voluntary Population Exchange Possible? The Emigration of Minorities between Bulgaria and Greece, 1919-1925." Theodora Dragostinova received her B.A. in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens, Greece (1998), her M.A. in History from the University of Florida (2000), and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2005). She joined the Department of History in 2007 as an Assistant Professor of Eastern European history. Her work focuses on nation-building, refugee movements, and minority politics in Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on the Balkans. Professor Dragostinova is completing a book manuscript entitled "Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1949." The dissertation on which her book manuscript is based received the John O. Iatrides Prize from the Modern Greek Studies Association for the best English-language dissertation on a Greek topic.
Speaker: Theodora Dragostinova, Ohio State University


October 15th, 2008

British Intelligence in Greece, Opportunities and Failures Espionage and Sabotage: the Other Face of the Greek Resistance
Andre Gerolymatos, was educated in classics and modern history at McGill University in Montreal. He specializes in Military and Diplomatic history, and has published several articles and books on these fields such as The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution and Retribution from the Ottoman era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond; and Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry 1944-1949. In 1997 he was appointed Director of the Research Institute on Southeastern Europe at Simon Fraser University.
Speaker: Andre Gerolymatos, Chair of Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University


October 9th, 2008

Dreaming of Sex in Medieval Byzantium
‘The more one dreams of having sex with prostitute women, the richer he will become.’ Thus begins one of the several pages devoted to sexual dreams in a tenth-century Byzantine text of dream interpretation. Dreaming about sex indicates a future change in the social position of the dreaming male subject. In a patriarchal society such as Byzantium, sexual dreams thus gestured toward key-concerns regarding authority and power. Byzantium, however, was not a monolithic culture. This paper will explore a variety of Byzantine texts in which pre-modern dominant views of dreaming and sexuality are not simply asserted and propagated but they are challenged, undermined, and, often, subverted. View poster.
Speaker: Eustratios Papaioannou, Joint Appointment Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies, Brown University & Dumbarton Oaks


September 23rd, 2008

An American Fugue
Prominent Greek writer and recipient of the International Literature Award from the US National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will hold a book talk/reading. The novel, American Fugue, opens with the protagonist, a writer, on a flight from Greece to the U.S. He is at the lowest point in his life, so when he receives an unexpected invitation to participate in a literary program at a university in the U.S., he takes the opportunity to leave his past behind and make a new beginning. Arriving in the “New World”, he begins an experiment with himself as the subject—the “canary in the mine.” His journey, a flight through both the interior and external landscape, follows the pattern of inexorable movement and increasing complexity of the fugue. View poster
Speaker: Alexis Stamatis


May 14th, 2008

Yale Hellenic Studies in New York City: In Search of Homelands: Home and Xenitia in Greek Popular Booklets of Folk and Fairy Tales
Hellenic Studies in New York City Series
Speaker: Maria Kaliambou, Yale University


April 21st, 2008

Reading from the Novel, I'd Like, by the Author
Amanda Michalopoulou is one of Greece’s most successful and productive young writers. She has published five novels, a short story collection, a collection of e-mail correspondence and many children books.Her novels have been published in German, Italian, Swedish, her short stories also in English, Serbian and Czech. Dalkey Archive Press won the International Literature Prize by National Endowment for the Arts, USA, for translating her book (I’d like) into English. Her last novel, “Princess Lizard”, was published in 2007.
Speaker: Amanda Michalopoulou


April 16th, 2008

The Mediterranean Diet: An ethnographic study of medicinal food and plants of Crete
Speaker: Dr. Artemis Morris, Revive Wellness Center, New Haven, CT


March 31st, 2008

Greek Philosophy in the Arabic Commentary Tradition: Averroes as an Interpreter of Aristotle on Form and Essence
Speaker: Matteo Di Giovanni, NELC, Yale University


