This course treats the language politics of Cyprus — a divided island since 1974, split by a UN buffer zone — as a way into broader discussions of borders, conflict, translation and intercultural communication.
Hosted at the Hagios Ioannis Prodromos nunnery in Northern Greece, seminar participants conduct fieldwork and participate in a workshop that complements their on-site research and cultivates discussions around the broader region’s archaeology, history and social anthropology. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 seminar has been cancelled.
Combining classroom work with field reporting, this seminar places students on the front lines of the news in Greece, where they will learn and employ . . .