THE PROGRAM IN

MODERN GREEK STUDIES

AT BROWN UNIVERSITY Contact Information

David Konstan The John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature Brown University Box 1856, Providence RI 02912 USA

Tel: (401) 863-3140 Fax: (401) 863-7484 E-mail: [email protected]

Ronald D. Margolin Vice President for International Advancement Brown University Box 1980, Providence RI 02912 USA Tel: (401) 863-3564 Fax: (401) 863-3320 E-mail: [email protected] THE PROGRAM IN MODERN GREEK STUDIES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY...... 2

HISTORY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY ...... 3

THE STUDY OF NATIONS AND CULTURES OF THE WORLD AT BROWN ...... 4

MODERN GREEK STUDIES...... 5

Origins of the Program ...... 5

Current Activities...... 5

A LOOK TO THE FUTURE ...... 6

A TRADITION OF MUTUAL SUPPORT...... 7

REQUEST FOR SUPPORT...... 8

Appendix A Course Offerings ...... 10

Appendix B Public Lectures and Events...... 15

Appendix C Colloquia...... 18

EXECUTIVE S UMMARY

Brown University seeks to strengthen and make more permanent its longstanding ties to Greece and to the Greek people by enhancing its teaching and scholarship in the area of Modern Greek Studies. By supporting this effort, donors will help to increase the visibility and importance of the study of modern Greece both at Brown and throughout the academic community. This effort will increase exposure to Greek perspectives on history and on world affairs. Students and scholars of Greek language, history, and culture will benefit from the opportunity to work alongside Brown faculty members renowned for their expertise in such areas as the history of Europe; issues such as regional security, development, health and hunger; the spread and control of nuclear weapons; and the operations of the United Nations. With the recent emergence of Greece and its neighboring countries as major influences on the political, social, and economic landscape of Europe, it is important for students from every nation to have the opportunity to develop an enhanced understanding of modern Greek history and perspectives. Brown University has important ties to Greece, and for much of its 240-year history, the University has recognized the importance of teaching and studying Greek culture. One of the earliest connections between Brown and Greece was Samuel Gridley Howe of the Class of 1821. Mr. Howe was a hero of the Greek revolution and a lifelong supporter of Greek freedom, serving as surgeon-in-chief of the Greek Fleet during the War of Independence and providing aid to Crete during the revolt against Turkey in 1871. At its annual meeting in Providence in 1941, the American Hellenic Educational and Progressive Association recognized Howe’s contributions by donating an inscribed base for the University’s flagpole, which to this day remains in a prominent location on Brown's campus. Recently, Howe's memoirs of his participation in the Greek War of Independence were SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE translated and published in Greek. The volume has attracted CLASS OF 1821 considerable critical acclaim. In addition, in 1881 Brown professor Albert Harkness joined with four others to found the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Brown faculty members have often served on the board of the School. From 1881 to the mid-1990s, Greek Studies were concentrated in the Department of Classics, which is considered to be among the best such departments in the United States today. As Brown has become more international in recent years, its ties to Greece have been fortified and students have shown increasing interest in Greek studies and in learning modern Greek. Responsibility for the administration and direction of the Program in Modern Greek Studies resides with a faculty committee, chaired by David Konstan (John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature), and includes Constantine Dafermos (Alumni-Alumnae University Professor and Professor of Applied Mathematics), Elsa Amanatidou (Lecturer in Modern Greek Language and Literature), Marinos Pourgouris (Assistant Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature), Konstantinos

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 2 Kornetis (Visiting Assistant Professor of History), Keith Brown (Professor at theWatson Institute for International Studies), and Stratis Papaioannou (William A. Dyer, Jr. Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Dumbarton Oaks Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies, Department of Classics).

Brown now calls on its Greek alumni/ae, parents, and friends for their help in securing permanent funding to support a variety of initiatives in Modern Greek Studies, including regular and visiting faculty positions, undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, research funds, and a library acquisitions fund.

THE HISTORY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY

Founded in 1764, Brown University is the seventh oldest college in the United States. It is private, nonsectarian, and coeducational, with an undergraduate enrollment of 5,674 students, and a faculty of 658. The New York Times and USA Today have published articles placing Brown at or near the top of the short list of the most sought-after college degrees. One of the most selective institutions in the nation, Brown ranks in the top tier among the nation's R-1 universities. The Graduate School, with an enrollment of 1,700 students, offers advanced degrees in thirty-nine disciplines. The Medical School, with an enrollment of 360 students, is known nationally for its innovative program linking college and medical education in an eight- year continuum.

Brown's mission is to prepare students to serve the community, the nation, and the world by discovering, communicating, and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry and "to discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation." Brown achieves this by combining the best elements of a premier undergraduate college and a research university through the "university-college" approach to undergraduate education. This approach sets Brown University apart from top-level undergraduate liberal arts colleges, which cannot conduct research at the level of a university with a graduate program, and from many larger universities, which employ a separate cadre of teaching faculty. Undergraduates at Brown have many opportunities to interact with distinguished scholars – both in an out of the classroom – who are working at the forefront of their fields.

