Program in Hellenic Studies Fall 2020

Elementary Modern Greek I, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa GRKM UN1101 Language Courses M/W, 12:10pm-2:00pm Method of Instruction: On-Line Only This is the first semester of a year-long course designed for students wishing to learn Greek as it is written and spoken in today. As well as learning the skills necessary to read texts of moderate difficulty and converse on a wide range of topics, students explore Modern Greece's cultural landscape from "parea" to poetry to politics. Special attention will be paid to Greek New York. How do "our", "American", "Greek-American" definitions of language and culture differ from "their", "Greek" ones? Intermediate Modern Greek I, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa GRKM UN2101 M/W, 6:10pm-8:00pm Method of Instruction: On-Line Only This course is designed for students who are already familiar with the basic grammar and syntax of modern Greek language and can communicate at an elementary level. Using films, newspapers, and popular songs, students engage the finer points of Greek grammar and syntax and enrich their vocabulary. Emphasis is given to writing, whether in the form of film and book reviews or essays on particular topics taken from a selection of second-year textbooks. Class times flexible. For more information please contact the instructor.

Greece today: language, literature, and culture (in Greek), Nikolas P. Kakkoufa GRKM UN3003 M/W, 4:10-5:25pm Literature, Culture Method of Instruction: On-Line Only & History This course builds on the elements of the language acquired in GRKM1101 through 2102, but new students may place into it, after special arrangement with the instructor. It introduces the students to a number of authentic multimodal materials drawn from a range of sources which include films, literary texts, media, music etc. in order to better understand Greece’s current cultural, socioeconomic, and political landscape. In doing so, it aims to foster transcultural understanding and intercultural competence, while further developing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Topics of discussion include language, gender equality, youth unemployment, education, queer identities, refugees, and the multilayered aspects of the crisis. Class times flexible. For more information please contact the instructor.

Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination, Dimitrios Antoniou GRKM UN3935 T, 2:10-4:00pm Method of Instruction: On-Line Only This course examines the way particular spaces—cultural, urban, literary—serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political imaginaries. It places particular emphasis on the themes of the polis, the city, and the nation-state as well as on spatial representations of and responses to notions of the Hellenic across time. Students will consider a wide range of texts as spaces—complex sites constituted and complicated by a multiplicity of languages—and ask: To what extent is meaning and cultural identity, sitespecific? How central is the classical past in Western imagination? How have great metropolises such as Paris, Istanbul, and New York fashioned themselves in response to the allure of the classical and the advent of modern Greece? How has Greece as a specific site shaped the study of the Cold War, dictatorships, and crisis?

website: hellenic.columbia.edu / e-mail: [email protected] Retranslation: Worlding C.P. Cavafy, Karen Van Dyck CLGM GU4300 T, 6:10pm-8:00pm Method of Instruction: On-Line Only By examining the poetry of the Greek Diaspora poet Cavafy in all its permutations, the case of a canonical author becomes experimental ground for opening up theories and practices of translation and world literature. Students will choose a group of poems by Cavafy or a work by another author with a considerable body of critical work and translations and, following the example of Cavafy and his translators, come up with their own retranslations (whether queer, visual, archival, theatrical). Works read include commentary by E. M. Forster, C. M. Bowra, and Roman Jakobson, translations by James Merrill, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Daniel Mendelsohn, poems by W. H. Auden, Lawrence Durrell, and Joseph Brodsky, and visual art by David Hockney and Duane Michals. Travel Literature in and from the Mediterranean, 18th-19th centuries, Konstantina Zanou Cross-listed CLIA GU4023 Courses TR, 6:10pm-8:00pm Method of Instruction: On-Line Only This course will study various forms of travel writing within, from, and to the Mediterranean in the long nineteenth century. Throughout the semester, you will read a number of travel accounts to develop your understanding of these particular sources and reflect on the theoretical discussions and the themes framing them, namely orientalism, postcolonial studies, imaginative geographies, literature between fiction and reality, Romantic and autobiographical writing, gender, sexuality and the body, the rise of archeology, adventurism, mass migration and tourism. We will focus on Italian travel writers visiting the and the Americas (Cristina di Belgioioso, Gaetano Osculati, Edmondo de Amicis) and others visiting the Italian peninsula (Grand Tourists, Madame De Staël), and we will study the real or imaginary travels of French, British and American writers to the Eastern Mediterranean and to antique and holy land (Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Count Marcellus, Austen Henry Layard, Lord Byron, Mark Twain), as well as Arabic travel writers to the West (Rifā'ah Rāfi' al-Tahtāwī). The Acropolis of in the 6th and 5th Centuries BCE, Ioannis Mylonopoulos Related Courses AHIS UN2101 M/W, 8:40am-9:55am Method of Instruction: On-Line Only The Athenian Acropolis represents one of the most important sites of the ancient world. The impact of its architecture and sculpture on artistic and intellectual expressions of later periods goes beyond the limits of antiquity. The course takes into consideration the importance of the Parthenon in ’s core curriculum but aims also at the contextualisation of the monument within the broader context of the Athenian Acropolis during the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The chosen chronological frame focuses on the period of the most intensive activity on the Acropolis, which correlates with the glorious days of Athenian power. Important notice: Because of the COVID-19 crisis and in order to help students cope with the unusual demands of online teaching, all readings, all powerpoint files, and all personal notes of the instructor will be posted on coursework in the first week of the term

Directed Readings, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa Directed GRKM UN3997 01 Directed Readings, Dimitris Antoniou Readings, GRKM UN3997 02 Directed Readings, Karen Van Dyck Independent and GRKM UN3997 03 Senior Research Directed Readings, Stathis Gourgouris GRKM UN3997 04 Seminars Directed Readings, Paraskevi Martzavou GRKM UN3997 05 Senior Research Seminar, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa GRKM UN3998 01 Supervised Independent Research, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa GRKM GU4460 01 Supervised Independent Research, Dimitris Antoniou GRKM GU4460 02 Supervised Independent Research, Karen Van Dyck GRKM GU4460 03 Supervised Independent Research, Stathis Gourgouris GRKM GU4460 04 Supervised Independent Research, Paraskevi Martzavou GRKM GU4460 05 Contact Ioannis Mylonopoulos Program in Hellenic Studies Department of Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies [email protected] 617 Hamilton Hall Nikolas P. Kakkoufa 1130 Amsterdam Avenue Director of Undergraduate Studies [email protected] New York, NY 10027 Ioanna Messini-Skordas Program Coordinator im2505@columbia edu

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