The 28^th MGSA SYMPOSIUM

 

::: Thursday, October 17, 2024

Session 1
3:30-5:15pm

Panel 1A: The Archive Cannot Hold: Interrogating Archival Access, Practices, Policies, and Publicity  FC 009

Panel Organizer: Gonda Van Steen · King's College London

Moderator: David Roessel · Stockton University

Andrea Rosso Efthymiou · Queens College · “Building an Archive Beginning with Loss: Reading Redacted US Adoption Documents in the Search for Greek Identity”

Shilo Virginia Previti · University of North Dakota · Constructing Sensational Salvation Stories: Reading Between & Across the Lines of ‘Near East’ Interwar YMCA Reports & Their Authors’ Diaries

Angelo Reyes · Stockton University   · “A Lesson in Greek: Gerald Wines’s Memoir about WWII in the Greek Mountains”

Panel 1B:  Contested Spaces: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Post-Dictatorial Greece  FC 004

Moderator: Franklin Hess · Indiana University

Evangelia Chordaki  · Princeton University · The struggle of the archive and the archive of a struggle: Dirty histories and messy epistemologies of Metapolitefsi

Yiorgos-Evgenios Douliakas · Universiteit van Amsterdam   · Standing Up in Public View: Secular Criticism at the Trial of Golden Dawn

Paul Melas · University of California, Los Angeles ·  The Spirit at Work: Wage Labor and Hope on Mount Athos, Greece

Panel 1C: Modalities, Metaphor and Metamorphosis in Modern Greek Poetry  FC 008

Moderator: Karen Emmerich · Princeton University

Andrew Ntapalis · Harvard University · Christological Modalities of Passion and Return in the Poetry of Yannis Ritsos

Tatiana Faia · Independent Scholar   · Death, Biography and Poetry in C. P. Cavafy, Fernando Pessoa and Federico García Lorca 

Konstantinos Konstantinou · Stanford University · Cavafy and Metaphor: A Philosophical Account

Panagiota Stoltidou ·   Freie Universität Berlin · Ambient Bodies: Metamorphosis as Ecopoetic Device in Phoebe Giannisi’s Cicada.

Panel 1D: Transnational/Diaspora Studies I:  Australia, Canada, and the United States  FC 006

Moderator: Fevronia Soumakis · Queens College, CUNY

Grigoris Argeros · Eastern Michigan University   · Socioeconomic and Demographic Outcomes of Recently Arrived Greek Immigrants in the United States

Daphne Arapakis · University of Melbourne · Greek Diaspora Responses to an Australian First Nations Voice to Parliament

Denise Matthews · Eastern Connecticut State University · Strategies for Re-Membering: US Ottoman Greek Family History

Themistoklis Aravossitas · York University, University of Toronto, Marianthi Oikonomakou · University of the Aegean, Emmanouela Tisizi · McGill University · Hellenic Relay: Sustainability of Greek Heritage Language Education in Canada

Session 2
5:30-7:15pm

Panel 2A: The Cultural Metapolitefsi: In-between Breakthroughs and Limitations  FC 006

Panel Organizer: Kostis Kornetis · Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Moderator: Despina Lalaki · City Tech, CUNY

Christos Mais · University of Thessaly · Hot Off the Press: Revolution was in the air

Spyros Kakouriotis · University of Athens · Avant-gardism vs. ‘nativism’: Perceptions of Political Theater in the passage from Junta to Metapolitefsi

Kostis Kornetis · Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · “Hearts are not like NATO - you can’t just walk off.” Documenting the Personal and the Political in Frida Liappa’s I Remember you Leaving Al

Panel 2B: Fortresses and Frontiers: Shaping Identities in the Mediterranean Borderlands  FC 004

Moderator: Tom Papademetriou · Stockton University

Dilek Ozkan Pantazis · The Cyprus Institute ·  Fortress-Towns and Frontier Dynamics: Ottoman Military Strategy in the Peloponnese (18th Century)

