Initiatives

Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Studies Publishing Series

The Program of Modern Greek Studies has recently established "Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Studies," a new publication series at Harvard University Press. Two groups of books are published in this series:

1. Monographs on aspects of Greek literature, history, and culture in the period between the 12th century and postmodernism
2. Editions of modern Greek texts, accompanied by commentaries, English translations, and brief introductions (following the model of the Harvard Loeb and I Tatti series).

The research focus and scholarly scope of this new series is highly interdisciplinary and comparative, with an Advisory Board consisting of an international group of scholars both in the field of Modern Greek Studies as well as in related disciplines: Margaret Alexiou, Wim Bakker, Roderick Beaton, Homi Bhabha, Jacques Bouchard, John Chioles, Kathleen Coleman, Hent de Vries, John Duffy, Alessandro Duranti, Michael Herzfeld, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Paola Marrati, Marc Shell, Richard Thomas, Helen Vendler. Inquiries about "Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Studies" should be addressed to the editors of the series, Panagiotis Roilos and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis.

Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture

Chairs: Panagiotis Roilos and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

Transhistorical and cross-disciplinary explorations of aspects of Greek literature and culture from the fifteenth century to postmodernity. Presentations, which vary in theoretical approach, situate Modern Greek studies within comparative contexts: ancient and medieval Greece, Western, Balkan, and Mediterranean cultures.
This seminar is open to the public.

Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture Archive

Download the lecture by Professor James Faubion

Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This new seminar functions as a forum for lectures and intellectual exchanges on cultural politics across disciplines and national or historical boundaries. The main focus of the seminar is on European cultural politics in the era of globalization. Synchronic as well as diachronic explorations of current debates on the tensions between hegemonizing and marginal, local, or minor cultural discourses are presented and commented upon by policy makers and scholars in a variety of fields including: critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, political science, history, and law.

The seminar is co-chaired by Panagiotis Roilos, Professor of Modern Greek studies and of Comparative Literature, and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Visiting Associate Professor of the Classics, Harvard University, and Associate Professor of the Classics, The Johns Hopkins University.
This seminar is open to the public.