Events

UPCOMING

University Seminar in Modern Greek

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

Dodge Hall 511 (2960 Broadway)
07 █ December █ 2023
18 █ 00 - 20 █ 30

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Exhibiting the Archive of Albanian Immigration to Greece

Faculty House and Online
25 █ January █ 2024
14 █ 30 - 15 █ 30

Smells like butter!

Grypareio Megaro Building, Athens
26 █ January █ 2024

A bag full of telephone cards

Omonia Square, Athens
24 █ February █ 2024

Neapolis

Konstantinos Vita and Nikos Patrelakis
The Forum at Columbia University
20 █ April █ 2024
20 █ 00 - 21 █ 30

PAST

University Seminar in Modern Greek

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

Karen Emmerich (Princeton University) and Nicholas J. Dames (Columbia University)
Faculty House and Online
14 █ November █ 2023
12 █ 30 - 13 █ 30
SCREENING OF “GLORY SKY” (KANELLOPOULOS, 1962) AND DISCUSSION WITH MARK MAZOWER AND MANOLIS KRANAKIS

Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Olympion Theater
04 █ November █ 2023
20 █ 00 - 22 █ 00
Conversing with Hadrian’s Aqueduct

Eirini ISAP Station, Athens
21 █ October █ 2023
11 █ 00 - 14 █ 00
University Seminar in Modern Greek

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

Marios Chatziprokopiou (University of Thessaly) and Emma Ianni (respondent, Columbia University)
Faculty House and Online
06 █ October █ 2023
12 █ 30 - 13 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

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

29 █ September █ 2023
12 █ 30 - 13 █ 30
Karagiozis in Asia Minor or the Parade

Centre for Asia Minor Studies, Konstantinou Tsatsou 6, Plaka
23 █ September █ 2023
20 █ 00 - 21 █ 30
Craftspeople of the Archipelagos: Documentary Screening

Sifnos Pottery Museum, Dragatsi Estate, Artemonas and online
30 █ June █ 2023
21 █ 00 - 23 █ 00
DISCIPLINING THE SUPERNATURAL: ANGELOS TANAGRAS, A MEMOIR OF A MODERN ENCOUNTER

Kosmas Nikolaou and Myrto Katsimicha
Literary Society Parnassos, Athens
23 █ May █ 2023
19 █ 30 - 21 █ 00
University Seminar in Modern Greek

The Syntax of Confinement

Neni Panourgiá (Columbia University)
Faculty House
02 █ May █ 2023
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

Research into the Shadows: Karagiozis in Asia Minor

Christine Philliou and Spyros Aggelopoulos

07 █ April █ 2023
17 █ 00 - 18 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

Archaeologies of Care: The Refugee Colony of Washingtonia

Kostis Kourelis (Franklin & Marshall College)
Faculty House
07 █ March █ 2023
17 █ 00
My Parents’ Photographer

Spyros Staveris, Ilirida Musaraj, Kostis Karpozilos, Ervin Shehu, Pati Vardhami, Anna Nini, and Marleno Nika
Athens Municipality Arts Center, Parko Eleftherias
11 █ February █ 2023
10 █ 00
Discovering Hadrian’s Aqueduct: Game Design Workshop

08 █ February █ 2023
11 █ 30 - 13 █ 30
Chios’ Other Voices: Making a Prison Zine

20 █ December █ 2022
13 █ 00 - 14 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

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

Dodge Hall, Lifetime Screening Room 511
15 █ November █ 2022
18 █ 00 - 20 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

Entering Avato

25 █ October █ 2022
11 █ 00 - 12 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

Rewriting the Script

Hamilton Hall 618
30 █ September █ 2022
18 █ 00 - 19 █ 30
At home with Lena Platonos

10 █ May █ 2022
19 █ 00 - 20 █ 30
The Filmmaker-Physician: Gregory Markopoulos and the Restoration of Eniaios

28 █ April █ 2022
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

A Civilizing Hellas? Debating the Colonial Dimensions of the Asia Minor Campaign

31 █ March █ 2022
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
Finding Space for Flying Rams: Imagining the Museum of Takis Giannousas

