[MGSA-L] List of Events - Spring Semster 2015

Fri Jan 30 20:44:50 PST 2015

Dear members of the list,

The Program in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will be organizing the following events at the current (spring) semester (2015)

All the best,

Stephanos Katsikas

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Ø  Public Lecture: “Out from the Caves: Greek Orthodox Religious Culture in Late Ottoman Cappadocia”

Speaker: Prof. Tom Papadimitriou, Constantine and Georgeian Georgiou Endowed Professor of History, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Date: February 9, 2015
Time: 4-5pm
Location: Location Room 1065, Lincoln Hall, 702 South Wright Street, Urbana, IL61801
Sponsor: Program in Modern Greek Studies, History, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES), European Union Center (EUC), Russian East European and Eurasian Center (REEEC), Political Science, Program in the History of Arts, School of Architecture, Department of Linguistics, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics (SLCL)

Abstract: A lecture with slides describing the community churches in the region of Caesarea (Cappadocia) built by the Greek Orthodox population and abandoned as a result of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. The lecture will examine Greek Orthodox culture and identity based primarily on oral histories from the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens. Additionally, it will describe the experiences of conducting field research in the Cappadocia region in Turkey, with a look at a number of specific churches.

Academic Biography: Dr. Tom Papademetriou is the Constantine and Georgeian Georgiou Endowed Professor of Greek History, and Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. A graduate of both Hellenic College (BA, 1988) and Holy Cross School of Theology (M. Divinity, 1992), Dr. Papademetriou received his Ph.D. in 2001 from Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies in Ottoman History.  He was awarded research fellowships by the Social Science Research Council and the American Research Institute in Turkey to conduct research in the Ottoman Archives and the Archives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey.  His research focuses on the history of non-Muslims under Ottoman rule, and his monograph Render Unto the Sultan: Power, Authority and the Greek Orthodox Church in the Early Ottoman Centuries, has just been published by Oxford University Press (February 2015). In addition, Papademetriou directs an international collaborative project called the Anatolian Churches Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  From 1999 to 2000, he was in residence as a Junior Fellow at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Center and Library, Washington, DC and from 2000 to 2001 served as Lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.  As a member of the Historical Studies faculty at Richard Stockton College since 2001, he is actively engaged in building a strong Hellenic Studies program in which he teaches courses on the history of the Eastern Christianity and Islam, Tourkokratia, Modern Greece, and the Middle East.  He lives in Linwood, NJ with his wife Dorrie, and two sons, George and Romanos.

Ø  Movie Night: To Tango ton Christougennon (Christmas Tango) (English subtitles)

Date March 11, 2015
Time 6:00-8.00pm
Location: Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building (FLB), 707 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Sponsors: Program in Modern Greek Studies, Program in Less Common Taught Languages (LCTL), Department of Linguistics

Summary: This is the story of two Greek families, named Delafrangas and Bisbikides. The former family is very wealthy & lucky, the latter very poor and continually struck by fate. Poor but honest Martha is in love with Giakoumis, a young builder and bouzouki organist, but all her dreams fall apart when posh Tzela "steals" the love of her beloved one... A couple of flash backs, following their families roots back to WW2 and the Turkish domination, and a hidden secret will unfold the story's ending...

Ø  MillerComm Lecture: “The Greek War of Independence in Global Perspective”

Speaker: Prof. Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, Columbia University
Date: April 16, 2015
Time:  4-5.30pm
Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Sponsors: Program in Modern Greek Studies, Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), Center for Global Studies, History, Center for South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES), European Union Center (EUC), Russian East European and Eurasian Center (REEEC), Political Science, Program in the History of Art, School of Architecture, Department of Linguistics, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics (SLCL)

Abstract: The struggle for Greek independence in 1821 reverberated around the world and with effects continuing to be felt today - almost 200 years later.
Mark Mazower examines what we can learn about our own attitudes to questions of state sovereignty, humanitarian intervention and politics itself from those long-ago events and the way they were understood at the time.

Academic Biography:Mark Mazower is an Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University and one of the greater historians of our time. He is the Director of both the Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Center for International History at Columbia University and a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Past and Present. He specializes in the history of Modern Greece, 20th-century Europe, and international history and his current interests include the history of international norms and institutions, the history of Greek independence, and the historical evolution of the Greek islands in the very long run. Mazower earned his BA in Classics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 1981 and his doctorate from the same university in 1998. He also holds an MA in International Affairs from John Hopkins University (1983). Prior to his employment at Columbia University, Mazower taught at Princeton University, Birkbeck College, University of London, and at the University of Sussex. He has published extensively in newspapers since 2002 including articles and comments on international affairs and book reports for the Financial Times and for The Independent. He has been also appointed to the Advisory Board for the European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO). Mazower’s book The Balkans: A Short History won the Wolfson History Prize as well as the Adolphe Bentinck Prize and Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44, both won the Longman History Today Award for Book of the Year. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 won the Runciman Prize and Duff Cooper Prize winner and was shortlisted for the Hessel-Tiltman Prize. His book Dark Continent won the Primio Acqui award in 2001 and the German History Book Prize in 2002. Mazower’s publications include: Governing the World: The History of an Idea (Penguin Group<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_Group>, 2012); No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations (Princeton University Press<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University_Press>, 2009);Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Allen Lane, 2008); Networks of Power in Modern Greece, (as editor, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2008); Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950 (HarperCollins, 2004); Ideologies and National Identities: The Case of Twentieth-Century South-Eastern Europe (as co-editor, Central European University Press, 2003);After the War was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943–1960 (as an editor, Princeton UP, 2000);The Balkans: A Short History (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000), reprinted as The Balkans: From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day (Phoenix, 2002); Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century (Knopf, 1998); The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century: Historical Perspectives (as editor, Berghahn, 1997); Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44 (Yale UP, 1993); Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis, Clarendon Press<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarendon_Press>, 1991 (first published 1989), also translated in Greek<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language> by MIET<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bank_of_Greece_Cultural_Foundation>(2002). Mazower is also the recipient of the Dido Sotiriou Award of the Hellenic Authors Society in 2012 and the Society of Columbia Graduates Great Teacher Award in 2011.

Ø  Movie Night: I Axechasti Poli (Do not Forget Me Istanbul)

Date: April 29, 2015
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building (FLB), 707 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Sponsors: Program in Modern Greek Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Less Common Taught Languages Program (LCTL); Department of Linguistics

Synopsis: Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.

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Stephanos Katsikas MA, PhD (London) | Director of Modern Greek Studies & Language Coordinator of Modern Greek | SLCL | 707 S. Matthews Avenue, Urbana IL 61801, USA | Tel. +1 (217) 300 7188 | Fax. +1 (217) 244-8430 | http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/people/skatsika
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Check out my books:
Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe: Foreign Policy in Post-communist Bulgaria (2011, Scouloudi Publication Award, Institute of Historical Research, University of London):
http://us.macmillan.com/negotiatingdiplomacyintheneweurope/StefanosKatsikas

Bulgaria and Europe: Shifting Identities (ed.), (2010): http://www.anthempress.com/bulgaria-and-europe-hb

State Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945 (co-editor) (2012):  http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415690560/

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