Princeton University, May 7, 2010
The Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University announces our second International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies.
Submissions are invited from doctoral candidates in the final stages of their dissertation research who wish to present their work on any aspect or period of modern Greek history, society, and culture. Comparative or interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. Papers should be in English, and must not exceed 30 minutes.
Please submit abstracts of approximately 350 words no later than January 29, 2010. All Greek words should be transliterated. Each abstract should be accompanied by a cover letter, including (i) a curriculum vitae; (ii) a brief statement how the proposed paper connects with the dissertation-in-progress; (iii) the applicant's contact details (name, current affiliation, postal and e-mail addresses; tel. nos.); (iv) the names and e-mail addresses of two academic referees, the dissertation supervisor and one other person familiar with the candidate's current research.
Receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged, and the applicants will be notified by February 22, 2010, whether their submissions have been accepted. Participants will be expected to submit the full text of their papers by April 16, 2010. Papers will be precirculated among conference speakers, chairs, and respondents.
The Program in Hellenic Studies will cover the participants’ travel expenses to Princeton, and will offer shared (double-occupancy) accommodation (up to four nights), as well as meals on the days of the conference.
Submissions should be e-mailed to: hellenic@princeton.edu and nmarinid@princeton.edu (Submissions by fax or hard copy will not be accepted.)
Deadline: January 29, 2010
Program Committee
Elizabeth Davis (Anthropology and Hellenic Studies)
Dimitri Gondicas (Classics and Hellenic Studies)
Molly Greene (History and Hellenic Studies)
Savvas Kyriakidis (Hellenic Studies)
Thanassis Nikolentzos (Hellenic Studies)
Nikos Panou (Comparative Literature and Hellenic Studies)
Alexis Rappas (Hellenic Studies)
Katerina Rozakou (Hellenic Studies)
Secretary to the Committee: Nikos Marinides (History and Hellenic Studies)
In my recent translations, I’ve been trying to bring across some contemporary Greek voices that haven’t yet been adequately heard in English, but there are still many classics of Modern Greek literature that really deserve to be translated. One is I Papissa Ioanna (”Pope Joan”), by Emmanuel Roidis. First published in 1866, “Pope Joan” is a wickedly witty historical novel about the life of the legendary (and probably fictional) female pope of the 850s. The book, which also offers a stinging critique of the Greek Orthodox Church, was banned, and Roidis was excommunicated because of it. Lawrence Durrell published a version of the book in the 1950s, but it’s far shorter than Roidis’s Greek, and it would be wonderful to have a complete translation in English. I would also love to see strong translations of the works of the 16th-century Cretan playwright Georgios Chortatsis: the pastoral play Panoria, the tragedy Erofili, and the comedy Katzourbos. These plays are just wonderful, and should be of particular interest to scholars and readers of Renaissance works in English. There are also a whole host of fantastic books that already have been published in good English translations—but the translations are either out of print, or put out by small presses or academic presses with poor distribution. Two of my favorites are William Wyatt’s translation of the stories of Yiorgos Vizyenos, My Mother’s Sin and Other Stories. Vizyenos is a fascinating character, born in 1849 to a very poor family in Thrace, sent to apprentice to his uncle, a tailor in Constantinople; he went on to study child psychology in Leipzig and died in an insane asylum outside of Athens. There’s also the very important trilogy of novels by Stratis Tsirkas, set in Jerusalem, Cairo, and Alexandria during the period 1942-44, that were translated by Kay Cicellis and put out by Knopf in 1974 under a single cover, as Drifting Cities. It would be wonderful to see those re-released.
Karen Emmerich’s translation include I’d Like by Amanda Michalopoulou, Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris, and Landscape with Dog and Other Stories by Ersi Sotiropoulos, just out from Clockroot Books.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 5th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Northumbria University in Newcastle on 8-10 April 2010.
Keynote speakers will include John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science at Exeter University; Nick Daly, Professor of English Literature at University College Dublin; and Patricia Waugh, Professor of English Literature at Durham University.
