Thanks to a generous gift from Jim and Sandra Boves, the Modern Greek Culture Lecture brings to campus each year a distinguished scholar of the literature, language, history, thought, and culture of Modern Greece.
2023-2024 Modern Greek Lecturer:
Professor Georgios Anagnostou
Miltiadis Marinakis Professor of Modern Greek language and culture at Ohio State University, Department of Classics
"Introducing the 'Global Hellenic,' Imagining Diasporas' Futures"
Previous Modern Greek Culture Lecturers:
- 2023/2024: Anastasia Drandaki, Assoc. Prof. of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Faculty of History and Archaeology. “Visions of Byzantine Cosmopolitanism in Interwar Greece: Antonis Benakis and Byzantium”
2022/2023: Anna Stavrakopoulou, Associate Professor of Theatre Studies Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. “The State of the Stage in 21st century Greece”
2021/2022: Karen R. Emmerich, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. “Forms of Belonging: Citizenship and the (Modern) Greek Literary Sphere”
2021/2022: Emily Greenwood, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values Princeton University. “Optative Citizenship: Mary Church Terrell on Knowing Greek and Black Women’s Suffrage”
2019/2020: Yannis Hamilakis, “Ideal, Nation, Crypto-Colony: How Greece Should Celebrate its Bicentenary”
2018/2019: Thomas Gallant, “Greece’s Two Fins-de-Siècles”
2017/2018: Geoffrey Horrocks, “Greek - Necessary Myths and Wilful Oversights”
2016/2017: Constanze Guthenke, “The Last Arcadians: Classical Scholars in Greece”
2014/2015: Paul Cartledge, “A Tarnished Dawn: Ancient Sparta’s Perception Today and Tomorrow”
2013/2014: Michael Herzfeld, “Crisis or Judgment: Exasperation and Obligation in Greece Today”
2012/2013: Stathis Gourgouris, “Cavafy’s Debt”
2011/2012: Mark Mazower, “Alfred Zimmern, Ancient Greece, and the Idea of International Relations”