Brown attracts distinguished faculty members from around the world to teach and conduct research. These faculty members contribute to the richness of undergraduate study by teaching at all levels, serving as student advisors, and collaborating with students in teaching and research. Brown's distinctive curriculum enables this process. Adopted in 1969, the “New Curriculum” replaced requirements with student-centered plans of study. Under the guidance of a committed faculty, students become the architects of their educational experience. This model has led to an extraordinary level of collaboration between faculty and students, opportunities for independent study, and a setting for teaching and learning that encourages students to become distinguished scholars in their chosen fields of study.

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The Brown curriculum is based on three basic philosophical principles. First, students are seen as active participants in learning rather than as passive objects of teaching; they assume responsibility for their own educational plans and thus develop intellectual independence, self- reliance, and judgment. Second, undergraduate education is understood as a process of individual development and intellectual growth rather than a static means of transmitting information, a belief that requires that students learn methodologies and analytical and critical skills in addition to factual knowledge. Finally, the content of the curriculum provides students the opportunity for individuality, experimentation, and intellectual integration and synthesis. Interdisciplinary studies have joined the established disciplines as a central component of the Brown curriculum, and there are a number of centers for the promotion of interdisciplinary study, research, and instruction.

THE STUDY OF NATIONS AND C U LTURES O F THE W O RLD

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Under the leadership of Presidents Howard Swearer, Vartan Gregorian, E. Gordon Gee, and Ruth Simmons, Brown University has became a cosmopolitan institution that encourages its students and faculty to develop international perspectives and explore issues of global significance through a variety of academic and extra-curricular programs. The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, for example, serves as a coordinating center for research programs that address such policy issues as global and national security; the global environment; political economy and development; the role of the United Nations and other transnational organizations; international health; politics, culture and identity; and world hunger. The Watson Institute's programs have included the Mediterranean Identities Project, a series of seminars and meetings that united scholars from Brown and other U.S. and European institutions in order to explore the formation of identities in the regions surrounding the Mediterranean basin. Examining questions of cultural, religious, and political identity, these scholars are planning a long-range, interdisciplinary study that focuses primarily on the period from the sixteenth century up until the era of modern nation-state formation. The Institute has also hosted a program on “Borderlands,” which explored the origins and manifestations of ethnic violence in the borderlands region of Eastern, Central Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. In addition to the Watson Institute's activities, the Office of International Programs sponsors more than 50 exchange programs with universities in countries all over the world. The vast majority of Brown undergraduates study a foreign language during their time at the University, despite the fact that Brown has no formal language requirement for graduation. Because of

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 4 Brown's investment in the global community, the University draws students, faculty, and staff from around the world. More than ten percent of undergraduate students enrolled at Brown are foreign nationals. Brown University wishes to enhance its offerings in the study of international history, culture, economics, and politics. The expansion of the Program in Modern Greek Studies is critical to this effort, and is a natural outgrowth of the University's long-standing reputation for excellence in the fields of history, international relations, economics, languages, and literature, and Classical Greek studies.

MODERN GREEK STUDIES: O RI GIN S OF THE PROGRAM

Modern Greek Studies was officially launched as a program in 1995 through a generous bequest from the estate of Mrs. Ethel Goltsos, a prominent Greek-American from Rhode Island. This bequest established an endowment to support the Program in Modern Greek Studies and subsequently the Goltsos Visiting Professorship, a one semester-long position that rotates between the departments of History and Comparative Literature. The Goltsos Endowment also funds a scholarship for a student of Greek origin from Greece or the United States. To date, the Goltsos Visiting Professorship has brought to campus the following scholars: • Maria Stassinopoulou, an historian from the University of Vienna; • George Vassiadis, an historian from King's College London; • Georgia Gotsi, a neo-Hellenist also from King's College London; and • Effie Gazi, an historian from the University of Crete.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES Thanks to the work of these and other scholars, Modern Greek Studies began to take root in the University's curriculum, and the Program benefited from the support of the University’s administration. In addition, the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation [Athens, Greece] has provided financial support for two five-year appointments in the areas of Modern Greek History and Comparative Literature. Today, Modern Greek Studies offers a variety of courses each semester. There are seven language courses taught each year, as well as courses in Comparative Literature, Byzantine Literature, and History. In addition, faculty members affiliated with the Program regularly organize successful lectures, colloquia, and conferences on themes pertaining to Modern Greek Studies.

