Thursday, November 14, 2013
2:00-6:00 pm Registration
4:00-6:00 pm Session 1
Panel A·Literary-Cultural Identity Formation
Irene Kacandes, Chair·Dartmouth College, Comparative Literature·
Theodore Zervas ·North Park University·
Story and Song in Informal Learning Contexts: Children’s Early Education and National Consciousness in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Greece
Fevronia Soumakis·Columbia University Teachers College, History and Education·
Competing Visions: Greek American Education in New York, 1959-1984
Maria Kaliambou·Yale University, Hellenic Studies·
The Book Culture of Greek Americans
Panel B·Language, State, and Sustainability in the Greek World
Dr. Richard Janda, Chair·Indiana University, Linguistics·
Brian Joseph, Organizer
Efrosini Deligianni ·University of New South Wales, Modern Greek Studies·
Racist Talk in Greek Public Discourse: The Perpetuation of a Racist Ideology
Christopher Brown· Ohio State University, Classics· and Brian Joseph·Ohio State University, Linguistics·
Ecology of the Greek Language in Southern Albania
Mark Janse·University of Ghent; Vakgroepen Taalkunde·Linguistics·
Language, State, Ideology and the Sustainability of Cappadocian
Spiros Moschonas·University of Athens, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies·
Parallell Monolingualisms in Western Thrace and in Cyprus
6:00-6:15 Break
Session 2a
Welcome, Musical Interlude, MGSA Awards
Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union Main Floor
6:15-6:25 pm Welcome
Frank Hess, Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
Indiana University, Institute of European Studies
Maria Bucur, Associate Dean for International Programs and John W. Hill Chair in East European History, Indiana University
Artemis Leontis, Chair, Program Committee
University of Michigan, Modern Greek and Classical Studies
6:25-6:45 pm Musical Interlude
Nickolas Karageorgiou, tenor
Kornilios Michailidis, piano
Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
(Five Popular Greek Melodies)
1. Ξύπνησε πετροπέρδικα (The Song to the Bride)
2. Κάτω στον Αγιο Σίδερο (Yonder by the Church)
3. Ποιός ασίκης σαν και μένα (What Gallant Compares with Me?)
4. Μ´άντζελος είσαι, μάτια μου (The song of the Girls Collecting Mastic)
5. Smyrne Γιαρούμπι, Σμυρνέικο (Everyone is Joyous!)
Andreas-Foivos Apostolou, piano
Ionian Suite op. 7 Manos Hadjidakis (1925-1994)
II. Andantino
IV. Moderato
Fantasy Andreas-Foivos Apostolou b. 1991
6:45 - 7 pm MGSA Awards
Edmund Keeley Book Prize:
Vangelis Calotychos, The Balkan Prospect: Identity,Culture, and Politics in Greece after 1989 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Loring Danforth and Riki van Boeschoten, Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory (U-Chicago Press, 2012), shared First Prize; and
Theodora Dragostinova, Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1949 (Cornell University Press, 2011), Honorable Mention.
Presented by Nia Georges, Chair, Book Prize Committee
Elizabeth Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize:
Patricia F. Barbeito, Elias Maglinis, The Interrogation, First Prize.
Honorable Mentions (3):
George Economou, translations of poems by C.P. Cavafy
Maria Kotsaftis, translation of Michalis Spengos, "National Holiday" from The Final Apology
Anna Stavrakopoulou, translation of Georgios N. Soutsos, Alexandrovodas the Unscrupulous
Presented by Artemis Leontis, Chair, Translation Prize Committee
John O. Iatrides Best Dissertation Prize:
Stefan Papaioannou, "Balkan Wars between the Lines: Violence and Civilians in Macedonia, 1912-1918."
Presented by Effie Rentzou, Chair, Dissertation Prize Committee
Graduate Student Essay Prize:
Katerina Stergiopoulou, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Princeton University, for her essay "Μεταγράφοντας: Giorgos Seferis Writing with the Song of Songs."
