The Seeger Center sponsors innovative "Made in Greece" undergraduate seminar
Professor Soo-Young Kim and a group of Princeton students spent eight full days in Greece’s capital city for “Made in Greece: On-site in Athens,” an innovative new seminar sponsored by the Seeger Center.
This non-credit summer seminar was designed for Princeton undergraduates who had just completed their first year of study. From May 17-24, the students attended seminars at the Princeton Athens Center, met with Greek scholars, writers, artists, and students, and visited the Christos Kapralos Museum on the island of Aegina.
(left to right) Tamyca Tunis, Connor Evans, Nicos Nicolaidis, Althea Aguel, Angel Chang Liu, Matthew Okechukwu, Nick Manetas, and Humnah Poonawalla discussed Athens under Ottoman rule in preparation for a walking tour of the remnants of the Ottoman past in contemporary Athens.
The approach was interdisciplinary, focusing on identity formation and nation-making. Topics of study and research projects included art, food, tourism, music, cultural policies and activism.
Kim, who earned a Ph.D. in anthropology at Columbia University in 2017, was a Mary Seeger O'Boyle Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Seeger Center from 2018-19. She is now a lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program and teaches Hellenic Studies courses.
(left to right) Princeton undergraduates Angel Chang Liu, Tamyca Tunis, Connor Evans, Simone Acosta, Althea Aguel, Humnah Poonawalla, Nick Manetas, and Matthew Okechukwu at the Christos Kapralos Museum in Aegina.