PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

FEISSEL, Denis Research Director, Social Sciences, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique		The Early Byzantine Inscriptions of Ephesus.  Part I: Imperial Constitutions and Other Administrative Documents		September – November
KIESLING, John Brady Independent Scholar, Former Political Counselor, US Embassy, Athens		U. S. Roles and Images in the European Union: The Test Case of Greece-Turkey-Cyprus		September - December
MOUTAFIDOU, Ariadni Lecturer, Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna, Austria		Italian Philhellenism and State Politics During the Greek-Ottoman War of 1897		September – November
NIEHOFF, Johannes Heisenberg Scholar, German National Research Foundation		The Role of the Byzantine Jews for the Development of Modern Greek Language and Literature		September - November
PAPADIMITRIOU, Panagiotis Greek Language and Literature, Kopanos’ High School, Prefecture of Imathia, Greece		The Pomaks of the Balkans: A Rural Minority which Failed to Achieve Ethnicity – The Historical, Political, and Ideological Context.		September – November
SERANIS, Panagiotis Research Associate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge		Making Sense of Stories: Classical Myths in the Classroom		September – November
ZACHARIOUDAKIS, Emmanouil Independent Artist		Digenes Akritas		September - October
DOUMAS, Christos G. Emeritus Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University of London		Akrotiri, Thera, Three Thousand Years of History		November - January
DIMITRAKAKI, Angela Lecturer, History of Art and Design, University of Southampton, Winchester Campus		Gender, Ideology and the Visual Arts in Modern Greece		December - February
GEORGANTZOGLOU, Nikolaos Assistant Professor, Department of Classics University of Athens, Greece		A Commentary on Pindar’s First Olympian Ode		December - February
LAMPROPOULOS, Apostolos Visiting Lecturer, Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Cyprus		Gastotopies:  Reading, Eating, and Other Versions of Food		December - January
SCHÄFER, Christian Lecturer, University of Regensburg, Germany		The Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite.  An Introduction to the Structure and the Contents of the Treatise ‘On the Divine Names’		December – February
TSILENIS, Savvas Head of Engineering Department, General Secretariat of Research and Technology/Ministry of Development		Architectural and Urban Development of Constantinople and the Contribution of Greek-Orthodox Community to the Formation of Urban Space (1878-1908)		December - February
EXERTZOGLOU, Haris Assistant Professor, Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean		Celebrating the National Revolution:  Politics and Ritual in Modern Greece, 19th Early 20th Century		February – March
PAPADATOU, Daphne Lecturer, Law Faculty, University of Thessaloniki		Land and Entitlement:  Aspects of Ownership in the History of Greek Agrarian Law		February – April
ATHANASSOGLOU-KALLMYER, Nina Professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware		Classicism and the European Imaginary in the Late Nineteenth-Century		March – May
CHATZIIOANNOU, Maria Christian Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation		Merchant Cultures in a Comparative Perspective:  Greek Traders as Intermediaries		March – May
HADJITRYPHONOS, Evangelia Head and Deputy Director, Office of the Promotion of Scientific Research, The European Center of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments		Representations of Byzantine Architecture		March – May
KARAGIANNI, Flora Archaeologist, 11th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Greek Ministry of Culture		The Religious Architecture Developed in Western Macedonia Around 1000 A.D.		March – May
KIRIN, Asen Assistant Professor, School of Art, University of Georgia		Byzantinism and Neoclassicism in Russia		March – May
STEFANIDIS, Ioannis Assistant Professor, International Studies/Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki		Anti-Americanism in Greece:  Historical and Ideological Conditions of a Pervasive Phenomenon		March – May
VAROUXAKIS, Georgios Reader in Political Theory, Politics and Modern History, Aston University, Birmingham		British and French Political Thinkers on Greece,1821-1922		March – May
FARINOU-MALAMATARI, Georgia Associate Professor, Modern Greek Literature/Medieval and Modern Greek Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki		The Novel and its Relation to Biography with Special Reference to 20th Century Greek Literary Production		April – May
ANTONARAS, Anastasios Curator, Museum of Byzantine Culture		Catalogue of the Roman and Medieval Glass of the Art Museum at Princeton		May - June

Denis Feissel was a member of the French School of Archaeology at Athens (1974-1978). Since 1978, he has been a member of the CNRS, and works in the Centre d' Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance at the Collhge de France. He was a member of the IAS (Princeton) from 1988-1989. Since 1998 he is Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris). His main books are devoted to the epigraphy of Macedonia (1983) and Asia Minor (1987). His numerous articles are mostly of Greek Christian inscriptions, papyri of the Near East, Byzantine law, institutions and rosopography.