Aleksandar Jovanovic · University of the Fraser Valley  · Imagining a Community for Oneself: The Case of 15th-Century Chronicles from Ioannina

Naz Vardar · Simon Fraser University · Shaping Vlach Identity: Local Agents and Transnational Competition in Ottoman Manastir in the early 20th century

Panel 2C: Ruins and the Spatial Imagination  FC 009

Moderator: Will Stroebel · University of Michigan

Ewa Janion · University of Warsaw · “Tipote antropo, tipote loghia”. Ruins as a Form of Experience in Poems Written by Authors from Roghudi and Chorio di Roghudi 

Christopher Jotischky · Brown University · Vizyinos's Acropolis: Broadening the Hellenic Experience in 'The Only Journey of His Life'

Michail Lykouris · National Technical University of Athens · Elements and Textures of Spatiality: Urban Aspects of Athens in the Oeuvre of Christos Vakalopoulos and Alexandros Papadiamantis

Iason Stathatos · Princeton University · High-tech Antiquity: The Case of the “Stoa of Attalos”

Panel 2D: Music and Identity Politics in Greek America  FC 008

Panel Organizer: Panayotis League · Florida State University

Moderator: Roland Moore · Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation

Joanna Eleftheriou · Christopher Newport University, Panayotis League · Florida State University  & Anastasia Panagakos · Cosumnes River College · Choreographing New Identities: Folk Dance, Competition, and Authenticity in the Greek American Context

Mihalis Alisandratos · CUNY Hunter College · A Return from Xenitia: Fieldwork and Cultural Responsibility

Kostis Kourelis · Franklin & Marshall College · Greek Pleasure: The Archaeology of Smokes, Scents, Sweets, and Sounds in Philadelphia

::: Friday, October 18, 2024

Morning - Session 3
8:30-10:15 am

Panel 3A: Politics of Cultural Production: Theater and Music  FC 004

Moderator: Joanna Eleftheriou · Christopher Newport University

Ellada  Evangelou · CYENS Center of Excellence · The Invention of Ancient Greek Drama As Tradition in Cyprus: Institutions, Contested Spaces and Postmemory

Aliosha Bielenberg · University of California, Berkeley · Thinking About Music and Tradition in Cyprus

Katerina Stemni · Freie Universität Berlin  · Spaces of Liminality in Greek Folk Songs 

Panel 3B: Intersecting Histories and Cultures in the Early Modern Mediterranean  FC 008

Moderator: Gregory Jusdanis · Ohio State University

Alexander Grammatikos · Langara College · Lord Byron Translating Romaic Greek Culture, Lord Byron Translating the Self

Polyvia Parara · University of Maryland College Park · "Democracy in Focus: Koraes' Analysis of the Greek 'Koina' and 'Demotyranniae'"

Constantine Hatzidimitriou · St. John's University · James Williams and the Battle of Salona: An African American Hero during the Greek Revolution 

Panel 3C: Legacies of Fascism  FC 006

Moderator: Effie Rentzou Princeton University

Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou · Indiana University · Fascist Film Policies in Italian Colonial Dodecanese

Iason-Nikolaos Rodopoulos · York University · Postwar Financing of the Greek Industry through German Reparations: The Case of ODISY

Panel 3D: Imagined, Improvised, Imaged: Re-Composing Modern Athens through Travel Literature, Architecture, and Cinema
 FC 009

Panel Organizer: Alexander Strecker · Duke University

Moderator: Elsa Amanatidou · Brown University

Grace Monk · Princeton University · The Mirage of the Past: Ruin and Colonial Legacy in Latin American Travel Writing of the Mediterranean

Alexander Strecker · Duke University  · Re-composing Dimitris Pikionis and the Loumbardiaris Church: From the Ground, Up

Alkisti Efthymiou · Panteion University  · Swimming Among the Things of Athens: Opacity and Anti-Authoritarian Critique in O Yannis kai o Dromos

Panel 3E: From Arcadia to Pan Arcadian Association in America  FC 108

Panel Organizer: Maria Christina Chatziioannou · Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation

Moderator: Maria Kaliambou · Yale University

Michael Festas · National Hellenic Research Foundation · Spatial, Demographic and Economic Aspects of Migration from Arcadia to the USA in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Filippa  Chorozi · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · From Arcadia to America: The Tsakopoulos Family Success Story 

Christos  Chrysanthopoulos · National Hellenic Research Foundation · Migration Chronicles in Bytes: Crafting Digital Narratives of Migration from Arcadia to the USA

10:15-10:30 am Break

Late Morning - Session 4
10:30 – 12:15pm

Panel 4A: Revisiting the Archives and Collections  FC 009

Moderator: Dimitris Krallis · Simon Fraser University

Nevila  Pahumi · Library of Congress, Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division.  · Reference Services for the Modern Greek Collections at the Library of Congress

Billie Mitsikakos · Merton College, University of Oxford · Gore and Lists: C. P. Cavafy's Poetics of Seriality

Claudio Russello · University of Oxford · Archiving Time: The Fourth Dimension of the Ritsos Archive

Vasiliki Lampropoulou · University of Cyprus · An Unpublished Archive is about to Reveal Its Secrets: Exploring the Untapped Material of Katsimbalis Archive

Panel 4B: The Implications of Unaddressed Traumas in Modern Greece: Social and Welfare Perspectives   FC 004

Panel Organizer: Giorgos Bithymitris · National Centre for Social Research

Moderator: Othon Alexandrakis · York University

Giorgos Bithymitris · National Centre for Social Research · The Traumatized Gender: The Socio-cultural Conditioning of Trauma Processing in Contemporary Greece

Vasilis Ioakimidis · University of West Attica · Confronting Shadows: The Complicit Role of Social Services in Inflicting and Perpetuating Historical Trauma

Alexandra Stouraiti · University of West Attica · Service user involvement and applications of Restorative Justice in the Greek child welfare system

Panel 4C: Historical Perspectives on Jewish Identity  FC 008

Moderator:

Tatiana Markaki · University of Amsterdam · The Jews of Early Modern Venetian Candia: Material Preferences and Daily Life

Andreas Bouroutis · Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hellenic Open University · Antisemitism in Postwar Greece and the Middle East Question

Alexandra Ritsatos · University of Washington · Reexamining Communism and the Nation in Interwar Greece: Greek Jews and Greek Christians Pushing the Limits of Belonging, 1918-1936

Tobias Blümel · Universität Potsdam · Greek Jews, second–class citizens. Antisemitism during the Junta and the first decade of democratic transition (1967-1984)

Panel 4D: Andreas Papandreou, PASOK, and Post-Junta Greece  FC 006

Panel Organizer: Harris Mylonas · George Washington University

Moderator: Katerina Lagos · University of California, Sacramento

Lamprini Rori · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · Inside PASOK’s anti-americanism, 1974-2004

Harris Mylonas · George Washington University · Charismatic Leadership and Post-Junta Greek Politics

Panagiotis Zestanakis · Linnaeus University · The Greek 1980s as an Exercise of Anxiety

Panel 4E: Sights, Sounds and Taste in Contemporary Greek Culture  FC 108

Moderator: George Syrimis · Yale University

Nikolina Zenović · Indiana University, Bloomington · Sounding Sustainable: Astypalaia’s Soundscapes in/of Transition

Franklin Hess · Indiana University, Bloomington · Souvlaki as Style: The Cultural and Political Significance of Greek Street Food, from the Metapolitevsi to the Present

Vassiliki Vassiloudi · Iro Troulakis · University of Crete · Bost as a Children’s Illustrator: A Lesser Story of a Leftist Artist?