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 5 In recent years, Brown has been able to enhance considerably its holdings of library materials related to Modern Greek Studies. In collaboration with the Rockefeller Library at Brown University and thanks to assistance received from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, the University Library has been enriched by the addition of several hundred volumes devoted to all aspects of Modern Greek history and culture. It is anticipated that this enrichment program will be continued in the coming years with the addition of microfilmed editions of several nineteenth century newspapers and journals. The study of Modern Greek language can be enhanced further through the University’s Foreign Languages across the Curriculum (FLAC) program. This program, established in 1990, integrates the advanced study of foreign language with other academic disciplines, particularly the social sciences. By synthesizing advanced language study with other disciplines, the program provides students and teachers the opportunity to build new intellectual links across the curriculum to enrich teaching and research. If an appropriate number of students and instructors in Modern Greek Studies are available and interested, they will be encouraged to take advantage of the FLAC program. In the years following its creation, Brown’s Program in Modern Greek Studies has made significant progress. Students are now able to choose from a number of excellent courses on modern Greece, taught by brilliant young scholars. Instruction in modern Greek language is guaranteed beyond the third year. A steady offering of high quality, extra-curricular lectures and seminars are regularly attended by interested and engaged audiences comprised of members of the Brown community and the surrounding Rhode Island community. All of this has been accomplished with very modest funding, even as the Program in Modern Greek Studies has attracted short-term support from private sources. Save for the Goltsos endowment, all of the activities associated with Modern Greek Studies at Brown have been funded by what is called “soft money” or “current-use funding,” one-time gifts or additions to support the program budget.

A L OOK TO THE FUTURE Brown University's goal is to have a permanently funded Program in Modern Greek Studies that serves, above all, the collective interests of the undergraduate student community. Brown aspires to establish permanently a small program of very high quality, whose staff members succeed in presenting Modern Greek culture as an integral part of modern European – or for that matter, modern – culture. Quality is the first priority. Rather than isolate the study of Modern Greece within one department, Brown's program seeks to integrate Greek culture into several subject areas and make it accessible to the greatest possible number of students.

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 6 Brown's Program in Modern Greek Studies will be balanced among disciplines. Unlike some of its peer institutions that focus only on instruction in Greek literature or history, Brown is committed to offering instruction simultaneously in three basic areas: language instruction, literature, and history. Such balance will offer depth to Brown's program, while also distinguishing it from most other Modern Greek programs in the United States.

A TRADITION OF MUTUAL SUPPORT The success of the Program in Modern Greek Studies, despite a lack of permanent funding, has mobilized volunteers and donors within the Brown family. Following the second year of the program, a group of Greeks and Philhellenes in Rhode Island organized the “Friends of Modern Greek Studies at Brown,” an association with the goal of enhancing the accessibility of Greek cultural programs to members of campus and the local community. Thanks to the energy and enthusiasm of the group's president, Dr. Venetia Georas, the membership of the “Friends of Modern Greek Studies at Brown” numbers more than sixty, many of whom regularly attend lectures and seminars at Brown. The Campaign for Modern Greek Studies, which will secure

permanent funding for the program, provides an opportunity to celebrate the tradition of mutual support between Brown and Greece. It offers Greek alumni/ae and parents a means to help strengthen teaching and scholarship that has special significance for Greek nationals. Through participation in this important initiative, Brown’s Greek constituents will be actively engaged in advancing knowledge of and appreciation for their homeland’s contribution to the modern world; in so doing, they will help secure Brown’s position as a premier international university. In addition, by supporting this campaign, the Greek community will join a growing list of constituencies who have supported country-specific international initiatives at Brown. Examples include: ♦ Over $1,600,000 in commitments has been secured from Japan to strengthen the teaching of Japanese language and history at Brown through the JAPAN CENTENNIAL FUND. ♦ More than $4,000,000 has been secured in support of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. This support has allowed Brown to fund, among other things, a professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, a visiting professorship in the Watson Institute for International Studies, a library curator for Arabic language materials, and the purchase of several significant library collections. ♦ In recognition of Brown’s historical relationship with Portugal, a consortium of Portuguese foundations funded the Vasco da Gama Professorship in Early Modern Portuguese History with a gift of $2,000,000. ♦ Given the excellence of Brown's program in Latin American Studies, donors from a number of Latin American nations have come together to endow a professorship in modern Latin American history.

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 7 CURRENT OR PAST S UPPORT

EXISTING PERMANENT FUNDS $1,200,000 Goltsos Endowment for Visiting Faculty $850,000 Kanellakis Endowments for Faculty and Graduate Students in Computer Science $340,000 Greek Parent/Alumni Flexible Fund $340,000 Martinos Family Endowment for Greek Studies

EXISTING OR EXPENDED CURRENT-USE FUNDS $325,000 Onassis Foundation Visiting Professor (2003-2007) $105,000 Parents Flexible Fund $105,000 Leventis Foundation Fund for Archeological Research (Department of Classics) $100,000 Andros Fund for Visiting Faculty, Conferences, and Speakers $30,000 Leventis Foundation: For the acquisition of library materials and for a prize for students to do summer studies in Greece

