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18 2 TBA “Behind the “Old Seeds, New Film Screening Headlines: Gardens: Identity, and Discussion: Explaining the Heritage, and Smyrna: The Greek Economic Alternative Destruction of a Crisis,” with Activism in the Cosmopolitan Dr. George Nakos Greek Crisis,” with City, 1900-1922 Dr. Faidra with filmmaker Papavasiliou Maria Iliou and

Newsletter Spring 2013 historian 25 28-29 Alexander Kitroeff “Sentiment and Two-day lecture Practice among and music series, 14-16 Thessalonikians in “Constantine Biannual Meeting Crisis,” with Dr. Cavafy: Greek of the Modern Kathryn Kozaitis Poet and Greek Studies Cosmopolitan Association in Visionary” Indianapolis, IN Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933), sketch by Mikis Matsakis, 1932 January TBA Lecture program, “Dr. King and the 2014 ” Fall Program: Cosmopolitan Hellenism It’s been a busy year here at austerity measures on the Greek preeminent Greek poet, Georgia State and the Center for population. Dr. George Nakos, of Constantine Cavafy’s (1863-1933). Hellenic Studies. This year marks Clayton State University’s College of Cavafy is a wonderful poetic the centennial celebration of the Business will kick off the series, representative of Greek university. Since 1913, GSU has followed by Dr. Kathryn Kozaitis cosmopolitanism: though he was grown from a small evening and Dr. Faidra Papavasiliou (both of born to Greek parents and wrote business school into one of the most GSU’s Department of Anthropology almost exclusively in Greek, he diverse public research universities and CHS Executive Committee spent most of his life in important in the country. With that legacy in Members). Together, the lectures cities within the mind, the Center for Hellenic will present a well-rounded analysis (most notably Alexandria in Egypt) Studies is proud to announce the of the financial, ethical, and social and never thought to return to the theme for its 2013-2014 dimensions of ’s current Greek mainland. Much of his poetry programming, titled Cosmopolitan economic state. was inspired by ancient Greek myth Hellenism. On October 28th and 29th, the and the . Cavafy The program will highlight both Center will sponsor its largest public was proudly Hellenic: A Greek contemporary issues in Greece as event to date. In acknowledgement shaped equally by the history of his well as the legacy of of UNESCO’s declaration of 2013 homeland and the modern world in in the modern world. Starting on and the “Year of Cavafy,” we will which he lived. September 18, we will sponsor host a two-day series of lectures, In late November, the Center lectures on three successive panel discussions, and music welcomes the award-winning Wednesdays that will focus on the concerts in honor of the 150th filmmaker Maria Iliou and her effects of the financial crisis and anniversary of the birth of the (continued on p. 2) Spring 2013 in Review UPCOMING LECTURE The Center for Hellenic Studies spiritual texts in the Philokalia. He “Behind the Headlines: had a productive Spring semester. recently published a co-edited Through partnerships with the volume of scholarly essays about the Explaining the Greek

Spring 2013 Goethe Zentrum, the Greek monastic text called The Philokalia: A Economic Crisis” Orthodox Cathedral of of the Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality Dr. George Nakos, Associate Annunciation, GSU’s Department of (Oxford University Press, 2012). Professor of Marketing, Clayton History, the American Academy of The following month, CHS State University Religion, Emory University, executive committee member Lela Spelman College, and Agnes Scott Urquahart played an instrumental In recent years, Greece has College, we were able to sponsor a role in joining the Center and GSU’s dominated the global economic number of highly successful events. History Department in welcoming headlines as an example of In February, the Greek Professor of economic mismanagement. This Orthodox Cathedral of the History, Nino Luraghi to Georgia lecture will attempt to provide a HELLENIC STUDIES Annunciation hosted lectures by the State. His presentation, titled short history of the Greek Center for Hellenic Studies’ “Fighting for the Other,” explored economy with a particular focus Director, Louis Ruprecht and by the dynamics of mercenary identity on the causes of the recent Assistant Professor of Religious in the Greek colonies of the Ancient economic crisis. In addition, the Studies at Wesleyan College, Brock Mediterranean world. In April, the country’s prospects for the future Bingaman. Dr. Ruprecht’s lecture, Center partnered with the American will be discussed.

