Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

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Yannis Aesopos is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Patras. He co-curated/co-edited the exhibition/book Landscapes of Modernization: Greek Architecture 1960s and 1990s (Rotterdam, 1999/Athens, 1999; in Greek, Athens 2002) and co-edited The Contemporary (Greek) City (Athens, 2001) and Landscapes of the Intimate (Athens, 1996). Since 1995 he is Principal of Aesopos Architecture in Athens. His work has been exhibited in Athens-Scape (London, 2003), New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Japan (Tokyo, 2002), at the 7th Architecture Biennale (Venice, 2000) and published in Top Young European Architects (Barcelona, 2005) and The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture (London, 2004). He is a founding member of www.athens9.net a think tank for the production of design proposals for contemporary Athens. His research focuses on the post-War mutations of the Greek city and Athens in particular.  [Last Updated 2009]

Charalambos Bakirtzis is Ephor of Byzantine Antiquities, Emeritus, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. He served at the Greek Archaeological Service (1964-2007) in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (1976-1997), and in Thessalonike and Central Macedonia (1964-1973 and 1997-2007). He has been a regular member of the Central Archaeological Council of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (1999-2007), Assistant and Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessalonike (1988-1998), and Director of the Greek Archaeological Expedition at Haghios Georghios, Paphos, Cyprus. He has also served as Vice-President of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics, Vice-President of the Association Internationale pour l'Etudes des Céramiques Médievales en Méditerranée, and consultant on preservation of archaeological and cultural heritage of the A. G. Leventis Foundation. He is the founder and director of the Centre of Contemporary Archaeology, Thessalonike.  [Last Updated 2009]

Julia Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister is associate professor of modern Greek Literature at the University of Cyprus. She received her first degree from the University of Athens and her Ph.D. in modern Greek literature from the University of Vienna. She taught at the University of Bonn (1997-2002) before joining the University of Cyprus in 2002. Her area of specialization is modern Greek Literature, 1700-1833, with an emphasis on the age of Enlightenment. Among her publications are Graecia Mendax (Vienna 2002) and Griechenland, Zypern, Balkan und Levante (Eutin 2006), an annotated bibliography of eighteenth century travel literature on the Ottoman Empire. Her latest book is an edition of an unpublished manuscript of Eugenios Voulgaris, the Account of Crimea (Athens, 2008). She has recently completed a book-length study on Greek freemasons with a German background in the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Her research interests include book history, history of ideas, bibliography, and textual editing.  [Last Updated 2009]

Maria Couroucli, a research fellow at the CNRS (Laboratoire d'Ethnologie), holds a doctoral degree in Social and Historical Anthropology from the École des hautes études en sciences socials, as well as B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research was carried out in Corfu, and was published as Les oliviers du lignage (Paris, 1985), a study which led her to investigate kinship and family, identity and nationalism. Her current research interests include shared religious practices in the post-Ottoman world as well as questions of memory and identity in relation to the Greek civil war (1946-49). She teaches in the post-graduate program of the Departement d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, and is a member of the editorial board of Ethnologie Française.  [Last Updated 2009]

Angelos Delivorrias, art historian and archaeologist, is the Director of the Benaki Museum in Athens. He has studied in Thessaloniki, Athens, Freiburg, Paris, and Tübingen, where he received his Ph.D. degree. He has taught at the University of Athens, lectured extensively in Greece and abroad and published a considerable number of articles, essays, catalogue entries and monographs, including the Architectural Decoration of Classical Temples, the entry ‘Aphrodite’ for the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythological Classicae, and The Parthenon Frieze. His other books and articles cover a broad range of different topics in ancient, post-Byzantine and modern Greek art. For his contributions in different cultural fields he has been honored by the French and Italian governments (respectively, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1999; Comendatore Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta' Italiana, 2008), by the Hellenic Republic (Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, 2000), by the Academy of Athens (silver medal, 2000). A member of the Academia Europea, the German Archaeological Institute and the Greek Archaeological Society, he was awarded the title the International Man of the Year (1996) by the International Biographical Centre.  [Last Updated 2009]

