Call for Papers
Abstracts for individual papers and proposals for entire panels are invited on any aspect of contemporary Greek culture, literature, language, history, society, politics, economics, and the arts. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Greece within its wider geographical and historical context are especially encouraged.
MGSA Symposium @ 20, the twentieth biennial international symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association, will take place October 18-20 2007 at the Omni Hotel, in New Haven, Connecticut, coordinated by the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale University.
Keynote Address
Symposium @ 20 will have two keynote events. A keynote address delivered by Professor Eleni Varikas, Department of Political Science, University of Paris VIII, and a keynote panel discussion conducted among Professors George Stathakis, Department of Economics, University of Crete, Rashid Khalidi, Department of History, Columbia University, and Mahmood Mamdani, Department of Anthropology and School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
2007 marks the 60th anniversary of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, and the 40th anniversary of the Colonels’ dictatorship, events with great impact on Greek history. Although there is no special theme for the Symposium, panels and individual papers that address these events are particularly encouraged.
Other topics of special interest include:
Borders and migrations;
Cyprus and interregional relationships;
Diasporas, transnationalism, Greeks outside of Greece;
Groups and minorities in their historical interconnections and in the context of relations between civil society and the state in Greece;
Intellectual cross-fertilizations between Greece and the rest of the world;
Literary translations from Greek and American translators and publishers;
Modern Greek Studies as a field.
General Guidelines for Submission
All submissions will be judged by blind review on the basis of their individual merit, even when part of a submitted panel. Abstracts of 250-400 words should be submitted electronically to the MGSA Executive Director. Abstracts will be evaluated 1) in relation to innovative approaches they present and 2) in terms of their active engagement with existing literature. Each abstract should explain briefly the scope and focus of the proposed topic, its broader significance for its discipline and the field of Modern Greek Studies, and the methodology employed. Although the decisions of the committee are final, short commentaries on the abstracts can be provided upon request by their authors. Proposals for entire panels of no more than 4 participants may be submitted by the panel organizer in the same manner as individual abstracts and should include a) abstracts and personal information for each of the presenters and b) a panel abstract of 250-400 words by the panel's organizer providing an abstract for the panel and the connections between the individual papers.
Jointly authored abstracts and papers are welcome.
On a page separate from the abstract itself the author(s) should state their name(s), affiliation, postal and e-mail address, and telephone numbers. Presentation of each paper must not exceed 20 minutes which will be strictly enforced. Papers of absent authors will not be read at the Symposium under any circumstances. The Program Committee will assign Chairs to all panels, including submitted ones. No one may present more than one paper, or act as presenter and commentator on the same panel. Audio-visual requirements should be indicated at the time of submission. Symposium participants are expected to cover their own expenses. There is a small fund available to defer costs of participation for graduate students and junior and adjunct faculty. All participants must be current members of the MGSA. Abstracts as well as inquiries regarding the Symposium may be submitted via email to Prof. Victor Papacosma, MGSA Executive Director, [email protected]
Deadlines
The deadline for submissions of abstracts for individual papers is 30 December 2006. Deadline for abstracts of organized panels is 15 January 2007. There will be no extensions of the deadlines. Final decisions will be announced by the end of February 2007.
A pre-registration fee of US$70.00 for accepted abstracts is due by July 18, 2007 for the abstracts to appear in the Symposium's final printed materials. Accepted presentations missing pre-registration will be taken off the program. There will be no refunds after the pre-registration deadline. Fees may be mailed to Prof. Victor Papacosma, MGSA PO Box 622, Kent, OH 44240 Tel. 330-672-7980 Fax 330-672-4025. In Greece fees may be paid in Euros to Maria Georgopoulou, Director, Gennadius Library, 61 Souidias Street, 10676 Athens, Greece, tel: +30-210-7210536, fax: +30-210-7237767, email: [email protected]
Program Committee members
Neni Panourgiá, Columbia University (Chair)
Yiorgos Anagnostou, Ohio State University
Yiorgos Chouliaras, Independent Scholar and Poet
Dan Georgakas, CUNY and NYU
Maria Koundoura, Emerson College
Ioanna Laliotou, University of Thessaly, Volos
Eleni Papagaroufali, Panteion University
Lukas Tsitsipis, Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki
Elena Tzelepis, Columbia University
Tasoula Vervenioti, Hellenic Open University
The Modern Greek Studies Association, founded in 1968, is a US-based, non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of modern Greek studies in the United States and Canada. It publishes the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (The Johns Hopkins University Press) and the MGSA Bulletin, while its publications include the Census of Modern Greek Literature, 1824-1987 (Dia M.L. Philippides, editor) and Greece in Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in English (Stratos Constantinidis, editor). Information regarding the Association, including membership, may be obtained from the MGSA Executive Director or from the MGSA website at www.mgsa.org.