PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

Second International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies

Modern Greek History, Culture and Society:
Space, Ethnicity, Violence, Mediation

Friday May 7, 2010

Room 103, Scheide Caldwell House

(poster)

9:00 a.m.              Welcome:  Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University)

9:10 a.m.              SESSION 1:  SPACE

Chair:    Elizabeth Davis (Princeton University)

Elena Mamoulaki (National Technical University of Athens)
“The Spatial Handling of the Memory of Exile on Icaria Island”
Bio - Abstract

Tracey Rosen (University of Chicago)
“Chinatown” in a “Fenceless Vineyard” (Xefrago Ambeli):  Making Space and Place in the Heart of Athens”
Bio - Abstract

RESPONDENT:   Katerina Rozakou (Princeton University)

11:15 a.m.           SESSION 2:  ETHNICITY

Chair:    Molly Greene (Princeton University)

Devin Naar (Stanford University)
“’Stones That Speak’:  Debating the Jewish Cemetery of Salonica and the Articulation of ‘Hellenic Judaism’, 1917-1942”
Bio - Abstract

Dimitrios Varvaritis (King’s College London)
“Between a Rock and Hard Place:  Jews in the Midst of the Greek War of Independence”
Bio - Abstract

RESPONDENT:   Alexis Rappas (Princeton University)

1:00 p.m. --         Lunch

2:15 p.m.             SESSION 3:  VIOLENCE

Chair:    Nikos Panou (Princeton University)

Stefan Papaioannou (University of Maryland)
“Southeastern European Violence: Armed Force and Non-combatants in Macedonia, 1912-1918”
Bio - Abstract

Dimitrios Antoniou (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
“Defining and Measuring Crime and Violence in Early Othonian Greece:  A Preliminary Assessment”
Bio - Abstract

RESPONDENT:   Savvas Kyriakidis (Princeton University)

4:15 p.m.             SESSION 4:  MEDIATION

Chair:    Andreas Kalyvas (New School for Social Research/Princeton University)

Maria Kyriakidou (London School of Economics)
“Watching the World Through the National Lens: Mediated Discourses of Distant Suffering in Greece”
Bio - Abstract

Toby Lee (Harvard University)
“Festival, City, State:  Negotiating Cultural Citizenship in the Space of the Thessaloniki Film Festival”
Bio - Abstract

RESPONDENT:       Thanassis Nikolentzos (Princeton University)

6:30 p.m.  --        Reception

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