[MGSA-L] Invitation to The 26th Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies

[Rapti, Vassiliki]

The Program of Modern Greek Studies, Department of The Classics, Harvard University

cordially invites you to The 26th Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies:


                  “From Athens to the Anthropocene: Crisis, Affect, and Epoch”

                                                                      Charles Stewart
                                                                  University College London



Tuesday,
Nov. 17, 2015,
6 – 8 p.m.

Boylston Hall 110
(Fong Auditorium)
Cambridge, MA, 02138

                                     Reception to follow lecture in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall

Event free and open to the public

Synopsis
The only certainty in the midst of a crisis is that it will end. Just how and when this ending will come is, however, unknown. Crises therefore intensify thought about the past and the future, but also about time itself. This lecture will consider the periodizing schemes produced in the teeth of the economic crisis currently besetting Greece and compare them with other periodizing schemes produced during crises, such as the idea of the anthropocene currently being elaborated in the face of global warming. The human situation is one where people negotiate change while suspended between past and future. The study of crises throws this predicament into high relief.


Charles Stewart is Professor of Anthropology at University College London. His long-term ethnographic field research on the island of Naxos is presented in his books Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture and Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece. Currently he is developing an anthropology of history, the comparative investigation of how societies (including our own) construe the past, and time generally.


Sincerely yours,
Vassiliki Rapti


Vassiliki Rapti, PhD.
Preceptor in Modern Greek
Coordinator of Academic Events
Program of Modern Greek Studies
Department of The Classics
Harvard University
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