March 27th, 2008

"Mise Kozis" (1848): Multi-Ethnic Night Strolls in Ottoman Constantinople
In the generalized ambience of reform of the mid-nineteenth century, D.G.K., an anonymous Constantinopolitan Greek, decided to broaden the confines of his epoch’s dramaturgy, writing "Mise Kozis" (1848), a comedy on an especially original and daring theme: the visit of a band of men to a semi-improvised brothel in the Top-hane area, at the seafront of ‘European’ Constantinople. The talk tracks the author’s theatrical models, based on the place and date of issue, as well as on sporadic elements in the text. It then proposes a fresh review of the work, no longer to be contained within the context of the history of Neo-hellenic comedy but in the light of the Ottoman theatrical tradition of its era. View poster.
Speaker: Anna Stavrakopoulou, Dept. of Drama, University of Thessaloniki


February 26th, 2008

Greek Spaces Images and Views: Us and the Ancients
A survey on performance history in Europe from traditional approaches to postdramatic forms and connects with the tradition for performing ancient drama in Greece during the 20th century (with a powerpoint presentation and some video extracts from performances).
Speaker: Platon Mavromoustakos, Dept. of Theatre Studies, Univ. of Athens


February 25th, 2008

The Holocaust and Its Representations: The Case of Greece
Screening of "The City of Silence," documentary directed by Maurice Amaraggi. Discussants: Giorgos Antoniou, Yale University, Kostis Kornetis, Brown University, Jay Winter, Yale University, and Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University. View poster.
Speaker: Giorgos Antoniou, Kostis Kornetis, Jay Winter, and Jeffrey Alexander


February 21st, 2008

Terrorism in Greece: the Case of November 17 Group
Emmanuel Karagiannis, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Macedonia at Thessaloniki, Greece. View poster.
Speaker: E. Karagiannis, Lecturer of International Relations, University of Macedonia


February 11th, 2008

Real and Imagined: The Middle East's Disappearing Hellenes
Iason Athanasiadis, freelance photographer & the Nieman Fellow at Harvard University gives a lecture on the Middle East's disappearing Hellenes. Also, he will be presenting a slide show of his photography on Iran and its paradoxes. View poster.
Speaker: Iason Athanasiadis, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University


February 6th, 2008

Grants meeting

Information session for undergraduate and graduate student grants to Greece.
Speaker: George Syrimis


January 31st, 2008

Sexual Crimes & Improprieties in Late Ottoman Greece
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Speaker: Evodoxios Doxiadis, Post Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University


November 13th, 2007

Rembetika, Flamenco, and the Blues: Creating National Music
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Speaker: Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University


November 5th, 2007

From Soft to Hard Paternalism and Back: The Regulation of Surrogate Motherhood in Greece
RESCHEDULED FROM NOV. 8 A critical analysis of the regulation of surrogate motherhood in Greece. The paper discusses the way that a consensus reached in the legislative committee among liberal and conservative jurists on the matter of compensation of surrogate mothers was undermined by intra-party populism in the Greek parliament which banned it to avoid commodification. Inevitably the law fell into disuse leading to a new law which allowed government-defined compensation, not the one agreed on by the parties. The regulation of surrogate motherhood in Greece is a typical example of the deleterious effects of the combination of legal formalism and legal moralism in contemporary Greece.
Speaker: Aristides N. Hatzis, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens


October 11th, 2007

Opening Reception for "George Seferis' "Thrush" in Painting: An Exhibit by Artist George Kordis"
Mr. Kordis grew up in Athens and studied Theology at the Department of Theology of the University of Athens and Byzantine iconography. He continued his studies at the Theological School of "The Timios Stavros" in Boston (Master of Theology) and followed lessons in painting technique at "The School of Arts of The Museum of Boston" (1987-89). Upon returning to Athens he continued his studies in painting and engraving with his teacher Fotis Mastichiadis. He specialized in both the theology and the aesthetics of Byzantine painting. In his painting, he creates within the limits of the secular Byzantine artistic tradition. He has painted many portable icons, frescos in churches and holy places, both in Greece and abroad. In addition to his more traditional work, he has replicated in art what the great composers have done in music by deriving inspiration from the literary tradition of Greece. He has interpreted in art the works of Elytis, Papadiamantis, Kornaros, Seferis, Sarantaris, and Kavvadias to name a few. A preview of his Yale exhibit can be seen at the Program’s website at www.yale.edu/macmillan/hsp by clicking on the link “George Kordis Upcoming exhibit.” Luce Hall Common Room. View poster.
Speaker: George Kordis


