The 4rth annual CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for the Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellowships in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam for the academic year 2022 -2023 is now out. These fellowships are sponsored by the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation for research situated in – but certainly not limited to – the field…
Title: The Emotional Politics of Fear: The visual language of anticommunism in post-war Greece Speaker: Dr. Alexander Kazamias, Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam (2021-2022) Date/Time: Wednesday December 8, 3.30-5.00 pm (CET) Location*: online (no registration needed). Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/87012490249 Language: English *Please note: This talk was…
Title: Bloemlezing van jonge Nederlandse dichters Speaker: drs. Arthur Bot, docent Nieuwgrieks en Byzantinologie, UvA Time: 15.30-16.30 uur Location: room 1.04, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam. Language: Dutch Abstract Tijdens dit variacollege zal een presentatie worden gegeven van de in Griekenland uitgegeven tweetalige bundel Ανθολογία νέων ολλανδών ποιητών / Bloemlezing van jonge Nederlandse dichters, een deel…
Title: Memory work in protest movements: The case of the Greek 1960s Speaker: Dr. Emilia Salvanou, Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam (2020-2021) Time: 3.30 pm. Location: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/86156066567 (Meeting ID: 861 5606 6567) Language: English Abstract Protest movements of the 1960s are usually…
Title: “We have never been racist”: Rethinking race & ethnicity in modern Greece. Date: Monday, 24 May 2021, 6:00 pm (CET/NL time) The event will be livestreamed via Youtube. You can watch and participate here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWARLgqhOPM About this event The network Greek Studies Now participates in discussions sparked by the bicentennial of the 1821 Greek…
Title: The Undying Song: Writing the Homosexual Body in the long 19th Century and beyond Speaker: Dr. Nikolas P. Kakkoufa, Columbia University; currently Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam (2020-2021) Time: 3.30 pm (CET) Location: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/88607866042 (Meeting ID: 886 0786 6042) Language: English Abstract 2021…
The Marilena Laskaridis Fellowships 2021-2022 were awarded to the following two colleagues, who will join the Modern Greek Studies team at the University of Amsterdam in the academic year 2021-2022: 1. Dr. Alexander Kazamias Project title: Sound National Convictions: Anticommunist discourse and propaganda in post-war Greece, 1944-74 2. Dr. Dimitris Soudias Project…
The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation invites applications for a 3-year PhD fellowship in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam, for a PhD project to be conducted in English under the aegis of the Marilena Laskaridis Chair of Modern Greek Studies. The call for applications is open to research projects in…
The network Greek Studies Now participates in the celebrations for the bicentennial of the 1821 Greek War of Independence with a series of webinars in which scholars, artists, filmmakers, and authors are asked to reflect on the meaning of this anniversary, taking the contemporary experience of Greece and Greekness as their starting…
Title: Modern Greek Literary Studies Lab: Archives—The Press [EATT] Goals and prospects Speaker: Prof. Dr. Katerina Kostiou, Professor in the Dept. of Philology, University of Patras Date and Time: 15 April, 4.30-5.30 p.m. (NL time) Location: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/89141605288 (Meeting ID: 891 4160 5288) Language: Greek Abstract This talk aims to present the newly founded…
Title: Universal Liberal Democracy, Global Capitalism and Hellenism at the End of History Speaker: Dr. Despina Lalaki, Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam (2020-2021) Time: 3.30 pm. Location: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/85042839171 (Meeting ID: 850 4283 9171) Language: English This event is also supported by Decolonizing Hellas…
Title event: Ελλάδα 2021: Παρελθόν+Παρόν=Μέλλον Time Event: 12.00-6.30 pm. (NL time) The Dept. of Modern Greek Studies and the M. Laskaridis Chair of Modern Greek Studies of the University of Amsterdam participate with a panel with brief presentations in the celebratory online event Ελλάδα 2021: Παρελθόν+Παρόν=Μέλλον organized in The Netherlands on the occasion…
Title: Dream Nation; 200 years on Date: Monday, 22 March 2021, 6 pm (NL time) Language: English Main speaker: Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University) Participation in the roundtables is free and open to all. Please register here and you will be emailed a link to join the online event on Zoom. About this…