Presented by Effie Rentzou, Chair, Essay Prize Committee
Session 2b
Reception and "Greece in Writing"
Event moves to
Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Cultural Center, 275 North Jordan Ave
7:15 - 7:45 pm Reception by Topo's 403
Special Session
“Greece in Writing”: Reading and Discussion of New Creative Work
Vassilis Lambropoulos, Chair·University of Michigan, Classical Studies and Comparative Literature)·
Natalie Bakopoulos·University of Michigan, English·
Author of The Green Shore ·2012·
Christopher Bakken·Allegheny College, English·
Author of Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table·2013·
After Greece ·2001·
Goat Funeral ·2006·
Translator with Titos Patrikios of The Lion’s Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios ·2006
Friday, November 15, 2013
8:30-10:00 am Session 3
Panel A·Pedagogy
Elsa Amanatidou, Chair·Brown University, Modern Greek and Center for Language Studies·
George Syrimis·Yale University, Hellenic Studies·
Modern Greek and Digital Humanities
Maria Kouti·University of Missouri-St. Louis, Anthropology, Sociology, and Languages·
Effects of Explicit Instruction on L2 Pronunciation of Modern Greek by L1 English Novice Learners.
Stamatia Dova·Hellenic College Holy Cross, Greek Studies·
Subjunctive, Feta and Elytis: Rethinking Curricular Development in a Greek Language Program
Panel B·Custom, Tradition, and Change at the Edge of Europe:
Legal, Economic, Political, and Educational Reform in Nineteenth-Century Greece
Peter Allen, Chair·Rhode Island University, Anthropology·
Alex Tipei, Organizer
Alex Tipei·Indiana University, History·
From Civilization to Nation: Lancastrian Schools Before and After the Greek State
Christos Theofilogiannakos·University of California, San Diego, History·
The Perennial Periphery: Culture, Identity and Politics on the Ionian Islands during the Long Nineteenth Century
10:00-10:15 am Break
10:15 am -12:15 pm Session 4
Panel A·Literary Modernism and Its Intertexts
Efthymia Rentzou, Chair·Princeton University, French·
Suzana Vuljevic·Columbia University, History·
Free (?) Verse: A Comparison of Modernism in Greek and Albanian Poetry
Katerina Stergiopoulou·Princeton University, Comparative Literature and Hellenic Studies·
Blast Furnace of Our History: Modernism and the Avant-Garde in Greece ca. 1935
Panel B· Sounding the Self: Music and Identity in Contemporary Greek Communities
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Chair·Comparative Literature and International Studies, Cornell University·
Yona Stamatis, Panel Organizer
Nikolaos Michailidis·Princeton University, Anthropology·
Invoking Memories of Absence: Pontian-Greek Music-Making and Listening in Contemporary Turkey
Yona Stamatis·University of Illinois, Springfield, Music·
Rebetika, Crisis and Catharsis: An Accidental Foray into Community Musick Therapy
Angelique Mouyis·Rutgers University, Music Composition·
Mikis Theodorakis: Reimagining Greece through Popular Art Song
Andrew Earle Simpson·Catholic University of America, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Theory/Composition·
The Spirit of Comedy in Theodorakis' Lysistrata
Panel C· Reshaping the Balkans: Refugees, Immigration, and Ethnic Identity
Neovi Karakatsanis, Chair·Indiana University South Bend, Political Science·
Katerina Lagos·California State University-Sacramento, History·:
Defending Hellenic Identity: Interwar Fears and the Repression of Foreign and Minority School Education in Greece, 1924-41
George Topalidis·Southern Connecticut State University, History·
The Deported: Refugee Immigration Experiences between 1917 and 1924
Yannis Papadopoulos·University of Peloponnese, Social and Educational Policy·
Refugees, “Surplus Population” and the “Communist Peril” in Western Europe and Greece after World War II
Olga Kalentzidou·Indiana University, International Studies·
Immigration and New “Others” on the Margins of Greece
12:15-12:30 pm Break
12:30-1:45 pm Session 5 Lunch·Plenary Roundtable, “Public Humanities”
Public Humanities: Organized Special Session
Neni Panourgia, Chair ·New School, Anthropology·
Yiorgos Anagnostou, Organizer
Participants:
Gregory Jusdanis, Introduction and Commentary ·Ohio State University, Modern Greek·
Yiorgos Anagnostou·Ohio State University, Modern Greek·
Karen Emmerich·University of Oregon, Comparative Literature·
Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. ·Georgia State University, Religious Studies and Hellenic Studies·
1:45-2:00 pm Break
2:00-4:00 pm Session 6
Panel A·Greek Receptions
Gonda Van Steen, Chair·University of Florida, Classics·
Calliopi Dourou·Harvard University, Classics·
Between Byzantium and Modern Greece: Nikolaos Loukanes’ 1526 Paraphrase of the Iliad
Panagiotis Antonopoulos·University of Crete, Modern Greek Philology·
Misreading Sappho in Modern Greek Translation
Mary Pittas-Herschbach·University of
Maryland, Classics·
A New Context for the Centaur?