September 17th, 2007

Stavros Niarchos Lecture: The Virgin Mary and the Collapse of Ottoman Rule: Revolution on Tinos, 1821-1830
The annual Stavros S. Niarchos Lecture will explore local dimensions of the Greek war of independence. View poster.
Speaker: Mark Mazower, Columbia University


May 1st, 2007

Yale Hellenic Studies in New York City: "The Ottoman Empire and the Greeks: a Reassessment"

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Speaker: Dimitris Kastritsis, Lecturer in Hellenic Studies and History, Yale University


April 26th, 2007

Greeks and the East Series: Alexander and the East: Orientalism, and the Empire of the Best
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Speaker: Guy Rogers, Macricostas Chair, Western Connecticut State University and Professor of Classics and History, Wellesley College


April 16th, 2007

Greeks and the East: The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange between Byzantium, Islam, and Beyond
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Speaker: Anthony Cutler, Evan Pugh Professor of Art History, Penn State University


April 9th, 2007

Is Greece Open to World Literature?
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Speaker: Gregory Jusdanis, Distinguished Humanities Professor, Department of Greek and Latin, Ohio State University


March 7th, 2007

C. P. Cavafy and the Discourses of Sexuality
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Speaker: Dimitris Papanikolaou, University Lecturer in Modern Greek, Oxford University, & Visiting Fellow, Princeton University


March 1st, 2007

Kazantzakis's Religious Vision: Jesus in The Last Temptation
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Speaker: Peter Bien, Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College


February 15th, 2007

Epidemics and Non-Medical Competing Factors: The Case of Avian Flu in Greece and Cyprus
Speaker: Vivian Andria, MPH, Ionis Development, Athens and Tassos Kyriakidis, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine.


January 31st, 2007

The Enemy that Never was: The Muslim/Turkish Minority in Western Thrace during the Axis Occupation and the Greek Civil War. A Preliminary Report
Speaker: Dimitris Papadimitriou, Lecturer in European Politics, University of Manchester & Stanley J Seeger Visiting Research Fellow, Princeton University


January 24th, 2007

A Sinai Illuminated Manuscript of the Heavenly Ladder: Spiritual Ascents Through Art
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Speaker: Justin Sinaites, Librarian of Saint Catherine's Monastery


December 4th, 2006

The Hellenic Capital Market: Current Situation and Some Thoughts About its Future in Greece and Southeastern Europe
Speaker: Xenofon Avlonitis, Yale World Fellow '06


November 27th, 2006

"Striking the Creative Chord: Greek America as Jazz" and "New Greek American Writing"
Greek Diasporas: Legacies, Prospects, and Challenges. Yiorgos Anagnostou, Ohio State University; Martha Klironomos, San Fransisco State University.
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November 27th, 2006

Greek Diasporas: Legacies, Prospects, and Challenges

Lectures by Martha Klironomos, San Francisco State University and George Anagnostou, Ohio State University Film Screening of Head On, Greek-Australian production, directed by Ana Kokkinos @ 6:30pm
Speaker:


November 6th, 2006

'We Belong to the East:' Greeks and Arabs Through the Ages
Greeks and the East Series. View poster.
Speaker: Dimitri Gutas, Near Eastern Language and Civilization, Yale University


October 23rd, 2006

Toward a Conceptual History of the Greek Diffusion in Pre-modern Balkans: Gabriel's Vita of Patriarch Niphon II (∫1508) and The Political Production of Faith in Early Sixteenth-Century Wallachia
Speaker: Nikos Panou, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University


October 11th, 2006

Kopiaste! Greek Food, Public Health and Policy I: Scientific Evidence on Benefits of the Greek Diet
Welcoming Remarks Tassos Kyriakides, Yale School of Medicine Featuring Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., Founder and President of The Center for Genetics, Nutrition & Health, Washington, D.C. “What is So Special About the Diet of Greece? The Scientific Evidence” View photos. Respondent: Lowell Levin, Yale University Featured food: Greek wine, olives and olive oil.
Speaker: Tassos Kyriakides, Yale School of Medicine; Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., Founder and President of The Center for Genetics, Nutrition & Health, Washington, D.C.; Respondent: Lowell Levin, Yale University