In verband met de Covid-19 restricties op de Universiteit van Amsterdam (geen fysiek onderwijs en examens tot juni 2021) zullen er geen Certificaatsexamens Nieuwgrieks (ΚΕΓ-examens) zijn in 2021. ——- Due to Covid-19 restrictions at the University of Amsterdam we are forced to cancel the International ΚΕΓ-exams of Modern Greek 2021…
Title: Our Intense Biopolitical Present: COVID and Before Date: Thursday, 21 January 2021, 6 pm (NL time) Language: English Speakers: Dimitris Plantzos (Νational and Kapodistrian University of Athens): A national bicentenary, a global pandemic, and the new past Nelli Kambouri (University of Hertfordshire and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences): Biopolitics…
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two (2) visiting research fellowships in the field of Modern Greek Studies for early-career and more advanced scholars who wish to pursue part of their research at the University of Amsterdam. Applicants for both fellowships are required to hold…
Title: On Islands and Camps: From Leros to Lesvos Date: Thursday, 10 December 2020, 6 pm (NL time) Language: English Speakers: Neni Panourgia (Columbia University) “Infrastructural governmentalities, or confinement by any other name. The paradigm of Leros” Danae Karydaki (University of Thessaly) “Towards a ‘Greek Neverland’: the infantilisation of Leros institutions’ inmates with…
Title: “Golden Dawn: The End of the Story?” ‘Modern Greek Studies and Beyond: Local Cases, Global Debates’ Roundtable Series Date & time: 19 November 2020, 18:00-20:00 (NL time) Speakers: Georgios-Evgenios Douliakas (Leiden University / University of Amsterdam), Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London), Eleftheria Ioannidou (University of Groningen), Maria Margaronis (London correspondent…
Τhe Amsterdam-Oxford partnership Rethinking Modern Greek Studies in the 21st century: A Cultural Analysis Network announces an online roundtable series that will take place in the course of 2020-2021. Roundtable series “Modern Greek Studies and Beyond: Local Cases, Global Debates” First roundtable: “Greek and Green? Eco-turn in Modern Greek Studies” Date: 21 October…
Celebratory event on the occasion of the acquisition of G.H. Blanken’s Cavafy archive by the University of Amsterdam The event is livestreamed. Via this link you can watch it live. On September 25, 2020, the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam in collaboration with the Marilena Laskaridis Chair of Modern Greek…
The Marilena Laskaridis Fellowships 2020-2021 were awarded to the following three colleagues, who will join the Modern Greek Studies team at the University of Amsterdam in the spring semester of 2020-2021: 1.Dr. Nikolas P. Kakkoufa Project title: ‘Word is the flesh’: The Homosexual Body in the Work of Walt Whitman,…
With the support of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, the Marilena Laskaridis Endowed Chair of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam has begun a new collaboration with the CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature project, which is led by Prof. Dia Philippides (Prof. Emerita, Classical Studies, Boston College) and Prof. Wim…
The Department of Modern Greek Studies of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) offers online in cooperation with the St. Thomas Polytechnic-OMSGSA and UvA’s Illustere School the course Project Greece: Athens. Period: 1-30 June 2020 (academic year 2019-2020, block 6) Description: The course is an introduction to various aspects of urban…
In the last days of January 2020, Oxford University hosted the opening event of the new international partnership between the Universities of Amsterdam and Oxford under the title “Rethinking Modern Greek Studies in the 21st Century: A Cultural Analysis Network.” More info about this network can be found here: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/rethinking-modern-greek-studies-in-the-21st-century-a-cultural-analysis-network…
Date and time: Sunday 24 May, 20:00 Location: Concert hall Paradiso, kleine zaal, Weteringschans 6-8, Amsterdam Organisation: Paradiso (in cooperation with the NGNS & the Dept. of Modern Greek Studies, UvA) The Circle: a music band without borders with passion for the rebetiko music. Musicians: Sotiris Letsios – guitar /…
Due to the international coronavirus crisis this lecture is postponed. It will be offered online during the academic year 2020-2021. Guest speaker: Prof. Dr. Gonda van Steen, Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature in KCL’s Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Classics Title: Adoption, Memory, and…