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Hellenic Studies in New York City Series

May 8th, 2009

The Challenge of Reform in Greece, 1974-2009 Assessment & Prospects International Conference

Despite constant lip-service to reform in the public discourse, and several actual waves of reform since 1974, there has been very little produced by way of systematic scholarly assessment of Greece’s reform experience over the last nearly 35 years. This conference aims to provide a platform to a number of scholars and prominent policy makers to discuss the Greek reform experience and assess its prospects across most sectors of socioeconomic life. The conference will comprise two main events. First, an academic conference, to be held at Yale University, on 8-9 May 2009, and second, a policy-making conference, to be held in Athensat a future date. The Yale conference will be scholarly in orientation, seeking to advance our empirical and theoretical understanding of the Greek reform experience. The Athens conference will include policy makers (former and current), academics, and public intellectuals, aiming to assess the reform experience in Greece, suggest new ways ahead, and estimate the reform potential. May 8-9, 2009

Speaker: Organized by: Stathis Kalyvas, Professor, Yale University; George Pagoulatos, Associate Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; Haridimos Tsoukas, Professor ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece & University of Warwick, UK

March 20th, 2009

Learning Me Your Language Conference

Teaching Latin and Greek as Second Languages from Antiquity to the Present Day The graduate students of the Yale University departments of Classics and History are pleased to announce an upcoming conference on the teaching of Latin and Greek from antiquity to the present day, to be held at Yale on Friday and Saturday, March 20-21, 2009. Entitled Learning Me Your Language - a phrase borrowed from Caliban's rant against Prospero's teaching in The Tempest - this conference will encompass both cultural and linguistic issues surrounding the acquisition of Greek and Latin as second languages. Topics include: the cultural pressures to which education in classical languages responded, the types of educational institutions at which Greek and Latin were taught, the goals of school curricula, the experience of pupils and students, pedagogical methods, the impact of learning the classical languages on use of the first language, and bilingualism in Latin or Greek and another language. The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Françoise Waquet, director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and author of the seminal book Le latin ou l'empire d'un signe (1998; English transl., 2001). Other speakers - all faculty - come from the United Kingdom, Canada and the US, and hail from a variety of disciplines such as Classics, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, History, and Modern Languages.

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June 5th, 2008

Holocaust as Local History: Past and Present of a Complex Relation

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October 18th, 2007

Modern Greek Studies Symposium

The Hellenic Studies Program at Yale University, with the collaboration of local academics, will host the twentieth biannual symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA), which will take place at the Omni Hotel in New Haven. This is the first time that Connecticut has been selected to host such an event. The symposium attracts academics from North America, other European countries and Greece, Cyprus and even as far as Australia. At any given symposium, a total of 60 people make presentations and close to 20 panels are organized. NOTE: REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THE SYMPOSIUM'S PANELS

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December 6th, 2006

Kopiaste! Greek Food Fest

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October 16th, 2006

The Paths of the Past: A Symposium on Conflict and Collective Memory

Presentations "The History and Memory of the Greek Civil War in Post-War Greece" Giorgos Antoniou, European University Institute, Florence "The Transformation of Collective Memories of Conflicts - The Israeli Case" Rafi Nets, Yale University & University of Tel Aviv "The Collective Memory of Communism in Eastern Europe" Monica Nalepa, Harvard & Rice Universities "The Collective Memory of Greek-Turkish Conflicts in Greece and Turkey" Dimitris Kastritsis, Yale University "The Collective Memory of the Indian Partition" Mridu Rai, Yale University Comments Roman David, Yale University Chair Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University

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May 26th, 2006

War and Identities: Macedonia (1904-1908), Occupation & Civil War (1941-1949), Cyprus (1955-1959; 1963-1974)

Through May 17, 2006

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April 28th, 2006

New Elites, Old Regimes: Trajectories of Imperial Change, 1700-1850

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April 30th, 2004

Conference. Olympic Games: Past and Present

Featuring Theodore Bromund, Yale University, "From Athens to Athens: The Ambiguous History of American Involvement in the Olympic Games;" Alexander Kitroeff, Haverford College, "Wrestling with the Ancients: How Athens Lost the 1996 Centenary Games and Won the 2004 Olympics;" and David Young, University of Florida, "Origin and Authenticity of the Modern Olympics: How Athens 1859 led to Athens 2004."