[MGSA-L] Modern Greek Studies Courses at UIC, Fall 2018
Paris Papamichos Chronakis
pchronakis at gmail.com
Sat Sep 15 17:09:14 PDT 2018
*Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, **University of Illinois
at Chicago*
*Hellenic Studies Initiative*
*Fall 2018 Courses*
*GKM 105: Modern Greek Culture*
Instructor: Dr. Paris Papamichos Chronakis
What lies behind the sun-bathed beaches of lush travel brochures? A
helpless backward society or the laboratory of a dismal future? Now that
Greece is (again!) catching the world’s attention, we will discover the
rich culture of a country burdened with a glorious past but facing a
precarious future, a place where civilizations meet, but ‘Europe’ confronts
‘Asia.’ Through literary texts, images and films, museum visits and
sightseeing, we will explore how Modern Greeks relate to antiquity;
navigate between ‘Eastern’ tradition and ‘Western’ modernity; negotiate the
impact of globalization from food to sexuality; and creatively appropriate
western stereotypes of Greece as a country of ruins as well as a country in
ruins.
*GKM 285 /HIST 285: History of Modern Greece: 1453 to the Present*
Instructor: Dr. Paris Papamichos Chronakis
Why has a small nation of less than ten million people been repeatedly
catching the world’s attention during the past two centuries? This course
charts the social, cultural, and political history of Modern Greece and its
transformation from a faraway province of an Islamic empire to a
full-fledged member of the world’s wealthiest club, the European Union by
examining Greece from the oft-divergent perspectives of both its Christian
Orthodox majority and its Jewish and Muslim minorities. We will examine key
historical processes that shaped the politics, society, and economy of the
country and consider their local, national, and transnational dimensions
-from state- and nation-building to migration, refugeehood, war, and
genocide. Greece has often been at the forefront of global developments and
the course will place its history within a Mediterranean, Balkan, and
European context using a variety of historical sources, images, fictional
works, and films.
*GKM 101: Elementary Modern Greek I*
Instructor: Anita Skarpathiotis
*GKM 103: Intermediate Modern Greek I*
Instructor: Anita Skarpathiotis
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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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