Panel B·Becoming “Greek”? Revisiting the Politics of Interwar Thessaloniki
Sakis Gekas, Chair·York University, History·
Devin Naar, Organizer
Tassos Anastassiadis·McGill University, History and Modern Greek Studies·
Studying with Sharks: Actors and Debates around the Elaboration of a Venizelist Educational Policy in Interwar Salonica
Paris Papamichos ·Brown University, History·
Zionism, Hellenization, and the Jewish Middle Class in Interwar Salonica, 1922-1936
Devin Naar·University of Washington, History and International Studies·
Between Venizelos and Metaxas: The Possibilities and Limits of Jewish Inclusion in Interwar Thessaloniki
Thomas Gallant·University of California-San Diego, History·
Respondent
Panel C· Diaspora and Transnational Studies
Yiorgos Anagnostou, Chair·Ohio State University, Modern Greek·
Christopher Grafos·York University, History·
Myth of One Canada: The Politics of Immigrant Acceptance in Toronto and Montreal, 1967-1974
Elaine Thomopoulos·Greek Museum of Berrien County, Michigan·
The Greeks of Berrien County Michigan
Kathryn Vaggalis·University of Kansas, American Studies·
“A Cargo of Hellenic Beauty:” Greek American Picture Brides and the Discursive Creation of Usable Pasts
4:00-4:15 pm Break
4:15-6:45 pm Session 7
Panel A·Greek Culture in Crisis and the Culture of Crisis in Greece
Elizabeth Davis, Chair·Princeton University, Anthropology·
Despina Lalaki·New York University, A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies·
“Whose Culture? Our Culture!” De-fetishizing and Re-appropriating the Greek Archaeological Heritage
Kathryn Kozaitis·Georgia State University, Anthropology
“Crisis of Culture”: Thessalonikians in Search of Light through Liminal Darkness
Panel B·Historical Culture
Maria Koundoura, Chair·Emerson College, Writing, Literature, and Publishing·
Emilia Salvanou·University of Athens, History·
The Making of a Field: The Construction of Ottoman Refugees’ History during the Twentieth Century
Manos Avgeridis·University of the Peloponnese, “Aristeia Research Act,” History
Greek Historical Culture in the 1960s and the Civil War Heritage
Irene Kacandes·Dartmouth College, Comparative Literature·
Historical and Cultural Impingements on Individual Memory
Trine Stauning Willert·University of Copenhagen, Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies·
Cultural Diversity and Ottoman Heritage in Contemporary Greek Popular Novels
Kerstin Jentsch-Mancor·McGill University, Modern Greek Literature·
Historical Culture and Social Memory in Michel Faïs’s Πορφυρά Γέλια (2010)
6:45-7:30pm Break
Session 8
· Yanis Varoufakis·
Keynote Presentation and Discussion
Gonda Van Steen, Welcome
President, MGSA Executive Board·University of Florida, Classics
Artemis Leontis, Introduction
Vice President, MGSA EB·University of Michigan, Modern Greek and Classics
Frank Hess, Chair
LAC Chair·Indiana University, Institute for European Studies
Yanis Varoufakis
·University of Athens,
University of Texas, and Valve Corporation·Economics·
Being Greek and an Economist While Greece Burns
An intimate account of a peculiar tragedy
The crisis that erupted in Wall Street in the Fall of 2008 has had some bizarre side-effects. One of them was to push small, inconsequential Greece onto the front pages of the world’s leading newspapers and make it a permanent feature in the nightmares of peoples and policy-makers world-wide. Another was to create a new category of economist, fashioned by the global media: the ‘Greek economist’. This talk is to be delivered by one such person who never thought of himself as a Greek economist and who, despite his portrayal by the media as an ‘expert’, has never stopped saying that economists, independently of their intelligence or personal ethics, belong to a sinister priesthood purveying thinly disguised (and heavily mathematized) superstition as scientific economics.