CENTER FOR “God’s Palace of Art,” explained the Academy of Religion and three Wednesday, September 18 Vatican’s justification for the colleges and universities in the 3:30-6:00PM, Troy Moore Library collection and display of pre- Atlanta area to host the 2013 Reception to follow lecture Christian Greek art as well as its role American Lectureship in the History in the development of the modern of Religions. This year’s lecturer, art museum. Later that month, the Emeritus Professor of Religion at Center brought Dr. Brock Princeton University, John Gager, Bingaman to the Cathedral to presented five lectures throughout present his talk, “The Philokalia: A the city in a lectureship series titled, Book for all Christians.” Dr. Winners and Losers in the Making of Bingaman, who is also the Director Early Christianity; The Center was of the Pre-Seminary Program at thrilled to sponsor the last of those Wesleyan College, led a lively lectures, “Let’s Meet Downtown in discussion about the ecumenical the Synagogue: Jews and Greeks in nature of the collection of Orthodox the Ancient World,” Cosmopolitan Hellenism email the Center’s program (continued from p. 1) assistant, Sarah Levine, at [email protected] to be added to Princeton University Emeritus Professor of collaborator Alexander Kitroeff our e-mailing list. Religion, Dr. John Gager for a screening for a screening and panel discussion of their on April 5th. newest documentary, Smyrna: The In addition to bringing renowned Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City, scholars to Georgia State, this past 1900-1922 (2012). Iliou’s film semester, CHS Executive Committee integrates interviews with members presented their work at survivors and historians with national and international vintage footage and photographs. conferences. Dr. Urquhart gave a Panel discussions will follow the paper at the annual meeting of the screening. Please check the Society of Ancient Mediterranean Center’s website for updates Religions Conference (see Dr. about the screening location and Urquhart’s Faculty Spotlight on p. date. 6), while the Center’s director, Dr. All of these events are free Louis Ruprecht, traveled to Yunan and open to the public, and we University in Shanghai to give a will be thrilled to see you there. lecture, "Pagan Art is Radical To receive periodic updates about Religion: Revolutionary Aesthetics our programming and reminders in Winckelmann, Hegel and about upcoming events, please Quatremère de Quincy." Executive Committee Spotlight Greetings once again from the Center for Hellenic Studies. In this edition, we have elected to showcase several members of the Executive Committee of the Center, and the important work they do. Here you will find significant biographic and academic summaries by Faidra Papavasiliou, Gerard Pendrick, Kathryn Kozaitis,

Spring 2013 and Lela Urquhart. You will also see the upcoming courses these and other members of the Center are offering support of the ancient and modern Greek studies focus of the Center.

We will introduce you to other members of the Executive Committee in future newsletters, but here I wish to hold up one irreplaceable member of our team, Sarah Levine. I worked with Sarah both as an undergraduate and as a masters student. When she completed her brilliant thesis on Nietzsche’s philosophy of tragic art and the avant garde ballets of Nijinsky, I invited Sarah to join the Center’s staff. Without her, quite literally none of our robust year of programming would have been possible. She did it all: building the website, building the newsletter, creating flyers for every event, organizing, coordinating, and more. Sarah has been accepted to the Art Institute of Chicago’s rigorous dual program in Art History and Arts Administration, and so will be HELLENIC STUDIES leaving us during the summer. We are all in her debt, and wish her favorable winds and safe landings.

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Director, Center for Hellenic Studies Faidra Papavasiliou Gerard Pendrick Lecturer, Lecturer, Department CENTER FOR Department of of Modern and Anthropology Classical Languages Dr. Faidra Papavasiliou is Dr. Gerard Pendrick an economic anthropologist received his undergraduate interested in issues of and graduate degrees from money, consumption, . He sustainability and collective specializes in ancient Greek and action. Her current work Latin and has taught at examines the emergence of Columbia, Emory, and alternative forms of agriculture and solidarity-based Oglethorpe universities as well economic mobilization in the Northern Aegean as a as at Georgia State. His research interests include response to the European economic crisis. She ancient philosophy, rhetoric, and medicine. He has received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2008, published numerous articles on these topics in and was an AW Mellon Teaching Fellow at Agnes American and European periodicals, and his edition Scott College before joining the faculty of the of the fragments of the sophist Antiphon appeared as Department of Anthropology at GSU. She has volume 39 in the Cambridge Classical Texts and conducted fieldwork in Mexico, the United States, and Commentaries series published by Cambridge Greece, and she has recently submitted two articles on University Press in 2002. His article on Antiphon of the intersection of heritage, identity and alternative Rhamnous recently appeared in the new multivolume responses to crisis in traditional seed exchange Encyclopedia of Ancient History published by Wiley. He is networks and agricultural activism in Greece. This currently at work on a short article on Vergil’s Aeneid May she will be leading a study abroad program to as well as on a monograph about the origins of natural Greece, focusing on ethnographic perspectives on law theory in ancient Greece. heritage, identity and alternativity through the lens of the crisis. Dr. Pendrick currently teaches elementary and intermediate Latin; Greek Drama (in English); and an Courses taught: advanced Latin course on the Roman historian Titus ANTH 1102 – Introduction to Anthropology Livy. ANTH 2020 – Introduction to Cultural Anthropology ANTH 4490/6490 – The Anthropology of Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Globalization Professor, Department of Religious ANTH 4670/6670 – Sociocultural Research Methods ANTH 8020 – Graduate Professionalization Seminar Studies Dr. Louis Ruprecht’s Fall 2013 courses, RELS 4640/6640: "Religion and Sexuality," explores ancient Greek themes, and RELS 3950: "Religion Morality and Film,” explores modern Greek themes. Executive Committee Spotlight Kathryn Kozaitis Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Spring 2013 Following nine years as chair of the Department of Anthropology, Dr. Kathryn A. Kozaitis received a Professional Leave during AY 2011-2012. She received a Fulbright Research Award to conduct ethnographic research on the Greek economic crisis in Thessaloniki, the second largest city of Greece, and one of Europe’s cultural capitals. The Center for Hellenic Studies of Georgia State University funded Dr. Kozaitis 2009 preliminary study in Thessaloniki and the first phase of her field research in 2011. Dr. Kozaitis’ research interests include global-local articulations of social change, urban processes and transnational populations, and theories and methods of planned systemic cultural reforms.