REQUEST FOR S UPPORT From 1995, the year of its inception, the Modern Greek Studies Program at Brown has grown from a one-person operation to a vibrant and varied Program that offers up to 19 credit courses per year. During 2006, the presence of three full time faculty in the fields of History, Literature and Language (plus auxiliary faculty in Byzantine culture and modern International Relations), enabled us to flourish, with undergraduate enrollments reaching 160. With our proven success as a Program and the University's current support for the internationalization of the Curriculum, we find ourselves in an ideal position to build on our achievements and move forward. In order to pursue our goal of supporting high-quality teaching and scholarship and enhancing our curricular offerings in Modern Greek Studies, it is necessary to secure funds for three permanent, full time positions. Brown University now seeks support from its Greek alumni/ae, family, and friends to raise funds for both permanent endowment and current-use purposes. This support will make possible the continuation of the program in Modern Greek Studies at Brown, and indeed allow us to enhance significantly its scope, depth, and offerings.

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 8 GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

EVERY GIFT COUNTS , H O WEVER GREAT OR SMALL

ENDOWED FUNDS

CHAIR IN GREEK CULTURE $3,000,000 This fund will support a professor in History or Comparative Literature whose primary responsibility will be to teach courses in Modern Greek culture.

TENURE TRACK POSITION IN LITERATURE TENURE TRACK POSITION IN HISTORY $2,000,000 EACH These funds will allow Brown to hire two prominent scholars committed to research and the teaching of Modern Greek culture in an interdisciplinary and comparative context.

LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS $250,000 This fund will allow the University Library to increase the number of library acquisitions, in both traditional and electronic format, to further strengthen the University’s library holdings of material related to Greek studies. A retrospective investment in Greek books and journals is necessary, as well as prospective investment in new books and journals. This endowment will benefit the teaching of both modern and Classical Greek culture.

NOTE: Naming opportunities are associated with each of the priorities described above, and are discussed with the donor in advance of a gift. The outline of giving opportunities provided above is based on the current needs and priorities of the Program in Modern Greeks Studies. Please note that there are many other giving opportunities available at Brown, many of which are on Brown’s website at http://www.boldly.brown.edu/priorities/index.html.

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 9 Appendix A

COURSE OFFERINGS (1995-2007) Fall 1995 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Antonis Augustakis, Department of Classics

Spring 1996 Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Augustakis Continuity and Change in the Nineteenth Century Balkans: The Case of Greece, Prof. Maria Stassinopoulou, Department of History, Brown University, and Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna

Fall 1996 Introduction to Modern Greek, Prof. Augustakis Greek Poetry, 1880-1980, Prof. Georgia Gotsi, Department of Comparative Literature Greek Fiction, 1880-1980, Prof. Gotsi

Spring 1997 Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Augustakis Dangerous Encounters—Mediterranean Fiction in Narrative and Film, Prof. Gotsi

Fall 1997 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Augustakis Mediterranean Cultures: Insiders and Outsiders, Professors Gotsi and Anthony Molho, Department of History

Spring 1998 Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Augustakis Continuity and Change in the Nineteenth-Century Balkans: The Case of Greece, Prof. George Vassiadis, Department of History, Brown University Fall 1998 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Maria Maggides “Students loved Professor Amanatidou’s teaching style. Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Augustakis Reviewers found her lectures were Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Poetry, Prof. Gotsi clear and interesting. Her constant interaction with students and her Spring 1999 approachable demeanor made Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Maggides students very comfortable asking Intermediate Modern Greek II, Prof. Augustakis her for help. Professor Amanatidou was always available for help both inside and outside of the Fall 1999 classroom.”

Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Maggides The Critical Review, 2004-2005 Ed., Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Augustakis Introduction to Modern Greek

Becoming National: History, Identity and Politics in Europe and the Balkans, Prof. Effie Gazi

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Spring 2000 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Maggides Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Augustakis Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Poetry, Prof. Gotsi Cavafy's Poets and the Poets' Cavafy, Prof. Gotsi Identities and Communities in the Mediterranean World, Prof. Molho

Fall 2000 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Maggides Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Augustakis Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Poetry, Prof. Georgia Gotsi Cavafy's Poets and the Poets' Cavafy, Prof. Georgia Gotsi Identities and Communities in the Mediterranean World, Prof. Molho

Spring 2001 Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Maggides Intermediate Modern Greek II, Prof. Maggides

Fall 2001 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Political Anthropology, Prof. Keith Brown, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University Dangerous Encounters—Mediterranean Fiction in Narrative and Film, Prof. Gotsi Modern Greek Poets, Prof. Gotsi

Spring 2002 Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Intermediate Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Advanced Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Between East and West: Southern Europe in an Era of National Transition, 1774-1914, Prof. Margarita Miliori, Department of History Migrations, Culture, and Politics in Post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe, Prof. Miliori

Fall 2002 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Advanced Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Dangerous Encounters—Mediterranean Fiction in Narrative and Film, Prof. Gotsi Modern Greek Poets, Prof. Gotsi

