[MGSA-L] Invitation to lecture by Dr. Maria Georgopoulou of the Gennadius Library

[June Samaras]

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From: Jane Goble <jgoble at ascsa.org>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 13:57:58 -0400

Ambassador Aghi Balta, the Consul General of Greece to New York and the
Board of Overseers of the Gennadius Library of the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens cordially invite you to a lecture by Dr. Maria
Georgopoulou, Director of the Gennadius Library, on Venice and Byzantium
after 1204 on Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM.

Reception to Follow, Consulate General of Greece in New York, 69 East 79th
Street, New York City

RSVP:  Ms. Chesnut at  <mailto:gchesnut at ascsa.org> gchesnut at ascsa.org (609)
683-0800 ext. 15.  As space is limited, we would appreciate receiving your
response by May 5.

Maria Georgopoulou has been Director of the Gennadius Library at the
American School of Classical Studies at Athens since 2004. Before that, she
was Associate Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, where she
also founded the Hellenic Studies Program. A native of Greece, she was
educated at the University of Athens, the Sorbonne and UCLA, where she
received her Ph.D. in 1992. Her research focuses on the interaction of
artistic cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean. Her published works include
the book Venice's Mediterranean Colonies:  Architecture and Urbanism
(Cambridge University Press, 2001) and numerous articles on crusader art as
well as material culture and trade. Dr. Georgopoulou has received many
honors and awards, including a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Dumbarton Oaks Junior
Fellowship in Byzantine Studies, and a Fulbright Grant. She is an active
member of College Art Association, the Archaeological Institute of America,
the Modern Greek Studies Association, the International Center for Medieval
Art, and the Consortium of Hellenic Studies Librarians. She is currently
spending her sabbatical year on academic leave at the National Humanities
Center in North Carolina, writing a book on trade and the arts in the
medieval Mediterranean.

Special thanks to the Livanos Family and Chef Jim Botsacos of Molyvos for
the evening's mezedes, and to Sotiris Bafitis for the wine.

Sent by:

Jane Conlon Goble

Development Officer and Events Manager

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

6-8 Charlton Street

Princeton, NJ  08540

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