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.

FALL SEMESTER 2001

DATE

TIME

EVENT

September 12-16
   Graduate Student Workshop
Title: "Local and Imperial Approaches to Ottoman/Greek Social History"
Place: Historical Archives of Samos, Samos, Greece

Friday
October 5

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Athina Vogiatzoglou (University of Ioannina; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "National" Poetry and Strategies of Succession:  A Greek Case, Kalvos and Sikelianos

Monday
October 8 		4:30 p.m. Art and Archaeology/Hellenic Studies/The Art Museum Seminar
Anastasios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki)
Title:  Some New Finds from Late Byzantine Graves in Thessaloniki
Place:  104 McCormick
Wednesday
October 10 		4:30 p.m. Art and Archaeology/Hellenic Studies/The Art Museum Lecture
Anastasios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki)
Title:  Byzantine Glass Production
Place:  106 McCormick

Friday
October 12

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Maria Mavroudi (Post-doctoral Fellow; Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: Greek-Arabic Bilingualism in the Middle Ages: Evidence from Greek-Arabic Manuscripts

Friday
October 19

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Margarita Dritsas (Hellenic Open University; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: History and the History of Tourism:  The Case of Greece

Wednesday
October 24

4:30 p.m.

Lecture
Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University)
Title: The Poetics of Mimicry: Towards a Reappraisal of the Beginnings of the Modern Greek Novel
Place:  Room 107, 58 Prospect Ave.
Friday
November 9 		2:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies Workshop
Elizabeth Sakellaridou (University of Thessaloniki; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: Is there a Women's Theatre in Greece?
Wednesday
November 14 		4:30 p.m. Program in the Ancient World/ Program in Hellenic Studies Lecture
Peter Green (University of Iowa / Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: The Enigma from Agyrium: Coming to Terms with Diodorus Siculus 
Place: Room 107, 58 Prospect Ave.
Friday
November 16 		2:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies Workshop/Reading
Peter Green (University of Iowa/Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: Aegean Expatriates in the Sixties: Dream and Reality
Tuesday
November 20 		6:00 p.m. Readings and Discussion:  An Evening with Cavafy
Peter Green, "Caelum non Animum"
Edmund Keeley, "The Landscape of Cavafy's 'Ionic'"
Alexander Nehamas, "This Poem Can't Exist: Cavafy's 'Painted'"
Eleni Sikelianos, "Cavafy's 'Voices'"
Place:  Room 107, 58 Prospect Ave.
Wednesday
November 27 		4:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies/Art and Archaeology Lecture
Maria Panayotidi, (University of Athens; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title:  Village Painting and the Question of Local 'Workshops' during the Byzantine Period
Place:  106 McCormick Hall
Friday
November 30 		2:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies Workshop
Eleni Gara (Post-doctoral Fellow; Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: Rendering Justice in the Ottoman Empire: A view from the early 17th Century
Friday
December 7 		2:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies Workshop
 Emmanuel Papoutsakis (Post-doctoral Fellow; Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title:  Romanus Syrus and Ephraem Graecus: Interaction Between Greek and Syriac in Late Antiquity
Tuesday
December 11 		4:30 p.m. Hellenic Studies Workshop
Susan Wessel (Post-doctoral Fellow; Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: Some Scrupulous Uses of Deception: Byzantine Literary Forgeries During the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
Thursday
December 13 		4:30 p.m. Lecture
Michael Bordt (Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title:  Plato's Theology (Republic 2.378e5-379c7 and Nomoi 10.899a7-d3)
Place:  Room 201 - 1879 Hall
Monday
January 14 		4:30 p.m. Classics Lecture
Eustratios Papaioannou (The Catholic University of America)
Title:  "The Transformation of Rhetoric and the Paradox of Mimesis in Michael Psellos"
Place:  58 Prospect Ave., Room 107
Wednesday
January 16 		4:30 p.m. Classics Lecture
Gonda Van Steen (The University of Arizona, Tuscan)
Title:  "Hijacking History and Myth: The Trojan War, Orestes' Trial, and Power 'Play' under the Greek Military Dictatorship"
Place:  58 Prospect Ave., Room 107
Thursday
January 17 		5:00 p.m. Vasilopitta Party
Coffee, tea, and, of course, Vasilopitta will be provided. Come help us ring in the New Year!
Place:  58 Prospect Ave., Room 107
Monday
January 21 		4:30 p.m. Classics Lecture
Federica Ciccolella (Columbia University)
Title:  "The Wise Bee: Culture, Philosophy, and Poetry in Sixth-Century Gaza"
Place:  58 Prospect Ave., Room 107
Tuesday
February 5 		4:30 p.m. Classics Lecture
Maria Mavroudi (Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Hellenic Studies)
Title:  "Priests, Doctors, Diviners and the Recycling of the Ancient Greek Tradition Between Byzantium and Islam"
Place:  58 Prospect Ave., Room 107