Kristina Gedgaudaite · University of Amsterdam · Greek Women Comics: Reframing the Canon, Recollecting the Everyday, Reimagining Futures

Lunch
Dining Room
12:15 – 1:45pm

12:40 - 1:40pm Lunchtime special session panels: 

Special Session 1: Innovative Digital Resources for Modern Greek Studies Worldwide  FC 006

Moderator: Tom Papademetriou · Stockton University

The Greek Digital Journals Archive

• Rebecka Lindau · University of Cincinnati
• Rhea Lesage · Harvard University
• George Paganelis · California State University, Sacramento
• Zachary Quint · University of Michigan

The CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature

• Dia Philippides · Boston College & Yiorgos-Evgenios Douliakas · Universiteit van Amsterdam

Special Session 2: Modern Greek Colonialities, or Why Dëcoloиıze Hellάş  FC 008

• Organizer: Penelope Papailias · University of Thessaly
• Moderator: Soo-Young Kim · Princeton University
• Penelope Papailias · University of Thessaly
• Despina Lalaki · City University of New York
• Dušan Bjelić · University of Southern Maine

Afternoon - Session 5
1:45 – 3:30pm

Panel 5A: Nikos Kazantzakis and Homer’s Odysseus: A Staged Reading and Critical Response to Odysseus: A Verse Tragedy  FC 108

Panel Organizer: Dean Papademetriou · Somerset Hall Press}

Moderator: Dean Papademetriou · Somerset Hall Press

Kostas Myrsiades · West Chester University · The Significance of Kazantzakis’s Odysseus: A Verse Tragedy 

Nikolaos Kotoulas · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · Tracing the Characters in Nikos Kazantzakis’ Tragedy Odysseus

Vassiliki Rapti · Citizen TALES Commons · Women in Nikos Kazantzakis’ Odysseus: A Verse Tragedy: A Pretext? 

Dean Papademetriou · Somerset Hall Press & Peter Botteas · Introduction and Staged Reading of the Play

Panel 5B: Transnational/Diaspora Studies II:  Greek Diaspora as Cultural and Political Mediators    FC 004

Moderator: Yiorgos Anagnostou · Ohio State University

Nataliya Karageorgos and Tatiana Liubchenko · Wesleyan University · The Legacy of the Mariupol Greeks: A Digital Project

Maria  Nikolopoulou · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens  · The Effort towards an American Edition of "Life in The Tomb" by Stratis Myrivilis in The 1930s: The War Book Boom and the Greek-American Cultural Mediators.

Georgios  Argiantopoulos · University of London · Diaspora vis a vis Homeland : The People’s Union of Liberals and the Cultivation of Political Identities and Divisions in Early Twentieth Century Alexandria  

Panel 5C: Revisiting the History of Greek State Formation in the Nineteenth Century  FC 008

Panel Organizer: Sakis Gekas · York University

Moderator: Nikos Panou · Princeton University

George Kalpadakis · Academy of Athens (Modern Greek History Research Center) · Revisiting the diplomatic foundations of sovereignty: the case of Greece

Sakis Gekas · York University · Merging states; the making of a national economy following the unification of the Kingdom of Greece and the Ionian State

Michalis Sotiropoulos · British School at Athens & University of Edinburgh · Reassessing the constitutional changes of the early Greek state: The 1844 and 1864 constitutions in context

Panel 5D: Colonial Legacies of Cyprus    FC 006

Moderator: Vangelis Calotychos · Brown University

Dusan Bjelic · University of Southern Maine   · Resituating Europe’s Greek Origins from the Athenian Polis to the Cypriot Sugar Plantation

Young Kim · University of Illinois at Chicago · 1974: The End of Late Antiquity in Cyprus

Tatjana Aleksic · University of Michigan · Decolonizing Cyprus: Cyprus in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)

Marion Foster · University of Texas at Austin · Global Alliances, Local Memories: US-Greek Relations and the 1963/64 Cyprus Crisis

Panel 5E: Cold War Greece and the Many Faces of Diplomacy: Culture, Science, and Humanitarianism  FC 009

Panel Organizer:  Zinovia Lialiouti · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Moderator: Despina Lalaki · City Tech, CUNY

Zinovia Lialiouti · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · In Search of Leaders: Yagos Pesmazoglu and US Cultural Diplomacy to Greece 1954-1974

