[MGSA-L] Events at Yale, Fall 2011

[Syrimis, George]

Tuesday, October 18, 5:00 PM
Luce Hall 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Eirini Karamouzi
Pinto Post-doctoral Fellow, London School of Economics

“Dealing with Greece: The EEC and the Second Enlargement”

The lecture will shed new light on the reasons that led Greece to apply for EEC membership, and most importantly on the rationale behind the Community's acceptance of the Greek application. This Community-centred approach of the second enlargement will highlight on what grounds and with what methods the Community and its institutions as a whole responded to the challenges of the Greek candidature in the 1970s.

The lecture is free and open to the public

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Wednesday, October 19, 7:30 PM
Loria Center, Room 351
190 York Street

Ivan Drpic, University of Washington

“Logikos Kosmos: Art, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Adornment in Later Byzantium”


The lecture is free and open to the public

Organized by the Medieval Renaissance Forum, History of Art Department.

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Tuesday, October 25, 7:00 PM
William L. Harkness Hall 116, 100 Wall Street

The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese (1988)


Kazantzakis’s irreverent novel The Last Temptation is transformed by Martin Scorcese into a visual epic of spiritual anguish and perpetual skepticism. A controversial film that shocked audiences when released, it features among others William Dafoe as Jesus, Harvey Keitel as Judas,  and David Bowie as Pilate.

The film is shown in the context of a class on Nikos Kazantzakis but it’s free and open to the public.


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Thursday, November 3, 5:00 PM
Rosenkranz Hall, 102, 115 Prospect Street

Peter Jeffreys, Assistant Professor of English, Suffolk University

“Cavafy's Byzantium: The Poetics of Exquisite Decline”

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Friday, November 4, 4:00 PM
Loria Center, 250, 190 York Street

Stratos Constantinidis (Ohio State) and Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia); Samuel Lasman (Theater Studies, Yale)

“Aeschylus' Persians Today”

A staged reading of Stratos Constantinidis’ new translation of Aeschylus’ Persians, directed by Sam Lasman (Yale) with an introductory talk by Elizabeth Scharffenberger on ‘The Play of Adaptation’

The reading is free and open to the Yale Community only.

Sponsored by the Classics Department and the Italian Department at Yale.

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Saturday, November 5, 10:00 AM
Institute of Sacred Music (SDQ), Great Hall, 409 Prospect Street

“People, Piety, and Sacred Power in the Eastern Mediterranean.”

This photography exhibition illustrates human interaction with the sacred in Istanbul (Constantinople), Mount Sinai, Osios Loukas (Greece), and Cyprus. From the magnificent Hagia Sofia to paintings of individuals in a humble village church, these images document the ways in which the Orthodox faithful sought, and still seek, to proffer piety. Exhibit on until March 2, 2012.

Curated by Vasileios Marinis and Linda Safran, Yale Divinity School.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Yale Divinity School.

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Wednesday, November 9, 5:30 PM
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, 409 Prospect Street

Archbishop Demetrios, of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

“Orthodoxy: An Unlimited Expression.”

A lecture on Orthodoxy by the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in America.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Yale Divinity School and the Hellenic Studies Program

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Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:00 PM - Friday, November 11, 2011 4:15 PM
Institute of Scared Music, 409 Prospect Street

“Looking East: A Window on the Eastern Christian Traditions of Epiphany”

A two-day conference on Orthodox Christianity will present lectures, film clips and music on the topics of Orthodox baptism, Coptic chants, Byzantine psalms, Eastern Epiphany rites and a performance by the Cappella Romana.

Participants include among others Linda Safran, Margot Fassler, Alexander Lingas, and Mary Farag

The conference is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Institute of Scared Music.

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Thursday, November 10, 3:00 PM
Institute of Scared Music, 409 Prospect Street

Vasileios Marinis, Assistant Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, Yale Divinity School, and Linda Safran, Visiting Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto

“Orthodox Baptism: Sites and Scenes”

This illustrated lecture surveys spaces, objects, and images associated with the sacrament of baptism in the eastern Mediterranean region.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Institute of Scared Music.

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Friday, November 11, 5:00 PM
Christ Church Episcopal, 84 Broadway

Cappella Romana concert: "From Jerusalem to Constantinople: Byzantine Music for St. Catherine and Epiphany"

The male cantors of Cappella Romana will present a virtuosic concert of medieval Byzantine hymns and psalmody from two celebrations: the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria (25 November) and the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan (Epiphany, 6 January).

The performance is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Institute of Scared Music.

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Monday, November 14, 5:00 PM
Luce Hall, 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

 Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou, Lecturer in Folkloristics, National University of Athens

“From the Island’s Perspective”: Conceptualizing the Ancestral Home among a Group of Greek-Australians”

An exploration of the dynamics of the traditions in the Greek-Australian Diaspora

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Monday, November 28, 5:00 PM
Luce Hall, 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Georgia Mavroudi, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University

“Filtering the EU in Greek domestic policy-making: the example of immigration policies”

A look at Greece within the European Union and the history and shaping of laws and services for migrants

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Monday, December 5, 5:00 PM
Luce Hall Auditorium

Aristos Doxiades, economist and entrepreneur

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture: “Greeks Behaving Badly? The Micro-origins of Crisis and Revival”

A prominent Greek private equity professional will speak about the nation's economic crisis for the annual Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Greek Table
Every Friday from 12:00-1:00 PM
Saybrook College Dining Hall, 242 Elm Street

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