[MGSA-L] SNFPHI fall online events

[Dimitris Antoniou]

Dear list members,

Please see below the line-up of fall events organized by the Stavros
Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative
<https://snfphi.columbia.edu> (SNFPHI) at Columbia University. All events
will take place on Zoom (visit our website's Events
<https://snfphi.columbia.edu/events/> section for links) and livestream on
SNFPHI's Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/SNFPHI>.

With all good wishes,
Dimitris

Dimitris Antoniou
Lecturer in Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics
Associate Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities
Initiative (SNFPHI)
Columbia University


*Upcoming Fall Events*

*Outside the Archive: Greek Zines in the Age of Documentation*
September 30, 2021, 12:00-1:30 pm ET

Zines, self-published booklets situated within DIY culture, typically
circulate outside of the institutional and the mainstream. Recently
universities, libraries, and museums in the U.S. have begun to include them
in their collections and study them as unique resources for understanding
popular culture, addressing pressing social issues, and identifying
emerging trends in literature and the arts. In this online discussion among
scholars of underground publishing, librarians, and zine-makers, we review
Greek zines’ past and present, examine the consequences of zines entering
the archive, and explore what it means for our understanding of cultural
production when zines remain largely outside of institutional collections
in Greece.

Co-organized with
*Dhiktio yia tin Erevna tis Tipoghrafias ke ton Ekdhoseon*
*Cyborg Classics: A Conversation with Demosthenes Papamarkos*
October 29, 2021, 12:00-1:30 pm ET

What do ancient history and archaeology have to do with science fiction and
graphic novels? How can insights from the humanities help us examine the
role of artificial intelligence in the contemporary world? In this seminar
Demosthenes Papamarkos discusses how his training in classics helped him
conceptualize his recent graphic novel *Naked Bones*, integrate specialized
knowledge into a narrative aimed at a broad audience, and imagine
human-cyborg relations in a post-apocalyptic world.
Co-organized with the University Seminar in Modern Greek

*Going Viral: Public Opinion in the Social Media*
November 26, 2021, 12:00-1:30 pm ET

How do journalists and politicians assess public opinion on social media?
What are the consequences for democracy as they navigate an online
landscape shaped by algorithms, susceptible to fake news, and controlled by
private companies, in an attempt to understand the moods of the public? In
this event journalists, politicians, and pollsters discuss how social media
has changed their practices and their understandings of contemporary
politics.

Co-organized with *Efimeridha ton Sindakton*

*A Psychogeography of Bones*
December 15, 2021, 12:00-1:30 pm ET

In 1930, as part of the centenary celebration of the founding of the Greek
state, the revolutionary hero Theodoros Kolokotronis’s remains were
transferred from Athens to Tripoli, the city whose siege against the
Ottomans he had led. While his bones found a place in the city’s central
square, those of the Muslims and Jews who were massacred after the fall of
Tripoli were neither interred in cemeteries nor incorporated into national
narratives of the revolution. In this lecture-performance, artist and
historian Alexis Fidetzis traces Kolokotronis’s postmortem journey, looks
for those bones left outside of Greek history, and examines what the return
of this founding father to the site of such human loss reveals about the
making of Greek history and identity.

Co-organized with Atopos CVC and the University Seminar in Modern Greek
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