Loukas Freris · Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · Engaging the Less Developed World: IAEA's Nuclear Diplomacy in Greece

Panagiotis Karagkounis · University of Manchester · Everyday Aspects of Cultural Diplomacy:  American humanitarianism in Greece, 1946-51

3:30-3:45 pm Break

Late Afternoon - Session 6
3:45 - 5:30pm

Panel 6A: Twin Mythologies: The Laughing Boy and Affinities between Modern Greek and Irish Culture  FC 108

Panel Organizer: Gail Holst-Warhaft · Cornell University

Moderator: Patricia Felisa Barbeito · Rhode Island School of Design

Joe Cleary · Yale University · Brendan Behan: Republican Internationalist

Gail Holst-Warhaft · Cornell University · The Lasting Resonance of "The Laughing Boy"

Eleni Geraki · Ionian University · Performing Irish Music in Greece Today

Panel 6B: Epidemics, War, and Humanitarian Responses  FC 004

Moderator: Othon Alexandrakis · York University

Aristides Hatzis · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens  · Autocratic Decision-Making in a State of Emergency: Ioannis Kapodistrias’ Management of the 1828 

Christos Stavros Konstantopoulos · McGill University · "The bulk of whom died of flu-related pneumonia": the forgotten history of the Spanish" influenza on the Macedonian Front

Thomas Bull · University of Pennsylvania · Κρήτη, Καταστροφή, Κατοχή: Greece as the Crucible of Humanitarianism

Harrison Blackman · Princeton University  · “Greece at the Turning Point”: Paul R. Porter’s collective memoir of Marshall Plan officials in Greece

Panel 6C: Transnational Networks and State Integration in the Interwar Period  FC 008

Moderator: Kostas Kourtikakis · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Lukas Tsiptsios · McGill University, University of Rouen  · Transnational Origins of Greek Republicanism (1915-1924)

Dimitrios Mitsopoulos · Columbia University  · State-Building and Border-Crossing: The case of Greek Macedonia

Ioanna Mousikoudis · TELEMME AMU-CNRS

Eleftherios Venizelos and the Greek Community of Marseille 1915 - 1936

Panel 6D: Alternative Narrators of Diaspora: Oral History, Film, and Materialities  FC 009

Panel Organizer: Effrosyni Rantou · York University

Moderator: Nichaolas Doumanis, University of Illinois Chicago

Angelo N.  Laskaris · York University · Unlocking  memory: Oral history, post-war narratives and diasporic identities

Theodore Xenophontos  · York University · Divided Memories: 1974 and Documenting the Experiences of the Cypriot Canadian Diaspora

Effrosyni  Rantou · York University · Diasporic matter-realities:  When objects and things narrate the life stories of Greeks in Canada

Panel 6E: Women, Gender and Sexuality  FC 006

Moderator: Elizabeth Davis · Princeton University

Charalampos Gappas · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · For I must save this woman” Prostitution, legislation and refugee crisis in the Hellenic Kingdom 1920-1924

Margarita Poulos · Western Sydney University  · Gendering Displacement and Radicalization after Lausanne

Maria Zymara · Harvard University · Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Written in Ink: Towards a Feminist Critique of the Generation of the Thirties

5:45-6:30pm  Graduate Mentoring
6:30-7:45pm  Graduate Mixer  Chancellor Green Rotunda
Organized by the MGSA Graduate Studies Committee

::: Saturday, October 19, 2024

Morning - Session 7
8:30 – 10:15 

Panel 7A: Emerging research on Salonica’s Jewry: Untold stories from the margins  FC 004

Panel Organizer: Dimitrios  Varvaritis · Independent Scholar

Moderator: Katerina Lagos · University of California, Sacramento

Christoph Steinberger · Independent Scholar · Of “gay” Sephardim and astonished Rabbis: The attempt of a theoretical approach to queer Sephardic history

