The 29TH MGSA SYMPOSIUM
October 15-18, 2026 · University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
MGSA Symposium 29
The MGSA’s 29th biennial Symposium will be held at University of Illinois-Chicago on 15-18 October, 2026.
Professors Nicholas Doumanis and Young Richard Kim of UIC’s Hellenic Studies Program will host the event and chair the Local Arrangements Committee.
Organizers
The Modern Greek Studies Association Executive Board, the Program Committee, and the Local Arrangements Committee.
The registration page for our 2026 MGSA Symposium is now live
Accepted speakers must register by June 1.
The advertised rates featured on the site will remain unchanged until October 1.
After October 1, the rates in some categories will be increased and then remain available until the days of the symposium. There will be on-site registration at the symposium.
Photo: University of Illinois Chicago, Office of Communications
Open Theme
Proposals covered many aspects of Greek Studies, Greece, the Greek Diaspora, and Cyprus in early modern and modern times inclding many of the following topics:
- Climate change, conservation, sustainability, and environmental history
- Greek Linguistics and Language Pedagogy
- Literary Studies
- Transnational worlds and networks
- Dispersals, migration, return migration, exile, and displacement
- Mobilities and contact zones of people, practices, ideas, and objects
- Early Modern Greek world and identity
- Greek Orthodox history & culture in the early modern and modern periods
- War, Violence, and modern Greek political culture
- Empire, Imperialism, and Colonialism
- Decoloniality and social justice
- Technology and material culture
- Translation and translation studies
- Critical Heritage Studies
- Critical reflections on the state of the field of Modern Greek Studies
- Visual Culture, Media, and Film Studies
- Lost and found archives, archival studies; archival theory and practice
- Contemporary Greek Politics
- Tourism and Foreign Investment
- Digital Humanities, AI research, and online learning
- Greece, Cyprus, Israel, and Palestine
- Medical Humanities
- Asylum Seekers and Mixed Migration Flows in 21st century Greece
- Gender, Sexuality, Biopolitics
- Contested national narratives
- Memory Studies