Hellenic Studies Program
Past Events
Spring 2006
Friday, May 26 & Saturday, May 27
Conference
War and Identities
Macedonia (1904-1908), Occupation & Civil War (1941-1949), Cyprus (1955-1959; 1963-1974)Gennadeius Library, Athens
Thursday, May 11
Robert Nelson
Robert Lehman Professor of Byzantine Art
History of Art Department, Yale University
Tuesday, May 2
Concert
Scola CantorumConfessions: Byzantine Music & Greek Medieval Songs
Friday, April 28
Conference
New Elites, Old Regimes:
Trajectories of Imperial Change, 1700-1850
Dimitris Keridis
The Constantine Karamanlis Associate Professor in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies Fletcher School, Tufts University“Greece, Bush, & the War on Terror”
Crossing Borders: Literary Explorations in Greece and Beyond
Panos Karnezis
A reading and Conversation with the author
Tuesday, March 21
Crossing Borders: Literary Explorations in Greece and Beyond
Vassilis Alexakis
Author
Mother Tongue/Our Tongue
Vassilis AlexakisWednesday March 1
Mediterranean Histories
Conflicts, Encounters, and Transformation in Medieval and Early Modern TimesLucette Valensi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
“The Hedgehog, the Fox, and Mediterranean History: From Fernand Braudel to Isaiah Berlin and Beyond”
Thursday, February 23
The Greek Historical Novel: A Reading and Discussion
with Thanassis Valtinos & Nikos Davvetas
Wednesday February 15
Mediterranean Histories
Conflicts, Encounters, and Transformation in Medieval and Early Modern TimesEvelyne Patlagean (University of Paris X–Nanterre)
“Westerners Interpret Byzantium: Evidence from the Literature on the Crusades”
Wednesday February 8
Mediterranean Histories
Conflicts, Encounters, and Transformation in Medieval and Early Modern TimesAnthony Molho (European University Institute)
“Community and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Thursday, February 2
Crossing Borders: Literary Explorations in Greece and Beyond
From the Margins to the Mainstream
A Conversation and Reading
with author Petros Markaris“Elias Petropoulos: An Underground World”
a documentary film by Kalliopi Legaki“A Rebetiko Postlude”
Giorgos Hadjimarkou (guitar & voice)
Kostas Psaros (bousouki)
Monday, January 23
Dr. Lidia Santarelli
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University“Ethnic Borders and Political Frontiers: The Fascist New Order for Greece and the Balkans. 1941-1943”