Spring 2003 Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 11 Intermediate Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Advanced Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou From Belgrade to Dayton via Athens: Introduction to Modern Balkan History, 1804 –1995, Prof. Dimitris Livanios, Department of History From Dracula to Milocevic: Religion, Violence and Nationalism in the Balkans 15th-to 20th centuries, Prof. Livanios

Fall 2003 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Advanced Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Dangerous Encounters—Mediterranean Fiction in Narrative and Film, Prof. Gotsi Modern Greek Poets, Prof. Gotsi Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance: The Balkans During the Second World War, Prof. Livanios ‘No Burial for Dead Ideas’: The Macedonian Question, 1870s – 1990s, Prof. Livanios

Spring 2004 Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Intermediate Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Advanced Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou From Belgrade to Dayton via Athens: Introduction to Modern Balkan History, 1804 – 1995, Prof. Livanios The Eastern Question and After: The Balkans in International Affairs, 1804-1950 (Seminar for Undergraduates, Prof. Livanios

Fall 2004 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou “Professor Dimitris Livanios was Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou praised for his extensive Advanced Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou knowledge in the subject. His students felt that there was a Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance: The Balkans during the great balance between lectures Second World War and After, 1939 - 1949, Prof. Livanios and discussion. They also thought A Shadow-Land of Mystery' The Balkans in the European and that Professor Livanios excelled at providing information clearly, American Imagination, 1800-1950, Prof. Livanios answering questions, and leading discussion. His sense of humor Spring 2005 moved the class along, as did his encouragement of student Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou participation. Students also found Intermediate Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou him accommodating outside of Advanced Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou class.”

Special Topics in Modern Greek Literature, Prof. Amanatidou The Critical Review, 2005-2006 Ed., Review of The Balkans in International Odysseus across the centuries, Visiting Prof. Peter Bien, Comparative Relations Literature

From Belgrade to Dayton via Athens: Introduction to Modern Balkan History, 1804 – 1995, Prof. Livanios

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 12 The Balkans in International Relations: The Eastern Question and After, 1774 – 1950, Prof. Livanios

Fall 2005 Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Advanced Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou Special Topics in Modern Greek Film and Literature, Prof. Amanatidou Between Allah and Jesus: The Mediterranean Jewish World(s), 1490-1940s, Prof. Livanios Occupation, Resistance and Collaboration: The Balkans during the Second World War, 1939-1945, Prof. Livanios A Shadow-Land of Mystery: The Balkans in The European and American Imagination, c. 1800-1950, Prof. Livanios Myth in Modern Greek and World Literature, Prof. Marinos Pourgouris, Department of Comparative Literature Greek Modernism in Context, Prof. Pourgouris

Spring 2006 Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Intermediate Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Advanced Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou From Belgrade to Dayton via Athens: Introduction to Modern Balkan History, 1804 – 1995, Prof. Livanios The Balkans in International Relations: The Eastern Question and After, 1774 – 1950, Prof. Livanios The World of Byzantium, an exploration of the literary, artistic, and musical culture of Byzantium in its socio-political context, 4th-15th century, Prof. Papaioannou, Department of Classics Early Byzantine Literature, Prof. Papaioannou Odysseus across the Centuries. The reincarnations of the Homeric figure of Odysseus in contemporary literatures, Prof. Pourgouris Balkan Cinema: Shooting War, Conflict and Identity. Balkan Cinema (Greece, Former Yugoslavia, FYRO Macedonia, Turkey, and Bosnia-Herzegovina) and its historical, literary, cultural, and political subtext(s), Prof. Pourgouris

Fall 2006 “Professor Pourgouris is a truly dedicated, talented, and inspiring Introduction to Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou educator. He leads discussions in an Intermediate Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou encouraging and thought-provoking Advanced Modern Greek I, Prof. Amanatidou manner; his ideas and feedback on essays are constructive; and he makes Steps in Modern Greek I: An Introduction to Greek Language and himself available for help outside of People, a Brown University course open to the community, class. The courses I have taken with Prof. Amanatidou Prof. Pourgouris have helped shape my career as an undergraduate at Poetry and Music: The collaboration between poets and composers Brown. Inspired by my experiences th in the 20 century, Prof. Pourgouris with Modern Greek Studies at Brown, I will be taking a position as a teacher at Athens College [Athens] upon graduation.” Meg Metzger, Class of 2007 FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 13 Imagining the Other, Constructing the Self: An examination of narratives in which the tension between “self” and “other” is played out, Prof. Pourgouris Graduate Seminar: Greek Autobiography: From Plato to the Middle Ages; an exploration of autobiographical narratives written in Greek from classical to Byzantine times, Prof. Papaioannou The Invention of Literature: Literary Theory from Antiquity to the Renaissance; a close reading of primary texts from classical Greco-roman and medieval Byzantine, Latin, and Arabic authors, Prof. Papaioannou

Spring 2007 Introduction to Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Intermediate Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Advanced Modern Greek II, Prof. Amanatidou Steps in Modern Greek II: An Introduction to Greek Language and People, a Brown University course open to the community, Prof. Amanatidou Modernism: From Paris to Athens, 1900s-1950s, Prof. Pourgouris Literature and Resistance: Revolt in the Time of Oppression, Prof. Pourgouris

