[MGSA-L] Talk on Friday and upcoming spring 2015 events, Yale HSP

[Syrimis, George]

Friday, January 16, 4:30 PM
Luce Hall 202, 34 Hillhouse avenue


"Greece: Reliving the Days of 2012 and the Upcoming Elections"

Yannis Palaiologos, Journalist


Mr. Palaiologos will present his new book The 13th Labor of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis  and discuss its relevance to the upcoming elections in Greece. Since the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention. Observers around the globe have watched with morbid fascination as the country has repeatedly flirted with political and financial chaos, as one failed rescue programme has followed another, as extremism spread and its official creditors bickered about the causes of its inability to recover.

How did a prosperous, seemingly advanced economy in the heart of Europe collapse so precipitously? And why has it proved so hard for it to stand on its feet again? These are the central questions running through The 13th Labour of Hercules. Through a series of compelling stories - from a cancer sufferer depending on charitable health care, to the Financial Minister charged with clearing up tax evasion, to the union bosses fighting mass unemployment and the workings of a prejudiced, corrupt government - it brings to life the social, cultural and political forces that left Greece defenceless when the global economic hurricane came, and the vicious interplay between economic depression, institutional failure and social breakdown since the country's Great Crisis began.

Free and open to the public

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February 6 & 7 (full details tba)
Luce Hall 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Workshop on Modern Greek Instruction


February 16, time and venue tba
David Konstan, Professor of Classics in NYU
“Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea”.
In collaboration with Classics, WHC, Hebrew Studies, History of Art. Funded by the Onassis University Seminars Program.


February 24, 4:30 PM
Luce Hall 202
Screening of film The Other Town, directed by Nefin Dinc and Hercules Millas
Followed by panel discussion with director Nefin Dinc


Thursday, March 5, 4:30
Time and venue tba
Tassos Anastassiadis, Assistant Professor of History & Phrixos B. Papachristidis Chair in Modern Greek Studies, McGill University
“The Orthodox State: Modern Greece and the mediterranean origins of a counter-model of governance”


April 15-22 (dates and times tba)
Yannis Stefanidis, Professor of Diplomatic History in the School of Law, Political Science and Economics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Funded by the Onassis University Seminars Program.


April 17-18,
Conference "Mediterranean Crossings" on the early modern Mediterranean, organized by Alan Mikhail and Francesca Trivellato.


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