<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From: Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.</p><p style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:lruprecht@gsu.edu" target="_blank">lruprecht@gsu.edu</a></p><p style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Friend of Modern Greek Studies:</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">As Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies at Georgia State University I am working closely with our partner institution, Kennesaw State University (KSU), on their upcoming "Year of Greece" in the 2020-2021 academic year.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">As you will see in the attached Call for Papers, the Year will culminate in a three-day conference, "Greece Through the Lenses of Migration, Sustainability and Resiliency," to be held on the KSU campus (just 15 miles north of downtown Atlanta) on March 18-20, 2021.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please feel free to share widely. The deadline for submission of 3000-word abstracts is October 19, 2020.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I hope that you and yours remain safe and strong in this challenging time.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt">warmly, </span><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div id="gmail-Signature"><div id="gmail-divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:12pt"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">William M. Suttles Chair of Religious Studies</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Department of Anthropology</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Director, GSU Center for Hellenic Studies</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience" (1844)</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p></div></div></div><div><div id="gmail-appendonsend"></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="display:inline-block;width:1238.72px"><div id="gmail-divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dan Paracka <<a href="mailto:dparacka@kennesaw.edu">dparacka@kennesaw.edu</a>><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, April 3, 2020 1:22 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Louis Arthur Ruprecht, Jr. <<a href="mailto:lruprecht@gsu.edu">lruprecht@gsu.edu</a>>; Pegah Zamani <<a href="mailto:pzamani@kennesaw.edu">pzamani@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Belinda Edwards <<a href="mailto:bedwards@kennesaw.edu">bedwards@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Susan Smith <<a href="mailto:ssmith1@kennesaw.edu">ssmith1@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Michael Serkedakis <<a href="mailto:mserkeda@kennesaw.edu">mserkeda@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Ermal Shpuza <<a href="mailto:eshpuza@kennesaw.edu">eshpuza@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Melissa Driver <<a href="mailto:mdriver6@kennesaw.edu">mdriver6@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Lolade Owokoniran <<a href="mailto:lowokoni@kennesaw.edu">lowokoni@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Joseph Bock <<a href="mailto:jbock2@kennesaw.edu">jbock2@kennesaw.edu</a>><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Binbin DeVillar <<a href="mailto:bjiang@kennesaw.edu">bjiang@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Tara McDuffie <<a href="mailto:trolle2@kennesaw.edu">trolle2@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Vivian Pascual <<a href="mailto:vbonill1@kennesaw.edu">vbonill1@kennesaw.edu</a>>; Anna Barnes <<a href="mailto:abarn121@kennesaw.edu">abarn121@kennesaw.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Year of Greece Conference Call for Presentations</font><div> </div></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dear Colleagues,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The attached Year of Greece Conference Call for Presentations is ready for promotion / dissemination. It is also available on the Year of Greece website and will be posted to applicable listservs. If you belong to or are aware of different listservs and organizations where this can be posted to, please post. Once you have posted, please let me as well as Tara and Vivian, copied on this email know.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Best regards,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dan</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div id="gmail-Signature"><div id="gmail-divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-ms-rterangepaste-start"></span><div>Daniel J. Paracka, Ph.D.<br>Director, Campus Internationalization<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Division of Global Affairs<br>Professor of Education,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Interdisciplinary Studies Department<br>MD# 9116<br>3391 Town Point Drive, Room 2813<br>Kennesaw State University<br>Kennesaw, GA 30144, USA<br> <br>Phone:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT64_com_zimbra_phone"><a href="callto:+1.470.578.6732">+1.470.578.6732</a></span><br>Fax:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT65_com_zimbra_phone"><a href="callto:+1.678.797.2573">+1.678.797.2573</a></span><br>E-Mail:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT66_ZmEmailObjectHandler"><a href="mailto:dparacka@kennesaw.edu">dparacka@kennesaw.edu</a></span></div><span id="gmail-ms-rterangepaste-end"></span></div></div></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px"></p></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Vangelis Calotychos<div>MGSA Executive Director</div><div>Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University</div></div></div></div>