PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies
Two works by Gregory Markopoulos
Bliss (1967) 6 minutes -
Evocation of the Church of St. John, Hydra
Himself as Herself (1967) 60 minuters
- Loosely based on Balzac's Seraphita, Markopoulos pushes narrative to a limit
of abstraction in the representation of sexual anguish and gender confusion.
P. Adams Sitney (Visual Arts) will introduce the films and lead
the discussion following.
Colloquium
Saturday, May 1, 2004 9:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Humanities Programs Building
Welcome: Dimitri H. Gondicas (Hellenic Studies)
Chair: Lionel Gossman (French
and Italian)
Constanze Güthenke (Classics and Hellenic Studies)
"Looking for Foreign Friends: Romanticism as a First Avant-Garde"
Christopher Bush (Society of Fellows)
"'Caravan': The Place of Language in Modernist Poetics"
Effie Rentzou (Hellenic Studies)
"A Test-case for International Surrealism: Greece"
Lunch 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon Session 2:00 p.m.
Chair: Constanze Güthenke (Classics and Hellenic Studies)
Anastasia Graf (Comparative Literature)
"Forms of Resistance/Resistant Forms: The Making of Russian Modernism"
Ruben Gallo (Spanish and Portuguese)
"Radio-Futurism: Avant-Garde Poetry in Mexico and France"
Concluding Remarks: Effie Rentzou (Hellenic Studies)
Colloquium Organizing committee: Peter Brown, Dimitri H. Gondicas, Constanze Güthenke, Effie Rentzou
Co-sponsored by: Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in European Cultural Studies, and Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Last updated 4/27/04