[MGSA-L] New Courses in Modern Greek Studies-Hellenic Studies, Columbia University

Katerina Stefatos ks3061 at columbia.edu
Wed Aug 21 11:07:26 PDT 2013


*NEW COURSES IN MODERN GREEK STUDIES OFFERED BY THE PROGRAM IN HELLENIC 
STUDIES (CLASSICS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)*

Please find attached the posters of our Fall 2013 courses

For more info please contact us at hellenic at columbia.edu 
<mailto:hellenic at columbia.edu>

*STAY TUNED FOR OUR NEW WEBSITE TO BE LAUNCHED ON SEPTEMBER 3^RD !!!*

*Modern Greek Language Offerings**Fall 2013:
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*INTRODUCTION TO GREEK LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I-GRKM V1101 TR 
9:00am-10:50am. F 10:00am-10:50am. xxxx Hamilton Hall. Karen Van Dyck. 4 
pts*

This is a year-long course for students who wish to learn Greek as it is 
written and spoken in Greece today. As well as learning the skills 
necessary to read texts of moderate difficulty and converse on a wide 
range of topics, we will explore Modern Greece's cultural landscape from 
political graffiti to poetry to "parea." Special attention will be paid 
to general problems of foreign language study and translation. How do 
"our," "American," "Greek-American" definitions of language and culture 
differ from "their," "Greek" ones? Friday class is a separate 
conversation hour with Kathryn Stergiopoulos.

**

*INTERMEDIATE GREEK LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I-GRKM V1201 TR 11am-12.50am. 
xxxx Hamilton Hall.**Toby K. Lee. 4pts*

This course is designed for students who are already familiar with the 
basic grammar and syntax of Modern Greek language and can communicate at 
an elementary level. Using films, newspapers and popular songs, students 
engage the finer points of Greek grammar and syntax and enrich their 
vocabulary. Emphasis is given to writing, whether in the form of film 
and book reviews or essays on particular topics taken from a selection 
of second year textbooks. Prerequisites: GRKM V1101-V1102 or the 
equivalent. Corequisites: Students are also required to take the 
conversation class, GRKM W1211.

**

*INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK CONVERSATION-GRKM W1211 F 11am-11:50am. xxxx 
Hamilton Hall. Kathryn Stergiopoulos. 1pt*

For students in GRKM V1201, but also open to students not enrolled in 
GRKM V1201, who wish to improve their spoken Modern Greek.

**

*WORLDING C.P. CAVAFY: DESIRE, TRANSLATION, MEDIA GRKM W4300 T 
6:10pm-8:00pm. TBA. Karen Van Dyck. 4pts. *

*Bilingual 1-credit tutorial MG V3997. T**11:00am-11:45am. 515 Hamilton 
Hall*

By examining Cavafy's work in all its permutations (as criticism, 
translation, adaptation), this course introduces students to a wide 
range of critical approaches used in World Literature, Gender Studies, 
and Translation Studies.  The Cavafy case becomes an experimental ground 
for different kinds of comparative literature methods, those that engage 
social-historical issues such as sexuality, diaspora, postcoloniality as 
well as linguistic issues such as multilingualism, media and 
translation. How does this poet "at a slight angle to the universe" 
challenge contemporary theories of gender and literature as national 
institution? How can studying a canonical author open up our theories 
and practices of translation? Among the materials considered are 
translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, James Merrill, and 
Marguerite Yourcenar, commentary by E.M. Forster, C.M. Bowra, and Roman 
Jakobson, poems by W.H. Auden, Lawrence Durrell, and Joseph Brodsky, and 
visual art by David Hockney and Duane Michals. Though this course 
presupposes no knowledge of Greek, students wanting to read Cavafy in 
the original are encouraged to take the 1-credit directed reading 
tutorial offered simultaneously.

*GREECE AND TURKEY: LITERATURE AND POLITICS G4420 M 6:10pm-8:00pm. TBA. 
Vangelis Calotychos. 3 pts*

The relationship between Greece and Turkey, as well as between Greeks 
and Turks (and Cypriots), has traditionally been considered one of 
animosity and mistrust. This perspective fall short of capturing the 
complexities of a long history of encounters---literary, cultural, 
linguistic, political, musical, architectural---in a variety of 
contexts---Byzantine, Ottoman, colonial (e.g. Cyprus), national, 
transnational. This course will consider the nature of these contacts in 
their literary and cultural representation, their wider rhetorics and 
fundamental (meta)narratives in the modern period. All texts available 
in English translation. Though this course presupposes no knowledge of 
Greek, students wanting to read in the original are encouraged to take 
the 1-credit tutorial offered simultaneously through the Program in 
Hellenic Studies.

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Katerina Stefatos
Program Coordinator,Program in Hellenic Studies
Classics Department,Columbia University
617 Hamilton Hall
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-851 0297
Fax: 212-854-7856
ks3061 at columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hellenicstudies/



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