[MGSA-L] Fwd: New Courses in Modern Greek Studies-Hellenic Studies, Columbia University
Katherine Stefatos
ks3061 at columbia.edu
Mon Jan 20 09:28:59 PST 2014
*SPRING 2014*
*MODERN GREEK STUDIES COURSES*
*PROGRAM IN HELLENIC STUDIES*
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Please find attached the posters of our courses
*INTRODUCTION TO MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II-GRKM V1102. 4pts.
Karen Van Dyck TR 9:00am-10:50am 616 Hamilton Hall (Kathryn Stergiopoulos F
10:00am-10:50am 616 Hamilton Hall). *This second semester course is
designed for students who have taken the first semester course V 1101 or
the equivalent. It focuses again on 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, students
continue to explore Modern Greece's cultural landscape.
*INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II-GRKM V1202. 4 pts. Toby
Lee TR 11:00am–12:50pm 616 Hamilton Hall. *This second semester course is
designed for students who have taken the first semester course V 1201 or
the equivalent. In the spring term students complete their knowledge of the
fundamentals of Greek grammar and syntax while continuing to enrich their
vocabulary. The aim is to be able to read simple Greek newspaper articles,
essays and short stories and to discuss and summarize them in Greek. *Students
are also required to take the conversation class, GRKM W1212 (below)*
*INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK CONVERSATION-GRKM W1212. 1pt. Kathryn
Stergiopoulos F 11:00am–11:50am 617B Hamilton Hall. *For students in GRKM
V1202; but also open to students not enrolled in V1201 above, who wish to
improve their spoken modern Greek. For more information, contact Karen Van
Dyck at vandyck at columbia.edu
<vandyck at columbia.edu>
*COMPARATIVE DIASPORAS AND TRANSLATION-CPLS G6111. 3pts. Karen Van Dyck and
Brent Edwards T 2:10pm-4pm 201D Philosophy Hall.* This seminar will focus
on the theory and practice of translation from the perspective of
comparative diaspora studies. We will look at key scholarship on diaspora
that has emerged over the past two decades focusing on the central issue of
language in relation to migration, uprooting, and imagined community,
especially with regard to the literature of the African and Greek
diasporas. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to a practicum, in
which students will workshop their own translation projects.
*TOPICS IN GREEK FILM-GRKM V3135. 3pts. Erato Basea M 6:00pm-10:00pm 607
Hamilton Hall.* This course addresses a wide range of fields from film
theory and aesthetics to cultural studies and history, exploring questions
of film style, transnational and cosmopolitan filmmaking practices,
national industries and audience reception. We will begin by discussing
recent debates in film studies about transnational and peripheral cinemas
before proceeding to the case of films that are either produced in Greece
or are about Greece. We will read films in terms of their narrative style,
locate them in their wider socio-political and economic contexts of
production and reception, and suggest other case studies based on your own
background and interests. Films have English subtitles. *There will be an
optional 1-credit bilingual section for those students able to read and
discuss materials in Greek. *
*THE WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS: GREECE FACES EAST-CLGM V3920. 3pts.
Christine Philliou (TA: TBA) T 1:00pm-2:50pm 307 UTS. *This course is an
antidote to Contemporary Civilization and Literature Humanities,
considering the real, imagined, and forgotten ways that "Greece" was
connected to the "East," from antiquity to the present, rather than the
ways Greek culture and thought paved the way to "Western Civilization."
Using a range of disciplinary lenses--including but not limited to history,
literary criticism, anthropology, and art history--we will read and discuss
primary source materials that connect Ancient/Byzantine/Modern Greek
cultural, economic, and political actors with, for instance, Phoenician,
Persian, Arab, Turkish, Ottoman civilizations as well as cultures and
peoples of the "Modern Middle East." *The course fulfills the Global Core
requirement.*
*SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR-GRKM V3998. 4pts. Vangelis Calotychos R
12:10pm-2:00pm. *This course is primarily designed for students writing a
senior thesis or undertaking advanced research on modern Greece or Greek
Diaspora topics in all disciplines. The course of study and reading
material will be determined by the instructor in consultation with the
students; and it will be made relevant to the theoretical and practical
requirements of their research topic. The course will provide guidance and
supervision over the writing of the thesis over a sequence of drafts. It
will also instruct on how to best manage such practicalities as generating
a bibliography, providing proper citations, and organizing and developing
argumentation for a longer research paper.* Students not engaged in writing
a senior thesis but interested in working on a research topic require the
prior permission of the instructor: *ec2268 at columbia.edu
*MODERN GREECE-HIST W4300. 4pts. Mark Mazower M 11:00am-12:50pm 301 M
Fayerweather. *This is an undergraduate research seminar which will allow
students with an interest in the Balkans, eastern Europe and the Ottoman
empire to trace in detail the emergence of the independent Greek
nation-state in the early 19th century and to draw on contemporary
literature and the secondary historiography to evaluate theories of
ethnicity, nationalism and state formation. It is open to all students with
a background in modern European or Middle Eastern history and covers the
period from the mid-18th to the mid-19th centuries. *Instructor's
permission is required; preference will be given to majors and
concentrators, seniors and juniors. *
*CAVAFOUCAULT- CPLS G4105. 1,5 pt. Dimitris Papanikolaou MW 6:10pm-8:40pm
B-100 Heyman Center. *This lecture mini-course, takes two of the most
celebrated and influential thinkers and writers of the 20th century, Greek
diaspora poet C.P.Cavafy (1863-1933) and French philosopher Michel Foucault
(1926-1984) and attempts to read them side by side, in the light of
recently renewed critical emphasis on sexuality, biopolitics, queer
temporality and ethics. Even though students will need to familiarize
themselves with the writings of Foucault and Cavafy, as well as with
central texts of queer theory, no prior knowledge of these fields is needed
in order to follow the course.
*MUSLIM CHRISTIAN-BALKAN NARRATIVES-CLSL G6200. 3pts. Valentina Izmirlieva
R 2:10pm-4:00pm 709 Hamilton Hall.* A graduate seminar on major literary
and cinematic narratives from Southeastern Europe that thematize
Muslim-Christian encounters in the context of the complex political and and
cultural history of the Balkans. The reading list includes works by Ivo
Andrić, Ismail Kadare, Nikos Kazandzakis, Emir Kusturica, Milcho
Mancheveski, Orhan Pamuk, Milorad Pavić, Meša Selimović, and Yordan Yovkov.
*DIRECTED READINGS-GRKM V3997. 1-4 pts. *Designed for undergraduates who
want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the
curriculum.
*DIRECTED READINGS-GRKM W4997. 3pts. *Designed for graduates who want to do
directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.
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