PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Fifteenth International Graduate Student Conference
IN MODERN GREEK STUDIES
“Works in Progress: New Approaches”
Friday, May 5, 2023
PROGRAM
9:45 a.m. WELCOME Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University)
10:00 a.m. PANEL I PAST AND PRESENT
Chair: Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University)
Jovana Andelkovic (Simon Fraser University) Abstract and Bio
“Illustrating and Fictionalizing Byzantium – The Role of Visual Elements in Greek Primary School Textbooks”
Respondent: Tommaso Giuliodoro (Princeton University)
Angeliki Tsiotinou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Abstract and Bio
“A Repository for Working-class Memories and Hybrid Hellenisms: The Hellenic Cultural Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah”
Respondents: Anastasios Panoutsopoulos (Princeton University)
and Rachel Patt (Princeton University)
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. PANEL II HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF TRANSITIONS
Chair: Nikolaos Panou (Princeton University)
Petros Kastrinakis (University of Crete) Abstract and Bio
“A Port and its People: Chania at the Time of Transition from Sail to Steam Navigation”
Respondent: Danai Thomaidis (Princeton University)
Elisavet Papalexopoulou (European University Institute) Abstract and Bio
“Women’s Fatherlands: The Polysemy of Patriotism During the Greek Revolution”
Respondents: Anastasios Panoutsopoulos (Princeton University)
and Pavlo Smytsnyuk (Princeton University)
3:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
4:00 p.m. PANEL III BEYOND BINARIES
Chair: Elizabeth Davis (Princeton University)
Alexander Strecker (Duke University) Abstract and Bio
“‘Begin, Slowly, at Noon’: Rhythmic Attunements at documenta 14”
Respondents: Eleni Stavroulaki (Princeton University)
and Andrew Griebeler (Princeton University)
Panagiota Vogiatzi (University of Birmingham) Abstract and Bio
“Émile Zola’s Nana: The Translation and Reception of a Queer Text in Late 19th Century Greek Literary Discourse”
Respondent: Brad Boswell (Princeton University)
6:00 p.m. RECEPTION
Program Committee
Brad Boswell, Hellenic Studies
Kathleen Crown, Humanities
Elizabeth Davis, Anthropology
Karen Emmerich, Comparative Literature
Tommaso Giuliodoro, Hellenic Studies
Dimitri Gondicas, Humanities and Hellenic Studies
Clayton Goodgame, Hellenic Studies
Molly Greene, History and Hellenic Studies
Andrew Griebeler, Hellenic Studies
Soo-Young Kim, Writing Program
Nikolaos Panou, Hellenic Studies
Anastasios Panoutsopoulos, Hellenic Studies
Rachel Patt, Hellenic Studies
Effie Rentzou, French and Italian
Lidia Santarelli, Library
Pavlo Smytsnyuk, Hellenic Studies
Eleni Stavroulaki, Hellenic Studies
Danai Thomaidis, Hellenic Studies
Secretary to the Program Committee: Iason Stathatos, Architecture
Supported by the Michael George Mazarakis Modern Greek Studies Fund