PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies
Bernard Tschumi (Professor of Architecture, Columbia University, Architect, New York, Paris)
Co-sponsored by the School of Architecture
Place: Betts Auditorium
Poster
Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts (1981) and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983, he won the prestigious competition to design the Parc de la Villette, a 125-acre, $900-million public park containing dramatic buildings, walkways, bridges, and gardens at the northeast edge of Paris. He is currently building the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, the Athletic Center at the University of Cincinnati, as well as a 6000 seat concert hall in Limoges, a museum near Dijon and a residential tower in New York City. He has been Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York from 1988 to 2003. His latest book is Event Cities 3, published by the MIT Press in 2005.
Slobodan Ćurčić (Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)
106 McCormick Hall
One of the chief characteristics of Byzantine art is the expression of things spiritual by visual means. Icons -- the quintessential images in Byzantine art as is well known, provided the faithful the means of communicating with the invisible and intangible 'other world.' In this presentation I will argue that Byzantine artists and architects used a wide range of hitherto unrecognized two- and three-dimensional symbols as a means of alluding to the Divine Light. This seemingly paradoxical notion is entirely consistent with the primary Byzantine artistic objective of making the 'invisible' and the 'incircumscribable' accessible and tangible to the humans by relying on strictly material devices.
Marinos Pourgouris (Brown University)
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Liana Giannakopoulou (King's College London)
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Effie Rentzou (Princeton University)
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Peter Jeffreys (Suffolk University)
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Department of Comparative Literature
John F. Matthews (Yale University)
1:30-4:30PM
211 Dickinson Hall
Reception to follow
Reading packets will be available in the Departments of History and Classics or from Uriel Simonsohn.
Vincent M|ller (American College of Thessaloniki; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Respondent: Stanley N. Katz (Woodrow Wilson School)
Room 103, Scheide Caldwell House, Princeton University
The Greek Constitution stipulates that universities must be public and tuition-free. However, a number of educational institutions operate in Greece, claiming to be universities: institutions that are accredited to award university degrees from the U.S., as well as institutions that award degrees of cooperating universities from the U.K. and the U.S. All of these, whether they are for profit or not, charge fees. The Greek state operates a system of recognition for foreign university degrees and does not recognize foreign degrees if studies were fully or partially carried out in Greece, thereby probably contradicting European Union law. Accordingly, private university degrees are not regulated and are not recognized by the Greek state, though they are recognized by almost all universities elsewhere. A resolution to this schizophrenic situation is desired by all parties. What form should it take? [Relevant links and information: http://www.sophistes.de.]
Vincent C. Müller (vmuller@princeton.edu) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American College of Thessaloniki, formerly chair of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences. He studied Philosophy, Linguistics, and Modern History at the Universities of Marburg, Hamburg, London (King's College), and Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Hamburg in 1999 with a thesis on "Realism and Reference." He has published papers on the philosophy of language (particularly realism and the work of Hilary Putnam), the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of computing. He has been working for the Center for Greek Language in Thessaloniki on several Greek dictionary projects (Kriaras, Georgakas) and a concordance (Seferis). He is currently preparing a book on Artificial Intelligence: The Basic Problems.