Lida Dodou · University of Vienna · History from the margins: the migration of lower-class Salonica Jews to the Habsburg Empire, 1910-1915

Panel 7B: The Complexities of Greek-Ottoman Relations and Their Legacies  FC 008

Moderator: Harris Mylonas · George Washington University

Hilal Tümer · UC Berkeley  · New Perspectives into Greek-Ottoman Relations through the Ottoman Embassy in Athens

Dimitris Krallis · Simon Fraser University · Memories of the "Other" in post-Ottoman Lesvos: Imagination and Practice in the Years after “Liberation” and the Rupture of 1922

Dimitrios Stergiopoulos · UC San Diego · The Divine and the Temporal: The interactions between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Bankers of Galata 

Panel 7C: Sovereignty and International order in Southeastern Europe during the long nineteenth century  FC 009

Panel Organizer: Georgios  Giannakopoulos · City University of London

Moderator: Alex Tipei · Université de Montréal

Georgios  Giannakopoulos · City University of London  · European interventions in Greece and Southeastern Europe: a workshop of sovereignty?

Vladislav  Lilic  · Vanderbilt University   · Crucible of World Order: (Post-)Ottoman Balkans and the Emergence of Modern International Law, 1869-1889

Panel 7D: Politics and Poetics   FC 006

Moderator: Nektaria Klapaki · University of Washington

Afroditi Athanasopoulou · University of Cyprus · “Friends of the Other War.” George Seferis between British Intellectuals and Politics (1944-1963)

Bart Soethaert · Freie Universität Berlin · Nikos Kazantzakis and the UNESCO Project on the Translation of World Classics (1947–1948)

Eleni Papargyriou · University of Patras · The Adventures of Kazantzakis on Social Media 

Break: 10:15 – 10:30 am

Late Morning - Session 8
10:30 - 12:15pm

Panel 8A: Language Innovation, Dystopia, and Futurity  FC 108

Moderator: Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis · New York Institute of Technology

Yiorgos Podaropoulos · University of Oslo · Elsewhere than Elsewhere: Unnarratable Narratives of the Future in Sotiris Dimitriou’s Utopian Thought  

Dimitrios Prokos · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · Repetition, Trauma, and Time-travel in Alexandros Kotzias and Kurt Vonnegut

Simos Zenios · Stony Brook University · Dystopia’s Dignity: The End(s) of Art and Politics in Theotokis’ “The Destruction of the World”

Lucile Arnoux · Université de Tours · Multilingualism and Poetic Creation: the Case of Matsi Hatzilazarou, between Greek, French and English

Panel 8B: In the Name of Humanity: American Relief Aid to Greece 1918-1929  FC 008

Panel Organizer: Eleftheria Daleziou · American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Moderator: Molly Greene · Princeton University

Eleftheria Daleziou · American School of Classical Studies at Athens · American Women Medics and Relief Workers in the Near East 1918-1929: Stories from the Field

Lefteris Zorzos · University College London · The Near East Relief in Greece and the Near East Relief Orphanage on the Island of Syros 1923-1929

Yiorgo Topalidis · University of Florida · Philanthropic Activities of Ottoman Greek Mutual Aid Organizations: 1918 - 1929

Maria Georgopoulou · Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens · Exhibition In the Name of Humanity: American Humanitarian Aid 1918-1929 at the American School of Classical Studies (2023-2024)

Panel 8C: Cold War Rhetoric and Resistance in Anti-Junta and Anti-Communist Activism  FC 004

Moderator: Neovi Karakatsanis · Indiana University South Bend

Dimitrios  Machlouta · McGill University/EHESS · The Micro-Level of Greek Anti-Junta Activism in Paris:  a Convergence of French and Greek Intellectuals Toward Global Goals?

