PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

CALENDAR OF EVENTS
 2001-2002

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
hellenic@princeton.edu
http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/

All Hellenic Studies Workshops take place at the Program in Hellenic Studies, 58 Prospect Avenue, Princeton NJ, Room 101, unless otherwise indicated. Please note location of other events.

SPRING SEMESTER 2002

DATE

TIME

EVENT
Tuesday
February 5 		4:30 p.m. Classics Lecture
Maria Mavroudi (Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title:  "Priests, Doctors, Diviners and the Recycling of the Ancient Greek Tradition Between Byzantium and Islam"
Place:  58 Prospect Ave., Room 107

Friday
February 8

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Michael Llewellyn-Smith (Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Venizelos's Diplomacy: Balkan Wars to Treaty of Lausanne"

Friday
February 15

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Judith Herrin (King's College, University of London)
Title:  "Moving Bones in Medieval Constantinople"

Friday
February 22

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Tom Doulis (Portland State University; Writer-in-Residence, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title:  "The Iron Storm, The Impact of the Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974 on Greek Literary Culture"
Thursday
February 28		 6:00 p.m. Film Screening
Title: "The First Olympics - Athens 1896"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 107

Friday
March 1

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Franklin Hess (Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Gypsy Tragedians and Franco-Greek Athenians: Envisioning Modernity in Greek Silent Film"
Thursday
March 7		 4:30 p.m. Classics Lecture
Vayos Liapis (University of Cyprus)
Title: "Free for All: Uses and Abuses of Menandri Sententiae"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 107
Thursday
March 7		 7:00 p.m. Film Screening
Title: "The Adventures of Villar" (1926), "The Magician of Athens" (1930)
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 101

Friday
March 8

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Nenad Filipovic (Princeton University)
Title: "The Abduction of a Nice Jewish Girl: Constantinopolitan Society in Eremya Komurcuyan Celebi's 17th Century Armeno-Turkish Novel The Jewish Bride"
Wednesday
March 13		 6:00 p.m. Hellenic Studies Reading
Peter Constantine (Writer-in-Residence, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "An Evening with Papadiamantis"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 107
Thursday
March 14		 7:00 p.m. Film Screening
Title: "Loafing and Camouflage"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 107
Thursday
March 21		 7:00 p.m. Film Screening
Title: "Balkanizateur" (1998)
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 107
Thursday
March 28		 4:30 p.m. Classics Lecture
Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)
Title: "The Topos of Freedom - Greek literature and approaches to Greek landscape and locality around 1821"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 101
Friday
March 29		 2:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies Workshop
Stelios Virvidakis (University of Athens; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Between Philosophy and Literature: Modern and Postmodern Tendencies in Contemporary Greek Criticism"
Wednesday
April 3		 4:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Lecture
Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University)
Title: "C. P. Cavafy: Poems Unfinished, Unread, Unwritten"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 101
Friday
April 5		 2:30 p.m. EEB 398/HLS 398 Class Presentation
Title: “Exploring Cyprus: Ecology and Human Impact"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 101
Wednesday
April 10		 4:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies Lecture
Thanos Veremis (Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University; University of Athens)
Title: "Greek Foreign Policy Today"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 101
Thursday
April 11		 12:00 noon Hellenic Studies/WWS Luncheon Talk (by invitation)
Thanos Veremis (Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University; University of Athens)
Topic: "Action Without Foresight: Western Intervention in Yugoslavia"
Thursday
April 11		 4:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies
Sophomore Open House
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 101
Friday
April 12		 2:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies Workshop
Nicholas Moschovakis (Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Andreas Kalvos: Translating the 'Odes' of a Hellenic Philhellene"
Tuesday
April 16		 4:30 p.m. An Evening with Seamus Heaney
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 107
Wednesday
April 17 		4:30 p.m. Poetry Reading
Seamus Heaney (Nobel Laureate in Literature,1995; Harvard University)
Place: Richardson Auditorium
Thursday
April 18 		4:30 p.m. Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Seamus Heaney (Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1995; Harvard University)
Title: "'Hellenize it': Poets, Poems, Predicaments in Greece and Ireland"
Place: McCosh 50

Wednesday
April 24

4:30 p.m.

Lecture
Peter Mackridge (University of Oxford)
Title: "Diglossia and the Separation of Discourses in Greek Culture"
Place:  58 Prospect, Room 107

Friday
April 26

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Ronald Kim (University of Pennsylvania)
Title:  "Some Indo-European Archaisms in Modern Greek"

Saturday
April 27

9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Workshop: "History of Archaeology of Greece"
Please see the workshop website for a schedule and list of participants

Place: Joseph Henry House, Room 16
Wednesday
May 1		 4:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies/Jewish Studies Lecture
Fragiski Ampatzopoulou (University of Thessaloniki)
Title: "Greek Jews and the Image of the Jew in Literature"
Sunday
May 5		 All day Greek Easter Celebration
Tuesday
May 7		 4:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies/Art and Archaeology Lecture
Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzis (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki)
Title: "Medieval Cypriot Glazed Pottery and Its Iconography Between East and West"
Place:  McCormick Hall, Room 106
Saturday
May 11

9:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

 Art and Archaeology/Hellenic Studies Colloquium
Title: "The Return of 'The Dome'"
Please see the colloquium website for the schedule.
Place: Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
Monday
May 13		 4:30 p.m. Classics Lecture
Susanna Elm (University of California, Berkeley)
Title: "Hellenism and Historiography: Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 107
Wednesday
May 15		 4:30 p.m. Classics Lecture
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Harvard University)
Title: "Toward an Archaeology of Sounds: Sappho, Indigenous Poetics, and Modes of Mythogenesis in Greek Modernism"
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 107
Wednesday
May 22		 4:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies Talk
Dimitri Maronitis (University of Thessaloniki)
Title: "Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems with Homeric Themes." (in Greek)
Place: 58 Prospect, Room 107

Last updated 05/20/2002