Brady Kiesling was the Political Counselor at the United States Embassy in Athens, Greece when he resigned in February 2003 to oppose the war with Iraq and an increasingly unrealistic and dangerous U.S. foreign policy. He is finishing a book on America's role in the world. He graduated from Swarthmore College in Ancient Greek, spent a year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and has an M.A. in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from University of California, Berkeley. He excavated at Nemea and Aphrodisias. He joined the State Department in 1983, serving in Tel Aviv, Casablanca, Athens, Washington (the Romania Desk and India Desk), Yerevan, Washington (the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process), and Athens again. He is the author of a guidebook to Armenia and various policy articles. In the spring term 2004 he will teach a Hellenic Studies/Woodrow Wilson School course on "United States - European Relations and the Cases of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus."

Ariadni Moutafidou was trained in History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, she earned her Ph.D. in Modern Greek Studies and European History, in the School of Humanities, University of Vienna. Her dissertation on The Policy of Austria-Hungary Towards the Greek-Ottoman War of 1897 was based on research in several archives in Europe. Since 1995 she has been Lecturer in Modern Greek History and Literature at the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna, and Research Associate (1998-2003) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Committee of Balkan Studies). During 1998-2003 she served as a member of the Board of the Austrian Society of Modern Greek Studies in Vienna. She has written a monograph entitled Ein Beitrag zur Konflikt- und Allianzforschung vor den Ersten Weltkrieg: Die Politik Vsterreich-Ungarns gegen|ber dem osmanisch-griechischen Krieg von 1897. Hamburg (Verlag Dr. Kovah, 2003) , as well as numerous articles in German, Austrian and Greek academic journals.

Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis received a German/Greek bilingual education and pursued university studies in Tübingen and Pisa, majoring in Classics, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies; Near Eastern Studies; and Linguistics. He received his Master's degree in 1986, with a thesis on the social function of proper names. During 1986-1991, he was Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter at the University of Tübingen. In 1992, he was awarded his Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Philology, with a dissertation entitled "Koine und Diglossie" (History of the Modern Greek language; published in Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994). He served as Hochschulassistent at the University of Freiburg, 1994-2000. In 1998, he submitted his Habilitation at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the Freie Universitat Berlin ("Übersetzung und Rezeption: Die byzantinisch-neugriechischen und spanischen Adaptionen von Kalla wa-Dimna;" published, October 2003). Since 2000, he is a Heisenberg Grant recipient from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German National Research Fund).

Panagiotis G. Papadimitriou studied Classics at the University Ioannina, Greece (B.A. 1988). He pursued post-graduate research at the University College, London (M.A. in Classics, 1990) and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Ph.D., 1996), with a dissertation on The Rhythmics and Metrics in Classical Greece: Reconstructing the Ancient Greek Theory of Poetic Rhythm and Metre. He has participated in the "Education of Muslim Children in Western Thrace, Greece" program sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Education. As fellow at the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in Venice, he has conducted research on the interactions of Byzantium with Renaissance Italy. His current research interests lie primarily in the history and literature of the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, and in ethnicity issues concerning non-dominant ethnic groups.

Panos Seranis received his B.A in Classics from the University of Athens where he also completed a Master's degree in Classical Pedagogy. After winning a national scholarship he went on to study at the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 2000 with a dissertation entitled The Place of Reader Response in the Teaching of Ancient Greek Literature in Translation. He now works as Research Associate at the Cambridge School Classics Project, University of Cambridge. He is primarily involved in the Cambridge Online Latin Project, a government-funded initiative, which examines the effectiveness of electronic resources in enriching the school curriculum through improved access to Latin. A contributor to the Iliad Project, an oral retelling of the Iliad, intended for primary school students, Panos Seranis is also member of a team which has been recently commissioned to produce a new series of textbooks and teacher guides on Classical Greek for Lower Secondary school students in Greece.