Jerry Christodoulatos · University of California, San Diego · "I Despise the Academicians More than Ever": Anti-Junta Activism in New York City, 1967-1974

Kostas Tampakis · National Hellenic Research Foundation · 'God is a Cucumber' and the 'Denial of Denial': Entangled Histories of Orthodoxy, Anticommunism and Science in 20th Century Greece

Panel 8D: Greece as a Deathscape: Ethnographic Reflections on Unjust Deaths, Normalised Loss and Survivance Practices
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Panel Organizer: Panagiota Paspali · University of Thessaly

Moderator: Julia Tulke · Emory University

Pantelis Probonas · University of Thessaly · Rationalizing Death: Big Data, Border Regimes and the Governmentality of Exclusion

Antonios Petras · University of Thessaly · These Walls Must Be Torn Down: Mapping Stories of Abandonment, Endurance and Failing Environmental Infrastructure in a Flooded City.

Panagiota Paspali · University of Thessaly · “Hands Off Women”: Femonationalist Adaptations of Feminist Discourses and Greece as a Carceral State.

Mel Kalfanti · University of Thessaly,Practices of Survivance in an Atmosphere of Violence: The Case of Queer-Feminist Self-defense in Greece

Panel 8E: Film and Photography  FC 009

Moderator: Katerina Zacharia · Loyola Marymount University

George Kouvaros · UNSW, Sydney · The Finite Community: Georgia Metaxas’ The Mourners

Nikoleta Tzani · Volos Municipality · Crossroads of the Imagination: Mount Athos in the Eyes of Modernist Artists

Dimitris Papanikolaou · University of Oxford · Social Realism and the Weird Wave: On Holy Emy (2021) and Animal (2023)

Orestis Tzirtzilakis · University of Oxford · Displacing Hysteria. The Example of Thanassis Veggos

12:15 – 1:45pm Lunch

12:40 - 1:40pm Lunchtime special sessions:

Special Session 3: Global Greek Diaspora Studies Today: Prospects and New Directions  FC 006

• Organizer: William Stroebel · University of Michigan
• Moderator: Nicholas Doumanis · University of Illinois Chicago
• Fevronia Soumakis · Queens College
• Sakis Gekas · York University
• William Stroebel · University of Michigan

Special Session 4: JMGS: Present and Future  FC 008

• Organizer: Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan, Editor, Journal of Modern Greek Studies
• Moderator: Nia Georges · Rice University
• Nektaria Klapaki · University of Washington
• Georgios Giannakopoulos · City, University of London
• Elsa Amanatidou · Brown University
• Michael Herzfeld · Harvard University

Afternoon - Session 9
1:45 - 3:30pm

Panel 9A: Language Innovation and Multimedia Poetics  FC 004

Moderator: Kelly Polychroniou · Boston University

Kyriaki-Evlalia Iliadou · University of Manchester · Re-narrating Otherness through Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling and Censorship in Post-war Greece (1949–74)

Nikos Mathioudakis · University of Belgrade · Words Reflections in the Poetry of Kiki Dimoula: A Corpus-Based Study

Amanda Kubic · The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · Multimedial and Material Poetic Encounters in Phoebe Giannisi’s Cicada (Τέττιξ) and Chimera (Χίμαιρα)

Panel 9B: Refugee Waves and Migration in the Twentieth Century  FC 006

Panel Organizer: Violetta Hionidou · Newcastle University UK

Moderator: Georgios Giannakopoulos · City University of London

Effrosyni Charitopoulou · Princeton University  · 1923:  Civic, Local, or Original Identity? Long-Term Refugee Integration and Identity Formation

Julia Brigitte Fröhlich · Vienna University, DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, ifk fellow · ‘Attempting to Put Oneself in Their Place’: Tracing the Socio-spatial Dimensions of the Trans-Aegean Jewish Exodus to Turkey (1943-1944)

Alexandros Lamprou  · University of Macedonia  & University of the Aegean · Between diasporic communities and colonial settlers: The Greek government-in-exile and Greek refugees in the Middle East and Africa 1941-45

Nikos Papanastasiou · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · Postwar Immigration to West Germany in the Greek Public Discourse

Panel 9C: Revolutionizing Scholarship and Pedagogies on Women’s Contributions to the Greek War of Independence
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Panel Organizer: Vassiliki Rapti · Citizen TALES Commons

