Call for Submissions
Third Biennial Workshop on Modern Greek Language Instruction at Indiana University, Bloomington on November 12-13, 2010.
Submission deadline passed
Fulbright•Greece Scholarships for American Citizens
- Applications / Deadlines
- Senior Scholars And Artists February 1 (opens) – August 2 (deadline)
- Graduate Students - October 18, 2010
- Greek Summer Seminar - January 14, 2011
- Fulbright Senior Specialists
Applications Accepted Year Round - Inter-Country Lecturing Awards Applications Accepted Year Round
Fulbright grants are in the form of financial stipends that allow students, scholars, artists and teachers to study, lecture or conduct independent research in Greece.
Fulbright•Greece has a wealth of information including the scholarship promotional materials in pdf which are here and here.
MGSA Fund for Innovative Initiatives
This fund, for innovative initiatives in Modern Greek Studies→, provides monetary support to institutions of higher learning and other professional organizations to support conferences, workshops, and other related activities that promote Modern Greek Studies (including those of the Greek diaspora).
Ohio State University is the most recent recipient.
New Research Collections Page
View profiles of some of the most significant research collections in Modern Greek Studies with descriptive information, contacts, and more. Harvard University Library has recently been posted.
MGSA SYMPOSIUM 2011 – CALL FOR PAPERS
MGSA 2011, the twenty-second biennial international symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association, will take place October 13-16, 2011 in New York, and will be coordinated by the Hellenic Studies Program at New York University. See this page for details
New Greek America Newsletter Announced
"The Greek America Newsletter"
The Modern Greek Studies Association's Transnational Studies Committee will be publishing an electronic newsletter featuring the following:
- Academic publications on Greek America, including book reviews.
- Non-academic publications on Greek America, including autobiographies, community histories, fiction, poetry, photography, painting, etc.
- Essays, articles, and book reviews published in the media
- Films and documentaries
- Updates and announcements of current oral history work undertaken in academic institutions as well as in Greek American communities
- Research queries regarding Greek American topics
We request scholars, writers, artists and other cultural producers whose work explores the Greek world in the United States and/or the connections between Greece and the United States (repatriated Greek Americans, Greek films on Greek America, Greek writings about Greek Americans, etc.) to submit the full citation of their work in MLA format, including a two to three sentence description of their work. Each issue will be archived on the MGSA webpage under the heading 'The Greek America Newsletter.'
The purpose of this newsletter is to disseminate information about academic, artistic, and popular works in the transnational field of Greek America.
The publication of the first issue is projected for September 30, 2010. Please submit your material by September 1.
We expect to issue the newsletter on a bi-annual basis.
Forward all information to either Martha Klironomos e-mail or Yiorgos Anagnostou e-mail, co-chairs of the Transnational Studies Committee.
And please mention the creation of this newsletter to interested parties on behalf of the members of the MGSA Transnational Studies Committee who include Professors Artemis Leontis, Yiorgos Kalogeras and Dan Georgakas.
News
Greek America Foundation to offer 2 full-tuition scholarships for semester-long study abroad at the American College of Greece.
Tell them about it. National
Student Research Study 
is
looking for American-born undergraduate and graduate students with
any Greek roots to do oral history interviews. The study is sponsored
by the Next
Generation Initiative .
