PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

ALL ACTIVITIES OF THE PROGRAM IN HELLENIC STUDIES ARE SUPPORTED BY THE
  STANLEY J. SEEGER HELLENIC FUND

The Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund at Princeton University was established in 1979 through the generosity of Stanley J. Seeger '52. The purpose of the Fund is to "advance the understanding of the culture of ancient Greece and its influence ... and to stimulate creative expression and thought in and about modern Greece." Income from the Fund is administered by the Committee on Hellenic Studies for the Trustees of the Fund. Hellenic Studies activities planned for the academic year 2000-2001 are outlined in this announcement.

Trustees of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund

Stanley J. Seeger, President
Harold T. Shapiro, Vice President
Thomas Wright, Esq., Secretary
William G. Bowen
The Hon. Robert V. Keeley
Joseph M. Lynch, Esq.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Chair
Alexander Nehamas, Philosophy; Comparative Literature; Council of the Humanities
Executive Director
Dimitri Gondicas, Classics; Hellenic Studies
Interdepartmental Committee
Nancy Bermeo, Politics
William H. Branson, Economics; Woodrow Wilson School
Slobodan Curcic, Art and Archaeology
Michael Doyle, Politics, Woodrow Wilson School
Robert Fagles, Comparative Literature
John Gager, Religion
Dimitri Gondicas, Classics; Hellenic Studies
Suzanne Keller, Sociology
Alexander Nehamas, Philosophy; Comparative Literature; Council of the Humanities
Josiah Ober, Classics
Froma Zeitlin, Classics; Comparative Literature

Program Faculty
Molly Greene, History; Hellenic Studies
Andromache Karanika, Classics; Hellenic Studies
Tia Kolbaba, History; Hellenic Studies
Ruth Webb, Classics

Visiting Faculty
Peter Bien, Comparative Literature, Hellenic Studies
Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Classics; Hellenic Studies

Emeriti Faculty
Richard Burgi, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Hellenic Studies
Edmund Keeley, English; Creative Writing; Hellenic Studies

Peter Bien (Dartmouth College) will spend the spring semester at Princeton as Visiting Professor, teaching a Freshman Seminar "Odysseus Across the Centuries." He will pursue research on the correspondence of Nikos Kazantzakis.

Andrew Szegedy-Maszak (Wesleyan University) will be at Princeton in the fall semester and will teach a seminar on "Artists, Writers, and Travelers in Greece and Italy." He will prepare an exhibition of 19^th century photographs of Athens, scheduled to open in late April 2001 at Firestone Library.

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Andromache Karanika, Ph.D. candidate in Classical and Hellenic Studies, has been appointed Lecturer in Modern Greek for the academic year 2000-2001. Her dissertation on "The Work of Poetry and the Poetics of Work" focuses on women’s work songs in early Greek literature and in modern literature and folksongs.

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The Program in Hellenic Studies offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies leading to a Certificate in Hellenic Studies. Hellenic Studies courses complement over forty other courses in Classics, Classical Archaeology, Late Antique, and Byzantine Studies, offered by several University departments.

Spring

A number of graduate students currently enrolled in various University departments specialize in areas related to Byzantine or Modern Greek Studies. Many of them participate in an informal graduate student reading group which meets every week under the direction of Program faculty.

Each year, the Program in Hellenic Studies offers a limited number of full or partial fellowships for graduate work in Hellenic Studies. During the academic year 2000-2001, the following students are being supported by a generous grant from the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation:

Maria Andrioti Art & Archaeology
Petros Babasikas Architecture
Nikolas Bakirtzis Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art and Architecture
Dimitrios Dentsoras Philosophy: Classical Philosophy
Antonis Ellinas Politics
Nataly Gattegno Architecture
Kyriaki Karoglou Art & Archaeology: Classical Archaeology
Roxani Margariti Near Eastern Studies: Arabic and Byzantine History
Georgios Mentzos Music: Renaissance and Modern Greek Music
Yannis Papadoyannakis Religion: Eastern Christianity
Christine Philliou History: Ottoman, Turkish, and Modern Greek History
Irene Seiradaki Classics

Stanley J. Seeger graduate fellowships or prizes for the academic year 2000-2001 were awarded to:

