[MGSA-L] Reminder! April 21, 2017: "Crossing the Adriatic: Jews and Christians between Italy and Greece"

[Paris Papamichos Chronakis]

Dear friends and colleagues in the Chicagoland,

The Hellenic Studies Initiative, the Department of Classics and
Mediterranean Studies, and the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at
the University of Illinois at Chicago cordially invite you to a
mini-colloquium on


*"**Crossing the Adriatic. Jews and Christians between Italy and Greece**"*

*Friday, April 21, 4 pm*

*UIC Institute for the Humanities, Lower Level Stevens Hall
<https://www.google.com/maps/place/UIC+Institute+for+Humanities/@41.8728486,-87.6503464,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xc7b831d333f15e9!8m2!3d41.8728486!4d-87.6503464>*


*Dr. Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University, NYC), “**Becoming an Exile:
Mario Pieri and the Greek Revolution from the Italian Shores**”*

*Dr. Constanze Kolbe (Indiana University, Bloomington), “**Ties that Bind.
Jewish publishers and the making of a Jewish Adriatic Public Sphere**”*


*Discussant: Dr. Dean Kostantaras **(UIC)*


Two papers explore the fascinating but long-neglected connections between
Italy and Greece during the tumultuous nineteenth century. In the early
1800s, Mario Pieri, an Ionian intellectual in Florence, became a Greek
exile by not moving at all as he gradually discovered Greece, his new
homeland across the Adriatic Sea. In the late 1800s, Jewish newspapers
published in Corfu circulated in the Adriatic establishing a trans-national
Jewish public sphere. Mobility across the Adriatic fostered new belongings
that both sustained and transcended the nation.

Light refreshments will be offered. The event is free and open to the
public.




-- 
Paris Papamichos Chronakis
Lecturer
Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street (MC 315), 1818 University Hall
Chicago, IL, 60607-7117
tel. 310 560 2732
skype name: pchronakis
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