Moderator: Nicolas Prevelakis · Harvard University

Evanthia Kafetzi · University of West Attica · Innovative Technologies and New Pedagogies on the Role of Women in the Greek War of Independence

Katerina Triantfyllou Washington University, St. Louis · SHEROES: A "Rasanblaj" of Voices of Resistance of Haitian & Greek Women in the 19th Century

Panel 9D: The Changing Nature of Greece's Diaspora  FC 008

Panel Organizer: Othon Anastasakis · St Antony's College, University of Oxford

Moderator: Nia Georges · Rice University

Manolis Pratsinakis · St Antony's College, University of Oxford · Greece’s new European Diaspora: From brain drain to brain gain?

Marilena Anastasopoulou · St Antony's College, University of Oxford · Greek communities abroad: A comparative study of the Greek Diasporas in the UK and Germany 

Othon Anastasakis · St Antony's College, University of Oxford · Greek diasporic vote: Are expats really encouraged to vote abroad? 

Foteini Kalantzi · St Antony's College, University of Oxford · Enhanced Greek diasporic networks: The role of Technology ·

3:30-3:45 pm Break   

Late Afternoon - Session 10
3:45 - 5:30pm

Panel 10A: Narratives of the Asia Minor Catastrophe in Greek Children’s and Young Adult Literature  FC 006

Panel Organizer: Rosy- Triantafyllia  Angelaki · Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Moderator: Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis · New York Institute of Technology

Rosy-Triantafyllia Angelaki · Aristotle University of Thessaloniki · Narratives of the “Lost Homelands” and the Asia Minor Catastrophe  in Greek Young Adult Literature.

Marianna Missiou  · University of the Aegean, Rhodes · Graphic Narratives on Asia Minor Refugees’ Relocation in Greece .

Chryssa Kouraki  · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · Nonfiction Books for Children and Young Adults about Smyrna’s Catastrophe: A Literature of Critical Engagement or a Literature of Facts?

Angela Yannicopoulou · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · The Aesthetics of Nostalgia Photographs in the Illustration of Greek Picturebooks about Smyrna

Panel 10B: Modern Greek Magic: Material Alchemy in Multi-temporal Works of Contemporary Art  FC 004

Panel Organizer: Rebekah Rutkoff · NJIT

Moderator: Dimitris Antoniou · Columbia University

Stefania  Strouza · University of Thessaly · Medeamaterial: A Materialist Reading of Heiner Müller’s Medea by the Coastline of Elefsina

Rebekah Rutkoff · NJIT · Archive of Plastic Dreams: The Temenos Spectator as Artist

Brooke  Holmes · Princeton University · Commentator

Panel 10C: Community in Motion: Press, Music, and Activism in Toronto’s Greektown During the Long Sixties  FC 009

Panel Organizer: Vasilis Molos · York University

Moderator: Sakis Gekas · York University

Alexandros Balasis · York University · Toronto’s Greek-Language Press and Community Dynamics (1950s-1970s

Alexandra Mourgou · York University · Music as a Political Statement and Geographies of Resistance: The Greek Canadian Experience in Toronto during the Dictatorship (1967-1974)

Vasilis Molos · York University · “Pathways Strewn with Ocean Waves and Thorns”: Toronto’s “Trojan Horse” in the Early 1970s

Panel 10D: Transgressive Networks in the Ottoman-Greek Mediterranean  FC 008

Panel Organizer: Will Stroebel · University of Michigan

Moderator: Young Richard Kim · University of Illinois Chicago

Will Stroebel · University of Michigan · The Mi´rāj Epic in Arabic-script Greek

Sada Payır · Princeton University  · Greek Orthodox Christians in the Network of Transgressive Merchandise in Late Ottoman Istanbul 

Aytek Soner Alpan · Simon Fraser University · The Constantinapolitan Greeks As a Sexually Imagined Minority: "Sokrati, the Heart-Captivating Belle of Tatavla"