[MGSA-L] Modern Greek Seminar, Columbia University: Konstantina Zanou (Thursday 10/25)

Evangelos Calotychos ec2268 at columbia.edu
Tue Oct 23 08:01:09 PDT 2012


> The Modern Greek Seminar
> at the University Seminars Program
> & The Program in Hellenic Studies,
> Columbia University
> invite you to a lecture by
> 
> KONSTANTINA ZANOU
> (Post-doctoral History Scholar, University of Nicosia, Cyprus &
> Visiting fellow, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), NYU)
> 
> "Between Two Patriae: Transnational Patriotism in the Ionian Islands and the Adriatic,
> 1800-1830."
> 
> On Thursday, October 25th
> At 6:15 p.m., Hamilton Hall, Room 617B
> 
> This lecture is about the story of three poets who set off from the same island of the
> Ionian Sea, Zante, and ended up becoming the "national poets" of two different countries,
> Italy and Greece. Ugo Foscolo, Andrea Calbo and Dionisios Solomos were born within years
> of each other (Foscolo in 1778, Calbo 1792, and Solomos 1798), but enough to inculcate in
> them different choices regarding language, poetry and, finally, national identity. Their
> divergent routes are seen as a metaphor for the dissolving Venetian "cultural continuum"
> of the Adriatic.
> 
> Konstantina Zanou studied Modern History at the University of Athens, Birkbeck College
> University of London, École Normale Supérieure de Paris and Scuol Normale Superiore di
> Pisa. She holds a Ph.D. (2007) from the University of Pisa - title: "Expatriate
> intellectuals and national identity: Andrea Mustoxidi in Italy, France and Switzerland
> (1802-1829)". She is also holder of the European Doctorate in the Social History of
> Europe and the Mediterranean (2007). In 2009-2012, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow
> (Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus/"DIDAKTOR" Programme), affiliated as a
> researcher to the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. She is currently a visiting fellow at
> the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) of New York University (Fall
> 2012).
> 
> ---
> 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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