Call for Papers
"National Identities in a Global Europe" at the Miami, Florida EU Center of Excellence conference at Florida International University, March 8-9, 2012
"Crisis and Innovation in Modern Greece" International Graduate Student Conference, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, May 4, 2012. Deadline: February 3, 2012
Bridging generations: interdisciplinarity and life stories in the 21st century , Oral history and life history approaches in the social sciences. University of Thessaly, Volos, 25-27 May 2012. Deadline: February 28, 2012.
Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand and the Dept. of Modern Greek, University of Sydney, 11th Biennial Conference, 7-9th DECEMBER 2012.
Crisis, Criticism and Critique in Contemporary Greek Studies. Deadline: April 30th, 2012
Seventh International Conference on Interdisplinary Social Sciences Universidad Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain, 25-28 June 2012
JOBS ▹▹▹▹
American School of Classical Studies Administrative Director, ASCSA, Princeton, NJCollection Development Librarian, Blegen Library, ASCSA Athens.
New job listings at Princeton
Assistant Professor in Byzantine Art and Architecture
Associate Professional Specialist: Byzantine Medievalist Art Historian
Assistant Professor in Later Byzantine History
Assistant Professor Late Antique History
Study Abroad
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MGSA SYMPOSIUM 2011
The 22nd biennial international symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association took place October 13-16, 2011 at New York University.
To all of you: thank you for your support of the MGSA and its most recent, landmark symposium, in which record numbers of young scholars participated. Our gratitude goes to Elsa Amanatidou and Liana Theodoratou and their respective committees, who raised the bar very high.
See the archive of the event which includes the prize announcements, photographs, a related video, and our thanks to those who made it a success. The program of papers presented at the symposium is here.
Nikos Alexiou reviewed the MGSA Symposium for the Greek newspaper Avgi.
Greek original or English translation.
MGSA JOURNAL NEWS
▸JOURNAL FEATURESJHUP now offers an e-mail subscription to electronic Table of Contents (eTOC) for newly published issues. Instructions for signing up for this service are available here. Subscribers to the service can receive eTOC updates for as many JHUP published journals as they wish by signing up with their e-mail address. They will receive an e-mail alerting them when a new issue for their subscribed journals appears on Project MUSE. Combined with the availability of RSS feeds for the JHUP journals, readers have multiple ways to find the newest content available online.
The Greek American Studies Resource Portal
The MGSA's Transnational Studies Committee
has published their resource portal 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
New Fellowships
From the A G Leventis Foundation, three postgraduate studentships are available for students who wish to pursue a full-time higher degree programme (MA by Research, MRes or PhD) in the fields of Modern Greek (including Cypriot) literature, language, history and culture at the University of Birmingham (UK).
The deadline for the submission of applications is Friday 22 June 2012.
News from Our Members
Dr. Alexander Lingas, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Music Studies, City University London, and the Cappella Romana (Byzantine Chant Ensemble) will be giving a series of concerts in March entitled "Desert and City: Medieval Byzantine Chant of the Holy Land".
The tour goes to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, to Hellenic College in Brookline, MA and to Washington, DC.
Check the ensemble's website for information about these performances.
