Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

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Grigory Benevich is Professor of Church History and Doctrine at the Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, St. Petersburg, and at the St. Petersburg Institute of Religion and Philosophy. He has published several volumes in the "Byzantine Philosophy" series (http://byz-phil.narod.ru) that he initiated in 2007. He participates in the International Project "Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture" sponsored by The Theological School, Drew University. Grigory Benevich is an editor of several volumes of the Russian series. His publications include: (in collaboration with Arcadi Choufrine) Problem Issues in Eastern Orthodox Dogmatic Theology (St. Petersburg: 2004) and "Maximus the Confessor's Affair" in Maximus the Confessor: Polemics with Origenism and Monoenergism (St Petersburg: 2007). P. 13-153. He is an editor of the Anthology of Eastern Christian Theological Thought: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy (St. Petersburg: 2009) and also is an editor and author of an introduction and commentaries of the Russian translation of Maximus the Confessor's Quaestiones et Dubia (Moscow-Athos: 2010).

Emmanuel Karagiannis is Assistant Professor of Russian and post-Soviet Politics at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. He also teaches courses at the Supreme Joint War College of Hellenic Armed Forces and the Hellenic National Defense College. He has taught International Relations in Great Britain, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan. He received his B.A in European Community Studies from London South Bank University and an M.A in International Security Studies from the University of Reading. He obtained his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Hull, with a dissertation on the Geopolitics of Oil Transportation in the Caucasus Region. In 2005 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict and in 2008 he was visiting scholar at the Yale University Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies. His books include Energy and Security in the Caucasus (New York & London: Routledge, 2002) and Political Islam in Central Asia (New York & London: Routledge, 2010). He has published extensively on energy geopolitics and the political Islam in the former USSR and the Middle East. He serves on the editorial boards of United States and British scholarly journals and is a member of various professional organizations.

Vangelis Kechriotis is an assistant professor in the Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, where he is also sponsored by the Onassis Foundation. He earned his Ph.D. in Turkish Studies, University of Leiden (2005). His research interests focus on late Ottoman imperial ideology; political and cultural history, Christians and Jewish communities, and nationalism in the Balkans.  Together with Ahmet Ersoy and Maciej Gorny, he is the co-editor of Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945): Texts and Commentaries. Vol. 3: Modernism, Part I. The creation of the nation state; Part II. Representations of national culture (Budapest: CEU Press, 2010); with Lorans Tanatar-Baruch, co-editor of the volume Economy and Society on both shores of the Aegean (Athens, ALPHA Bank Economic History series: 2010); and with Malte Fuhrmann, co-editor of the special issue "The Late Ottoman Port Cities and Their Inhabitants: Subjectivity, Urbanity, and Conflicting Orders”, Mediterranean Historical Review, vol. 24/ 2, December 2009.

George T. Mavrogordatos is Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens, where he has been teaching since 1982. He has also taught at Tufts University, the University of Salzburg, the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on contemporary Greek politics and on modern Greek history, and received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association for his book Stillborn Republic: Social Coalitions and Party Strategies in Greece, 1922-1936.

Nikolas Papadimitriou is a Curator at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens. He graduated from the University of Athens (1993) and received his Ph.D. in Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Birmingham (1999). He taught courses on Aegean prehistory at the University of Birmingham (2000) and worked as a consultant on cultural affairs at the Ministry of the Aegean (2001-02). At the Museum of Cycladic Art since 2003, he has curated several archaeological exhibitions, organized the museum website (www.cycladic.gr), and published a Brief Guide to the collections. His research interests include Mycenaean state-formation, theoretical approaches to funerary customs, the prehistory of Attica, Mediterranean interconnections in the 2nd millennium B.C. and Bronze Age technologies. He has participated in excavations in Greece, England and Ireland. In 2000 he received the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies by the Institute of Classical Studies, London. Currently he is exploring the importance of funeral rites for the creation of collective memories and the shaping of group identities in prehistoric Aegean societies.

Leena Mari Peltomaa Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Classical Greek Philology, and Adjunct Professor of Orthodox Hymnography at the former University of Joensuu) is University Professor in the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, where her primary research focuses on the Byzantine cult of Mary, Marian hymnography and Mariology. She is also the founder of the International Early Mariology Project housed at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane (www.cecs.acu.edu.au/mariologyproject.htm).  While working on her first book, The Image of the Virgin Mary in the Akathistos Hymn (E. J. Brill Academic Publishers 2001), she confronted a scholarly consensus on the origins of the cult of Mary that she found unsatisfactory and incomplete. This encounter inspired her to pursue broader theoretical approaches (e.g., “historical logotherapy” and survival psychology) and to consider additional methodologies (e.g., gender, and structural analysis) which seemed to offer useful experimental supplements for a more complete analysis of the cult of Mary in the Byzantine context. She is currently writing a new scholarly monograph devoted on Mary’s function as the intercessor of Byzantium.

Louis Ruprecht, Jr. is the inaugural occupant of the William M. Suttles Chair in Religious Studies at the Georgia State University. He has served visiting appointments at a number of institutions including Barnard College, Columbia University, Duke University, Emory University, the Ionian University of Corfu, and Princeton University, as well as permanent positions at Mercer University and the Claremont School of Theology and Graduate University. The author of six previous books, as well as the forthcoming J. J. Winckelmann and the Vatican’s First Profane Museum (Palgrave 2011), Ruprecht’s work focuses on the comparative study of modern appropriations of Classical literature and culture.

Ioanna Sitaridou is Lecturer in Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge, since 2004. Prior to her Cambridge appointment she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Research Centre on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg, investigating word order in Old Romance, the licensing of subjects in Old French and the loss of null subjects in the history of French due to contact with Germanic. She received her Ph.D. in Romance linguistics at the University of Manchester (2002). Her doctoral dissertation is entitled “The synchrony and the diachrony of Romance infinitives with nominative subjects.” She also holds an M.A. in Linguistics from University College London (1998) and a B.A. in French Philology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1997). Her main areas of research are synchronic and diachronic syntax of the Romance languages, but also of Greek varieties such as Pontic and Cypriot Greek. The issues she investigates are the relationship between syntactic change and acquisition, language contact, and micro-variation. 

George Varsos teaches literary translation and theory at the University of Athens, where he is Assistant Professor, Department of French Language and Literature. He holds a parallel appointment at the Greek Open University, European Studies Programme. He has studied Comparative Literature at the Universities of Montreal and Geneva as well as Political Sociology at the Universities of Athens and Paris I. His Ph.D. dissertation (Geneva, 2002) discusses aspects of the philological approach to the history of literary texts: theoretical premises and implications, especially with respect to translation. He has worked and published on the theory and history of literature and translation with emphasis on poetry and a particular interest in Walter Benjamin. He is co-editor (with Valeria Wagner) of the issue on Disappearance of the journal Intermédialités (University of Montreal, 2008) and is the author of a textbook on European literary studies (History of European Literature, 6th to 18th century, Greek Open University, 2009). He has translated a variety of texts into Greek: literature (Ezra Pound, Walter Pater, Vladimir Nabokov) and theory (Fredric Jameson, Paul de Man).

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