PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Eighth International Graduate Student Conference

IN MODERN GREEK STUDIES

“Works in Progress: New Approaches”

Friday, May 6, 2016
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Poster

9:45 a.m.         WELCOME:  Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University)

10:00 a.m.       PANEL I: CULTURAL IDENTITIES

Chair:              Teresa Shawcross (Princeton University)

Lorenzo Ciolfi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) Abstract and Bio
“John III Vatatzes Redivivus: Creating One of the Roots of Modern Greek Identity”

Respondent:   Luisa Andriollo (Princeton University)

Anna Gialdini (University of the Arts London) Abstract and Bio
“Producing and Consuming Greek Books in Renaissance Italy and in France: A Comparative Analysis of Collecting Practices and Cultural Identities”

Respondent:  Margarita Voulgaropoulou (Princeton University)

12:00 p.m.       LUNCH

1:30 p.m.         PANEL II: HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS

Chairs:             Karen Emmerich (Princeton University), Molly Greene (Princeton University)

Calliopi Dourou (Harvard University) Abstract and Bio
“The Longs and Shorts of an Emergent Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes’s 1526 Iliad and the Unprosodic New Trojans”

Respondent:  Carlotta Santini (Princeton University)

William Stroebel (University of Michigan) Abstract and Bio
“Testimonial Fiction of the Greco-Turkish War: Pluralizing the Practice of Truth-Telling”

Respondent:  Vladimir Boskovic (Princeton University)

3:30 p.m.         COFFEE BREAK

4:00 p.m.         PANEL III:  DIASPORAS & DISPLACEMENT

Chair:              Jamie Reuland (Princeton University), Elizabeth Davis (Princeton University)

Panayotis League (Harvard University) Abstract and Bio
“Echoes of the Great Catastrophe:  Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora”

Respondent: Vladimir Boskovic (Princeton University)

Apostolos Andrikopoulos (University of Amsterdam) Abstract and Bio
“EU Citizenship and the Making of a European Periphery: A Case Study of Greek-African Marriages in the Netherlands”

Respondent: Anna Tsiftsoglou (Princeton University)

Program Committee

Luisa Andriollo, Hellenic Studies
Vladimir Boskovic, Hellenic Studies
Kathleen Crown, The Council of the Humanities
Elizabeth Davis, Anthropology
Karen Emmerich, Comparative Literature
Dimitri Gondicas, Hellenic Studies
Molly Greene, History and Hellenic Studies
Efthymia Rentzou, French and Italian
Jamie L. Reuland, Music
Carlotta Santini, Hellenic Studies
Teresa Shawcross, History
Anna Tsiftsoglou, Hellenic Studies
Margarita Voulgaropoulou, Hellenic Studies

Secretary to the Committee: Joe Glynias, History

Supported by The Michael George Mazarakis Modern Greek Studies Fund