Modern Greek Studies Association
The 11th Biennial MGSA Workshop in Pedagogy
"The Future of Greek Language and Culture Pedagogy : New Challenges and Opportunities,” will take place at Boston University on October 25th, 2025, with the collaboration and local support from the Department of Classical Studies and Modern Greek Program of Boston University.
The workshop provides a forum to share and compare pedagogies and curriculum development in Modern Greek in a low-stakes and collegial environment, offering hands-on knowledge sharing on practical and theoretical grounds. As this year’s workshop title intimates, language pedagogy and undergraduate teaching is rapidly evolving, due to the proliferation of new technologies, new learning styles, and an evolving undergraduate student body. Participants in the workshop will discuss both challenges and opportunities that this shifting landscape presents to Modern Greek instruction. In particular, this workshop aims to address three distinct but interrelated topics:
- The role of AI and digital technologies in the language classroom
- Rising pedagogies and methodologies for language instruction
- Cultural studies / literature / and history courses
How do we productively and ethically integrate AI into language instruction so as to augment rather than supplement students’ own language literacy? What are the organizing principles of our curriculum development across a two- or three-year language track and how can they anticipate AI tools? What new methodologies have you implemented in your own classroom, and what pedagogical theories are informing your praxis? What role do non-language courses play in your curriculum? What are the benefits and pedagogical challenges of teaching Greek culture, literature, and history courses to a general audience? How do we build enrollments and majors/minors across the curriculum and maintain the health of Modern Greek programs vis-à-vis quickly evolving university administrative priorities?
The organizing committee plans to structure the workshop around three panels, each of which will ideally address one of the above bullet-pointed themes and will take place the morning and afternoon of October 25th. Participants should plan on fifteen- to twenty-minute presentations, which will be followed by half an hour of discussion in each panel. Following the conclusion of the third panel, the Boston University Modern Greek Program has organized a keynote panel, “Translating Modern Greek Literature and Thought: The Use of AI Technology and The Future of Language,” with Prof. Vilelmini Sosoni, Ionian University, Prof. George Mikros, Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Prof. Vasilis Manousakis, University of Patras.
Interested parties should submit an abstract of 200-300 words describing their proposed project. Please indicate which of the three bullet-point themes you would ideally like to address.
The deadline for submission is June 30th, 2025, and all submissions should be sent to both [email protected] and [email protected].
Lunch and dinner will be provided during and after the Saturday workshop, but participants will be expected to cover their own travel expenses and accommodations.
2023 workshop and prior years ▶
