PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic
Studies
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
2004-2005
hellenic@princeton.edu
http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/
All Hellenic Studies events take place at the Program in Hellenic Studies, Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103, unless otherwise indicated. Please note location of other events.
FALL SEMESTER 2004
|
DATE |
TIME |
EVENT |
| Tuesday September 7 |
2:00 pm | Freshman Open House |
| Friday September 17 |
10:00 am | Final Public Oral Examination Volker Lorenz Menze Title: "The Making of a Church: The Syrian Orthodox in the Shadow of Byzantium and the Papacy" Place: 211 Dickinson Hall |
| Friday September 17 |
12:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Welcome Luncheon |
| Tuesday September 28 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Suzanne Abrams Rebillard (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Faithful to the Voice of the Faithful: Toward a Translation of Gregory of Nazianzus’ Autobiographical Poems" |
| Tuesday October 5 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Anastasia Stouraiti (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Respondent: Molly Greene (Department of History and Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Public History and the Discourse of Empire: Venice during the War of the Morea, 1684 – 1699" |
| Friday October 8 |
2:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Carla A. Hesse (University of California, Berkeley; Fellow Council for the Humanities) Thomas W. Laqueur (University of California, Berkeley; Fellow Council for the Humanities) Title: "Bodies Visible and Invisible: The Erasure of the Jewish Cemetery in the Life of Modern Thessaloniki" |
| Tuesday October 12 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Maria Evangelatou (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Respondent: Anne-Marie Bouche (Art and Archaeology) Title: "The Biblical Past as a Mirror of the Byzantine Present in Ninth-century Marginal Psalter Illustration" |
| Thursday October 14 |
4:30 pm | Hellenic Studies and Classics
Lecture Michael Paschalis - University of Crete; Visiting Scholar,Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (U.S.A.) Seminars Program Title: "From Homer to the Enlightenment: Metaphors of the Light in Korais’ Papatrechas" |
| Friday October 15 |
2:30 pm | Hellenic Studies and Classics
Workshop Michael Paschalis - University of Crete; Visiting Scholar,Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (U.S.A.) Seminars Program Title: "Ugo Foscolo, Andreas Kalvos and the Classics: Constructions of a Birthplace" |
| Tuesday October 19 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Jilly Traganou (University of Thessaly; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Shades of Blue: Decoding Santiago Calatrava’s Design for the Athens Olympic Stadium" |
| Friday November 5 |
12:00 pm | Lunch Talk Werner H. Tietz (Seminar for Ancient World, Munich Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Barley or Wheat? Food as a Cultural Signifier in Polybius" Place: Humanities Programs Building, Room 203 |
| Sunday November 7 |
1:30 pm | Group for the Study of Late
Antiquity Kimberly Bowes (Fordham University) Title: "Possessing the Holy: Private Churches and the Christianization of the Late Roman Countryside" Place: 211 Dickinson Hall |
| Tuesday November 9 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Vassilis Voutsakis (University of Athens; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Greece During the Post-Dictatorship Period" |
| Friday November 12 |
2:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Lina Stergiou (University of Thessaly; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)>br> Respondent (Spyros Papapetros, School of Architecture) Title: "Athens: A Case of Symptomatic Ugliness: The Backlash of Moderation" |
| Tuesday November 16 |
5:30 pm | Lecture Dr. Helen C. Evans (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Title: "Art out of Time: 'Byzantium: Faith and Power' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" Place: 010 East Pyne Building |
| Friday November 19 |
2:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Irma Karaulashvili (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Respondent (Emmanouel Papoutsakis, Department of Near Eastern Studies) Title: "Construction of a Myth: The Rediscovery of the Icon of Christ (Mandylion) in Edessa" |
| Sunday November 21 |
6:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Event Title: Screening: Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony (approx. 90mins.) Discussion will follow. |
| Monday November 22 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Event Petros Babasikas *02 Title: "Athens 2004 'Catch the Light: Routes Through Athens'" |
| Tuesday November 30 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop John Davis (Writer-in-Residence, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Fourteenth Century Byzantine 'Declassicizing' Metaphrases: Obscure Linguistic and Literary Purpose?" |
| Wednesday December 1 |
6:00 pm | Princeton Modernist
Exchange Title: Screening and discussion of Walther Ruttmann's "Berlin, Symphony of a Metropolis" |
| Friday December 3 |
2:30 pm | Hellenic Studies and Art and Archaeology
Workshop Ljiljana Sevo (Institute for the Protection of Cultural-Historical Heritage, Republic of Srpska; Fulbright Visiting Fellow, Department of Art and Archaeology) Title: "Between Byzantine and Baroque Traditions: Serbian Wall Painting in the Eighteenth Century" |
| Tuesday December 7 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Petre Guran (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Containment and Rollback: Key Concepts for the Seventh Century Byzantine End of History?" |
| Thursday December 9 |
12:00 pm | Final Public Oral Examination Kyriaki Karoglou Title: “Attic Votive Plaques: A Study on their Iconography and Function” Place: 103 McCormick Hall |
| Thursday December 9 |
5:30 pm | Lecture Prof. Joanna S. Smith (Columbia University) Title: "Excavations at Phlamoudhi, Cyprus: New Perspectives on Life in the Late Bronze Age" Place: 010 East Pyne |
| Friday January 7 |
3:00 pm | Vasilopitta Party |
| Monday January 17 |
6:00 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Alexei Lidov (Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Hellenic Hierotopy: Miraculous Images in Sacred Space" |
| Friday January 21 |
2:30 pm | Hellenic Studies Workshop Antonis Balasopoulos (University of Cyprus; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies) Title: "Is this Philosophy? Some Remarks on the Mythical Space of Atlantis in Plato’s Critias" |