24Th Biennial International MGSA SYMPOSIUM October 15-18, 2015
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Symposium 2015 Program Committee: Chair: Sakis Gekas (York University) Members: Tassos Anastassiadis (McGill University) Heath Cabot (College of the Atlantic) Elias Dinas (Brasenose College, Oxford) Yaprak Gürsoy (Bilgi University, Turkey) Panos Arion Hatziprokopiou (Aristotle University Thessaloniki) Kostis Kornetis (Carlos III University of Madrid) Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly) Efthymia Rentzou (Princeton University) Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. (Georgia State University) George Syrimis (Yale University) Symposium 2015 Local Arrangements Committee: Chair: Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. (Georgia State University) Members (all affiliated with Georgia State University) Margo Alexander th Nickitas Demos 24 Biennial International Christos Galilaias Tami Kennedy MGSA SYMPOSIUM Kathryn Kozaitis Faidra Papavasiliou October 15-18, 2015 Gerard Pendrick Lela Urquhart Atlanta, Georgia MGSA Executive Board (Oct. 2014 – Oct. 2017) Officers: Neovi Karakatsanis (Indiana University South Bend), President Yiorgos Anagnostou (The Ohio State University), Vice-President Under the auspices of the Kostis Kourelis (Franklin and Marshall College), Treasurer Center for Hellenic Studies, Gerasimus Katsan (Queens College, CUNY), Secretary Members: Georgia State University Tassos Anastassiadis (McGill University) Karen Emmerich (Princeton University) Sakis Gekas (York University) http://hellenicstudies.gsu.edu/ Nia Georges (Rice University) Christopher Grafos (York University), Graduate Student Representative 1 Franklin Hess (Indiana University) Book Exhibits Katerina Lagos (California State University, Sacramento) Throughout the duration of the Symposium, the 2nd floor foyer of Artemis Leontis (University of Michigan) the Loudermilk Center will be hosting a variety of exhibits from Susan Buck Sutton (Bryn Mawr College) publishers and authors, study abroad organizations, and educational foundations. Executive Director: Gonda Van Steen (University of Florida) Symposium 2015 Sponsors Georgia State University, Center for Hellenic Studies Georgia State University, Center for Collaborative and International Arts (CENCIA) Georgia State University, Global Studies Institute AHEPA Mother Lodge American Foundation for Hellenic Studies Thalia and Michael C. Carlos Foundation Emory University, Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium and European Studies Program Georgia Humanities Johns Hopkins University Press Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens National Hellenic Society and the American College of Greece Contributions to the Victor Papacosma Graduate Student Essay Prize and the Graduate Student Travel Fund: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Sylvia Ioannou Foundation for the Study of Cyprus Neovi Karakatsanis and Jonathan Swarts Katerina Lagos Artemis Leontis 2 3 Panel 1B· The Politics of Memory Locations (17th floor at 25 Park Place, Seminar Room) Location of Sessions 1A and 1B only: 17th floor at 25 Park Chair: Nia Georges (Rice University) Place (the old Sun Trust Building), which is only a 5-minute walk from the Ellis Hotel Maria Couroucli (CNRS France) Collective Memory and Uses of the Past: Remembering the 1940s Location of the Thursday evening program (7:00-10:00 pm): Decade Today Florence Kopleff Recital Hall at 10 Peachtree Center Avenue, on the GSU campus Pamela Dorn Sezgin (University of North Georgia) “We are the islands”: Persistence of Greek Social Memory on the Location of all Friday and Saturday sessions and evening Prince Islands of the Marmara Sea events: 2nd floor of the Loudermilk Conference Center (40 Courtland Street North East), which is only a 5-minute walk Eva Fotiadi (Free University Berlin) from the Ellis Hotel Time-Space-Memory-Body: Performing (at) the Alexandra’s Avenue Refugee Houses and the Politics of Time 7:00-10:00 pm Thursday, October 15, 2015 Welcome, Awards Session, Music Concert, and Reception (Florence Kopleff Recital Hall at 10 Peachtree Center Avenue) 2:00-6:00 pm Registration (Ellis Hotel Lobby, 176 Peachtree St. NW) 7:00 pm Welcome and Acknowledgment of Sponsorship 5:00-6:30 pm Session 1 Neovi Karakatsanis, MGSA President (Indiana University South (17th floor at 25 Park Place) Bend) Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Local Arrangements Committee Chair Panel 1A· Teaching the Next Generation and the Politics of (Georgia State University) Archaeology (17th floor at 25 Park Place, Conference Room) Chair: Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. (Georgia State University) MGSA Awards Edmund Keeley Book Prize: presented by Franklin Hess, Chair, Christopher Brown (The Ohio State University) Book Prize Committee Modern Greek Radio: A Model for Student-Centered L2 Acquisition Winner: Kostis Kornetis (History, Carlos III