The Society invites proposals for twenty-minute research papers addressing any aspect of the interaction between literature and science; collaborative panels of two or three papers; and papers or panels on the teaching of literature and science. We welcome work on literature from all periods and countries, and on all aspects of science, including medicine and technology. Presenters need not be based in UK institutions.
Please email paper proposals of up to 300 words and a short biographical note to the conference organizers Dr Peter Garratt and Dr Vike Martina Plock at Northumbria University (bsls@northumbria.ac.uk) by Monday, 21 December 2009. Please send abstracts in the body of the message; do not use attachments.
Please address any queries to Dr Peter Garratt and Dr Vike Martina Plock at the email address above.
Ο ομογενής συγγραφέας κέρδισε το βραβείο για το βιβλίο του «The Slap» (Το Χαστούκι) που κάνει ρεκόρ πωλήσεων.
The 2nd ‘Derrida Today’
International Conference
July 19 – 21, 2010
To be held at:
The British Academy, London
Due Date for Abstracts: 30th November, 2009
A book and a digital project by Neni Panourgia: http://dangerouscitizens.columbia.edu/A three-day international conference at the University of Liverpool from Wednesday, 14 to Friday, 16 April 2010
The recent upsurge in interest in the history of reading has opened numerous new interpretative avenues for scholars. Women’s reading has attracted particular attention, in specific regions and time periods. Much of this critical interest has focussed on the idea of leisure reading, however, with the reading of literary texts an especially common theme.
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the range of representations and reading practices contained within and encouraged by works which had a solely or largely pedagogical purpose. What vision of female nature did they propose? How were their textual and editorial strategies specifically adapted to fulfil the perceived needs of the female reading public? How did individual female readers respond to these representations and proposed practices? And how did reading advice and practices change over time?
Points of departure include but are not limited to:
• textual and editorial strategies for advising women
• moral aphorisms for women
• the interplay between educational and leisure reading
• the role of reading in developing women’s civic and domestic duties
• reading as a means to women’s moral and social advancement
• specific reading practices proposed by educational texts or adopted by individual readers
• the ‘feminisation’ of traditionally ‘masculine’ reading practices, including commonplace books, books of extracts etc.
Contributions which treat any language area are welcome. Papers which compare and contrast more than one language area are particularly encouraged.
Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to Dr Pollie Bromilow (pollie.bromilow@liverpool.ac.uk) and Dr Mark Towsey (m.r.m.towsey@liverpool.ac.uk) by Friday, 28 August 2009.
It is envisaged that this conference will form the basis of a co-edited volume.
This conference is jointly organised by the University of Liverpool's History of the Book Research Group and the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre.
ΣΥΛΛΟΓΗ ΤΑΞΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΗΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΙΑΣ, 15ος-19ος ΑΙΩΝΑΣ / ΠΑΝΔΕΚΤΗΣ
(Ιόλη Βιγγοπούλου)
Aπό το τέλος του Mεσαίωνα δυτικοευρωπαίοι ταξιδιώτες άρχισαν να εκδίδουν έργα σχετικά με ταξίδια στη Nοτιο-Aνατολική Eυρώπη και την Aνατολική Mεσόγειο. Tα έργα αυτά είναι σημαντικά στους μελετητές ιστορίας, αρχαιολογίας, οικονομικής και κοινωνικής ιστορίας, εθνογραφίας, δημογραφίας, ιστορικής γεωγραφίας, κ.ά.
Aπό το 1988 ξεκίνησε στο INE η δημιουργία μιας Bάσης Δεδομένων που θα συγκέντρωνε, θα συστηματοποιούσε και θα επεξεργαζόταν το τεράστιο αλλά και πολλές φορές σπάνιο υλικό της ταξιδιωτικής γραμματείας που αναφέρεται στον συγκεκριμένο γεωγραφικό χώρο από τον 15ο έως και τον 19ο αιώνα.
