Center for Hellenic Studies

Past and Upcoming Events

Upcoming events:

Please join us as we honor the memory of 100 years since the Asia Minor Catastrophe!
The concert by Utopia Music Project, entitled “Echoes of the Past: Asia Minor in Greek Songs” is to be held on Sunday, October 9, 2022, 6:00-7.30pm at Logan Center Performance Hall, University of Chicago
The event is organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of Chicago, the Consulate General of Greece in Chicago and the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center
Μπορεί να είναι εικόνα 2 άτομα και κείμενο που λέει "A CONCERT BY UTOPIA MUSIC PROJECT ECHOES OF THE PAST: ASIA MINOR IN GREEK SONGS CENTENNIAL OF THE ASIA MINOR CATASTROPHE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2022 5:00 PM 6:00 PM: COCKTAIL RECEPTION 6:00 PM 7:30 PM: CONCERT (FREE ADMISSION) LOGAN CENTER PERFORMANCE HALL, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THE UNIVERSITY CHICAGO Center for Hellenic Studies HELLENIC REPUBLIC ENERA GREECE CHICAGO AMPHRC Û"

 

We are excited to bring your attention to the following event, organized by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center

You can register here:  https://ihm.ec/smyrna2022

Past Events

The Hellenic Hive Podcast by the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools’ Hellenic Club 

Interview Feature for Anastasia Giannakidou — First-Generation, Low-Income, Immigrant Network

Polyhedric Greece : The Many Faces of the Greek World — November 08-09, 2019

 

 

Launching event for the Center for Hellenic Studies

Polyhedric Greece (November 8-9, 2019)
The Many Faces of the Greek World

 

Conference Program
Friday, November 8

Registration, Coffee, Greetings

10:30-11:00am – Greetings from, among others:

  • Dean Anne Walters Robertson, Dean of the Division of Humanities, University of Chicago
  • Jason Merchant, Vice Provost
  • Ekaterina Dimakis, Consul General of Greece in Chicago
  • Anastasia Giannakidou, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies; Department of Linguistics

Plenary talk

11:00-12:00pm – Edith Hall, King’s College London: The Homeric Odyssey as Greek and World Literature Before and After Homer

12:15-2:00pm – LUNCH

Afternoon Session: Polis (Πόλις): Sovereignty and the state

2:00-2:30pm – Stathis Kalyvas, Gladstone Professor of Government, All Souls College, University of Oxford: What is Greece a Case of ?

2:30-3:00pm – Anthony Kaldellis, Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, Ohio State University: Politeia: From Plato’s Republic to Constantine’s New Rome

3:00-3:15pm – Comments by Demetra Kasimis (Political Science, University of Chicago)

3:15-4:00pm – Discussion led by Demetra Kasimis (Political Science, University of Chicago)

Reception

4:30-5:30pm – Reception at the museum of the Oriental Institute

Saturday, November 9

Morning Session: Glossa (Γλώσσα): Language and the Teaching of Greek Language in the US

11:00-11:30am – Ioanna Sitaridou, Reader in Spanish and Historical Linguistics, Department of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Cambridge University: Variation in Modern Greek Dialects

11:30-12:00pm – Zoe Gavriilidou, Professor of Linguistics and Vice Rector, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece: Profiling Greek Heritage Speakers of Chicago

12:00-12:30pm – Christopher Brown, Director of the Modern Greek Language Program, Ohio State University: Teaching Greek in the critical period: lessons from the Mohawks

1:00-2:00pm – LUNCH

Afternoon Session: History (Ιστορία): Greece in the East 2:00-4:30pm

2:00-2:30pm – Theodosios Kyriakidis, Reader of Pontic Studies, Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: Greeks of Asia Minor

2:30-3:00pm – George Mavropoulos, President of the Hellenic Research Center for Asia Minor and Pontos, Chicago: Short presentation followed by a private viewing of a documentary produced by the Hellenic Research Center for Asia Minor and Pontos.

This year (2019) marks the centenary of the Genocide of Pontic Greeks, i.e., the Greeks that used to live along the north coast of Asia Minor. The event is commemorated by academic institutions across the globe.

4:00-4:30pm – Coffee, Refreshments and Closing Remarks

All talks will be held at Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1155 East 58thAvenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (https://oi.uchicago.edu/)

Lunches on Friday (November 8) and Saturday (November 9) will be served at LaSalle Bank Room, Oriental Institute (https://oi.uchicago.edu/)

Conference Co-sponsors

Department of Linguistics, Department of Classics; Department of History; Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC); Franke Institute; Provost’s Office; Stevanovich Institute for the Formation of Knowledge

The University of Chicago