Saturday, November 16
9:00-10:30 am Session 9
Panel A·Rereading the Literary Canon
Gerasimus Katsan, Chair·CUNY Queens, European Languages and Literatures·
Alvaro Garcia Marin·Columbia University, Hellenic Studies·
It's All about the Signifier: Uncanny Narratives and Repetition Compulsion in Modern Greek Culture
Annika Demosthenous·University of Oxford, Medieval and Modern Languages·
Ithaka or Hame: Translations of Cavafy Into Scots
Peggy Karpouzou·University of Athens, Philology·
Towards an Ethics of Uncertainty: Bioethical Issues and the Concept of the Author in N. Panagiotopoulos, The Gene of Doubt and N. Vlantis, Writersland: The Authors’ Island.
Panel B· Greek Anti-Americanism in Perspective ·1944-1974·
Ambiguities, Continuities and Discontinuities
Jonathan Swarts, Chair·Purdue University North Central, Political Science·
Kostis Karpozilos, Organizer
Kostis Karpozilos·Columbia University, History·
"Roosevelt Save Us": The Greek Left and the New Deal, 1944-1949
Zinovia Lialiouti·Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Political Science·
Aspects of the Greek Cold War Consensus: The Ambiguous Perception of America and the “National Mindedness”, 1947-1967
Kostis Kornetis·New York University, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies·
Anti-Americanism and Thirdworldism Among Young Anti-Regime Radicals During the Colonels’ Dictatorship, 1967-1974
10:30-10:45 am Break
10:45 am -12:15 pm Session 10
Panel A·Colonial/Postcolonial Greece: A Transnational Perspective
Vangelis Calotychos, Chair·Columbia University, Modern Greek and Classics·
Maria Koundoura, Organizer
Maria Koundoura·Emerson College, Writing, Literature, and Publishing·
Is the “Trans” in National the “Post” in Postcolonial?
Dusan Bjelic·Southern Maine, Criminology·
Greek Jews, Colonization of Greece: Toward a Minoritarian History of Greece
Maria Boletsi·Leiden University, Film and Comparative Literature·
A Liminal Topos between Old and New Realities: The Functions of “Waiting for the Barbarians” after 9/11
Panel B·Foreign Interventions: Twentieth-Century Greek History
Victor Papacosma, Chair·MGSA Executive Director; Kent State University, Emeritus Professor, History·
Nicholas James Kalogerakos·Oxford St. Antony's College, History·
The U.S. Reaction to the Athens Polytechnio Uprising in 1973
Susan Heuck Allen·Brown University, Classics·
The Children's House
Panel C·Issues of Reproduction
Nia Georges, Chair·Rice University, Anthropology·
Faidra Papavasiliou·Georgia State University, Anthropology·
Old Seeds in New Gardens: Sustainability, Agrobiodiversity and New Ruralities in Greece Today
Maria Bareli·University of Crete, Sociology·
Aspects of the Commons and the Gift in the Ikarian Paniyiri: Issues of Social Reproduction and Change
Venetia Kantsa·University of the Aegean, Social Anthropology and History·
Reproductive Work at the "Periphery": Space, Visibility, and Desire
12:15-12:45 pm Lunch Break
Informal disciplinary caucuses meeting schedule.
Saturday 12:15-12:45 informal caucus meetings (except Anthropology): gather at Biddle Hotel Registration desk.
