Friday, November 8
10:30-11:00am Greetings from, among others:
- Dean Anne Walters Robertson, Dean of the Division of Humanities, University of Chicago
- Jason Merchant, Vice Provost of the University of Chicago
- Ekaterina Dimakis, Consul General of Greece in Chicago
- Anastasia Giannakidou, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies; Department of Linguistics
Plenary talk
11:00-12:00pm Edith Hall, King’s College London: The Homeric Odyssey as Greek and World Literature Before and After Homer.
12:15-2:00pm LUNCH
Afternoon Session: Polis (Πόλις): Sovereignty and the state
2:00-2:30pm Stathis Kalyvas, All Souls College, University of Oxford: What is Greece a Case of?
2:30-3:00pm Anthony Kaldellis, Department of Classics, Ohio State University: Politeia: From Plato’s Republic to Constantine’s New Rome.
3:00-3:15pm Comments by Demetra Kasimis, Political Science, University of Chicago.
3:15-4:00pm Discussion.
Reception
4:30-5:30pm Reception at the museum of the Oriental Institute.
Saturday, November 9
Morning Session: Glossa (Γλώσσα): Language, Greek Language in the US
11:00-11:30am Coffee and breakfast.
11:30-12:00pm Zoe Gavriilidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece: Profiling Greek Heritage Speakers of Chicago.
12:00-12:30pm Cristopher Brown, Director of the Modern Greek Language Program, Ohio State University: Teaching Greek in the critical period: lessons from the Mohawks.
12:30-2:00pm LUNCH
Afternoon Session: History (Ιστορία): Greece in the East 2:00-4:30pm
2:00-2:30pm Theodosios Kyriakidis, Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: Greeks of Asia Minor.
2:30-2:45 pm George Mavropoulos, John Davies, Hellenic Research Center for Asia Minor and Pontos. Short presentation.
2:45-3:30 pm Private viewing of Lethal Nationalism, a documentary honoring the centenary of the Genocide of Pontic Greeks.
Conference Co-sponsors
Department of Linguistics, Department of Classics; Department of History; Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC); Franke Institute; Provost’s Office; Stevanovich Institute for the Formation of Knowledge.
For more information: voices.uchicago.edu/chschicago
About the Center for Hellenic Studies
The Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of Chicago is a brand new Center, aspiring to become a forum for researchers of the Hellenic world – its language, art, thought, history, and culture – across the University of Chicago. We are an interdisciplinary research center, aiming to cross-fertilize research across paradigms, fields, and frameworks. We hope to be able to build bridges between the University and the larger Greek community in the Chicago area.
Our vision of Greece is multidimensional. Greece is not simply a geographical area or a political entity, but a diversified polyhedric intellectual and cultural space— which through time and geography has produced, and continues to produce, ideas that inform, engage, and inspire contributions in many research areas, methodologies, and audiences. We aim to pay special attention to the study of Hellenic diaspora, and highlight the, largely unknown, Greek experiences and identities that exist in the world today.
Φιλοδοξούμε να δημιουργήσουμε μία εστία για τους ερευνητές του Ελληνικού κόσμου που βρίσκονται στο Πανεπιστήμιο, ένα φόρουμ συζητήσεων και δραστηριοτήτων που θα ενθαρρύνει τη συνθετική προσέγγιση σε ό,τι Ελληνικό. Σκοπεύουμε να δώσουμε ιδιαίτερη σημασία στη μελέτη της Ελλάδας στη διασπορά, φωτίζοντας πτυχές της, συχνά άγνωστης, Ελληνικής εμπειρίας και ταυτότητας που υπάρχουν σήμερα στον κόσμο. Στόχος μας ειναι να συνδέσουμε το Πανεπιστήμιο με τις κοινότητες των Ελλήνων στο Σικάγο.
Εχουμε πολυδιάστατη οπτική για την Ελλάδα. Η Ελλάδα για μας δεν ειναι απλώς ένας γεωγραφικός χώρος ή μια πολιτική οντότητα, αλλά ένας πολυπεπίπεδος, πολύεδρος πολιτισμικός και διανοητικός χώροs. Η πολυεδρική αυτή Ελλάδα μέσα στο χρόνο και τον τόπο έχει παράξει, και συνεχίζει να παράγει, ιδέες που πληροφορούν και εμπνέουν ερευνητές σε ένα τεράστιο αριθμό επιστημονκών και καλλιτεχνικών πεδίων.