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A Greek Calendar for New England
Consulate General of Greece
Press and Information Office
86 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
Tel: (617) 523-0329, Fax: 523-0477
A G R E E K C A L E N D A R
M A Y 1 9 9 5
EVENT
Saturday, May 20 Fifty-third Commencement of Hellenic College and
The Holy Cross School of Theology
- 7:00 am Divine Liturgy, Holy Cross Chapel followed by
Official Opening of Dendrinos Village
- 11:00 am Commencement, The Pappas Auditorium 55 Goddard Avenue,
Brookline.
SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, May 6 "Byzantium and Modern Greece: Reading Antiquity Backwards"
- 9:30 am Welcoming Remarks: Professors Nagy, Sevcenko, Ziolkowski
- 9:45 am "C.P. Cavafy, 'In the Month of Athyr'", George Syrimis (Comparative Literature, Harvard)
- 10:15 am "Unborn Greece, Young Anacharsis, and Age-old Hatreds in the Balkans", Vangelis Calotychos (Classics, Harvard)
- 11:15 am "The Imperial Age: the Difference Between Italo-Byzantines and
Italians, A.D. 650-950", Michael McCormick (History, Harvard)
- 11:45 am "Latina Legentur: Roman Law and Byzantine Identity", Marie
Therese Fogen (History, Max Planck Institut-Frankfurt)
- 12:15 pm "Mathematical Mysteries in Byzantium: Fermat's Last Theorem",
Judith Herrin (History, Princeton)
- 2:00 pm "Anna Komnene: Devotion, Ambition and Intellect", Sarolta
Takacs (Classics, Harvard)
- 2:30 pm "The Iconography of a Byzantine Medical Scene", John Duffy
(Classics, the University of Maryland)
- 3:00 pm "Classical Means for Byzantine Ideas", Ioli Kalabrezou (Fine
Arts, Harvard)
- 4:00 pm "Allegory and the Grotesque in Byzantine Novels", Panagiotis
Roilos (Classics, Harvard)
- 4:30 pm "Food-Wine and Sex: the Prodromic Poems", Margaret Alexiou
(Classics, Harvard)
Co-sponsored by The Seminar on Greece and Rome and The Modern Greek
Literature and Culture Seminar, CLCS, Harvard University, 61 Kirkland
Street, Cambdrige. 495-4027
LECTURES
Wednesday, May 3, 4:15pm "(Re)Producing Docile Subjects?: Abortion
and Configurations of Gender in Athens Today" Alexandra Halkias
(University of California, San Diego)
Sponsored by the George Seferis Chair, Harvard University.
Center for Literary & Cultural Studies, 61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge.
Thursday, May 4, 4:00 pm "Greece, the 'New European Order' and the
Balkan Crises: Political and Economic Perspectives" Dr. George
Andreopoulos, (History, Yale) and Prof. Stavros Thomadakis (Economics,
Baruch College, CUNY, and U. of Athens)
Sponsored by the Greek Study Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard
University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge. 495-4303.
Thursday, May 18, 8:00 pm "Greece and the Greeks from 1933 to the
Present" Prof. Christos Stribakos
The Greek Institute, 1038 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. 547-4770.
EXHIBIT
April 9-May 28 "Grekia" Photographs of Aegina, Paros and Vassara.
John Pezaris
Maliotis Cultural Center, 50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline. 522-2800.
May 1 - May 31 "Greece and the Far East" Photographs by Dimitri
Papathanassiou
The Greek Institute Gallery, 1038 Mass. Avenue, Cambridge. 547-4770.
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