Emmanouil Zacharioudakis studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in Greece. Group exhibitions were done in Greece and other European cities. (Barcelona, Madrid, Brussels, Strasbourg, London, Luxembourg, and Frankfurt). In Athens in 2000 he participated in "Stereotypes in Theran wall paintings: Modules and patterns in the procedure of painting” The wall paintings of Thera, proceedings of the first international symposium. His book titles include Proistoriko Restoran (prehistoric restaurant) (Kedros, Athens 2001) a novel in Greek, Tekmissa (Astra, Athens 2001) an adaptation of the ancient greek drama AIAS in Greek, Beowulf (Athens 1997) a translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, and notes on his art in Greek.

Christos Doumas is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Athens, where he taught Aegean Archaeology from 1980 to 2000. From 1960 to 1980, he had a distinguished career in the Greek Archaeological service, as curator of antiquities in Attica, on the Akropolis, in the Cyclades, in the Dodecanese, and in the North Aegean islands, regions where he conducted excavations and organized museum exhibitions. He has also served as curator of the Prehistoric Collections of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, and was Director of Antiquities and Director of Conservation at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Since 1975, he has been Director of the Excavations at Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini). Christos Doumas has published several books and scholarly articles on Aegean archaeology, particularly on the Aegean island cultures.

Angela Dimitrakaki is lecturer in Art History and convener of the M.A. Modern & Contemporary Art at the University of Southampton. She holds a B.A. in Archaeology and Art History from the University of Athens (Greece), an M.A. in Gallery Studies from the University of Essex and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Reading. Her research and publications focus on contemporary art, the politics of space, gender and ideology, including the examination of visual art production in Modern Greece within a European framework of references. She has co-edited three volumes of essays: Private Views: Spaces and Gender in Contemporary Art from Britain and Estonia (2000), Independent Practices: Representation, Location and History in Contemporary Visual Art (2002) and ReTrace: Dialogues on Contemporary Art and Culture(2002). In 2003 Angela Dimitrakaki was awarded a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board in Britain to examine women artists' film and video in diverse social contexts in Europe. As Hellenic Studies Visiting Fellow at Princeton, she is completing part of a book on gender, art and ideology in Modern Greece. Angela Dimitrakaki has also published (in Greek) a collection of short stories and two novels. Her latest novel Antithalassa was short listed for the 2003 Best Novel Prize of the Greek literary review Diavazo.

Apostolos Lampropoulos studied Linguistics at the University of Athens (1990-1994) and Literary Theory at the Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (D.E.A. 1996, Doctorat 2000). He has worked for a University of Thessaloniki project on Demotic Greek Language and Prose of the 16th century (1995-1996) and has taught Modern Greek Literature at the Université Paris X – Nanterre (1997) and at the University of Patras (2002). He currently teaches Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Cyprus (Visiting Lecturer 2002-2003, Lecturer 2003-). He has received graduate fellowships from the A. S. Onassis (1995-1999) and the A.G. Leventis Foundations (1999-2000), a post-doctoral fellowship from the Hellenic Fellowships Foundation (2002-2003) and grants from the Università degli Studi di Urbino (Centro Internazio­nale di Semiotica e di Linguistica; 1998) and Cornell University (School of Criticism and Theory; 1999, 2003). He has published a monograph entitled Le Pari de la description : l’effet d’une figure déjà lue (Paris, Harmattan, 2002), several articles on Literary Theory, and the translation in Greek of A. Compagnon’s Le Démon de la théorie: littérature et sens commun. Current projects include a monograph on literary gastronomy, a book on the absence of French theory in Modern Greek criticism and the translation in Greek of J. Culler’s On Deconstruction. He is interested in Narratology, Reception Theories, Hermeneutics, Literary Geographies, Cultural Studies, the Greek and French novel of the 19th and 20th centuries and Film Studies.

Christian Schäfer studied Philosophy and Theology at the University of Munich and at the Gregoriana University in Rome. In 1995 he earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy (summa cum laude) at the University of Regensburg with a dissertation on Xenophanes of Kolophon, that was published in 1996 at Teubner's, Stuttgart. In 2000 he completed his 'Habilitation' in Philosophy with a thesis on the question of evil in Neoplatonism, published at Konigshausen&Neumann, Wurzburg, 2002. His is currently Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Regensburg.

