[MGSA-L] cfp Hellenism Unbound

[June Samaras]

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From: Judith Hallett <jeph at umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:36:48 -0400

Barbara Elizabeth Goff wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have just seen this cfp which may be of interest to classicists but
> which does not seem to have made it on to our lists:
>
>
>
> a call for
> papers on the topic of “Hellenism Unbound” for the online journal
> Synthesis. The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2011. Text below, and
> here’s a link as well: http://www.enl.uoa.gr/synthesis/call.htm
>
> Synthesis 6 (2013)
> Call for papers
> Hellenism Unbound
> Efterpi Mitsi and Amy Muse (Issue editors)
>
> In 1997, Artemis Leontis proclaimed that “Romantic Hellenism has lost its
> charm.” But if scholars of Modern Greek Studies had been wondering what
> might lie “beyond Hellenicity,” in the last decade English, German,
> French, and American literary and cultural studies have experienced a
> Hellenic revival. Just a few examples of recent scholarship would include
> indigenous Hellenism, transnational Hellenism, connections between
> literary and archaeological excavations, women writers and Victorian
> Hellenism, Hellenism and postcolonialism, black classicism, and the
> history of race studies from the invention of “white, European” Greeks in
> the eighteenth century to the creation of American “white ethnics.”
>
> Indeed, Hellenism has flourished in so many directions that James Porter
> has recently characterized it as “a baggy, questionable idea that eludes
> definition,” a concept “burdened with more meaning than it can coherently
> hold.” The deconstruction it received in the 1990s from Vassilis
> Lambropoulos and Stathis Gourgouris, among others, may have left it even
> more unstable as a concept, but Hellenism is perhaps even more full of
> possibilities today.
>
> Can Hellenism be unbound from the binary perceptions of East and West,
> civilization and barbarism? Or unbound from the holds of academic
> disciplines (Classics, English literature, archaeology); nations (Britain,
> Germany); genres (the travel essay, the lyric poem), to become something
> altogether new?
>
> This issue of Synthesis is being conceptualized at a specific cultural
> moment when the modern nation of Greece has been in the news, reaching far
> outside the bounds of academia. Will this change Hellenism? Is there a new
> Philhellenism arising or are old prejudices rekindled?
>
> We invite contributions that engage with the imaginative and performative
> representations of Hellenism in modernity, from the late eighteenth
> century to the present. We are particularly interested in essays that
> unbind Hellenism from its usual holds, whether those are disciplinary,
> national, aesthetic, political, theoretical, or formal.
>
> Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:
>
> ·         Re-inventing Hellenism in the 21st century: new approaches,
> definitions
>
> ·         European Philhellenism: alternative histories, how Europe has
> been shaped by philhellenism, new imaginings of philhellenism in Europe
>
> ·         Travelling Hellenism: theories of travel, newly recovered works,
> tourism, commemorative sites and rituals
>
> ·         The permeable borders of Hellenism: nationalism,
> transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, diaspora
>
> ·         Hellenism and gender / the gender of Hellenism: women writers
> and the classics, recovering female Hellenists, gendering the study of
> Hellenism
>
> ·         Indigenous Hellenism and critiques of philhellenism
>
> ·         Aesthetics of Hellenism: Hellenism and form (the travel essay,
> the memoir, the novel, new or hybrid genres), Hellenism and
> genre—intersections of literature, art, and archaeology
>
> ·         Politics of Hellenism: (phil)Hellenism and Orientalism,
> Hellenism and postcolonialism, Hellenism and notions of race,
> reconsidering the connection of Hellenism and Eurocentrism
>
> ·         Disillusionment with Hellenism: revaluations of the role of the
> influence of Greek culture on Western society, heretical Hellenism
>
> Detailed proposals (800-1,000 words) for articles of 6,000-7,000 words and
> a short bio (up to 300 words), as well as all inquiries regarding this
> issue should be sent to both issue editors: Efterpi Mitsi
> (emitsi at enl.uoa.gr<mailto:emitsi at enl.uoa.gr>) and Amy Muse
> (ammuse at stthomas.edu<mailto:ammuse at stthomas.edu>).
>
> Deadlines:
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> 1 December 2011: submission of abstracts
>
> 1 February 2012: notification of acceptance
>
> 1 October 2012: submission of articles
>
>
>
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>
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>
> Dr. Amy Muse
>
> Associate Professor, English
>
> University of St. Thomas
>
> JRC 333
>
> 2115 Summit Avenue
>
> St. Paul, MN 55105
>
> ammuse at stthomas.edu<mailto:ammuse at stthomas.edu>
>
>
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>
>
> Barbara Goff
> Professor of Classics
> Department of Classics
> University of Reading
> Whiteknights
> Reading
> RG6 6AA
> 0118 378 5172
>
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