[MGSA-L] Upcoming events from the Center for Hellenic Studies Georgia State University

George Nakos GeorgeNakos at mail.clayton.edu
Tue Sep 17 09:30:46 PDT 2013




Hello friends!

The Center for Hellenic Studies is kicking off the fall 2013 semester with a series of three lectures titled "New Perspectives on Austerity and Crisis." Over the course of three consecutive Wednesdays, faculty from Georgia State University and Clayton State University will present their research into the Greek economic crisis, and while doing so, will illuminate how Greeks are responding to austerity measures at the macro-level and in individual lives.

Wednesday, September 18
Behind the Headlines: Explaining the Greek Economic Crisis
Dr. George Nakos, College of Business, Clayton State University

In recent years, Greece has dominated the global economic headlines as an example of economic mismanagement. This lecture will provide a short history of the Greek economy with a particular focus on the causes of the recent economic crisis. In addition, the country's prospects for the future will be discussed.

Wednesday, September 25
Sentiment and Practice among Thessalonikians in Crisis
Dr. Kathryn Kozaitis, Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University

Based on 14 months of ethnographic research in 2009 and 2011-12, analysis reveals that middle-class Thessalonikian urbanites, transported into a state of social liminality, invent cultural strategies, practices, and ideals to ensure re-aggregation as stable citizens of a Greece they may claim as their homeland and re-integration as eligible members of a Europe in which they may thrive as Hellenes.

Wednesday, October 2
Old Seeds, New Gardens: Identity, Heritage, and Alternative Activism in the Greek Crisis
Dr. Faidra Papavasiliou, Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University

The epicenter of the European economic crisis, Greece is also the site of intensifying social mobilization efforts that seek to envision and produce "bottom up" economic and social alternatives. Much of this mobilization centers on recuperating Greece's agricultural heritage, filtering emblematic narratives and images of a foundational Greek rural and communal "folk life" through the prism of globalization's discontents, to envision and produce change. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in the Northern Aegean, this lecture will examine how newly made activists imagine and negotiate alternative futures through a traditional seed exchange network.

All three lectures will be located in the Troy Moore Library of Georgia State University (9th floor Langdale Hall, formerly known as General Classroom Building) at 3:30pm and will be followed by a light reception.

A flyer for the series is attached. Please distribute it to any and all who may be interested. This series is free and open to the public.


Best,


Sarah Levine
Program Assistant
Center for Hellenic Studies
Georgia State University
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