Modern Greek Studies Association

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Thurday, October 15

	Room 1500	Room 1200-1300
6:30-7:30 p.m. panel 1	East European Nostalgias	Reweaving Penelope's Dream

8pm	Poetry Reading ★ Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

8:45-10.pm	• Opening Remarks • Reception

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Friday, October 16

	Room 1200	Room 1300	Room 1500
8:30am - 10:00am panel 2	Between France and Greece: Bilingual Literature and the Idea of the “World”	Between Citizen and State: Exploring Civil Society and Social Change in Greece	Performing Ethnicity, Negotiating Identity Outside Greece

10:15am - 12:15pm panel 3	Angelos Elefantis: “The Citizen” of Greece (Four responses to the political and cultural legacies of “O Politis,” 1976-2008)	Nation Formation	Vanishing Authority in Literature and Cinema

12:45pm - 1:45pm Lunch event	Notes from the Field: Working in/on the Hellenic Diaspora Room 1500

2:00pm - 4:00pm panel 4	•	C.P.Cavafy	Diasporic Communities and Transnational Politics

4:15pm – 6:15pm panel 5	Cultural Politics in Film	Customs, Others, and the State in the Nineteenth Century	Greek Literature’s Circulation Before and Beyond Greece

7:30pm	Presentation of MGSA Awards Link to Location SFU Harbour Centre 515 Hastings West Room 1700 Labatt Hall

7:45pm - 9:45pm	Keynote Panel Greek Worlds,Transnationalism, Globalization

Saturday, October 16

	Room 1200	Room 1300	Room 1500
8:30am - 10:00am Panel 6	Greece And Europe	Crypto-colonialism And Postcolonialism	Literature’s Diachronic Readings

10:15am - 12:15pm Panel 7	Contemporary Urban Politics And Social Phenomena	City, Village, Monastery: The Archaeology Of Modern Greek Landscapes	Dialogue And Dial/log In: Theater And Virtual Performance For Modern Greek

12:45pm - 1:15pm Lunch event I	Learning Greek On The Internet: The Odysseas Greek Language Tutor SFU Harbour Centre - 515 Hastings West - Labatt Hall

1:20pm–2:20pm Lunch event II	Hellenic Studies In China SFU Harbour Centre - 515 Hastings West - Labatt Hall

2:30pm - 4:00pm Panel 8	Literature And Identity	December 2008–the Urban Riots In Greece	Poetics

4:15pm – 6:15pm Panel 9	(im)migration In Film And Literature	Borders, Migration, And Identification	Interwar And WWII Greece

7:0pm - 9:00pm	The Past, Present, And Future Of The Journal Of Modern Greek Studies SFU Harbour Centre - 515 Hastings West - Labatt Hall