Maria Efthymiou teaches modern Greek history at the University of Athens, with a a focus on the Greeks under Ottoman rule. She studied history at the University of Athens and the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. She also offers a series of world history courses for the wider public, communities, schools and civic organizations all over Greece. Her research interests focus on the economic and social history of the Greeks in Ottoman-ruled lands. Among her publicatiοns are Rhodes et sa region élargie au dix-huitième siècle. Les activités portuaires (1985), Έλληνες και Εβραίοι στα νησιά του Νοτιοανατολικού Αιγαίου. Οι δύσκολες πλευρές μιάς γόνιμης συνύπαρξης (1992) and La société grecque sous les Ottomans: mentalités, économies, identités (forthcoming).  [Last Updated 2009]

George Karamanolis is lecturer in Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies at the University of Crete. He studied Classics in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (B.A. and M.A.), Late Antiquity at King’s College, London (M.A.), and Ancient Philosophy at Oxford (D.Phil.). From February 2003 to October 2004 he was fellow of the Centro per lo studio dei papiri ercolanesi in Naples. His research interests lie especially in Hellenistic philosophy and the philosophy of Late Antiquity. In his doctoral thesis he examines the debate among Platonists in late antiquity concerning the merits of Aristotelian philosophy (published as Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry, Oxford 2006). He is co-editor with Anne Sheppard of Studies on Porphyry (London 2007), and is engaged in the edition of a Herculaneum papyrus of Chrysippus, On Providence. He is currently researching the status of ethics in ancient philosophy.  [Last Updated 2009]

Vasso Kindi holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Athens (1981) and a PhD in Philosophy and History of Science from the National Technical University of Athens (1991). She is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science of the University of Athens. She is the author and co-author respectively of the books in Greek Kuhn and Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigation of the Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Smili, 1995) and Philosophy of Science (2003) and of several articles in philosophy of science, philosophy of history, Wittgenstein and ethics in Greek and international academic journals.  She is the editor-in-chief of the Greek philosophical journal Cogito and a member of the editorial board of the Greek journals Deukalion, Isopoliteia, Noesis.  [Last Updated 2009]

Elias Kolovos is Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete and research associate of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (F.O.R.T.H.), in Crete. He holds Ph.D. in Ottoman History from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His doctoral dissertation on Athonite monks and peasants in the countryside of Salonica under Ottoman administration forms the basis of his book-in-progress. His publications focus on the history of monasteries under Ottoman administration; Ottoman peasant history; and island societies in the Ottoman Empire (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries). He is the author of The Island Society of Andros in the Ottoman Context (Andros, 2005, in Greek) and co-editor of Ottoman Rule and the Balkans 1760-1850 (Rethymno, 2007) and The Ottoman Empire, The Balkans, The Greek Lands: Toward a Social and Economic History (Istanbul, 2007).  [Last Updated 2009]

Irini Leontakianakou holds a curatorial position at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Since earning her Ph.D. in History of Art from the Universite de Paris I - Sorbonne (2000), she has of been teaching a range of undergraduate and master's level courses on the history of art, aesthetics, and methodology, at various academic institutions, including the Technological Institute of Athens and the Hellenic Open University. Her scholarly articles and her dissertation focus on various aspects of post-Byzantine painting. Her recent research interests include the latent evolution and limitations of post-Byzantine icon painting in the Ionian Islands, with special attention to social and ideological aspects of post-Byzantine art.  [Last Updated 2009]

Martin McKinsey teaches modern British and Irish literature at the University of New Hampshire. He has been awarded a Fulbright for Greece, the Greek National Prize for Translation, and the Pavlos Zanas Translation Prize from the Greek Writers Association. His translations from modern Greek include Late Into the Night: The Last Poems of Yannis Ritsos (1995), The Courtyard by Andreas Franghias, The Wavering Scales by Yannis Ritsos (with Scott King, 2006); and Acropolis and Tram: Poems 1937-1977 by Nikos Engonopoulos (2008). He is also the author of Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott (Fairleigh Dickinson University, in press), and is currently at work on a book involving Cavafy’s poetry and prose from 1902-1911.  [Last Updated 2009]

