Modern Greek Studies Association

The 25TH MGSA SYMPOSIUM

November 2-5, 2017 · Stockton University · Galloway, NJ

Symposium 25

The 25th biennial Symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association took place November 2-5, 2017, in Galloway (near Atlantic City), New Jersey. The Symposium was hosted by the Pappas Center for Hellenic Studies at Stockton University. Professors David Roessel and Tom Papademetriou, Director of the Center, co-chaired the Local Arrangements Committee.

The Symposium keynote address, entitled “Globalization and the return to the national: Perspectives on Greece’s ongoing crisis,” was delivered by Anna Triandafyllidou. Dr. Triandafyllidou is Professor at the Global Governance Programme (GGP) of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute. From 2004 through 2012, Professor Triandafyllidou was a Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, where she headed a successful migration research team. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.

Read the abstract of Dr. Triandafyllidou's keynote.

There were lullabies and love songs, traditional folk songs of life on the island nation of Cyprus, sung by Fulbright scholar Nicoletta Demetriou. They highlighted the first evening of the Modern Greek Studies Symposium held at Stockton University, Stockton, New Jersey this weekend. Video courtesy CosmosPhilly.

About the Saturday evening theater performance with video from CosmosPhilly. Download the program as it happened
2017 Prize Announcements

Keeley Book Prize
Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize

2019

Mark your calendars for our next symposium – Nov. 7-10, 2019, in Sacramento, California, kindly hosted by Katerina Lagos, CSUS.

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