PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

CALENDAR OF EVENTS
2002-2003

hellenic@princeton.edu
www.princeton.edu/hellenic/

All Hellenic Studies Workshops take place at the Program in Hellenic Studies, 58 Prospect Avenue, Princeton NJ, Room 107, unless otherwise indicated. Please note location of other events.

SPRING SEMESTER 2003

DATE

TIME

EVENT

Tuesday
February 11
4:30 pm History Department Lecture
Molly Greene (Department of History; Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Navigating in Uncertain Waters: Mediterranean Trade in the Early Modern Era"
Place: Dickinson 211
Friday
February 14
2:30 pm Hellenic Studies Workshop
Istvan Perczel (Central European University, Budapest; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Respondent: Paul Rorem (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Title: "The Warp and the Weft: The Nine Hypotheses of the Parmenides and the Pseudo-Dionysian Letters"
Tuesday
February 18
6:00 pm Hellenic Studies Workshop
Panayotis Panopoulos (University of Crete; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Animal Bells as Symbols: Sound and Audition in a Greek Island Village"
Friday
February 21
2:30 pm Hellenic Studies Workshop
Maria Tzevelekou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Defining Narrative Structures: Dynamic Temporal Configurations in Modern Greek"
Friday
February 28
2:30 pm Hellenic Studies Workshop
John Wortley (University of Manitoba, Canada; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "'The Good is Oft Interred in Their Bones:' The Passion for Relics in the Later Roman Empire"
Thursday
March 6
7:00 pm Department of Comparative Literature, Works-in-progress Colloquium
Constanze Güthenke (Post-doctoral Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "A Comparatively Difficult Love Triangle: Modern Greek Literature, Europe and the Classical Tradition"
Place: 105 Bobst Hall
Friday
March 7
2:30 pm Hellenic Studies Workshop
Oleksander Halenko (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine; Kiev Mohlya Academy; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Respondent: Molly Greene (Department of History; Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Hellenes in the Land of the Cyclops: Language and Identity of the Greeks in Post-Mongol Crimea"
Sunday
March 9
1:30 pm Group for the Study of Late Antiquity Seminar
Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr College)
Title: "Ivory Diptychs as Visual Culture?"
Place: 211 Dickinson Hall
Tuesday
March 11
5:00 pm Hellenic Studies Lecture
Richard Economakis (University of Notre Dame)
Title: "Urban and Architectural Regeneration in Aegean Island Architecure: Case Study Nisyros"
Place: 58 Prospect Avenue, Room 101
Tuesday
March 25
4:30 pm Helen Buchanan Seeger Lecture
Oleg Grabar (Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Emeritus, Harvard University; Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ)
Title: "From the Icon to Aniconism, Islam and the Image" (poster)
Place: Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
Friday
March 28
2:30 pm Hellenic Studies Workshop
Yiorgos Kalogeras (University of Thessaloniki; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Hellenic Diaspora, Greek Immigrants, and 'Americans of Hellenic Descent:' Understanding Turn of the 20th Century Greek Immigration to the U.S.A."
Place: 58 Prospect Avenue, Room 101
Wednesday
April 2
4:30 pm Hellenic Studies / Group for the Study of Late Antiquity Lecture
John Haldon (University of Birmingham)
Respondent: Tia Kolbaba (History and Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Was Leo III an Iconoclast? Some Problems with Early Eighth Century History"
Friday
April 4
2:30 pm Hellenic Studies Performance-in-Progress
Elli Papakonstantinou (ODC Ensemble)
Dimitris Kamarotos (Center for Contemporary Music Research, Athens)
Title: "ODC… After Homer"
Saturday
April 5
9:00 am Hellenic Studies / Music / Computer Science Workshop
Elli Papakonstantinou (ODC Ensemble)
Dimitris Kamarotos (Center for Contemporary Music Research, Athens)
Perry Cook (Music and Computer Science)
Title: ODC Ensemble Student Workshop
Place: Woolworth Center
Sunday
April 6
9:30 am Hellenic Studies / Cotsen Children's Library Performance
Elli Papakonstantinou (ODC Ensemble)
Dimitris Kamarotos (Center for Contemporary Music Research, Athens)
Perry Cook (Music and Computer Science)
Title: "Homer's Odyssey in Performance"
Place: Cotsen Children's Library, Firestone Library
Sunday
April 6
1:30 pm Group for the Study of Late Antiquity Seminar
Robert Doran (Amherst College)
Title: "On Re-examining Hiba, Bishop of Edessa"
Place: 211 Dickinson Hall
Thursday
April 10
4:30 pm Sophomore Open House 
Place: 58 Prospect Avenue, Room 101
Friday
April 11
2:30 pm Hellenic Studies Workshop
Emmanuel Moutafov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies)
Title: "Orthodox Painters' Manuals in the Balkans during the 18th and 19th Centuries"
Friday
April 18
2:30 pm Hellenic Studies Workshop
Rupinder Singh (School of Architecture)
Respondent: M. Christine Boyer (School of Architecture)
Title: A Disturbance of the Narrative on the Acropolis
Wednesday
April 23
6:00 pm Hellenic Studies Reading
George Economou (University of Oklahoma)
Title: Reading of Poems and Translations
Sunday
April 27
1:30 pm Group for the Study of Late Antiquity Seminar
Walter Pohl (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Title: "The Search for Early Medieval Identities: The Case of the Lombards"
Place: 211 Dickinson Hall
Sunday
April 27
11:00 pm Pascha Greek Easter 
Place: 58 Prospect Avenue
Monday
April 28
1:30 pm Hellenic Studies Lecture
Evelyne Patlagean (Université de Paris-X)
Title: "When did Late Antiquity End?"
Friday
May 2
2:30 pm Hellenic Studies Workshop
Ipek K. Yosmaoglu (Near Eastern Studies; Hellenic Studies)
Respondent: Janet Klein (Near Eastern Studies)
Title: "Maps and Census: Construction of National Identity in Macedonia, 1870-1906"
Saturday
May 3
10:00 am Hellenic Studies Colloquium
Colloquium website and poster
Title: "Byzantine Habitat: Class, Gender and Production in the Eastern Mediterranean"
Place: 106 McCormick Hall
Friday
May 9
8:00 pm Hellenic Studies / Visual Arts Film Screening 
Title: Werner Herzog: "Signs of Life" (1968)
Introduction and Discussion: P. Adams Sitney (Visual Arts)
(more information)
Place: James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street
Saturday
May 10
9:30 am Hellenic Studies Colloquium
Colloquium website and poster
Title: "The Limits of German Hellenism"
Saturday
May 10
8:00 pm Hellenic Studies Concert 
Title: Works by German and Greek Composers (more information)
Place: McAlpin Rehearsal Room, Woolworth Center
Monday
June 2
5:00 pm Class Day 
Title: CANCELLED
Saturday
June 14
Princeton / Oxford Graduate Workshop 
Title: "Palaeologan Byzantium" (more information)
Place: University of Oxford