Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Pictures from the Program in Hellenic Studies Greek Easter Celebration - May 1, 2005.

Workshop Details are available.

Riki Van Boeschoten (University of Thessaly; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
"From 'Janissaries' to 'Hooligans': Refugee Children in Hungary"
and
Loring Danforth (Bates College)
"We Came Back Like Angels and Found Ourselves in Hell"
Respondent: Carol Greenhouse (Department of Anthropology)

Co-sponsored by the Deparment of Anthropology
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103

One of the most controversial issues of the Greek Civil War was the evacuation of about 25,000 children by the partisans from Northern Greece to Eastern Europe. The Greek government characterized the operation as "genocide" and a "crime against humanity" and brought the matter before the United Nations, demanding immediate repatriation of these allegedly "abducted" children. Loring Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten have been researching this issue since 1998, focusing in particular on the lived experiences of these refugee children. They have visited them in their new homes in Greece, Eastern Europe or Canada and collected their life stories. These memories of displacement, life in Eastern Europe and return deconstruct in multiple ways mainstream discourses on Cold War cleavages or the "national order of things." Van Boeschoten's paper will focus on experiences in exile, while Danforth's paper will focus on repatriation.

Riki Van Boeschoten teaches social anthropology and oral history in the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece. She is the director of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology and the oral history archive recently set up in the department, and supervises a research project on gender and migration. She is the author of four books and many articles concerning modern Balkan history and anthropology. The main focus of her work is on social memory, the anthropology of violence, ethnicity, and migration.  [Last Updated 2005]

Loring Danforth is Professor of Anthropology at Bates College. He received his doctoral degree from Princeton. His publications include Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking, The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, and numerous articles. His research interests are ethnicity and nationalism with regard to the construction of identity and the invention of tradition, globalization, diasporas, and the formation of transnational communities.  [Last Updated 2005]

Dickinson Hall, Room 211
Program in Hellenic Studies and Group for the Study of Late Antiquity

9:30 Welcome
Peter Brown and Yannis Papadoyannakis

• 10:00 Hervi Inglebert (University of Paris X: Nanterre)
  "Encyclopedisation of Cultures. Reshaping Knowledge in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity"
• 11:00 Heinrich von Staden (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  "Appropriation and Transformation: Migrations of Form, Theory, and Language in the Medicine of Late Antiquity"
• 12:00 Lunch break
• 1:30 Christian Wildberg (Classics Department, Princeton University)
  "The Philosophical Papyrus PSI XIV 1400"
• 2:30 Yannis Papadoyannakis (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  "The Structure of Learning in Late Antique and Byzantine erotapokriseis"
• 3:30 Paolo Odorico (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  "L' encyclopedisme ` Byzance: une bonte ` idies?"
• 4:30 Conclusion/Discussion
  Peter Brown

McAlpin Rehearsal Hall, Woolworth Center

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Main Exhibition Gallery in Firestone Library

An exhibition celebrating twenty-five years of the Program in Hellenic Studies, supported by the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund at Princeton University. More information.

Edmund Keeley reading from his translations of modern Greek poets.
Betts Auditorium

Main Exhibition Gallery in Firestone Library

An exhibition celebrating twenty-five years of the Program in Hellenic Studies, supported by the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund at Princeton University.
More information.

Reception in the Main Exhibition Gallery
5:00 p.m. Firestone Library