Boston, November 14-15: Harvard Modern Greek Literature Colloquium
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Originally From: Anna Stavrakopoulou <stavrak@fas.harvard.edu>
via Stratos P. Safioleas <safiol@seas.gwu.edu>
COLLOQUIUM ON MODERN GREEK LITERATURE AT HARVARD
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Program
G. P. Savidis Memorial Colloquium
Modern Greek Literature Today: Across Europe and Beyond
Friday, Nov. 14, 7pm, Boylston Auditorium - Harvard Yard
The Nicholas E. Christopher Memorial Lecture
P. Bien, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus,
Dartmouth College
Inventing Greece
Reception to follow at the Parlor of the Barker Center, 12 Quincy St.
Saturday, Nov. 15, Morning Session 10-1pm, Boylston Auditorium - Harvard
Yard
Amanda Michalopoulou, will present work with readings and comments.
Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Independent Scholar
"A Cannon without Fire - to say nothing about the bombs:
Modern Greek Literature Outside Greece and the two Nobel Prizes"
Petros Tatsopoulos, will present work with readings and comments.
Eri Stavropoulou, Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature,
University of Athens
"Modern Greek Literature in Translation: Questions and Answers"
Lunch/ coffee break in Ticknor Lounge
Saturday, Nov. 15, Afternoon Session 2-5pm, Boylston Auditorium - Harvard
Yard
Yiorgos Kalogeras, Associate Professor of American Ethnic and Minority
Literature, English Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
"Autonomy and Autochthony: The Ottoman As Greek Intellectual of the
Diaspora"
Theodosis Nikolaou , will present work with readings and comments.
Gregory Jusdanis, Professor of Modern Greek, Ohio State University
Greek Literature Abroad: A Stranger at the Feast
Jenny Mastoraki, will present work with readings and comments.
Closing Remarks
THE COLLOQUIUM IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The event was sponsored by the A.S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and
the Lambrakis Research Foundation.
Anna Stavrakopoulou tel. 617 - 495 7783
Department of the Classics fax 617 - 496 6720
319 Boylston Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge - MA 02138
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