Kutlu Akalin History: Byzantine History
Alexander Bueno-Edwards History: Byzantine History
Yumna Masarwa Art & Archaeology: Byzantine and Islamic Art and Architecture
Marina Mihaljevic Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art and Architecture
Jelena Trkulja Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art and Architecture
Ipek Yosmaoglu Near Eastern Studies: Modern Greek and Turkish History

In addition to the above, the following graduate students are associated with the Program during the academic year 2000-2001:

Lisa Bailey History: Late Antique and Early Byzantine History
S.M. Can Bilsel Architecture
Kimberly Bowes Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art and Architecture
Scott Bruce History: Byzantine History
Katherine Dhuey Art & Archaeology: Classical Archaeology
Ramsey El-Assal Music: Byzantine and Arabic Music
Ludovico Geymonat Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art
George Harne Music: Byzantine Music
Elizabeth Hough Anthropology
Christopher Lee Classics: Late Antique and Early Byzantine History
Christopher MacEvitt History: Late Antique and Early Byzantine History
Volker Lorenz Menze History: Late Antique and Early Byzantine History
Milen Petrov Near Eastern Studies: Balkan History
Alessandra Ricci Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art
Rupinder Singh Architecture
Stefanie Tcharos Music: Modern Greek Music
Peter Turner Classics
Helen Deborah Walberg Art & Archaeology: Renaissance/Byzantine Art

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Ying Lin, a Ph.D. student from Zhongshan University, China, will be a visiting graduate student in History/Hellenic Studies/East Asian Studies during the spring term 2001. She is completing her dissertation on Byzantine-Chinese relations during the Tang dynasty, 618-907 A.D.

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Four members of the Class of 2001 are expected to earn a Certificate in Hellenic Studies this year on the basis of course work and independent research in Hellenic Studies:

Mario C. Davis Religion
Stephanos Geroulanos History
Tanya Kalivas History
Petros Nomikos History

Karen Emmerich ’00, currently at the University of Thessaloniki, pursuing an M.A. in Modern Greek and Comparative Literature on a Fulbright fellowship, was awarded the MGSA Translation prize for her translation of Margarita Karapanou’s novel Rien ne va plus, that was her senior thesis in Hellenic Studies at Princeton.

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Nikolaos A. Chrissidis (Ph.D. Russian History, Yale University) is the recipient of the Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellowship and will spend the academic year revising his dissertation on Creating the New Educated Elite: Learning and Faith in Moscow’s Slavo-Greek-Latin Academy, 1685-1730.

Irene D. Fatsea (Ph.D. Architecture, MIT) was awarded the Mary Seeger O’Boyle Post-doctoral Fellowship for this academic year. She will revise her dissertation Monumentality and its Shadows: A Quest for Modern Greek Architectural Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Athens (1834-1862) for publication.

Margarita Miliori (Ph.D. Modern History, Oxford University) will be in residence during the fall semester as the Ted and Elaine Athanassiades Post-doctoral Fellow. Her dissertation title: The Greek Nation in British Eyes 1821-1864: Aspects of a British Discourse on Nationality, Politics, History and Europe.

Sophia P. Tsakraklides (Ph.D. Sociology, Yale University) was awarded the Mary Seeger O’Boyle Post-doctoral Fellowship for the spring semester (February 1, 2001 to June 30, 2001). She plans to revise her dissertation Structuring Civic Action in State-Dominated Societies: The Case of Greece for publication.

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Every year, the Program in Hellenic Studies invites applications from Greek scholars who propose to pursue research at Princeton. Successful candidates are awarded Stanley J. Seeger Research Fellowships. This year's Visiting Fellows, their research projects, and the dates of their visit follow:

 

