Events

UPCOMING

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Selling Sex in Interwar Salonica: Prostitution, Mobility, and Urban Space

Dimitris Mitsopoulos (Columbia University); Seçil Yılmaz (respondent, University of Pennsylvania)
Hamilton 613 and Online
02 █ December █ 2025
16 █ 00 - 17 █ 30

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Telling the Story of Markos: Public Archaeology and the Restoration of a Farmer’s Home in Delos

Ionas Sklavounos (Boulouki)
Faculty House and Online
27 █ January █ 2026
16 █ 00 - 17 █ 30

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Film Screening: Queen of Victoria

Fotis Korosiadis
Faculty House and Online
24 █ February █ 2026
16 █ 00 - 17 █ 30

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Poetry in Motion: Running a Literary Workshop for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing in Greece

Brikena Gishto (SNFPHI)
Faculty House and Online
24 █ March █ 2026

University Seminar in Modern Greek

The Black Lover of the Queen: A moving story of Markos Abessinios at the Greek Bavarian Royal Court

Lilia Diamantopoulou (LMU Munich)
Faculty House and Online
21 █ April █ 2026
16 █ 00 - 17 █ 30

PAST

Events

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Selling Sex in Interwar Salonica: Prostitution, Mobility, and Urban Space

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Telling the Story of Markos: Public Archaeology and the Restoration of a Farmer’s Home in Delos

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Film Screening: Queen of Victoria

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Poetry in Motion: Running a Literary Workshop for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing in Greece

University Seminar in Modern Greek

The Black Lover of the Queen: A moving story of Markos Abessinios at the Greek Bavarian Royal Court

University Seminar in Modern Greek

The Stains Queers Leave Behind: Dance-Theatre, Poetry, and Archival Reimaginings

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Documentary Screening: Rap Divas

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Screening of Yorgos Zois’ Arcadia (2024) and Discussion with the Director

Useful humanities. Gaming! Coding! Thinking!

Avato

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Bodies in Space: Rethinking Public Life Through Embodied Mapping

Performing (Historic) Occasions: The 1821 Bicentennial on the Greek Stage

Floodmarks

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Volcanic Identity

At Home with Mr. Themis

University Seminar in Modern Greek

What Can Participatory Music Practice Do For Liberal Democracy: A Rebetiko Case Study

University Seminar in Modern Greek

The Kidnapped Child: Resurrecting North African Ghosts in the Archives of the Greek Sponge Divers

Chios’ Other Voices

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Chimeras in the Museum

University Seminar in Modern Greek

What Has Become of Critique? Book Reviews in Greece

Smells like Butter!

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Islam in Greece: An Ambivalent Accommodation

A bag full of telephone cards: Making the Archive of Albanian Migration

KARAGIOZIS IN ASIA MINOR, OR THE PARADE

Re-membering the Past: Cultural Memory and Public Humanities

Alkinoos Ioannidis solo concert at the Forum

Neapoly

University Seminar in Modern Greek

The Party: K. BHTA and Nikko Patrelakis remember

Music of the Oppressed. Tradition, un-tradition, and the unschooling of music

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Floating, disappearing, and virtual islands from the Aegean to the Pacific: Weird entanglements of fiction and reality

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Boy meets boy and girl meets girl: Foregrounding the Greek American Queer Narrative

University Seminar in Modern Greek

A Bag Full of Telephone Cards: Exhibiting the Archive of Albanian Immigration to Greece

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Screening of Queen of the Deuce (2022, Valerie Kontakos) and Discussion with the Director

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Greek Literature on Shifting Ground: Nationalism, Migration, and Belonging in the Modern Greek Literary Sphere

SCREENING OF “GLORY SKY” (KANELLOPOULOS, 1962) AND DISCUSSION WITH MARK MAZOWER AND MANOLIS KRANAKIS

Conversing with Hadrian’s Aqueduct

University Seminar in Modern Greek

“I lose my screams”: Unmourned bodies, performances of the lamenting voice; from Latin America to Greece

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Screening of “Hussies” (Tsoulakia, 2022, dir. Despina Mavridou) and discussion with the creators

Karagiozis in Asia Minor or the Parade

Craftspeople of the Archipelagos: Documentary Screening

DISCIPLINING THE SUPERNATURAL: ANGELOS TANAGRAS, A MEMOIR OF A MODERN ENCOUNTER

University Seminar in Modern Greek

The Syntax of Confinement

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Research into the Shadows: Karagiozis in Asia Minor

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Archaeologies of Care: The Refugee Colony of Washingtonia

My Parents’ Photographer

Discovering Hadrian’s Aqueduct: Game Design Workshop

Chios’ Other Voices: Making a Prison Zine

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Days and Nights of Demetra K. (Eva Stefani, 2020). Film screening and discussion with the director

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Entering Avato

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Rewriting the Script