Savvas E. Tsilenis studied Architecture at Technical University of Istanbul (1969-1975) and Regional Development (MS) at Panteion University of Athens (1978-1979). Since 1982, he has worked as coordinator of research programs in the field of urban space in the General Secretariat of Research and Technology under the Ministry of Development in Greece. He is also Head of the Engineering Department dealing with the design and construction of research centers in the same Ministry. He is a PhD candidate in the Unit of Town and Physical Planning, Faculty of Architecture in the National Technical University of Athens and his thesis is “Architectural and urban development of Constantinople and the contribution of Greek - Orthodox community to the formation of urban space (1878-1908)”. He has 10 published articles about Istanbul’s architecture and urban history. He is also an editorial board member of the journals: “Syhrona Themata”, “the world of Buildings” and “I kath’ emas Anatoli”, all in Greek.

Haris Exertzoglou graduated from the Department of Economics of the University of Athens in 1981. He continued his studies at the University of London where he received his Ph.D. from King’s College in 1986. His dissertation was entitled “Greek banking in Constantinople, 1850-1881.” He has been a faculty member in the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean since 1989, teaching courses on modern Balkan and late Ottoman history. He has written two books and several articles on different aspects of the social and economic life of Christian Orthodox populations in the Ottoman Empire. His current research examines national commemorations in modern Greece as specific and meaningful civil rites, which were responsible, among other factors, for the shaping and reproduction of Greek national identity.

Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer is Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. She received a Licence-ès-Lettres from the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie of the University of Paris (Sorbonne); a doctorate from the School of Philosophy of the University of Thessaloniki (Greece); and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. She specializes in European eighteenth and nineteenth-century art, which she examines in its cultural, social, and political context. She is the author of three books: French Images from the Greek War of Independence, 1821-1830: Art and Politics under the Restoration (Yale, 1989); Eugène Delacroix: Prints, Politics and Satire (Yale, 1991); and Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in his Culture (Chicago, 2003), which was selected as a finalist for the CAA's Charles Rufus Morey Award for best art history book in 2003. She has published essays in several edited volumes, including the Cambridge Companion to Delacroix (Cambridge, 2001), Critical Terms in Art History (Chicago, 2003), and Modern Art and the Grotesque (Cambridge, 2003). Her articles on J. L. David, Delacroix, Géricault, Horace Vernet and Cézanne have appeared in the Art Bulletin, the Burlington Magazine, and the Gazette des Beaux Arts, among others. She was the guest editor of the Art Journal's issue on Romanticism (1993), and served as the Book Review Editor of the Art Bulletin from 1995 to 1998. Her article "Under the Sign of Leonidas: The Political and Ideological Significance of David's Leonidas at Thermopylae" won the CAA's Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize. She has held a J. P. Getty Fellowship, a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, an American Philosophical Society Grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was visiting professor at the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in 1993, 1995 and 2002. This past Fall she was Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art).

Maria Christina Chatziioannou studied History at the Faculty of Letters, University of Athens and at the Scuola di Perfezionamento di Storia Medioevale e Moderna, Universita di Sapienza, Rome. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Athens (1989). She has published on Greek merchant houses and entrepreneurs: (editor) The Traders Association of Athens (1902-2002). A Historical Retrospective on the Collective Conscience of Merchants, Athens 2000 (in Greek); (coeditor) Memoirs, A. Syngros, Athens 1997 (in Greek); (coeditor) Metaxourgeion, Athens 1997, as well as on Greek regional history: The Historical Evolution of Settlements in the Valley of Aliakmon During the Turkish Period, Athens 2000 (in Greek). Her Latest publicaton is Family Strategy and Commercial Competition. The House of Gerussi in the Nineteenth Century, Athens 2003 (in Greek). She is Director of Studies (2004- ) of the program "History of Enterprises-Industrial Archaeology" at the Institute for Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens. Her current project is a comparative analysis of merchants networks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Evangelia Hadjitryphonos studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at the Technische Universität of Vienna. She specialized in Monuments Protection and Restoration at the University of Belgrade. She earned her Ph.D. in Architectural History from the Department of Architecture, Aristotle University, Thessalonike. She has spent most of her professional career at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, as head of restoration projects on several Byzantine and Early Ottoman monuments. As the Head of the Office for Promotion of Scientific Research and Education at the European Center of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (EKEBM), she has been involved in international projects for the study and protection of Byzantine Monuments. Currently she is the Acting Director of EKEBM. She is also the Director of "Aimos - Society for Studies of Medieval Balkan Architecture and Its Preservation," the founder and editor-in-chief of the annual periodical Mnemeio & Perivallon / Monument & Environment. She was the co-editor (with S. Curcic) of Secular Medieval Architecture in the Balkans, 1300-1500, and its Preservation and is the co-editor-in-chief (with E. Nikolaidou) of the Deltion-Newsletter of EKEBM. Her book entitled Peristoon in Late Byzantine Church Architecture is currently in press.