September 19th, 2006

Light at Sinai, Natural, Artificial, Divine
Speaker: Robert Nelson, History of Art, Yale University


September 13th, 2006

Stavros Niarchos Lecture: Greek Tragedy and the National Theater of Greece
The Stavros S. Niarchos Lecture. View photos.
Speaker: Lydia Koniordou, Actor and Director, National Theater of Greece


May 11th, 2006

Yale Hellenic Studies in New York City: Light, Liturgy and Icons at Sinai
Speaker: Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor of Byzantine Art, History of Art Department, Yale University


April 13th, 2006

Greece, Bush, & the War on Terror
Speaker: Dimitris Keridis, The Constantine Karamanlis Associate Professor in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies Fletcher School, Tufts University


March 30th, 2006

Crossing Borders: Literary Explorations in Greece and Beyond: Panos Karnezis
A reading and Conversation with the author
Speaker: Panos Karnezis


March 21st, 2006

Crossing Borders: Literary Explorations in Greece and Beyond: Vassilis Alexakis
Speaker: Vassilis Alexakis, author, Mother Tongue Our Tongue


March 1st, 2006

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and Mediterranean History: From Fernand Braudel to Isaiah Berlin and Beyond
Mediterranean Histories, Conflicts, Encounters, and Transformation in Medieval and Early Modern Times
Speaker: Lucette Valensi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)


February 23rd, 2006

The Greek Historical Novel: A Reading and Discussion
Speaker: Thanassis Valtinos & Nikos Davvetas


February 15th, 2006

Westerners Interpret Byzantium: Evidence from the Literature on the Crusades
Speaker: Evelyne Patlagean (University of Paris X–Nanterre)


February 8th, 2006

Mediterranean HistoriesConflicts, Encounters, and Transformation in Medieval and Early Modern Times: Community and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Speaker: Anthony Molho (European University Institute)


February 2nd, 2006

Crossing Borders: Literary Explorations in Greece and Beyond: From the Margins to the Mainstream

A Conversation and Reading with author Petros Markaris also "Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World" a documentary film by Kalliopi Legaki "A Rebetiko Postlude" Giorgos Hadjimarkou (guitar & voice) Kostas Psaros (bousouki)
Speaker: Petros Markaris, author


January 23rd, 2006

Ethnic Borders and Political Frontiers: The Fascist New Order for Greece and the Balkans. 1941-1943
Speaker: Dr. Lidia Santarelli, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University


December 9th, 2005

Nasty Wolves and Lovely Pigs: Stereotypes of Good and Evil in Children's Literature
Crossing Borders: Literary Explorations in Greece and Beyond: A series of public events focusing on the work of Greek authors whose primary language is not Greek or whose translations partake in an international forum. The series examines how the Greek language and culture are wielded into another linguistic or cultural context and what the aesthetic challenges of such a project might be. View photos and poster.
Speaker: Eugene Trivizas, Children's Literature Author and Professor of Criminology, University of Reading


October 31st, 2005

The Evolution of Greek-Albanian Relations During the 20th Century: A Historical Approach; Film showing "Hostage"
Double Event. Film directed by Constantine Giannaris. View poster.
Speaker: ELias Skoulidas, University of Ioannina


October 28th, 2005

Anafi, Paradise and Prison: 40 years' Research on a Cycladic Island
Speaker: Margaret Kenna, University of Swansea


October 24th, 2005

Small Countries: Diplomacy in the United Nations
Speaker: Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis, Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations


September 29th, 2005

Stavros Niarchos Lecture: Governance, Violence, & Justice in Modern Tragedy
The Stavros S. Niarchos Public Lecture. View poster.
Speaker: Vassilis Lambropoulos, C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan


September 27th, 2005

A conversation with George Alogoskoufis, Minister of Finance, Greece
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Speaker: George Alogoskoufis, Minister of Finance, Greece


