Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Princeton University Hellenic Studies Events: Fall 2016


Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies



Monday, October 17, 4:30 – 7:00 p.m., McCormick 101
French and Italian Film Screening: “Filming at the Borders: Migrating to Europe Today,” (Stop Over),” Directed by Kaveh Bakhitiari

Wednesday, October 19, 6:00 p.m.
Lecture: Mark Janse (Ghent University)
“Cappadocian Greek in the Social Media Era”

Wednesday, October 26, 12:15-1:20 p.m., Robertson 02
European Union Program:  “Refugees at Europe’s Borders: Security, Law, Humanitarianism”
Tugba Basaran (Centre d’Etudes sur les Conflits, Liberté et Sécurité, Paris) 
Supported by The Paul Sarbanes ’54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service

Wednesday, November 9, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture:  Dina Boero, Hellenic Studies and Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity Postdoctoral Research Fellow
“Symeon and the Making of a Monk: Stylitism and Monasticism in Late Antique Syria”

Thursday, November 10, 12:15-1:20 p.m., Robertson 015
European Union Program: “Economic Governance in Europe: Comparative Paradoxes and Constitutional Challenges” Federico Fabbrini (Dublin City University) 
Supported by The Paul Sarbanes ’54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service

Friday, November 11, 1:30 p.m.
Workshop:  Spyridon Rangos (University of Patras)
"Aristotle and Plato on Wonder and Philosophical Perplexity"

Sunday, November 13, 4:00 p.m., Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall
Concert: "Musical Crossroads: Greek Melodies Across Cultures"

Tuesday, November 15, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture:  Foteini Dimirouli, Mary Seeger O’Boyle Postdoctoral Research Fellow
“Modernist Agendas: C.P. Cavafy in E.M. Forster's Writings”

Thursday, November 17, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Aaron Burr 219
European Union Program: “What is Populism?” A Book Talk, Jan-Werner Mueller (Princeton)
Supported by The Paul Sarbanes ’54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service

Friday, November 18, 1:30 p.m.
Workshop:  Panos Dragonas (University of Patras)
“Biopolitics of Domesticity in Modern Athens”

Monday, November 21, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture:  Gabriel Radle, Mary Seeger O’Boyle Postdoctoral Research Fellow
“Marrying in Byzantium: Liturgical Rites and Folk Customs in the Medieval Eastern
Mediterranean”

Tuesday, November 29, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture: Michalis Sotiropoulos, Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellow
“The Intellectual Origins of the Greek State: Liberalism(s) and Reforms During the 19th Century (1830-1880)”

Friday, December 2, 1:30 p.m.
Workshop:  Maria Boletsi (Leiden University)
“Wall-Writings, Middle Voice, and Crisis Rhetoric in Present-day Greece”

Tuesday, December 6, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture: Tracey Rosen, Ted and Elaine Athanassiades Postdoctoral Research Fellow
“«Giname Kinezoi» (We’ve Become Chinese):  Exploring the Local Dynamics of Greek-Chinese Trade in «Crisis» Greece”

Wednesday, December 7, 4:30 p.m.
Workshop: Eugenia Palieraki (University of Cergy-Pontoise)
“Patriots and Internationalists. The 'Long Sixties' Greek Left, the Cyprus question and the Latin American Revolutions”

Friday, December 9, 1:30 p.m.
Workshop:  Stefania Strouza, Independent Artist
“To a Certain Degree Sacredness is in the Eye of the Beholder”

Monday, December 12, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture:  Angela Falcetta, Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellow
“On the Role of Religion in Diaspora: the ‘Greek Experience’ of Catholic Power in the Eighteenth-Century Italy”


Some titles are tentative.  Announcement on individual events will be forthcoming.
All events will be held in Scheide Caldwell House Seminar Room 103, unless otherwise noted.


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