Visiting Research Fellows
Artemis ALEXIADOU Zentrum Für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft	Categorically Ambiguous Constructions	November – December
Maria ATHANASSOPOULOU University of Thessaly	The Greek Sonnet (1895-1936): A Study in Poetics	April – May
Roxane CAFTANZOGLOU National Center for Social Research, Athens	The Making of National Landscapes: Sacred and Profane Narratives of Space	April 16 - May 30
Eva CALPOURTZI Academy of Athens	Towards a Greek Historical Ethnography	September 1 – October 14
Manolis CHAROS Painter, Athens	An Illustrated Edition of Aesop’s Fables	December - January
Jane K. COWAN University of Sussex	Imagining/Managing Minorities and Majorities in the Balkan Borderlands: Arguments around Nation, Race, Membership and Entitlement in the League of Nations Minority Supervision in the 1920s	November
Alexandra DELIGEORGI University of Thessaloniki	Perspectivism and the Question of Truth	September – November 14
Angelos DELIVORRIAS University of Athens; Benaki Museum	Archaeological Puzzles Regarding Alcamenes’ Sculpture	February - March
Jehan DESANGES Ecole Pratique Ecole Pratique	Views of the Ancient Greek Geographers on Minor Africa	March – May
Michael FOTIADIS University of Ioanina	History of a Practice: Prehistoric Archaeology in Greece 1870s-Present	February – April 14
Maria GEORGIADOU Independent Scholar, Germany	Constantin Carathéodory: An Intellectual Biography (1873-1950	October 16 – November 29
Philothei KOLITSI Independent Scholar	Modernity and Tradition in Greek Prose Fiction of the 1920s	September – October
Nota KYRIAZIS Panteion University, Athens	A Comparative Analysis of Gender, Work Patterns and Decisions and Family Constraints	May – June
Ioanna KRALLI University of Crete	Athenian Honorific Decrees: 200 B.C. to 86 B.C.	March - April
Vassilis LAMBRINOUDAKIS University of Athens	The Sanctuary of Gyroulas in Naxos: Excavation, Cult, Marble	March – April
Urania LAMPSIDOU Hellenic Ministry of Development	The State Cultural Policies Phenomenon after WWII in Europe	November 16 – January 30
Ceasar V. MAVRATSAS University of Cyprus	Greek Identity in Greece, Cyprus and Greek America: from the Production to the Consumption of Nationalist Ideology	September – October
Georgia PAPADOPOULOU Greek Ministry of Culture	Musical Offerings at Delos and Delphi: Mimesis in Apolline Cult	November – December
Liana SAKELLIOU University of Athens	Contemporary Greek and American Women Poets	January – February
Athanasios SAMARAS University of Thessaloniki	The Political Socrates	January – February
Dimitrios STAMATOPOULOS Independent Scholar	The Study of the Archive of the Constantinople Holy Sepulchre Metochion of the Orthodoxe Patriarchate of Jerusalem	May – June
Rena STAVRIDI-PATRIKIOU Pandeion University, Athens	The ideological Impact of the Balkan Wars on Greek Society	February – March
Spyridoula VARLOKOSTA University of Athens	Functional Categories in the Acquisition of Modern Greek:  The Case of Determiner-Elements	April – May
Ekaterini Lina VENTURAS Democritus University of Thrace	Young People in Post-War Greece (1950-1974): The Emergence of a New Social Subject?	December – January

Princeton/Thessaloniki Exchange Program
Thessaloniki to Princeton:
Antonis KOTIDIS Department of History and Archaeology	Artists of Greek Ethnicity in the USA and Contemporary Trends	September - October
Smaragda YEMENEDZI-MALATHOUNI Department of English	Early American Literature	September
Princeton to Thessaloniki:
M. Sukru HANIOGLU Near Eastern Studies	The Young Turks in Greece	Spring 2001

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Michalis Chryssanthopoulos (Modern Greek and Comparative Literature, University of Thessaloniki) will be a short-term visitor in the spring term 2000 for a series of faculty/graduate seminars on "Dreams in Greek literature, ancient and modern."

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MODERN GREEK SEMINAR

The Program in Hellenic Studies sponsors the Modern Greek Seminar which meets on a regular basis during the academic year. Sessions will be announced.

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HELLENIC STUDIES WORKSHOP

The Hellenic Studies Workshop is a forum where post-doctoral fellows, visiting fellows, and graduate students present their work-in-progress. The aim is to encourage exchange of ideas across disciplines among Classical scholars, Byzantinists, and Modern Greek Studies specialists

The workshop meets most Fridays, 2:30-4:00 p.m., during the term. Dates speakers and titles will be announced in advance via e-mail and posted weekly on the website: http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/

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A number of colloquia are being planned for late spring 2001 on:

"Visual Representations of Greece: Photography and Art" – April 27
"Religion and Society in early modern Greece, Balkans, and Russia" – May 11
"History of Archaeology of Greece" – May 12

All titles are provisional. Details will be announced.