HELLENIC STUDIES Kozaitis studied Thessaloniki on its Centennial as Greek territory, reclaimed in November 1912 when the Ottoman garrison surrendered the city to the Greeks. Attention to the city’s topographic, geographic, and demographic shifts, wars, economic and political regimes, waves of immigrants and refugees, education, the arts, and other antecedents help explain the transformations of a global city in yet another historical transition. Central to her ethnography are Thessalonikians today—their sentiments, practices, and worldview in the midst of the country’s economic crisis. She examines the agency and work of locals to rediscover “the great purpose”

CENTER FOR of rebuilding their city and their nation, by cognizing their identity as Europeans, and through organized practices on the ground to re-stabilize their identity as Hellenes. Analysis of the cultural manifestations of globalization situates this ethnography in wider economic, political, and socio-cultural processes of a destabilizing Europe. The research contributes to urban anthropology in the 21st century, and builds on UPCOMING LECTURE Kozaitis’ previous year-long research in , Greece among Roma refugees from Turkey, also funded by a Fulbright Scholarship. “Sentiment and Practice During the tenure of her professional leave, Kozaitis held a Visiting among Thessalonikians Professorship at University of Thessaloniki, with which Georgia State University maintains an official exchange program for faculty and in Crisis” students. She also presented a paper on Cultural Constructions of an Dr. Kathryn Kozaitis, Associate Unlikely Epistemon: A Diasporic Autoethnographic Analysis at the International Professor of Anthropology, Symposium on Women’s Biographies and Life Stories held at the Georgia State University American College of Thessaloniki. She served as Discussant in a panel on In the wake of the Greek !scal Post-socialist Life in the Balkans organized by the Fulbright Association, crisis, Thessalonikians’ discourse gave a seminar on The Multicultural Society: A Theoretical Exposition, at on accountability re"ected as Aristotle University, and served as a panelist at a symposium on the much the in"uence of media Armenian diaspora and the Armenian community in Thessaloniki. She accounts, as actors’ varied and also presented invited preliminary analyses of her research on the Greek critical introspections about their crisis to local community groups, including the the Rotary Club. expulsion from a ‘culture of Kozaitis presented the paper “They’re killing us with Policies:” Sentiments civility’ into collective abyss. and Actions among Thessalonikians in National Crisis at the 2012 annual Based on 14 months of meetings of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco. ethnographic research in 2009 She published a chapter in the Reader Case Studies in Applied and 2011-12, analysis reveals that Anthropology on her work with NSF-funded cultural reforms in the these middle-class urbanites, University System of Georgia to improve scientific and mathematical transported into a state of social literacy in the state’s K-12 schools. In 2012 Kozaitis also published the 4th liminality, invent cultural edition of her book, On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism strategies, practices, and ideals in the North American Mainstream (co-authored with Conrad Phillip to ensure re-aggregation as Kottak of the University of Michigan). The book examines the power of stable citizens of a Greece they culture, and culture as power, in the US and Canada, advances an may claim as their homeland and understanding of cultural variation and identity politics in multicultural re-integration as eligible members nation-states of the west, and illuminates social movements for social of a Europe in which they may justice and human rights by groups discriminated on the basis of class, thrive as Hellenes. race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, religion, speech, health status, and regional residence. Kozaitis article on Anthropological Praxis in Higher Wednesday, September 25 Education will be published in the Annals of Practicing Anthropology in 3:30-6:00PM, Troy Moore Library 2013. Reception to follow lecture Executive Committee Spotlight Lela Urquhart Assistant Professor, Department of History