Gerassimos Moschonas is an Associate Professor in Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science and History at Panteio University, Athens. He also teaches at the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels (ULB). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris-2, and is the author of La social-démocratie de 1945 à nos jours (Paris, 1994) and In the Name of Social Democracy, The Great Transformation: 1945 to the Present (New York, 2002). His main areas of research are political parties, Greek politics, European politics, and electoral competition. He is currently working on the relationship between the European Union and Social Democratic Parties.  [Last Updated 2009]

Alexandra Moschovi is a lecturer in photographic theory at the University of Sunderland. She holds an MA in Image and Communication (Goldsmiths College, London) and a PhD degree in the history of art (Courtauld Institute of Art, London). Her main areas of research interest are the politics of the institutionalization of photography as art and the history of Greek photography. She is an independent art critic and curator. Publications and curatorial projects include: I Ellada mesa apo ti Fotografia (ed., Athens, 2007); “The Face of Labour” (exh. cat. Work II, Amsterdam, 2007); “Distance and Proximity” (exh. cat. Work, Malaysia, 2007); “Photography, Photographies and the Photographic: Between Media, Images, Contexts” (exh. cat. The Athens Effect: Photographic Images in Contemporary Art, Milan, 2006 / Paris, 2007); Coincidences and Constructs: Interpretations of the Everyday (exhibition, Thessaloniki, 2004). She was the curator of the 7th International Month of Photography in Athens in 2000. As an associate scholar of the Courtauld Institute of Art, she has been, since 2005, the co-convener of a research-in-progress history of photography seminar. She is also a researcher at the International Photography Research Network and sits on the advisory board of a, the Athens contemporary art review (www.athensbiennial.org).  [Last Updated 2009]

Kalliopi Nikolopoulou teaches Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Previously, she was the Mellon Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University, and visiting faculty at the English Department of the University of Cyprus. Her interests focus on philosophical approaches to European modernity (English, French, and German literatures, particularly poetry and poetics), psychoanalysis, and the relation of ancients to moderns. She has published articles on literature and continental philosophy, on figures such as Homer, Sophocles, Baudelaire, Henry James, Georges Bataille, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, and Adorno and Kant. She is currently working on a book-length project on the reception of tragedy from German idealism to post-structuralist theory.   [Last Updated 2009]

Anastasia Panagiotopoulou is Director of the Archaeological Institute for Peloponnesian Studies of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. She is the former Director of the Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Sparta. She received her B.A. in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens and her D.E.A. from the University of Paris X-Nanterre. As long-time member of the Greek Archaeological Service, she has conducted numerous rescue excavations at Samos, Patras, Laconia, Arcadia, and the Argolid. Since 2004, she has been collaborating with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Arizona in research and systematic excavation at Mt. Lykaion, Arcadia. Currently, she is working on the publication of the Roman mosaics from Sparta and on the corpus of Hellenistic and Roman mosaics of the Peloponnese.  [Last Updated 2009]

Christos J. Paraskevopoulos is Assistant Professor of European Public Policy at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the London School of Economics and has been a Research Fellow at the European Institute (2001-04) and the Hellenic Observatory (2004-05) of the London School of Economics. He has published widely on social capital, institutions, local economic development and E.U. Public Policy in various academic journals and edited volumes in the UK, US and Greece. He is the author of Interpreting Convergence in the European Union: Patterns of Collective Action, Social Learning and Europeanization (Palgrave, 2001) and co-editor (with P. Getimis and N. Rees) of Adapting to EU Multi-level Governance: Regional and Environmental Policies in Cohesion and CEE Countries (Ashgate, 2006). His current academic and research interests include the comparative study of social capital, diversity and public policy, institutions and local economic development and E.U. public policy.   [Last Updated 2009]