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Chios, September 23-25, 2000

Co-sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies and the Program of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, with the support of Homereion Cultural Center, Chios prefecture, and the Mastic Museum, Chios, this colloquium, organized by Christine Philliou (History and Hellenic Studies), will bring together graduate students and scholars in Greek and Ottoman Studies. It is anticipated that this workshop will become a regular forum for intellectual exchange.

Rifa ‘at Abou-El-Haj, SUNY-Binghamton, "Theoretical Orientation and Considerations of Historiography"

Christine Philliou, Princeton University, "Toward an Understanding of Greek-Ottoman Societies"

Michael Varlas, University of Athens, " Mediation, Bureaucratic Culture, and the Construction of Community in the Chios Mastic Villages" 

Michael Varlas, University of Athens, "A Discussion of/Introduction to Archival Sources in the Koraes Library and the Chios Branch of the General State Archives"

Milen Petrov, Princeton University, "The Nineteenth Century Danube Vilayet and Midhat  Pasha"

Vangelis Kechriotis, University of Athens, " The Experience of a Greek-Orthodox Population in a  Shifting Urban Landscape: Smyrna 1904-1914"

Ipek Yosmaoglu, Princeton University, "Ekmek Parasi: The Allatinis of Thessoloniki and the  Ottoman Army in Macedonia"

Margarita Poutouridou, SUNY-Binghamton, "Dissolving Empires, Unmixing People: Ethnic Conflict in the Ottoman Black Sea, 1915-1923"

Eleni Gara, Foundation for the Hellenic World, Athens, "Dressed as Muslim, Talking Like a Greek Infidel"

Giorgos Tzedopoulos, Foundation for the Hellenic World, Athens, " The Politics of Denial: Orthodox Neomartyrs in the  Ottoman Empire"

Stefanie Tcharos, Princeton University, "The ‘Mismayia’ and the Art of Urban Song:  A Preliminary Case Study of Greek Ottoman Musical Interfaces"

Baki Tezcan, Princeton University, "High and Low Literature as Alternative Media for Different Messages"

Heath Lowry, Princeton University, "Byzantine Balkan Aristocrats Becoming Grand Vezirs in  the Sixteenth Century"

Tulay Artan "Patronage: What a Difference?"

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A main exhibition is planned for this academic year during the spring term:

"The Light of Ancient Athens: A Photographic Journey by Félix Bonfils, 1868-1875"

Curated by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak and Yannis Hamilakis, this exhibition will feature photographs by Félix Bonfils and related materials (rare books, manuscripts, artifacts) from the Princeton collections. Students will be involved in preparing this show. Exact details and other information will be announced.

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PRINCETON MODERN GREEK STUDIES SERIES

The latest books to be published by Princeton University Press in the Princeton Modern Greek Studies Series are:

Molly Greene, A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Gonda Van Steen, Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece

Forthcoming volume (Fall 2001):

Mark Mazower, After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State, in Greece, 1943-1960

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A special issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle, (Dimitri Gondicas, guest editor) is under preparation (fall 2001) and will feature a series of articles focusing on "Ancient Greece through Modern Eyes" (provisional title).

A catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts, Miniatures, and Bindings at Princeton is under preparation. Authors include Sofia Kotzabassi (University of Thessaloniki), Nancy Ševenko (Rutgers University), and Don Skemer (Firestone Library, Princeton University). This will be a collaborative project involving several units of the University, including the Program in Hellenic Studies, the Department of Art and Archaeology, Firestone Library, the Art Museum, and the Index of Christian Art.

A catalogue of Greek Papyri at Princeton is being written by Rosalie Cook. This is part of an inter-university preservation and publication project funded by the NEH.

A Princeton-Dartmouth team led by Peter Bien (Dartmouth) and Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton), with Chrysanthi Bien (Dartmouth), Andromache Karanika (Princeton: Classics and Hellenic Studies), and John Rassias (Dartmouth) has completed work on a textbook Greek Today: A Course in the Modern Language and Culture to be published by the University Press of New England. A number of Princeton graduate students and alumni are involved in this effort as co-authors or consultants: Ronald Kim ’96 (Linguistics), Silvio Levy *85 (Mathematics), and Gonda Van Steen *96 (Classical and Hellenic Studies). This project is supported by the Ivy League Language Consortium, the Program in Hellenic Studies, and other Greek and American foundations.

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