Flora Karagianni studied archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 1999 she received her M.A. on “Byzantine Settlements in Macedonia based on archaeological data” and started her dissertation on the Episcopal churches of the middle Byzantine period. Since 1998 she has been working as an archaeologist of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (11th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Byzantine Museum of Veria). She took part in several excavations in Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Philippi, Pella, Veroia, Kozani, Kitros) and in Peloponnesus (Argos, Ancient Agora), under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Ecole Française d’Athènes. Since 2002, she is a member of a research project on “Byzantine Churches of Cyprus” which is organized by the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Thessaloniki.

Asen Kirin received his Ph.D. from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University (2000). His dissertation dealt with the late antique imperial palace of Serdica (modern Sofia). Asen Kirin's earlier training in Slavonic languages and literatures, took place in Moscow and Sofia. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the Lamar Dodd School of Art of the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. He joined the faculty at UGA after spending a year at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., as a Junior Fellow in Byzantine Studies. Friday, March 5, 2004 2:30 p.m.

Ioannis D. Stefanidis studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and European Studies and International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has worked for the BBC World Service, the Institute of Balkan Studies, and the Anatolia College of Higher Studies of Thessaloniki. He teaches Diplomatic History at the Faculty of Law, School of Law and Economics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was awarded Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Fulbright scholarships. He is the author of the following books: The Last European Century: Diplomacy and Policies of the Powers, 1871-1945 (in Greek) [Athens, 1997]; Isle of Discord: Nationalism, Imperialism and the Making of the Cyprus Question [London and New York, 1999]; From Civil War to Cold War: Greece and the Allied Factor, 1949-52 (in Greek) [Athens, 1999]; Asymmetrical Partners: Greece and the United States in the Cold War (in Greek) [Athens, 2002].

Georgios Varouxakis is Associate Professor (Reader) in Political Theory at Aston University, Birmingham, U.K. He is the author of the books: Mill on Nationality (Routledge, 2002), and Victorian Political Thought on France and the French (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002) as well as co-author of Contemporary France: An Introduction to French Politics and Society (Arnold, 2003). He has also published several journal articles on topics in the history of political thought (mainly British and French) and on issues of nationhood and political theory. He is currently working on a book on Nationality, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism in British political thought between 1821 and 1930 and, more long-term, on a book on conceptions and articulations of the relationship between "cosmopolitanism" and "patriotism" in contemporary political theory (Anglo-American, French, and German). He is the organizer of "The John Stuart Mill Bicentennial Conference, 1806-2006" that is to take place at University College London on 5-7 April 2006, under the auspices of the "International Society for Utilitarian Studies" and the "Political Thought" Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the U.K. [PSA].

Georgia Farinou-Malamatari is Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She studied at the University of Athens (Classics, 1974; Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature, 1976), and received her Ph.D. from King's College, London (1983). She has been appointed Visiting Scholar at Harvard (1993) and Visiting Professor at King's College London (1998). She is the author of Narrative Techniques in Papadiamandis' Fiction (2002, in Greek), Yannis Beratis, (1994, in Greek), (editor) Grigorios Xenopoulos: A Selection of his Criticism, (2002, in Greek) and an Anthology of Criticism on Papadiamandis, forthcoming, Crete University Press. She has written several articles on nineteenth and twentieth century modern Greek prose in theoretical and comparative contexts. Her current project is a study of the relation of the novel to biography in the twentieth century, integrating into a theoretical framework (typology and history) close readings of particular Greek novels which take the form of biography, with special reference to those which have artists as their protagonists.

Anastasios Antonaras graduated from the Archaeology Department of the University of Belgrade (1989), specializing in Medieval Art and Archaeology. He recently completed the Post-graduate Interdisciplinary Course on Museum Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the History and Archaeology Department of the University of Ioannina. From 1992 until 1994 he worked for the Greek Archaeological Service, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities, Thessaloniki, conducting systematic and rescue excavations. Since 1994 he is employed at the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, working on exhibitions and scholarly publications and, in particular, on the collections of glass, and other minor objects. His published scholarly work focuses on glass objects, embroideries and jewelry of the late Roman and Byzantine periods.

Visiting Fellows, 2002-2003
Visiting Fellows, 2001-2002
Visiting Fellows, 2000-2001