Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

The Fourteenth Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: The Meeting of East and West in Medieval Monasticism in Sicily and Southern Italy
Speaker:  Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study
Date:  November 12, 2009

The Thirteenth Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: Conceptualizing Context: Beijing-Athens, From Factory 798 to the New Acropolis Museum
Speaker: Bernard Tschumi, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University; Architect, New York, Paris
Date: February 8, 2006

The Twelfth Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: From the Icon to Aniconism, Islam and the Image
Speaker: Oleg Grabar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Date: March 25, 2003

The Eleventh Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: “Hellenize it”: Poets, Poems, Predicaments in Greece and Ireland
Speaker: Seamus Heaney, Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet, Harvard University
Date: April 18, 2002

The Tenth Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: Who Owns the Past? Greece, England, Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures
Speaker: David Rudenstine, Dr. Herman George and Kate Kaiser Professor of Constitutional Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Date: April 24, 2001

The Ninth Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: Adjusting to the Complex Reality of European Union and the Balkans: The Greek Experience in the 1990s
Speaker: Loukas Tsoukalis, London School of Economics
Date: November 5, 1999

The Eighth Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: The Art and Architecture of Byzantium
Speaker: Lord John Julius Norwich, 2nd Viscount Norwich
Date: November 3, 1997

The Seventh Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: The New Cafavy: Unfinished Poems 1918-1932
Speaker: Glen W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Date: December 6, 1995

The Sixth Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: Idols and Icons in Early Byzantium
Speaker: Dr. Gary Vikan (*76), Director, Walters Art Gallery
Date: April 24, 1995

The Fifth Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: The Magic of Greek Wondertales: Spinning Yarns and Weaving Pictures
Speaker: Margaret Alexiou, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Harvard University
Date: November 10, 1992

The Fourth Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: A Couch for Luxury and Damned Incest: Imperial Mores and Their Critic in Eleventh Century Byzantium
Speaker: Angeliki Laiou, Professor of Byzantine History, Harvard University; Director Dumbarton Oaks
Date: December 12, 1991

The Third Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: Byzantium: Its Modern Neighbors and Their Ethnogenetic Theories
Speaker: Speros Vyronis, Jr., Director, Alexander S. Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies, New York University
Date: April 8, 1991

The Second Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: The Name of the Greeks
Speaker: W.R. Connor, Director, National Humanities Center
Date: December 4, 1990

The First Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Title: Homeric Poetry and the Modern Greek Folk Song
Speaker: Gregory Sifakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Date: April 16, 1990