[MGSA-L] MGSA Innovative Initiatives Grant Recipients: October 2020 cycle

[Neni Panourgia]

Warmest congratulations to the recipients and to the committee for 
recognizing their merit!

All very best wishes,

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Professor Neni Panourgiá

Justice in Education, Academic Adviser
Prison Education Program,
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Rm 100
Columbia University,
New York, NY 10027
Tel. 212-854-1277

Editor-in-Chief, Anthropology and Humanism, 2020-2023
(with Katrina Daly Thompson)

Most recent publication
Λέρος. Η γραμματική του εγκλεισμού
Leros. The Grammar of Confinement
https://nefeli.fairead.net/leros
Dangerous Citizens. The Greek Left and the Terror of the State
dangerouscitizens.columbia.edu

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15481409




On 11/9/2020 7:00 PM, MGSA exec. director wrote:
> The MGSA is pleased to announce the award of two Innovative 
> Initiatives Grant in its October 2020 cycle.
>
> In Fall 2020 the Innovative Initiatives Committee awarded $1,000 to a 
> joint project sponsored by _Dr. Maria Boletsi_ (Marilena Laskaridis 
> Chair of Modern Greek Studies, University of Amsterdam) & _Dr. 
> Dimitris Papanikolaou_ (University of Oxford) in connection with their 
> proposal to migrate, modernize and maintain a dedicated website for 
> the project“Rethinking Modern Greek Studies in the 21st century: A 
> Cultural Analysis Network.”  The objective is to host and archive a 
> series of online roundtable discussions planned for the course of the 
> academic year 2020-2021 under the title “Modern Greek Studies and 
> Beyond: Local Cases, Global Debates.” The modernization of the website 
> would enhance the capacity to host, archive, and update all of the 
> network’s current and future events, including the group's dedicated 
> network blog. https://www.facebook.com/RethinkingMGS 
> <https://www.facebook.com/RethinkingMGS>
>
> The Committee also awarded $500 to _Dr. Maria Kaliambou_ (Hellenic 
> Studies Program, Yale University) toward the organization of a one-day 
> symposium titled "The Greek Revolution and Greek Diaspora in North 
> America," at Yale University, in Fall 2021. The symposium will focus 
> on the historical and cultural impact of the Greek Revolution for the 
> Greeks in North America, and it will strive to document how North 
> American Greek communities perceive and enliven this milestone of 
> modern Greek history. The symposium will also discuss its contemporary 
> significance in the identity formation of those very communities and 
> the mechanisms by which they cultivate the memory of the 
> Revolution.  The symposium is of significance for Greek American 
> Studies and Diaspora Studies because it is the first academic attempt 
> to bring the legacy of the war to the study of diasporic discourse.
>
>
> Congratulations to our colleagues!
>
>
> The next deadline is April* 1, 2021.*
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> Guidelines for proposal submission are available on our dedicated webpage:
>
> **
>
> https://www.mgsa.org/Initiatives/innovation.html 
> <https://www.mgsa.org/Initiatives/innovation.html>
>
>
> -- 
> Vangelis Calotychos
> MGSA Executive Director
> Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University
>
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