Tα δελτία που συμπληρώνονται αφορούν το περιηγητικό κείμενο και περιλαμβάνουν: α) βιβλιογραφικού περιεχομένου πληροφορίες, β) στοιχεία που αφορούν τον ταξιδιώτη και το ταξίδι του, γ) εικονογραφικά δελτία και δ) εικόνες.
Oι μελετητές της περιηγητικής γραμματείας μπορούν να αντλούν πληροφορίες από περιηγητικά κείμενα, αφενός όσον αφορά τα βιβλιογραφικά δεδομένα και την πλήρη καταγραφή των διαδρομών, τόπων, θεματικών ενδιαφερόντων, χρονολογίας ταξιδιού και, αφετέρου φυσικά της σχετικής εικονογράφησης.
Στο πλαίσιο του ΠANΔEKTH επανασχεδιάστηκε η Bάση ώστε να ανταποκρίνεται σε διεθνή πρότυπα (μοντέλο οντοτήτων συσχετίσεων) και εμπλουτίστηκε με εικονογραφικά και βιβλιογραφικά δελτία.
Στο πρόγραμμα συμμετείχαν ερευνητές του INE καθώς και εξωτερικοί συνεργάτες για εισαγωγή των δεδομένων τόσο από βιβλιοθήκες όσο και από ιδιωτικές συλλογές στην Eλλάδα και στο εξωτερικό.
Η συλλογή περιέχει δελτία που αφορούν έντυπες περιηγητικές εκδόσεις (βιβλία και άρθρα), χειρόγραφα, καθώς και εικονογραφικό υλικό που περιέχεται σε αυτές ή είναι σε λυτή μορφή (χαρακτικά που απεικονίζουν τοπία, αρχαιότητες, ανθρώπινους τύπους, προμετωπίδες βιβλίων, τοπογραφικά σχεδιαγράμματα, φωτογραφίες και άλλα). Περιλαμβάνει 2.500 δελτία περιηγητικών έργων και 500 δελτία με εικονογραφικά θέματα. H Bάση Δεδομένων Tαξιδιωτικής Γραμματείας αποσκοπεί στα επόμενα χρόνια να συμπεριλάβει το σύνολο των περίπου 5.000 κύριων έντυπων τίτλων της ταξιδιωτικής γραμματείας και των εικόνων που περιέχονται σε αυτούς. Mελλοντικά θα εμπλουτιστεί με τη συστηματική αποδελτίωση άρθρων σε ταξιδιωτικά περιοδικά του 19ου κυρίως αιώνα.
Δείτε περισσότερα:
Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 13: Victorian Ecology
Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural and built environment. Submissions are invited for our spring 2010 edition which will focus on ecological themes in Victorian Literature and Culture.
Submissions may focus on any literary or cultural figures, or literary genres, either in or related to the Victorian period or the nineteenth-century. Examples might include, but need not be limited to the following themes: Victorian literature and science, post-Romanticism, cultural criticism (e.g. Ruskin, Carlyle, Morris), Victorian gothic, the realist novel, evolutionary theory and/or the new physics, key scientific figures (Darwin, Wallace etc), the industrial or urban landscape, Victorian poetry, literature and ‘early green politics’. Articles that relate to nineteenth-century literature within other cultures, especially European cultures, will also be considered. While we do not specify any particular themes, articles should have a broad ecocritical flavour, be informed by ecocritical theory, and seek to establish, where appropriate, connections or divergences with contemporary ecological thinking.
Green Letters is a peer-reviewed journal. Please note that each article should be accompanied by a brief biographical note. Articles should be typed double spaced, with references in the MLA style and any substantial footnotes at the bottom of each page (a more detailed style sheet will be provided on acceptance). Manuscript length should be between 4000 and 6000 words. Eventual submissions should be made via email with a MS Word attachment of the document.
To have a submission considered please send an abstract (approximately 500 words) toGreenLetters@bathspa.ac.uk. The abstract should be sent as an anonymous attachment in Word document format along with a covering email giving your name, address and institutional affiliation. The deadline for abstracts is Monday 22 June. A decision as to which articles will be commissioned will be made in early July and the deadline for submissions will be Friday 29 January 2010.
