PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Friday, May 1, 2015
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Poster
9:45 a.m. WELCOME: Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University)
10:00 a.m. PANEL I: LITERARY MELODIES
Chair: Effie Rentzou (Princeton University)
Olga Bezantakou (Freie Universität Berlin) Abstract and Bio
“‘Our Inner Life’s Unbroken Melody’: Bergsonism in Modern Greek Aesthetic Discourse as a Case Study of Musico-literary Intermediality”
Respondent: Anna Corrias (Princeton University)
Anna-Maria Sichani (University of Ioannina) Abstract and Bio
“‘Read by ear’: Literature and Sound Technologies During the Greek Long Sixties”
Respondent: Theocharis Tsampouras (Princeton University)
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. PANEL II: CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
Chair: Teresa Shawcross (Princeton University)
Anna Calia (École Pratique des Hautes Études) Abstract and Bio
“Late Byzantine Libraries Between East and West: The Case of John Dokeianos”
Respondent: Aslihan Akışık (Princeton University)
Claudia Daniotti (The Warburg Institute) Abstract and Bio
“‘Rustling and Pleading and Weeping at the Feet of Alexander’: The Family of Darius before Alexander the Great in Italian Renaissance Art”
Respondent: Theocharis Tsampouras (Princeton University)
3:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
4:00 p.m. PANEL III: DISCOVERIES AT THE MARGINS
Chair: Molly Greene (Princeton University)
Constanze Kolbe (Indiana University) Abstract and Bio
“The Making of a Nineteenth Century Jewish Trade Network in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond through Newspapers”
Respondent: Angelos Dalachanis (Princeton University)
Konstantinos Gkotsinas (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) Abstract and Bio
“An ‘Addicted’ History of Greece: What Drugs Tell Us About the Interwar Greek Society”
Respondent: Kostis Karpozilos (Princeton University)
6:00 p.m. RECEPTION
Program Committee
Aslihan Akışık, Hellenic Studies
Anna Corrias, Hellenic Studies
Kathy Crown, Humanities Council
Angelos Dalachanis, Hellenic Studies
Lisa Davis, Anthropology
Dimitri Gondicas, Classics and Hellenic Studies
Molly Greene, History and Hellenic Studies
Kostis Karpozilos, Hellenic Studies
Effie Rentzou, French and Italian
Teresa Shawcross, History
Theocharis Tsampouras, Hellenic Studies
Secretary to the Committee: Vicky Hioureas, History
Cosponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Supported by The Michael George Mazarakis Modern Greek Studies Fund