PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
2007-2008
SPRING SEMESTER 2008
All Hellenic Studies events take place at the Program in Hellenic Studies, Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103, unless otherwise indicated. Please note location of other events. Details on all past announcements/events are available and searchable on the announcement webpage.
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DATE |
TIME |
EVENT |
| Tuesday February 12 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Andrea Nanetti (University of Bologna; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Respondent: Alan Stahl, Curator of Numismatics Title: "Theseus and the Fourth Crusade" |
| Thursday February 14 |
7:00 pm | Film Screening Directors: Gabriellino D’Annunzio and Mario Ronconi (1921) Based on the play La Nave (1908) by Gabriele D’Annunzio Title: "La Nave" |
| Friday February 15 |
1:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Fotios Baroutsos (Ionian University; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Respondent: Maurizio Viroli (Department of Politics) Title: "The Texture of Government in Sixteenth Century Venetian Dominions" |
| Tuesday February 19 |
4:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Takis Pappas (University of Macedonia; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Respondent: Ignacio Walker (Woodrow Wilson School) Title: "Mechanics of Charismatic Emergence: Lessons from Greece" |
| Friday February 22 |
1:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Spiros Tegos (University of Crete; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Respondent: Peter A. Meyers (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, Institute for Advanced Study) Title: "Cosmopolitanism and Commercial Civility in Perspective: Reclaiming European Enlightenment" |
| Sunday February 24 |
1:30 pm | Group for the Study of Late Antiquity Seminar Thomas Mathews (New York University - Institute of Fine Art) Reading packets are available in the Departments of History, Classics and Art and Archeology, or online (with color pictures!) at: http://www.princeton.edu/~lasg. Title: "The Cult of Icons in Roman Egypt" Place: 211 Dickinson Hall |
| Tuesday February 26 |
4:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Iosif Vivilakis (University of Athens; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Stage Terms: Usages and Transformations from Antiquity to Modern Greece" |
| Friday March 7 |
4:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Heather E. Grossman (University of Illinois at Chicago; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Product and Process: Architectural Style and Cultural Interaction in the Medieval Morea |
| Tuesday March 11 |
6:00 pm | Modern Greek Studies Lecture George Syrimis (Yale University) Title: "Julian’s Apostasy and Its Reception in Modern Literature" |
| Thursday March 27 |
Hellenic Studies Seminar Nikolas Bakirtzis (Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University) Title: "The Menoikeion Research Project" | |
| Friday March 28 |
35th Annual International Festival Poster Ends April 26. Place: Richardson Auditorium | |
| Friday March 28 |
Department of History Colloquium Title: "The Landscapes of the Saints: Hagiography and the Land in the Near East and Europe, ca. 500-1000" Friday March 28 and Saturday March 29 Contact Richard Payne for time and all info. Place: 211 Dickinson Hall | |
| Monday March 31 |
6:00 pm | Modern Greek Studies Lecture Yiorgis Yerolymbos, Photographer; School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece Title: "Human Altered Landscape in Contemporary Greek Photography" |
| Friday April 4 |
1:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Julia H. Chryssostalis (University of Westminster; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Athens: The Boundless City and the Crisis of Law" |
| Tuesday April 8 |
6:30 pm | Class Presentation Students Kutadgu Akdogan ’10, Lucas Barron ’09, Jacqueline Bello ’09, Sara-Ashley Bischoff ’09, Pilar Castro Kiltz ’10, Shannon Clair ‘09, Kevin Dinkins ’09, Becca Foresman ’10, Lovell Holder ’09, Dominique Salerno ’10, Veronica Siverd ’10, Lea Steinacker ’11, Nadia Talel ’10, Lauren Whitehead ’09, Samuel Zetumer ’09, Adam Zivkovic ’10 Faculty Michael Cadden (Program in Theater and Dance and the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts; Director, Program in Theater and Dance) Timothy Vasen (Program in Theater and Dance and the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts) Title: THEATROLOGY: Princeton Actors in the Birthplace of Drama |
| Wednesday April 9 |
4:30 pm | Sophomore Open House |
| Friday April 11 |
1:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Daphne Voudouri (Panteion University; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Respondent: Lorraine Sciarra (Senior University Counsel, Princeton University) Title: "Antiquities, National Identity and the State: The Legal Protection of the Cultural Heritage in Greece." |
| Sunday April 13 |
1:30 pm | Group for the Study of Late Antiquity Edward Watts - Indiana University Title: "Peter Mongus: Defining the Henoticist Alexandrian Bishop" Place: 211 Dickinson Hall |
| Tuesday April 15 |
6:00 pm | Byzantine Studies Lecture Judith Herrin (King’s College London) Title: "Seventh Century Christians and Their Pagan Predecessors" |
| Wednesday April 16 |
5:30 pm | American Institute of Archaeology Lecture Elizabeth Bartman, Independent Scholar Title: "Henry Blundell's Classical Marbles: Archaeology in the Era of the Grand Tour" Place: East Pyne 010 |
| Friday April 18 |
1:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Filippos Oraiopoulos (University of Thessaly; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "The Spatial Model of the Greek East" |
| Tuesday April 22 |
4:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Archibald Dunn (University of Birmingham; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "From Early to Middle Byzantine Greece: Constructing Case Studies" |
| Thursday April 24 |
10:00 am | Final Public Oral Exam Jelena Bogdanovic (Art and Archaeology) Title: "Canopies: The Framing of Sacred Space in the Byzantine Ecclesiastical Tradition" Place: 361 McCormick Hall |
| Sunday April 27 |
10:00 am | Group for the Study of Late Antiquity Seminar Richard Miles (Cambridge University) Title: "Re-Thinking the Re-Conquista: The Transformation of a Sacred Landscape in Fifth and Sixth Century AD Carthage" Place: 211 Dickinson Hall |
| Tuesday April 29 |
11:00 am | Final Public Oral Exam Alessandra Ricci Title: “Reinterpretation of the “Palace of Bryas”: A Study in Byzantine Architecture, History and Historiography” Place: 362 McCormick Hall |
| Tuesday April 29 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Pavlos Avlamis (Department of Classics, Princeton University) Title: "Aesopic Lives: Popular Readers and Vulgar Poetics in Greek Imperial Literature" |
| Friday May 2 |
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Colloquium Ruth Macrides (University of Birmingham) Sophia Laiou (Ionian University) Evdoxios Doxiadis (Princeton University) Thomas W. Gallant (University of California, San Diego) Title: "Women Facing the Law: From Byzantium to the Eve of Modern Greece" Colloquium Poster |
| Saturday May 3 |
1:00 pm | Center for Study of Religion Symposium David Michelson, Princeton University, Dan King, Cardiff University, Robert Kitchen, Center of Theological Inquiry, Iuliana Viezure, University of Toronto, Karl Pinggera, Philipps-Universität Marburg Title: "Reconsidering Philoxenos of Mabbug" A Symposium Organized by Center of Theological Inquiry and Princeton University |
| Tuesday May 6 |
6:00 pm | Modern Greek Studies Lecture Alexandra Moschovi (University of Sunderland / Courtauld Institute of Art) Title: "Tales of Urbanity in Contemporary Greek Photography" |
| Monday June 2 |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Class Day Place: Scheide Caldwell House Lobby |
| Saturday June 21 |
Mt. Menoikeion Seminar Title: Please see the Mt. Menoikeion Seminar website for more information. Place: Greece | |
| Thursday June 26 |
Temenos 2008 Title: June 26-30, 2008 Place: Lyssarea in Arcadia, Greece |