Fall 2007 Introduction to Modern Greek, Prof. Amanatidou Intermediate Modern Greek, Prof. Amanatidou Advanced Modern Greek, Prof. Amanatidou Levantine Cities: Alexandria, Istanbul, Athens. This course explores the literary and filmic imagination of Eastern Mediterranean cities: Alexandria, Istanbul, and Athens, co-taught by Professors Elliott Colla and Marinos Pourgouris Literature and the Idea of the Nation: The idea of nation as expressed and defined in literature, poetry, film and popular culture, Prof. Pourgouris Between Marx and Coca-Cola: European Youth Cultures in the 'Long Sixties' (c. 1958-c. 1974): This comparative course examines the style, literature, socialization and self-perception of European youth and the student bodies of both East and West, Prof. Konstantinos Kornetis Introduction to European Political Cinema: Films as Sources for Social and Cultural History. Within a comparative context but a focus on Greece, this course examines the reciprocal relevance of cinema for history and history for cinema, Prof. Kornetis

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APPENDIX B

PUBLIC LECTURES AND EVENTS (1996-2007) Anna Stavrakopoulou, Harvard University, November 18, 1996: “The Life and Times of Popular Performing Artists: Oral Autobiographies of Karaghiozis.” Patricia Storace, author, April 2, 1997: “Dinner with Persephone – Book Reading.” Platon Mavromoustakos, Department of Theatre Studies, National University of Athens, April 23, 1997: “Ancient Greek Drama on Modern Greek Stage.” John Theofanis Papadimitriou, Department of Classics, National University of Athens, November 17, 1997: “The Emergence of a Seminal Anti-Hero: From Aesop to the Picaresque Novel and Beyond.” Maria Todorova, Department of History, University of Florida, December 8, 1997: “Do Identities Exist and Who Has Them? Some Reflections on Balkan Identities.” Socrates Petmezas, Department of History, University of Crete, Rethymnon, February 25, 1998: “The Mutation of the Greek Intellectual Scene in the 1840s and 1850s: From Constitutional to Romantic Nationalism.” David Ricks, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King’s College London, April 2, 1998: “Kavafy’s Alexandrianism and its English Language Inheritors.” Philip Carabott, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King’s College London, April 16, 1998: “Minorities and the State: The Case of the Slavo-Macedonians in Inter-War Greece.” Dimitris L. Avramopoulos, Mayor of Athens, November 1, 1999: “The Role of Cities in the Third Millennium.” Dora Bakoyannis, Foreign Minister of Greece, November 16, 1999: “The Balkans: Powder Keg or Deposit of Errors?” Inaugural Lecture of the Watson Institute for International Studies’ Director’s Seminar Series: Self-Determination in International Politics.

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 15 Polimeris Voglis, Princeton University, December 6, 1999: “The State in a State of Emergency: Greece in Civil War.” Roderick Beaton, King’s College, London, April 2000: “The Exemplary Modernism of George Seferis.” Mark Mazower, Birkbeck College, University of London, and Princeton University, March 3, 2000: “Before Nationalism: Religion in the Balkans, 1500-1800.” Thodoros Couloumbus, Senior Visiting Fellow, Onassis Foundation, USA, November 30, 2000, “The Metamorphosis of Greece: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions.” Georgios Antoniou, Research Student, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, October 30, 2001, “Who Belongs to the Nation: In Search of the Enemy in the Greek Forties” Gonda Van Steen, Professor, University of Arizona-Tuscon, November 14, 2001, “Power Play and Tyrannicide in Stage Revivals of Aeschylus’ Oresteia under the Greek Military Dictatorship, 1967-1974” David Connolly, Visiting Fellow in Modern Greek Studies, St. Cross College, Oxford, December 3, 2001, “The Poetry of Song: Popular Musical Settings of Modern Greek Poetry” Peter Mackridge, Professor, St. Cross College, Oxford, April 22, 2002, “Diglossia and the Separation of Discourses in Greek Culture” Peter Mackridge, Professor, St. Cross College, Oxford, September 20, 2002, “National Tradition as National Difference in Modern Greek Culture” Dimitris Livanios, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University, March 5, 2003, “The Logic of Terror: Some Aspects of the Role of Violence in the Balkans, 1804-1950” The Honorable Dimitri Avramopoulos, Visiting Scholar sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program, April 10, 2003, “Cities and International Diplomacy” Eri Stavropoulou, University of Athens, October 27, 2003, "The Image of America in 19th century Greek literature between Utopia and the Exotic” Elias Bantekas, Westminster University, November 18, 2003, “International Criminal Justice and the Reconstruction of the Balkans” Elizabeth Prodromou, Boston University, March 10, 2004, “From Secularism to Pluralism in Turkey: Possibilities for the Sustainability of the Greek Orthodox Minority” Yorgos Kalogeras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Visiting Scholar sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 16 April 6, 2004, “Contact Zones and Transition Statements: The Literary Cycles of Greek American Literature” April 7, 2004, “Hellenic Diaspora, Greek Immigrants and Americans of Hellenic Descent: Understanding Turn-of -the-Century Greek Immigration to the U.S.A.” April 8, 2004, “Translating Ethnicity from Fiction to Film: Albert Isaac Bezzerides.” Eleni Bastea, The University of New Mexico, April 14, 2004, “‘Oh, The figs of Smyrna’…Memories of the Garden in the Accounts of the Greek Orthodox Refugees from Anatolia.” Michalis Paschalis, Department of Philology, University of Crete, Visiting Scholar sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program, October 21, 2004, “ The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott” Stathis Kalyvas, Department of History, Yale University, November 8, 2004, “The Greek Civil War” George Prevelakis, Tufts University, February 25, 2005, “Diaspora and Nation-State: A Greek-Jewish comparison” Eleni Kefala, Postdoctoral Mellon Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, April 13, 2005, "Peripheral (Post) Modernity: Syncretism and Hybridity in Argentine and Greek Literature”

