Modern Greek Studies

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Aristides N. Hatzis, Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Director of the Laboratory for Political and Institutional Theory and the History of Ideas In the early 1820s, Missolonghi was a minor and...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Nena Venetsanou, Singer and Composer Drawing on her long and international career, the renowned singer and composer Nena Venetsanou speaks about music and feminism. This event will be in Greek.

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Robert McCabe, Photographer "When photographer Robert A. McCabe first came to Greece as a college student in 1954, he found a country still scarred by the Axis occupation of World War II and the civil war that followed...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Julia G Krivoruchko, University of Cambridge The tradition of translating from Hebrew into Greek is more than two thousand years old, with ancient translations monopolizing most of the researchers’ attention. This talk will...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Henriette-Rika Benveniste, University of Thessaly The end of the war was not the end of suffering for the Greek survivors of the Shoah. Neither the joy of liberation nor the hopes of a new beginning can obscure their utter...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Maria Zymara, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University The way George Seferis incorporates issues of sex, gender, and sexuality into his poetics has, as of now, gone almost completely unnoticed...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Eno Agolli, PhD candidate at Rutgers University Overfitting is a scientific term of art. It describes a model or theory that clings too tightly to specific examples, making it unable to handle new or different cases. Attempts...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Stefanos Katsikas, University of Cyprus This presentation aims to delve into the little-researched field of religious conversions in the Balkans in modern times, with emphasis on the conversion of Muslims to Eastern Orthodox...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: George Sarrinikolaou, The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University In this seminar, George Sarrinikolaou will reflect on the social developments in Greece since the publication of his book, FACING...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Andrew Ntapalis, PhD candidate in Modern Greek, Department of the Classics, Harvard University This talk outlines ways in which the Greek modernist poet, Yannis Ritsos, uses the symbolic language of traditional lament culture...