[MGSA-L] Andreas Kalyvas (with responses by Stathis Gourgouris & Peter Bratsis) on the Greek December 2008, at Program in Hellenic Studies, Columbia University, Thursday Dec. 2nd, 6:30 p.m.

[Evangelos Calotychos]

The Modern Greek Seminar

at the University Seminars Program


& The Program in Hellenic Studies,

Columbia University

invite you to a lecture by



ANDREAS KALYVAS

(Associate Professor of Political Science, New School University)



“An Anomaly? Some Reflections on the Greek December 2008”

based on his article by the same name in the journal Constellations  
17:2, 2010 and available at:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hellenicstudies/pdfs/Kalyvas%20presentation.pdf



RESPONDENTS:



STATHIS GOURGOURIS (Columbia University)

  &


  PETER BRATSIS (Salford University, U.K.)




On Thursday, December 2nd

At 6:30 p.m., 1512 International Affairs Building (15th Floor)

420 W. 118th Street (near corner of W.118th and Amsterdam)



Andreas Kalyvas is Associate Professor of Political Science at Eugene  
Lang College, New School University. He is the author of Democracy and  
the Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Hannah  
Arendt, Cambridge University Press (hardcover 2008, paperback 2009).  
Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns, Cambridge  
University Press, 2008 (co-authored with Ira Katznelson). He is  
interested in democratic theory and the history of political ideas  
from ancient Greek and Roman to modern to contemporary continental  
political theory. In particular, his work focuses on the relationship  
between democracy and constitutionalism; problems of popular  
sovereignty, representation, and political autonomy; radical  
foundings, revolutionary breaks, and constitution making; the norm and  
the exception; emergency rule; citizenship and cosmopolitanism. His  
current research is oriented toward questions of constituent power and  
radical democratic politics on the one hand and on the overlapping of  
tyranny and dictatorship in Western political thought, on the other.  
He is currently completing a book manuscript provisionally titled  
"Legalizing Tyranny: Constitutional Dictatorship and the Enemy Within"  
while working on a second one, "Constituent Power and Radical  
Democracy."



Stathis Gourgouris writes and teaches on a variety of subjects,  
ultimately entwined around questions of the poetics and politics of  
modernity. He is the author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment,  
Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford, 1996)  
and Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical  
Era (Stanford, 2003), and editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham,  
2010). Outside these projects he has also published numerous articles  
on Ancient Greek philosophy, modern poetics, film, contemporary music,  
Enlightenment law, psychoanalysis. He is currently completing work on  
two projects of secular criticism: The Perils of the One and Nothing  
Sacred. He is also an internationally awarded poet, with four volumes  
of poetry published in Greek, most recent being Εισαγωγή  
στην Φυσική [Introduction to Physics] (Athens, 2005). He has  
translated the work of various Greek poets into English – notably  
Yiannis Patilis’ Camel of Darkness (Quarterly Review of Literature  
Book Series, Vol 36, 1997) – as well as the poetry of Heiner Müller  
and Carolyn Forché into Greek. He writes regularly in major Greek  
newspapers and journals on political and literary matters. He is  
currently the President of the Modern Greek Studies Association.



Peter Bratsis is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of  
Salford, U.K. He completed his undergraduate studies in economics and  
political science at the University of Maryland and my doctoral  
studies in political science at the City University of New York. Most  
of his research is related to the question of the state and political  
power. Drawing upon Marxist political theory, especially the work of  
Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas, Henri Lefebvre, and Louis  
Althusser, his research attempts to explain how the state is produced  
and functions. A key emphasis in my research is the necessity of going  
beyond economisitc and other deterministic understandings of  
contemporary politics. Similarly, there is also a strong focus on  
showing the social-historical specificity of political ideas and  
forms. He is currently working on a book length study of political  
corruption that examines how different notions of corruption have  
emerged and how each functions politically. He is also an editor of  
the journal Situations and organises an ongoing seminar series in  
radical political and social thought.



______________________________________
Vangelis Calotychos
Associate Professor, Program in Hellenic Studies
Department of Classics
Columbia University
606 Hamilton Hall,
1130 Amsterdam Avenue,
New York, NY 10027
Tel:  212-854-6988
Fax: 212-854-7856
ec2268 at columbia.edu

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