[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Workshop: March 9, 2012

[Dimitri H. Gondicas]

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Workshop


The Past as Pre-Text:

Neagoe Basarab and the Making of History

in Southeastern Europe

Mihai-D. Grigore
mgrigore at Princeton.EDU<mailto:mgrigore at Princeton.EDU>
University of Erfurt
Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Studies


Respondent:  Nikos Panou, Society of Fellows and Hellenic Studies


This workshop will explore the results of scholarly research on the important advice treatise of Neagoe Basarab (sixteenth century) in Southeastern Europe to show how national historiographies (such as the Greek, Bulgarian or Romanian ones) construct divergent patterns of interpretation. The challenge for the classical historiographical methodology will be the inversion of the priority of sources: the so called  secondary literature' will become in this case the primary source of this presentation. The hermeneutical approach to Southeastern European nationalist modernity after the eighteenth century will stress how historiography uses the past as pretext to build paradigms which serve different immediate or long-term political, academic, economic, and symbolic interests. The original work, Basarab's treatise, is in that case nothing more than a pre-textual ("before text"), amorphous material to be "molded" by different exegetic agents.



Mihai-D. Grigore graduated in 1999 from Bucharest University, Department of Historical Theology and Byzantine History, and obtained his Ph.D. (2007) in Church History at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, with a dissertation on the semantics of honor in the Middle Ages West-Franconian society. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the "World Regions and Interactions: Area Studies and Transregionality" research group, University of Erfurt, with a project on the Wallachian Prince Neagoe Basarab (1512-1521). His research interests are in the area of historical and political anthropology (rituals, symbolic communication, semantics), Byzantine and Southeastern European history of ideas, and political philosophy before the Enlightenment.
Friday, March 9, 2012
1:30 p.m.
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103


The HELLENIC STUDIES WORKSHOP provides an opportunity for post-doctoral fellows, visiting fellows, and graduate students to present their work-in-progress or recently published research. The aim is to encourage exchange of ideas across disciplines among Classical scholars, Byzantinists, and Modern Greek Studies specialists.



DATES:  Most Fridays, 1:30-3:30 p.m., during the term.  Dates, speakers and titles will be announced in advance via e-mail.



PLACE:  Room 103, Scheide Caldwell House, Princeton University



For further information about current events in Hellenic Studies, please refer to the calendar posted on our website:  http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/


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