24 █ February █ 2022
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
Coal Fired: The Greek Poetry of Climate Change

27 █ January █ 2022
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
UNIVERSITY SEMINAR IN MODERN GREEK

A Psychogeography of Bones

With Alexis Fidetzis

15 █ December █ 2021
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
Going Viral: Public Opinion in the Social Media

26 █ November █ 2021
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
UNIVERSITY SEMINAR IN MODERN GREEK

Cyborg Classics: A Conversation with Dimosthenis Papamarkos

With Dimosthenis Papamarkos

29 █ October █ 2021
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
Outside the Archive: Greek Zines in the Age of Documentation

30 █ September █ 2021
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 00
University Seminar in Modern Greek

Walking through History: Tracing Resistance and the Great Famine in Athens

With Menelaos Charalambidis

15 █ April █ 2021
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

Curating Greek Independence

With Ioulia Pentazou, Alexandros Teneketzis, and Konstantina Zanou

19 █ March █ 2021
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

Performing the Index

With Lynnette Widder, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Elpida Karaba, Despina Zefkili, Yota Ioannidou, Vangelis Vlahos, and Dimitris Antoniou

17 █ February █ 2021
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

Extra-terrestrial Ethnographies of the Future-Present (Part IΙ: Ζine workshop)

With The Athens Zine Bibliotheque

17 █ December █ 2020
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 00
UNIVERSITY SEMINAR IN MODERN GREEK

Online screening of the sci-fi film Third Kind (Yorgos Zois, 2018) and discussion with the director

With Yorgos Zois

10 █ December █ 2020
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

Extra-terrestrial Ethnographies of the Future-Present (Part I: Writing workshop)

With Alexandra Siotou (University of Thessaly), George Mantzios (University of Toronto), and Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)

19 █ November █ 2020
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 30
University Seminar in Modern Greek

An Evening in Pangrati: Revisiting the AIDS epidemic in 1980s Athens

With Dimitris Xanthoulis and Panayotis Evangelidis

22 █ October █ 2020
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 00
FORM & FIGMENT: Rendering Imagination and Encounter in Online Exhibitions

With Carlin Zia (Oral History, Columbia) and Guy de Lancey (Movement Lab, Barnard)

24 █ September █ 2020
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 00
Building Publics

Maria Gonzales Pendas
Online
10 █ July █ 2020
11 █ 00 - 12 █ 00
Online film screening of Federe (Hypercomf, 2019) and discussion with the directors

13 █ May █ 2020
12 █ 00 - 13 █ 00

Events

University Seminar in Modern Greek

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

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Exhibiting the Archive of Albanian Immigration to Greece

Smells like butter!

A bag full of telephone cards

Neapolis

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

At home with Lena Platonos

The Filmmaker-Physician: Gregory Markopoulos and the Restoration of Eniaios

University Seminar in Modern Greek

A Civilizing Hellas? Debating the Colonial Dimensions of the Asia Minor Campaign

Finding Space for Flying Rams: Imagining the Museum of Takis Giannousas

Coal Fired: The Greek Poetry of Climate Change

UNIVERSITY SEMINAR IN MODERN GREEK

A Psychogeography of Bones

Going Viral: Public Opinion in the Social Media

UNIVERSITY SEMINAR IN MODERN GREEK

Cyborg Classics: A Conversation with Dimosthenis Papamarkos

Outside the Archive: Greek Zines in the Age of Documentation

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Walking through History: Tracing Resistance and the Great Famine in Athens

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Curating Greek Independence

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Performing the Index

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Extra-terrestrial Ethnographies of the Future-Present (Part IΙ: Ζine workshop)

UNIVERSITY SEMINAR IN MODERN GREEK

Online screening of the sci-fi film Third Kind (Yorgos Zois, 2018) and discussion with the director

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Extra-terrestrial Ethnographies of the Future-Present (Part I: Writing workshop)

University Seminar in Modern Greek

An Evening in Pangrati: Revisiting the AIDS epidemic in 1980s Athens

FORM & FIGMENT: Rendering Imagination and Encounter in Online Exhibitions

Building Publics

Online film screening of Federe (Hypercomf, 2019) and discussion with the directors