Archive of Past Events

Academic Year 2008-2009

The Journey: The Greek American Dream

September 24, 2008
Spurlock Museum
Guest speakers: Maria Iliou (documentary director), Alexander Kitroeff (historian)
Associated event: Interview with Alexander Kitroeff, Associate Professor in History at Haverford College by Tom Rogers of WILL AM 580

EUC film night: Eduart (Greece/Germany, 2007)

February 18, 2009
English Building 160

Greek American Accents

April 22, 2009
Levis Faculty Center
Guest speaker: Vassilios Lambropoulos (C.P. Cavafy Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)

Greece in the 21st century: Trends & Challenges

April 24, 2009
Illini Center Chicago
Roundtable discussion with:
Vassilios Lambropoulos (University of Michigan)
Mary Kalantzis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Nanno Marinatos (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Frank Hess (Indiana University)
Robert Pahre (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Coordinator: Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Academic Year 2009-2010

Teaching Greek as a Second Language

October 27-28, 2009
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Guest speakers:
Brian Joseph (Ohio State University)
Mark Janse (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Evangelia Adamou (Paris CNRS/LACITO)
Niovi Antonopoulou (University of Thessaloniki)
Amalia Arvaniti (UCSD)
Stavroula Tsiplakou (University of Cyprus)
Panayotis Pappas (SFU)

9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics

October 29-31, 2009
International House, University of Chicago
Co-sponsored by Modern Greek Studies

EUC film night: "The last Homecoming" (Cyprus, 2008)

January 28, 2010
Foreign Languages Building
Followed by discussion with Mahir Saul (UIUC, Anthropology) and Telemachos Mouschovias (UIUC, Astrophysics). Event related to the workshop Violence Trauma and Displacement in Eurasia and the Middle East, organized by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chicago.

CSAMES Brown Bag Series: "Love Causation as Emission: A Cross-Cultural Conceptual Model in Medieval Greek Folksongs and 20th Century Greek Poetry"

February 23, 2010
Foreign Languages Building
Guest speaker: Cristobal Pagan Canovas (PhD Murcia, Marie Curie Fellow, UCSD)

Informational meeting on EU research funding

February 23 2010
International Studies Building
Guest speaker: Cristobal Pagan Canovas (PhD Murcia, Marie Curie Fellow, UCSD)

Modern Greek Symposium: Foreigners in Greece, Then and Now

March 11-12, 2010
Levis Faculty Center

How to forget in Greek: Lexicogrammatical patterns of verbs in an inflected language

March 30, 2010
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Guest speaker: Dionysis Goutsos (Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Athens & Onassis Scholar)

Cultural memory in Diaspora

April 8, 2010
I Hotel and Conference Center
 Guest speaker: C. Nadia Seremetakis (Professor of Anthropology, University of the Peloponnese) [Press Release]

Soundscapes Conference

April 8-9, 2010
Levis Faculty Center
Co-sponsored by Modern Greek Studies

European Film Night: "First Time Godfather" (Proti Fora Nonos)

April 15, 2010
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

Cultural Heritage Practices and Debates in the European Union

April 20, 2010
English Building
Guest speaker: Vasiliki Kynourgiopoulou, Center for Heritage and Tourism Studies in the Mediterranean, Rome, Italy
Co-sponsored by Modern Greek Studies

Greek Identities and Historical Narratives: Petrakis to Eugenides

April 26, 2010
Foreign Language Building
 Guest speaker: Michael Davros (Department of English, Northeastern Illinois University)

Houston and Papadimitriou Greek Culture Awards 2010

May 1, 2010
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Guest speaker: Neni Panourgia (Professor of Anthropology, Columbia U)

The Greek Financial Crisis and the European Union

June 24, 2010
Fundraiser in Chicago (National Hellenic Museum)
 Guest speaker: Kostas Kourtikakis (Political Science and Modern Greek Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Co-sponsored by Modern Greek Studies, the Hellenic Professional Society of Illinois, and the National Hellenic Museum

Academic Year 2010-2011

CSAMES Brown Bag Series: "Changing Communities, Shifting Indexicalities in Modern Greek"

October 5, 2010
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Guest speaker: Marina Terkourafi (Dept. of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Movie night: "With Heart and Soul" (PSYCHE VATHEA)

October 20, 2010
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

A Panel on the State of the Hellenic Economy

October 29, 2010
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Guest speakers: Chryssi Giannitsarou (University of Cambridge), Anne Villamil and Nicholas Yannelis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Co-sponsored by Modern Greek Studies and the Hellenic Students Association

Narrative Skeptics: C.P. Cavafy and Gore Vidal Write on Julian the Apostate

November 16, 2010
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Guest speaker: George Syrimis (Hellenic Studies and Comparative Literature, Yale University)

Mediterranean Vices

December 2, 2010
3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center

The Burden and the Glory: The Idea of Tradition in Modern Greece

December 4, 2010
National Hellenic Museum, Chicago
Guest speaker: Michael Herzfeld (Department of Anthropology, Harvard University)

The New Sick Man of Europe? Greece in Crisis

February 24, 2011
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Guest speaker: Iason Athanassiadis (Middle East Photojournalist & Documentary Film Maker)

Aegean Light: Watercolors and Sketches from the Greek Islands

March 14, 2011
Plym Auditorium, Temple Buell Hall
Guest speaker: Paul Laseau (Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Ball State University)
Co-sponsored by Modern Greek Studies

Documentary film: "Dreams in another language" (Best Greek Documentary 2010)

March 29, 2011
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Guest speakers: Lucia Rikaki (Film Director; from Athens via skype) and Mary Kalantzis (Dean, College of Education)

Academic Year 2011-2012

Award ceremony: Houston and Papadimitriou Greek culture awards 2011

Saturday, September 10, 2011
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Guest speaker: Bill Cope (College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

1st Greek Film Fest Chicago

September 30 - October 2, 2011
Co-sponsored by Modern Greek Studies

Odysseas Elytis (November 2, 1911 - March 18, 1996): A tribute to the poet and his work on the centenary of his birth

November 2, 2011
Lucy Ellis lounge, Foreign Languages Building, 1PM

Movie night "Ulysses' gaze" (Greece, 1995)

February 1, 2012
Rm 160, English Building, 1PM