PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Sixteenth International Graduate Student Conference
IN MODERN GREEK STUDIES
“Works in Progress: New Approaches”
Friday, April 26, 2024
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
9:45 a.m. WELCOME: Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University)
10:00 a.m. PANEL I: IDIOMS OF GREEKNESS: MUSIC, LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
Chair: Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton University)
Trisevgeni Bilia (University of Oxford) Abstract and Bio
“Translation as a Prism: Reconsidering the Greek Translations of James Joyce’s Ulysses”
Respondent: Nikos Panou (Princeton University)
Dimitris Prokos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Abstract and Bio
“Understanding Repetition: Modern Greek Oral Poetry and Its Musical Contexts”
Respondent: Julián Bértola (Princeton University)
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. PANEL II: LANDSCAPE, CITIZENSHIPS AND URBAN IDENTITIES
Chair: Elizabeth Davis (Princeton University)
Charikleia Makedonopoulou (National Technical University of Athens) Abstract and Bio
“Palmscaping Project: Tracing the Journeys of the Palm Tree in Mesolonghi, Greece”
Respondents: Dimitris Hartonas (Princeton University) and Eleftheria Vagionaki (Princeton University)
Sofia Ntaliou (University College Dublin) Abstract and Bio
“Redefining Citizenship: Exploring ‘Local Citizenship’ and Urban Governance for the Un(der)documented Immigrants in Athens and Dublin”
Respondent: Evangelia Chordaki (Princeton University)
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
4:00 p.m. Panel III: POLITICS OF COLLECTIVE ACTION IN MALE CENTERED COMMUNITIES
Chair: Molly Greene (Princeton University)
Ioannis Papadimitriou (Royal Holloway, University of London) Abstract and Bio
“‘Wreath, Anchor and Guns’: The Greek Army Voting in 1920”
Respondent: Jake Ransohoff (Princeton University)
Paul Melas (University of California, Los Angeles) Abstract and Bio
“The Spirit at Work: Hope and Wage Labor on Mount Athos, Greece”
Respondent: Effrosyni Charitopoulou (Princeton University)
6:00 p.m. Reception
Program Committee
Julián Bértola, Hellenic Studies
Effrosyni Charitopoulou, Hellenic Studies
Evangelia Chordaki, Hellenic Studies
Kathleen Crown, Humanities
Elizabeth Davis, Anthropology
Karen Emmerich, Comparative Literature
Dimitri Gondicas, Humanities and Hellenic Studies
Molly Greene, History and Hellenic Studies
Soo-Young Kim, Writing Program
Nikos Panou, Hellenic Studies
Jake Ransohoff, Hellenic Studies
Efthymia Rentzou, French and Italian
Lidia Santarelli, Library
Katerina Stergiopoulou, Classics and Hellenic Studies
Eleftheria Vagionaki, SPIA and Hellenic Studies
Secretary to the Committee: Dimitris Hartonas, Architecture
Supported by the Michael George Mazarakis Modern Greek Studies Fund