Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies – calendar94-95

Calendar of Events, 1994-1995

FALL 1994

September-October	Exhibition Title: “Byzantine Cyprus: Photographs of George Seferis”
October 21	Modern Greek Seminar David Roessel (Princeton University Title: “’Watching History Plagiarizing Itself’: History and Time in the Typescript of Durrell’s Reflections on Marine Venus”
October 21	Modern Greek Seminar Gonda Van Steen (Princeton University) Title: “’Intertextuality’ on the Modern Greek Stage: Dramatic Revivals of Aristophanes; Comedies”
November-December	Exhibition Title: “Greeks in the Ottoman Empire: a Selection of Prints from the Benaki Museum”
November 2	Modern Greek Seminar Anna Stavrakopoulou (New York University) Title: “The Life of Times of Popular Performing Artists: Oral Autobiographies of Karaghiozis Players”
November 9	Modern Greek Seminar Nanos Valaoritis (San Francisco State University) Title: “Modern Greek Literature After the Second World War”
November 9	Reading Nanos Valaoritis (San Francisco State University) Title: “Poems and Translations”
November 11-12	Conference Title: “The Business of Change: Merchants and the Fall of Constantinople”
November 16	Modern Greek Seminar John Chioles (NYU/University of Athens) Title: “Mythistoricus: The Measure of Story-Telling in the Modern Greek Novel”
November 22	Reading John Chioles (NYU/University of Athens) Title: “Short Stories and Translations”
November 30	Modern Greek Seminar Gerasimos Augustinos (University of South Carolina) Title: Nationalism, Modernity, and Cultural Politics in Greece”
December 7	Byzantine Seminar Slobodan Ćurčić (Princeton University) Title: “Architecture and Security in an Age of Crises: Balkan Architecture in the 14^th and 15^th Centuries”
December 8	Lecture Antonia Moropoulou (National Technical University, Athens) Title: “Historical Mortar Technologies in the Mediterranean and the Middle East”

SPRING 1995

January-February	Exhibition Title: "A Mediterranean Portfolio: Prints by Mary Gehr”
February 22	Modern Greek Seminar Elizabeth Theokritoff Title: Re-creating the Authentic Voice: Some Tricks and Obstacles in Translating Greek”
February 27	Lecture Polymnia Athanassiadi (University of Athens) Title: “Why Late Antiquity”
March-May	Exhibition Title: “Monemvasia: Drawings and Water Colors by Haris Kalligas”
March 8	Modern Greek Seminar Haris Kalligas (Gennadius Library) Title: “Past and Present in Monemvasia: History and Architecture”
March 22	Modern Greek Seminar Roderick Beaton (King’s College) Title: “Greek Literature of the Last Two Centuries”
March 24	Byzantine Seminar Roderick Beaton (King’s College) Title: “The Byzantine Revival of the Ancient Greek Novel”
March 27	Lecture & Demonstration Evangelos Chrysos (University of Ioannina) Title: “Sophia: An Electronic Library of Byzantine History and Art”
March 28	Lecture Michael Djordjevitch (Princeton University) Title: “Approaching the Acropolis”
March 30	Byzantine Seminar Haris Kalligas (Gennadius Library) Title: “The Byzantine and Later Fortifications in the Peloponnese and Monemvasia”
March 31	Byzantine Seminar Marie Theres Fögen (Max Flanck Institute) Title: “Legal Practices in Byzantium”
April	Lecture Patricia Storace Title: “Chronicle of a Year in Greece”
April 6	Lecture Tasos Tanoulas (Acropolis Ephoreia) Title: “Greek Concepts of Space as Reflected in Ancient Greek Architecture”
April 11	Lecture Demosthenes Giraud (Acropolis Ephoreia) Title: “The Hadrianic Propylaia at Eleusis”
April 14	Byzantine Seminar Marc Lauxtermann (Princeton University) Title: “The Rediscovery of the Epigram in the ‘Macedonian Renaissance’”
April 15	Modern Greek Seminar Demosthenes Tambakis (Princeton University) Title: “Economic Institutions and Political Reality: The Bank of Greece and European Monetary Union”
April 18	Lecture Demosthenes Giraud (Acropolis Ephoreia) Title: “Proposals for the New Restoration of the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis”
April 19	Lecture Demosthenes Giraud (Acropolis Ephoreia) Title: “Sidelights on the History of the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis”
April 20	Lecture Paul Kalligas Title: “Logos and Sensible Objects in Plotinus”
April 21	Modern Greek Seminar Walter Feldman (University of Pennsylvania) Title: “Musical Interaction of the Greek and Ottomans in the Eighteenth Century”
April 24	Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture Gary Vikan (Walters Art Gallery) Title: “Idols and Icons in Early Byzantium”
April 26	Modern Greek Seminar Christine Boyer (Princeton University) Title: “Inventing Athens: an Architectural Ideal of the Nineteenth Century”
May 3	Byzantine Seminar Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University) Title: “Gift Exchange Between Byzantium and Islam in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries”
May 8	Reading Rachel Hadas (Rutgers University) Title: “Poems and Translations”