DATE

TIME

EVENT

Tuesday
February 6

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Godard: Le mepris (Contempt)

Friday
February 9

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Liana Sakelliou (University of Athens; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: Landscape and Poetic Imagery in George Seferis’s "Thrush:" The Bay of Poros and the Villa "Serenity"

Tuesday
February 13

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Cacoyannis: Zorba the Greek

Friday
February 16

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Peter Bien (Dartmouth University; Visiting Professor, Princeton University)
Title: "Painterly" Technique in the Poetry of Yannis Ritsos: The Redemption of Decay into Incorruptibility via the Conversion of Time into Space

Tuesday
February 20

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Cocteau: Orphee
Boultenhouse: Dionysius

Wednesday
February 21

4:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
David Connolly (Writer in Residence, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: Translation and the Problem of Culturally Specific References: On translating "A Greek Poem"

Friday
February 23

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Sophia Tsakraklidou (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: Welfare Provision and Private Philanthropy in Modern Greece:
Persisting Traditions and Current Trends

Tuesday
February 27

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Straub: Empedocles on Aetna
Peterson: The Lead Shoes

Friday
March 2

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Michael Fotiadis (University of Ioannina; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: Are Histories of Archaeology Good to Think with?

Thursday
March 8

4:30 p.m.

Art and Archaeology/Hellenic Studies Lecture
Maria Georgopoulou (Yale University)
Title:  Imaging the Colonial Space: The Piazza San Marco in Venice and the Levant
Place:  106 McCormick Hall

Friday
March 9

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Andromache Karanika (Princeton University)
Title:  The Poetics of Work:  Ritual in Women’s "Work Songs" in Ancient and Modern Greece

Monday
March 12

4:30 p.m.

Lecture
Helen Philon
Title: The earliest Surviving Paintings from the Islamic Period in India: The Tomb of Ahmad Shah in Bidar
Place: 106 McCormick Hall

Monday
March 12

2:15 p.m.

Reception in honor of
Alexander Philon, Ambassador of Greece to the United States
Place:  Prospect House, Library

Tuesday
March 13

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Robert Beavers Program

Tuesday
March 27

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Straub: Antigone
Pasolini: Notes Toward an African Oresteia

Thursday
March 29

4:30 p.m.

Program in the Ancient World/Hellenic Studies/Near Eastern Studies Lecture
Richard Davis (Ohio State University)
Title: Fires of Chastity. A Graeco-Persian Literary Motif

Friday
March 30

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Stephanie Tcharos (Princeton University)
Title:  Ta mismayia and the art of urban song: a preliminary case study for Greek-Ottoman musical interfaces

Tuesday
April 3

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Pasolini: Oedipus Rex. Medea

Friday
April 6

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Roxani Margariti (Princeton University)
Title:  Lights in the Heart of the Sea: Underwater Explorations and their Contribution to Mediterranean Archaeology and History

Tuesday
April 10

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Rossellini: Socrates

Sunday
April 15

10:00-5:00 p.m

Greek Easter Celebration

Monday
April 16

4:30 p.m.

Lecture
Michalis Chryssanthopoulos (University of Thessaloniki)
Title: Freud and Artemidorus: Time Inversion or the Past as Future

Tuesday
April 17

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Angelopoulos: The Traveling Players

Wednesday
April 18

4:30 p.m.

Lecture
Michalis Chryssanthopoulos (University of Thessaloniki)
Title: Cavafy After Deconstruction: Mimesis and Temporality

Friday
April 20

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Michalis Chryssanthopoulos (University of Thessaloniki)
Title: The Modernity of the Ruin: Constructions of the Past in 19th Century Greek Texts

Sunday
April 22

beginning at 4:00 p.m.

Exhibition
Title: The Light of Ancient Athens: A Photographic Journey by Felix Bonfils, 1868-1875
Exhibition open to the public, 23 April-7 October 2001
Place: Harvey S. Firestone Library

Tuesday
April 24

4:30 p.m.

Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
David Rudenstine (Princeton University)
Title: Who owns the Past? Greece, England, Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculpture
Place: McCormick 101

Friday
April 27

2:30-4.30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Andrew Szegedy-Maszak (Wesleyan University)
Yannis Hamilakis (University of Sheffield)
Title: Visual Representations of Greece in the 19^th Century

Saturday
April 28

9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Colloquium
History of Archaeology of Greece
Giovanna Ceserani (Princeton University)
Title: Placing monuments of the Greek ideal: archaeologies of Magna Graecia and Greece in the eighteenth century 
Emmanuele Curti (Beirkbeck College, University of London)
Title: Ancient and modern histories and archaeologies: modern intellectual battles for the appropriation of the past
Sofia Vourtsaki (University of Cambridge)
Title: "Worthy of them:" Archaeology and modern Greek identity in the 19^th century
Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University)
Title: Adolf Furtwaengler and the Problem of Archaeological Fieldwork
Place: Joseph Henry House, Seminar Room 016

Tuesday
May 1

7:30 p.m.

Film Screening
Angelopoulos:  Ulysses'Gaze

Friday
May 4

2:30 p.m.

Hellenic Studies Workshop
Maria Athanasopoulou (Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title:  Sonnets, and what you can do with them:  On the function of certain latent poetic forms in the poetry of C.P.  Cavafy.

Dimitri Livanios (University of Cambridge)
"Christian Heroes and Simple Peasants: Balkan peoples in the Greek
Historical Imagination, c.1602-1830"

Lunch

Afternoon session
Chair/Discussant: Mark Mazower

Molly Greene (Princeton University)
"Orthodox Merchants, Catholic Patrons"

Katherine Fleming (New York University)
"Community and identity in the Ottoman Jewish imagination, 16th-19th
centuries" 

Madeline C. Zilfi (University of Maryland)
"Religion, Statesmanship, and Ottoman Community in the Later Ottoman Centuries." 

Dinner

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