Spring 2013 Dr. Lela Urquhart is an ancient historian and archaeologist of the Greek world and Mediterranean basin. Her work examines the relationship between religious change and sociopolitical development in settings of ancient colonialism in Sicily, Sardinia, and southern Italy. She received her BA (2002) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her PhD (2010) from Stanford University, and was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2009-2010) and a Geballe Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2008-2009). She currently co- directs the Sosio-Verdura Valley Survey Project, an archaeological fieldwork campaign in central-southwestern Sicily, and has been involved in fieldwork projects elsewhere in Sicily, Israel, , Greece, and North Carolina. Her recent publications include an article on Italian and northern HELLENIC STUDIES European historiographical treatments of ancient colonization in the Journal of the History of Ideas and another article in the American Journal of Archaeology that uses economic investments in religion to measure state growth in Sicily between 600 and 350 BCE. At the moment, she is primarily involved in preparing her book, Colonization, Religion and State Formation in the Ancient West Mediterranean, for publication in December of 2015. Dr. Urquhart recently presented several academic papers including UPCOMING LECTURE CENTER FOR “Preliminary report on the first season of the Sosio-Verdura Valley Archaeological Survey Project” at the Archaeological Institute of “Old Seeds, New American annual meeting (January 2013); “Graves, Gods, and Gardens: Identity, Extratextual Rituals in Colonial Sicily at the Society of Ancient Mediterranean Religions Conference, Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice in Heritage and Alternative Ancient Mediterranean Religions (March 2013); and “Economic growth, Activism in the Greek religion, and state formation in colonial Sicily,” at the Association of Crisis” Ancient Historians annual meeting (May 2013). In March, she also gave a departmental lecture at GSU titled “Archaeology, history, and the Dr. Faidra Papavasiliou, Lecturer problem of territorial control in colonial Sicily.” in Anthropology, Georgia State University Courses taught: The epicenter of the European HIST 1111: Survey of World History up to 1500 CE economic crisis, Greece is also HIST 3500/MES 3110: The Ancient Mediterranean the site of intensifying social HIST 4510/MES 4140: The Ancient Near East mobilization efforts that seek to HIST 4520/MES 4150: Ethnicity and Culture Contact in Ancient Persia, envision and produce “bottom- Greece, and Rome up” economic and social HIST 4520/MES 4150: Revolutions and Resistance in the Ancient alternatives. Much of this Mediterranean World mobilization centers on HIST 7045/HIST 7050: Introduction to Graduate Studies and recuperating Greece’s Pedagogy agricultural heritage, !ltering HIST 8200: Graduate Seminar in Greek history: Mass and Elite in the emblematic narratives and Ancient Greek Polis images of a foundational Greek HIST 8200: Graduate Seminar in Roman history: Community and rural and communal “folk life” Identity from the Roman Republic to the Late through the prism of globalization’s discontents, to GSU, thanks to funding from the Center for Hellenic envision and produce change. Drawing from ethnographic Studies, is now an af!liate of the American Academy in !eldwork in the Northern Aegean, Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at I examine how newly made Athens activists imagine and negotiate These new affiliations provide scholarships, fellowship opportunities and alternative futures though a summer programs in the classics and archaeology for students, as well as traditional seed exchange residencies and professorships for faculty. Affiliation offers opportunities for network. closer associations with colleagues in one’s own field and in related disciplines. Wednesday, October 2 For more information about the benefits of these affiliations, please visit: 3:30-6:00PM, Troy Moore Library http://www.aarome.org/support/alumni-affiliate-groups Reception to follow lecture http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/Benefits.pdf Being Greek in a Time of Crisis: Ethnographic Approaches Maymester Study Abroad Trip This May, Dr. Faidra Papavasiliou, CHS Executive Committee member and Lecturer in the SPRING 2013 Department of Anthropology, leads a group of graduate and undergraduate students as they travel to Athens, Thessaloniki, and Lemnos to study the effects of the financial crisis on local Greek populations. Safe travels! HELLENIC STUDIES

CENTER FOR Greek Consulate in Atlanta Remains Open In response to pressure from its creditors to cut expenses, the Greek government decided late last year to close six embassies and three consulates. The consulate in Atlanta was one of the three initially slated for closure; however, we are lucky that, as of today, the Greek Consulate of Atlanta is still open. Long-term plans remain up in the air. Keep abreast of any changes through the Consulate’s website, http://www.mfa.gr/usa/en/consulate-in-atlanta

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