Marinos Pourgouris, Department of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, April 20, 2005, “Locating the Center: Geographies of Modern Greek Literature" Constantin Makris, April 22, 2005, "Andreas Embiricos: Greece's first Surrealist and First Psychoanalyst" Peter Bien, Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature Brown University, March 22, 2005, "Kazantzakis's Religious Philosophy" An evening with Panos Karnezis, acclaimed author of “Little Infamies” and “The Maze”, April 6, 2005 Margaret Kenna, Reader in Anthropology, University of Wales, October 31, 2005 “Un-spoilt Island or Open Prison? Research on Anafi over the past forty years” Katherine Fleming, Director of the Centre of European and Mediterranean Studies, November 2, 2005 “From Greece to Palestine and back again: Greek Jews Post-War” Franklin L. Hess, University of Iowa, March 9, 2006, “Violence, Narrative and the Critique of the Enlightenment in the Films of Theodoros Angelopoulos and Emir Kusturica” Vassilis Colonas, University of Thessaly April 20, 2006, “Thessaloniki Before and After the Fire of 1917”

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 17 April 22, 2006, “Urban Space in Cavafy’s Poetry” Gregory Jusdanis, Ohio State University, April 27, 2006, “Does Greek Speak the Language of World Literature?” “Apoichos” Brown Choir, May 7, 2006, “An evening of Traditional Greek Songs” Dr. Maria Kaliambou, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, November 29, 2006 “Greek Popular Books: The Dialogue between Oral and Written Literature” Vassilis Lambropoulos, C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan, visiting scholar of Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, USA, University Seminars Program. February 27, 2007 "Greek American Accents" March 1, 2007, "Humanism between Hubris and Heroism” A poetry evening with Tryfon Tolides, reading from his book, “An almost Pure Empty Walking”, April 11, 2007 Acclaimed novelist Ersi Sotiropoulos, reading from her book, “Zig-Zag through the Bitter Orange Trees”, October 15, 2007 Stathis Gourgouris, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, “Rethinking Humanism”, November 1, 2007

APPENDIX C

COLLOQUIA

TH TH GREEKS AND THEIR TOPOI: 18 -20 CENTURY DIASPORAS November 21, 1998

Paschalis Kitromilides, University of Athens, “Diaspora, Identity and Nation Building.” Alexander Kitroeff, Haverford College, “Vision of Diaspora and Nationhood: 19th Century Greece (1833-1897).” Olga Profili, European Commission, Brussels, “Language as a Constituent Element of Identity: The Case of Grecia Salentina.” Marina Petronoti, National Center for Social Research, Athens, “The Greek Community in Asmara: Continuity and Innovation.” Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birmingham, “Dimitris Vikelas in the Diaspora: Memory, Character Formation, and Language.” Karen Van Dyck, Columbia University, “Kazan's 'America America': Immigration, Translation, and the Impossible Arrival.” Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, and Anthony Molho, Brown University, commentators.

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MEMORY, IDENTITY, GEOPOLITICS: A CONFERENCE ON THE E ASTERN MEDITERRANEAN May 5-6, 2000

Session One, 5 May: MULTI-ETHNIC LEGACIES IN THE BALKANS Chair: Paschalis Kitromilides Paschalis Kitromilides, University of Athens, “In the pre-Modern Balkans: Stories of Loyalty and Identity.” Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University, “Were the Ottomans Turks? And What Kind of a Question is This?” Aron Rodrigue, Stanford University, “Modern Ladino Culture and Jewish Identity in the 19th c. Balkans.”

Session Two, 5 May: MACEDONIA Chair: Dimitris Keridis Loring Danforth, Bates College, “Alexander the Great: A Contested Symbol of Macedonian Identity.” Keith Brown, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University, “Parapolitics in the Making of Macedonian Identity.” Anastassia Karakasidou, Wellesley College, Discussant.