1. Greek-American Studies, Giorgos Anagnostou
2. Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Maria Hadjipolycarpou , Gregory Jusdanis and Karen Emmerich
3. Linguistics, Brian Joseph
4. History, Kostis Kornetis and Sakis Gekas
5. Anthropology, Roland Moore
The Anthropology caucus will convene 6:30-8:00pm at BuffaLouie's, 114 S Indiana Ave and Kirkwood
12:45-2:45 pm Session 11
Panel A·Visual Culture
Kostis Kourelis, Chair·Franklin & Marshall College, Art History·
Martha Klironomos·San Francisco State University, Modern Greek Studies·
Travel Writing, Photography and Practices: Patrick Leigh Fermor vs. Joan Rayner
Lydia Papadimitriou·Liverpool John Moores University, Film Studies·
Contemporary Greek Cinema: Directions, Prospects and Exchanges
Foteini Venieri·University of Thessaly, Museum Education and Research Laboratory·
Museum Theatre Interpretation in Greece: Current Practice and Future Perspectives” (co-authored)
Matthew Milliner·Wheaton College, Art·
Converting Veronese: Visual Sabotage in Colonial Corfu
Panel B· Traces of Ottoman History
Thomas Gallant, Chair· University of California-San Diego, History·
Firuzan Melike Sumertas·Bogazici University, History; Princeton University, History·
The Greek Orthodox Community at the Making of Urban Istanbul
Nevila Pahumi·University of Michigan, History·
Constructing Difference: Protestantism Along the Modern Greek-Albanian Border, 1891-1914
Vasiliki Amorati·Bogazici University, History·
Beyond Myths and Realities of Smyrna's Cosmopolitanism and Urbanization: Exploring the Agrarian Life of the Greek Orthodox Inhabitants of Smyrna During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century.
Pamela Dorn Sezgin·University of North Georgia, History, Anthropology, Religion and Philosophy, HARP·
Kadıköy: Searching for the Greek Past in an Istanbul Neighborhood
2:45-3:00 pm Break
3:00-5:00 pm Session 12
Panel A·Nineteenth-Century Literature in National Contexts
Martha Klironomos, Chair·San Francisco State University, Modern Greek Studies·
Etienne Charriere·University of Michigan, Comparative Literature·
The Past Is No Foreign Country: Writing Historical Fiction in Greece and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
Pieter Borghart·Ghent University, Literature·
The Historical Novel and the Nation: The Lord of Morea ·1850· as Documentary Chronotope
Steven Van Renterghem·Ghent University, Literary Studies·
Nationalism and Genre in Early Nineteenth-Century Greek Novels”
Nektaria Klapaki·University of Washington, International Studies, Hellenic Studies·
Modern Greek Literature and the Religion of Greek Nationalism: Kalvos and Solomos
Panel B·Civic Action
Despina Margomenou, Chair·University of Michigan, Modern Greek, Kelsey Museum·
Eva Fotiadi·University of Amsterdam, Art History·
Site-Specific Artists’ Practices in Athens since 2000: Collectivity, New Artistic Subjectivities and a Culture of Events
5:00-5:15 pm Break
5:15-6:15 pm Session 13·Plenary Roundtable
Anthropology of Greece in Transition: Organized Special Session
Othon Alexandrakis, Organizer·York University, Anthropology·
Participants:
Elizabeth Davis·Princeton University, Anthropology·
Faidra Papavasiliou·Georgia State University, Anthropology·
Special Event
Horoesperida
with Rebetiki Istoria
Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Cultural Center, 275 North Jordan Ave
Indiana University’s Institute for European Studies and Modern Greek Program
invite symposium participants to the
Horoesperida with Rebetiki Istoria.
Pavlos Vassiliou, vocals and tzoura
Nikolaos Menegas, bouzouki
Vangelis Nikolaidis, kithara
Yona Stamatis, violi and bouzouki
Cash bar featuring Greek wine, beer, and mezedes plates for sale.
The “Horoesperida with Rebetiki Istoria” is organized by Yona Stamatis and Frank Hess.
It is offered at no cost to the MGSA Symposium registrants through the generosity of the following donors:
Rick and Soula Rifkin and the Rifkin Family Foundation
Dr. Elaine and Dr. Kevin Coghlan
Topo’s 403
Dr. George Bakris
The National Hellenic Society
Sunday, November 17
8:30-9:15 am MGSA Business Meeting (open to all MGSA members)