April 11th, 2005

Slavery from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Speaker: Youval Rotman


April 4th, 2005

Greece from Postwar to EMU: The Polical Economy of the State-Finance Connection
Speaker: George Pagoulatos


March 21st, 2005

The Past of Ethnic Cleansing
Speaker: Colloquium


February 3rd, 2005

Personal Reminiscences of the Outbreak of the Greek Civil War, December 1944
Speaker: William McNeil


January 27th, 2005

Mass Radicalism and Symbolic Politics:The Rise of the Greek Socialist Party (PASOK)
Speaker: Takis Pappas


December 13th, 2004

The Greek Civil War: Emerging Research Agendas
Symposium in Honor of John Latrides
Speaker: John Latrides, Southern Connecticut State University


November 15th, 2004

Athens: A Case of 'Symptomatic' Ugliness
Speaker: Lina Stergiou, University of Thessaly


October 25th, 2004

Beyond the Finish Line: Athens Olympics 2004
Speaker: George Vecsey, Sports Columnists, The New York Times and Alexander Kitroeff, Historian, Haverford College


October 11th, 2004

Greeks Peddling Salvation in Russia: Reflections on Indulgences in the Seventeenth Century
Speaker: Nikolaos Chrissidis, Assistant Professor of history, Southern Connecticut State University


September 30th, 2004

Stavros Niarchos Lecture: A Continent as Big as China: Hellenism in the Life and Work of George Seferis
The Stavros S. Niarchos Lecture
Speaker: Roderick Beaton, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, Kings College


September 23rd, 2004

Political Discord: Marsilius of Padua’s Views on Civil Strife and Aristotle’s teaching on ‘Stasis
Speaker: Vasileios Syros, Assistant Professor of Late Medieval & Early Modern European History, University of Helsinki


April 15th, 2004

The Historical Experience of the Greek People in Antiquity, Byzantium, Pax Ottomanica, and Modern Times: Continuity & Change
Speaker: Speros Vryonis, Jr., Emeritus Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic civilization and Culture, New York University


April 6th, 2004

Mediterranean Visual Politics & Byzantine History
Speaker: Elena Boeck, History of Art, Yale University


March 29th, 2004

Fiscal Policy in the European Monetary Union: The Case of Greece
Speaker: Loukas Stemitsiotis, Secretariat of the Economic & Financial Committee, European Commission


December 2nd, 2003

Excavating the Past: Christianizing the Roman Amphitheater
Speaker: Kimberly Bowes, Yale University


November 17th, 2003

James Merrill and Kimon Friar: Masks of the Poet
Speaker: Langdon Hammer, English, Yale University


November 6th, 2003

The (Mis)Recognition of Desire in the Poetry of C.P. Cavafy
Speaker: George Syrimis, Hellenic Studies, Yale University


October 14th, 2003

Is Ethics a Science? Two Byzantine Views
Speaker: Katerina Ierodiakonou, National Technical University of Athens


April 5th, 2003

The Mourning After
Speaker: Alvaro De Soto, Under Secretary General and Special Adviser on Cyprus, United Nations


December 5th, 2002

Affections of a Hero: Pavlos Melas in Greek Historiography
Speaker: Anastasia Karakasidou, Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College & Yale University


November 19th, 2002

Byzantium at the Met: Antique Images, Modern Themes
Speaker: Helen Evans, Curator, Early and Byzantine Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art


October 13th, 2002

Late Antiquity: From Man to God. An exhibition at the Benaki Museum, Athens
Speaker: Polymnia Athanassiadi


April 11th, 2002

Resistance, Collaboration, and Civil War: Reflections on the Greek Civil War
Speaker: Stathis Kalyvas


January 31st, 2002

On the Constitution of Enduring Rivalries: The Greek-Turkish Case
Speaker: Philippos K. Savvidis


December 3rd, 2001

Greek-Arabic Bilingualism in the Middle Ages: The Evidence from Greek-Arabic Manuscripts
Speaker: Maria Mavroudi


October 23rd, 2001

Greece and the Elgin Marbles: A Politically Incorrect View
Speaker: Anthony Bryer

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