Session Three, 6 May: NATION FORMATION AND IDENTITY Chair: Georgia Gotsi Charles King, Georgetown University, “The Return of the Near East” Fikret Adanir, University of Bochum, “Imperial Responses to Nationalism: The Ottoman Case.” Antonis Liakos, University of Athens, “Citizenship and Identity in Modern Greece.” Nicos Mouzelis, London School of Economics, “Late Development and Identity

Session Four, 6 May: CYPRUS Chair: Vangelis Calotychos Adamantia Pollis, New School of Social Research, NYC, “Memories Lost and Identities Gained in Cyprus.” Nergis Canefe, York University, Ontario, “Citizenship and Memory in Turkish Cypriot Society: The Dying Breed of Cypriotness.” Paschalis Kitromilides, University of Athens, Discussant Engin Akarli, Brown University, Discussant

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WESTERN VISIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE April 25-26, 2002

Thursday, April 25th

9:30-10:15 am Welcome & Opening Remarks: David Konstan and Margarita Miliori (Brown University) 10:15am-1:00 pm “Western Visions and the Political and Social Change in the Late Ottoman Empire” “Luxury and its Uses; A perspective from the Late Ottoman Period”, Haris Exertzoglou (University of the Aegean, Greece) “Framing the Western Images; Visual Representation and the French Revolution in the late Ottoman ‘Cartoon Space’”, Günham Börekçi (Sabanci University, Turkey) “Allons enfant de la .ville, Celebrating the French Revolution in Izmir at the turn of the 20th Century”, Vangelis Kechriotis (University of Athens) Moderator/Discussant: Engin Akarli (Professor, Brown University) 3:00-6:00 pm “Balkan Nation-Building and Western Norms: History and Politics” “Creating National Disciplines; Greek Academics and their intellectual contacts and influences at the end of the 19th Century”, Effi Gazi (University of Thessaly, Greece) “The Competition of the Ideals and Liberalism and nationalism in Romanian Historiography towards the Second Half of the 19th Century”, Monika Baar (University of Oxford, UK) “Between the Skylla and Harybdis; the Contextualization of Socialism as a Modern Discourse in Bulgaria (1891-1903)”, Augusta Dimou (European University Institute, Italy) Friday, April 26th

10:00-11:00 am Guest Speaker “Venice and the Slavs in the 18th Century”, Larry Wolff (Boston College, USA) 11:00 am-2:00 pm “Confronting the Tropes: Balkan and Western Stereotypes in Shifting Contexts”

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 20 “Delivering Identities; Postcards and Popular Culture in Bulgarian and the Ottoman Empire prior to World War I”, Tolga Esmer (University of Chicago, USA) “America is our West; Migration and Images of the West in Greece, 1900- 1950”, Ioanna Laliotou (University of Thessaly, Greece) “Who is European and who is Barbarian among the peoples of ex- Yugoslavia; a tag-play of the stereotype transfer”, Predrag Markovic (Belgrade Institute for the Study of Contemporary History, Yugoslavia) Moderator/Discussant: Athena Athanasiou (Professor, Brown University)

BALKAN LITERATURES OF DISSENT April 20, 2007

Panel I: 10:00 A.M. Moderated by Elsa Amanatidou, Brown University Kostas Kornetis, European University Institute, Florence, France “Comparing visual representations of youth protest culture during the Colonels' dictatorship: The cases of ‘Aspro-Mavro’ and ‘The Rehearsal’” Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University “The Lion and the Jackal: Song as Protest during the Greek Dictatorship” George Syrimis, Yale University “Balkan Crossroads: Song, Dance and Masculinity in Crisis in Voulgaris' ‘Vietnam’”

Panel II: 1:00 P.M. Moderated by Marinos Pourgouris, Brown University Tatjana Aleksic, Rutgers University “Dissenting Voices in Yugoslav Literature(s) 1945-1991” Dusan I. Bjelic, University of Southern Maine “Julia Kristeva and the voice of Balkan Conservative Radicalism” John Cox, Wheeling Jesuit University “Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Political Engagement of Ismail Kadare”

Panel III: 3:00 P.M. Moderated by Keith Brown, The Watson Institute at Brown University Vangelis Calotychos, Columbia University “Born To Be Wild?: Repetition Compulsion, Agency, And ‘The Lessons Of History' in Three Balkan Films (Angelopoulos, Kusturica, Manchevski)” Vojislava Filipcevic, Columbia University “Reversing the Gaze: Western Perception and the Wars of the former Yugoslavia in Film” Angelina Ilieva, University of Chicago

FEBRUARY 2008 PAGE 21 ”The Circle is Not Round: National Myth and Narrative Form in Milcho Manchevski's ‘Before the Rain’”

A Conversation with Milcho Manchevski 6:00 P.M. Moderated by Deborah Scranton, director of The War Tapes and Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies.

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