MGSA SYMPOSIA

Every two years, the MGSA organizes an international symposium, hosted at various North American locations, which attracts hundreds of scholars from all over the world. While early symposia had a designated theme, today they are open to all disciplines and topics in order to better represent the growth and diversity of Modern Greek Studies since the late 1960s. Indeed, the human and social sciences, the arts and professional schools are all well represented in the proceedings. In addition, symposia are often enriched with exhibits, concerts, readings, and other cultural offerings.

The MGSA symposium, the oldest and largest of its kind in the world, provides a unique forum for current research and new ideas. Over the years it has started welcoming graduate students, often giving them their first exposure to the field as well as to disciplines outside their own. Many symposium papers eventually appear in the (begin italics) Journal of Modern Greek Studies (end italics), either individually or as entire panels.

The following list, which includes the complete programs of all symposia in chronological order, serves as a record not only of the biennial event but also of the breadth of the field on a global scale.

• 1969: Modern Greek Literature and its European Background (Princeton).
  
• 1971: The Greek War of Independence (Harvard).
  
• 1973: Forces Shaping Modern Greece (Columbia).
  
• 1975: The 'Past' in Medieval and Modern Greek Culture (UCLA).
  
• 1976: The Greek Experience in America (Chicago).
  
• 1978: Greece in the 1940s (American University).
  
• 1980: Women and Men in Greece: A Society in Transition (Univ. of Pennsylvania).
  
• 1983: Modern Greece in the European Context (NYU)
• 1985: Modern Hellenism in the Context of Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean (OSU).
• 1987: Greece, Greeks, and the Sea (Providence, RI).
• 1989: Power/Freedom: Politics, Social Life and Arts in Modern Greece (University of Minnesota).
• 1991: Greece in a Changing Europe: State, Society and Culture (Univ. of Florida).
• 1993: Greeks and Others: the Nation, the Region, the Diaspora (Berkeley, CA).
• 1995: Open Theme (Harvard University)
• 1997: Open Theme (Kent State University)
• 1999: Open Theme (Princeton University)
• 2001: Open Theme (Washington, DC)
• 2003: Open Theme (Toronto, Canada)
• 2005: Open Theme (Chicago, IL). [pdf]
  
• 2007: Open Theme (New Haven, CT) [pdf]