Michael Paschalis is Professor of Classics at the University of Crete. He has published articles on Hellenistic and Roman poetry (epic, bucolic, lyric, and didactic), Senecan drama, historiography, the ancient novel, the reception of the Classics, and modern Greek literature. He is the author of Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names (Oxford 1997) and the editor of Rethymnon Classical Studies: Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry (Rethymnon 2002); Roman and Greek Imperial Epic (Herakleion 2005); Pastoral Palimpsests: Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil (Herakleion 2007). He co-organizes RICAN (Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel) and has co-edited the volumes: Space in the Ancient Novel (Groningen 2002), Metaphor and the Ancient Novel (Groningen 2005), and The Greek and the Roman Novel: Parallel Readings (Groningen 2007). He has also co-edited The Reception of Antiquity in the Byzantine and Modern Greek Novel (Athens 2005) and is preparing a book on Cretan Renaissance poetry and an edition of Seferis's translations of André Gide.  [Last Updated 2009]

Mogens Pelt is Associate Professor in International History at Saxo Institute, History Section at the University of Copenhagen, where he also received his Dr. Phil. (2003) and Ph.D. (1993).  Formerly Deputy Director of the Danish Institute at Athens, he was until recently attached to the Commission to Investigate the Danish Security Intelligence Service. Among his major publications are: Tying Greece to the West: American, West-German, Greek Relations, 1945-1974 (Copenhagen, 2006); Los negocios de la Guerra: Armas Nazis para la república española (Barcelona, 2005) with Morten Heiberg; and Tobacco, Arms and Politics, Greece and Germany from World Crisis to World War, 1929-41 (Copenhagen, 1998).  [Last Updated 2009]

Kostis Smyrlis is assistant professor at the History Department, New York University. Working on the middle and late Byzantine period (tenth to fifteenth century), he has focused on the economy, the land regime and the conflict between the Roman tradition and medieval realities. He is the author of La fortune des grands monastères byzantine, fin du Xe-milieu du XIVe siècle (Paris 2006). Since 2001, he has participated in the edition of Archives de l'Athos, an ongoing series which publishes medieval documents kept in the monasteries of Mount Athos; he is co-publisher of Actes de Vatopédi II, de 1330 à 1376 (Paris 2006) and Actes de Vatopédi III, de 1377 à 1500 (forthcoming). His current research interests include the examination of the taxation system and the finances of the late Byzantine state (twelfth to fifteenth century).  [Last Updated 2009]

Vana Tentokali is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she received her doctorate in architecture in 1988. As a research fellow in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983-1986), she studied behavioral science in architecture, in collaboration with the Women's Studies Program. As a postdoctoral visiting scholar, also at M.I.T., her research focused on the deconstruction of space and gender. She has lectured at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Tampere University of Technology (Tampere, Finland), the Master Program of Semiotics of the New Bulgarian University (Sofia), the Sushant School of Art and Architecture and I.P. Estate (New Delhi), and M.I.T. She has also taught the social aspects of architecture at Roger Williams College. Tentokali contributed to the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women on "Built Environment," and her recent research interests focus on the theory and practice of the architectural design process from a "textual" perspective.  [Last Updated 2009]

Alicia Walker is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Washington University in St. Louis. Her primary topics of research include cross-cultural artistic interaction in the medieval world and gender issues in the art and material culture of Byzantium. She received her Ph.D. (2004) and M.A. (1998) from Harvard University, where she specialized in Byzantine and medieval Islamic art and architecture, and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College (1994). She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University (2004-2006) and has held numerous research awards including a Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship (2004) and a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant (2003). Alicia Walker has contributed to several museum and exhibition catalogues and has published articles in scholarly journals including The Art Bulletin and Gesta (forthcoming, 2009). She is also the co-editor of a collection of essays, Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art (forthcoming, Ashgate 2009). She is currently completing a book-length study on the impact of foreign artistic styles and iconography on the middle Byzantine imperial image.  [Last Updated 2009]

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