PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

First International Graduate Student Conference

MODERN GREEK LITERATURE:
BORDERS, TRANSLATIONS, IDENTITIES

Friday May 8, 2009

Room 103, Scheide Caldwell House

(poster)

9:00am   WELCOME: Dimitri H. Gondicas (Princeton University)

SESSION 1: BORDERS

CHAIR: Constanze Güthenke (Princeton University)

Foteini Lika (University of Cambridge)
"When Epic Juan meets Donna Joan: Byron, Roidis and the All-Encompassing Romantic Genre"
Bio - Abstract

Eleonora Vratskidou (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
"Fictional Representations of the Visual Artist: The Emergence of a New Literary Genre in 19th Century Greece"
Bio - Abstract

Maria Polychrona (University of Cyprus)
"Mirroring Hierarchies: Literary Representations of the Criminal Underworld"
Bio - Abstract

RESPONDENT: Kostas Yiavis (Princeton University)

12:00 LUNCH

1:15pm SESSION 2: TRANSLATIONS

CHAIR: Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University)

Maria Boletsi (Leiden University)
"Another 'kind of solution?' C. P. Cavafy's 'Waiting for the Barbarians' and its Visual Restagings"
Bio - Abstract

Karen Emmerich (Columbia University)
"'Impossible Things': Editing and Translating C. P. Cavafy's Unfinished Poems"
Bio - Abstract

RESPONDENT: Polina Tambakaki (Princeton University)

3:30pm SESSION 3: IDENTITIES

CHAIR:  Effie Rentzou (Princeton University)

Stratos Myrogiannis (University of Cambridge)
"Naming the Void: The Invention of Byzantium in the Greek Enlightenment"
Bio - Abstract

Ipek Celik (New York University)
"The Economy of Female Bodies in Papadiamantis's The Murderess"
Bio - Abstract

Eirini Kotsovili (University of Oxford)
"Deconstructing the Notions of Identity and Gender in Galanaki's Eleni, or Nobody"
Bio - Abstract

RESPONDENT: Nikos Panou (Princeton University)

Program Committee:

Dimitri H. Gondicas (Classics and Hellenic Studies)
Constanze Güthenke (Classics and Hellenic Studies)
Alexander Nehamas (Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Hellenic Studies)
Nikos Panou (Hellenic Studies)
Effie Rentzou (French & Italian and Hellenic Studies)
Polina Tambakaki (Hellenic Studies)
Kostas Yiavis (Hellenic Studies)

Secretary to the Committee:
Katerina Stergiopoulou (Comparative Literature and Hellenic Studies)

Last updated 5/11/09