[MGSA-L] Public Lecture (Virtual): "On the Beginnings of Modern Greek Cultural History" by Professor Panagiotis Roilos, Harvard University, 06.02. 2022 at 12:00 PM CT (US and Canada)

Stefanos Katsikas skatsikas at uchicago.edu
Sun May 29 20:32:53 PDT 2022


Dear friends of the Hellenic Studies,

You are cordially invited to attend the virtual lecture titled On the Beginnings of Modern Greek Cultural History: Boundaries, Ideological Constructs and Methodological Suggestions by Professor Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Professor Roilos's lecture will be taking place via Zoom on Thursday June 2, 2022 at 12 PM Central Time (US and Canada).

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Abstract:
My lecture will focus on the intricate issue of the beginnings of modern Greek literature and culture from a methodological perspective which builds upon the concepts of Ursprung (“origin”) and schismogenesis put forward in different discursive contexts by Walter Benjamin and Gregory Bateson, respectively, while critically engaging with recent problematics concerning the ideology and practice of literary history. Drawing from diverse sources written in both archaizing registers and in the so-called vernacular, and revisiting the use of different (linguistic, geographical, historical, administrative) criteria of periodization in previous scholarship, I shall contend that the late fifteenth and especially the sixteenth century marked an important turning point in the formation of a distinct proto-national and cultural imaginary among Greek authors and readers. That imaginary, it will be argued, was supported by a more or less systematic “cultural political movement,” which promulgated the importance both of discourses about cultural and historical continuity between contemporary and ancient Greeks, and of the literary use of the vernacular, for the educational and national priorities of the Greeks. That movement, it will be further proposed, should be compared with the Greek Enlightenment of the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century, and especially with the cultural and pedagogical program of Adamantios Korais.



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Stefanos Katsikas, Ph.D.
Associate Director & Senior
Instructional Assistant Professor
Center for Hellenic Studies
University of Chicago
1153 East 58th Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
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