University of Madrid), with Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Despina Lalaki (New York City College of Technology and The Politics, and the “Long 1960s” in Greece. New York and Oxford: Graduate Center, CUNY) Berghahn, 2013 Digging for Democracy in Greece: Civilizing and De-Civilizing Processes during the “American Century” 4 5 Elizabeth Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize: presented Friday, October 16, 2015 by Kostis Kourelis, Chair, Translation Prize Committee Winner: Peter Bien (Prof. Emeritus English, Dartmouth College) (Location of all Friday sessions and events: second floor of the with his translation of Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis Loudermilk Conference Center, 40 Courtland Street NE) Honorable Mention: Stathis Gauntlett (MCM, University of 9:00 am-1:00 pm Registration (Loudermilk, second floor foyer) Melbourne and the Australian Academy of the Humanities) with his translation of The Last Varlamis by Thanasis Valtinos 8:00-8:50 am: Informal get-together of symposium attendees with Arthur Dimopoulos, Executive Director, National Hellenic Society John O. Iatrides Best Dissertation Prize: presented by Yiorgos Scaling and Expanding the Heritage Greece Program Anagnostou, Chair, Dissertation Prize Committee (Livingston Room) Winner: Vasilis Molos (History, New York University, Abu Dhabi), “Nationness in the Absence of a Nation: Narrating the Prehistory of 9:00-10:30 am Session 2 the Greek National Movement,” PhD diss. NYU, 2014 Panel 2A· The Materiality of the Greek World Victor Papacosma Graduate Student Essay Prize: presented by (Amphitheater) Artemis Leontis, Chair, Essay Prize Committee Chair: Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. (Georgia State University) Winner: Panayotis League (Ethnomusicology, Harvard University): “The Poetics of Meráki: Dialogue and Speech Genre in Kalymnian Anna Gialdini (Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts, Songs” (see p. 15 of this program) London) “Greekness” and Hellenism, Words and Objects in Renaissance Honorable Mention: Etienne E. Charrière (Comparative Literature, Venice University of Michigan): “A Greek Novel ‘Clad in an English Dress’: Stephanos Xenos’ Devil in Turkey (1851) as Transnational Text” Mary Grace DuPree (Emory University) Politics in Pigments: Change in the Greek-American Community Written in Icons 8:00 pm Music Concert Aegean Counterpoint, by neoPhonia, directed by Nickitas Demos Kostis Kourelis (Franklin and Marshall College) Craft and Nation: Skyros and the Arts and Crafts Movement 9:00 pm Reception and Address Panel 2B· Degrees and Shades of Authenticity, panel organized by Arthur Dimopoulos, Executive Director, National Hellenic Society, Elsa Amanatidou (Brown University) and American College of Greece, Sponsors (Livingston Room) Chair: Christopher Grafos (York University) Elsa Amanatidou (Brown University) Products, Practices and Perspectives as Indicators of Culture 6 7 Despina Margomenou (University of Michigan) Elena Christophorou (University of California, Irvine) Making Choriatiki with Lettuce?! The Relevance of “the Authenticity Ancient Greek Tragedy and the Revival of the Past in Late 19th- Debate” in 21st- Century College-Level Modern Greek L2 Learning Century – Early 20th- Century Cyprus Contexts Vladimir Boskovic (Princeton University) Philomena Meechan (University of Michigan) The Parasemantics of Plato: Elytis and Plotinus Leveraging Technology and Community to Engage the Language Learner Panel 3B· canceled Panel 2C· Found in Translation Susan Heuck Allen (Brown University) (Anna Cablik Room) Like Pulling Teeth with ELAS Chair: Karen Emmerich (Princeton University) Note: This paper will be presented in panel 6B Stavrini Ioannidou (Independent Researcher, King’s College, London) Panel 3C· Women, Politics, and History in the Nineteenth-Century Greek Autofiction between Languages and Cultures: Constructing, Hellenophone World, panel organized by Alex Tipei (Indiana Performing and Writing the Author’s Dual Identity in Vassilis University) Alexakis’ “Παρίσι – Αθήνα” (Anna Cablik Room) Chair: Neovi Karakatsanis (Indiana University South Bend) Etienne Charriere (University of Michigan) Greek-Ottoman “Mysterymania” and the Question of Translation Evdoxios Doxiadis (Simon Fraser University) The Strange Persistence of Custom: Law, Custom and Women in the Mary Pittas Herschbach (University of Maryland, College Park) Courts of the Kingdom of Greece in the 19th Century “At a Slight Angle to the Universe”: The Life and Work of Gregory J. Markopoulos David Idol (University of California, San Diego) The Colonization of Currants: Spatiality and the Transformation of 10:30-10:45am Coffee and Tea Break Rural Greece 10:45 am-12:15 pm Session 3 Alex Tipei (Indiana University) Reversing the Public and the Private: Elementary Education and Panel 3A· The Mirage of Ancient Greece and Byzantium in History Gender Roles and Literature (Livingston