Summer Institute: Graduate Student Workshop on Ancient Greek Tragedy

This week-long workshop will bring together a small group of graduate students from Princeton University and Greek universities for a week of study of ancient Greek tragedy as text, matter, and performance.

Summer Institute: Graduate Student Workshop on Ancient Greek Tragedy - aTHENS, GREECE
JULY 3 - 9, 2023

OVERVIEW:

This week-long workshop will bring together a small group of graduate students from Princeton University and Greek universities for a week of study of ancient Greek tragedy as text, matter, and performance. The workshop will be based at the Princeton Athens Center for Research and Hellenic Studies. Five days of intensive reading and discussion in Athens, including visits to relevant archaeological sites, will be followed by a weekend excursion to the Athens-Epidaurus Festival for further visits and performances.

Students will be expected to prepare a collaborative draft commentary on an assigned passage, which they will circulate one week in advance of the workshop, and then present for discussion to the group. This year, the focus will be Euripides’ Erechtheus, and the program will be led by Professor Joshua Billings (Princeton University) and Professor Ioanna Karamanou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), with further invited guests to be confirmed.

All participants are expected to command Ancient Greek at an advanced level, and the language of discussion will be English.

Tuition for the program is free, and all participants will receive a certificate of participation.  All graduate student participants will be required to submit a report on the workshop by July 31, 2023.

All sessions will be held at the Princeton Athens Center, in-person (no zoom option)

Travel, Accommodation, Funding

Princeton students: Travel expenses for Classics students will be covered by the Classics Department.  Students from other departments should apply to their home department and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.

Students at Greek Universities:  Travel expenses (home institution/place of residence to Athens) will be covered by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.

Students requiring accommodation in Athens will be housed in double rooms at a nearby hotel. All program expenses in Athens and Epidaurus (including transport, local accommodation and performance tickets) will be covered by the Workshop, along with opening and closing group meals.

Eligibility

Princeton graduate students in Classics; Graduate students in other humanities departments are also welcome to apply; Graduate students enrolled at Greek universities.

How to Apply

Students wishing to participate should fill in the application form by March 15, 2023, and upload a CV and include how the program will benefit them and their course of study. Selections will be made shortly thereafter.

Deadline:  March 15, 2023

Questions may be addressed to [email protected]

Time of Year
Summer
Application Deadline
Application Status
Closed