Learn about upcoming and past events, as well as longstanding projects at the Modern Greek & Hellenic Studies Program.
Nikos Kazantzakis Lecture
Faith and Doubt in Modernity: Nikos Kazantzakis’ Loss of Faith in a European Context
Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
Speaker: Nektaria Klapaki, University of Washington
Honorary Guests:
Niki Stavrou, CEO, Kazantzakis Estate
The Hon. Socrates Sourvinos, Consul General of Greece
Working Group
Ongoing Ottomans and Post-Ottomans working group
For details contact Hilal Tümer and Aliosha Bielenberg
Past Events
Digital Humanities and Aegean/Mediterranean Mobilities
Co-organized by Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) and Andreas Guidi (INALCO Paris) with the generous support of the France-Berkeley Fund
The untold story of ship logbooks: The contribution of digital methods to the history of navigation in the nineteenth century
Thursday October 5th, 2023, 12pm | 201 Philosophy Hall & Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Apostolos Delis, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Crete), Fulbright Fellow (Yale)
Navigating change: studying the social transformation of La Ciotat’s maritime society during the sail-to-steam transition.
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 Noon PDT | Zoom lecture
Speaker: Dr. Kalliopi Vasilaki, IMS-FORTH
Digital Refuge: Presenting and Preserving Refugee Narratives
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 Noon PST | Zoom lecture
Speaker: Katerina Linos, UC Berkeley Law
Categories and quotas: The selection of Jewish migrants from Greece by Zionist organisations in British Mandatory Palestine (1920-1939)
Wednesday March 27th, 2024 | 10am PDT, 6pm CET| Zoom
Speaker: Esther Saltiel-Ragot, Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Chair in Comparative Law, EHESS Paris
Lectures 2024
Berlinguer, I Love You (Still): The Downstream Effects of Expressive Voting
Thursday, May 2, 2024 | 12:30 - 2 pm PDT |
Speaker: Elias Dinas, European University Institute
Post-Phanariot Relationship of Ottoman Rums and Romanians at the End of the 19th century: Cultural Interactions and Regional Networks
Tuesday April 23rd, 2024 | 4pm PDT |
Speaker: Silvana Rachieru, University of Bucharest
Lectures 2023
Nikos Kazantzakis Visiting Scholar Program Celebration
Tuesday, April 18th 2023
Keynote Address: Pavlos Kavouras, National and Kapodistrian University of Greece and Nikki Stavrou, General Director of the N. Kazantzakis Estate
The Career - and the Many Genres - of Nikos Kazantzakis
Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 | Noon PDT | Zoom lecture
Co-sponsored by Northern California Chapter of the Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis Society
Speaker: Professor Peter Bien, Dartmouth College
For zoom link, please email philliou@berkeley.edu and pcl@franchiselawadvocates.com
Events 2021
2021 Berkeley-IMS FORTH Lecture Series in Mediterranean Studies
Organized in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Department of History and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), with the support of the European Research Council. Learn more
- January 25: SeaLiT: Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s
- March 29: Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities
- May 10: RICONTRANS: Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda: Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th - early 20th c.)
- September 20: Janissaries in Ottoman Port-Cities: Muslim Financial and Political Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Conference
November 4-6, 2021: New Dimensions of 1821: The Greek War of Independence at 200
Previous Lectures
California, the EU and the Future of the Transatlantic Relationship
February 27, 2020
Speakers: Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, and Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California and former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (2010-2013).
Building Bridges or a Bridge Too Far? The ‘Macedonia’ Name Agreement and the Past, Present and Future of Greek Interstate Relations
April 29, 2019
Speaker: Spero Paravantes, IES Senior Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Luxembourg
Laid Low: Inside the Crisis that Overwhelmed Europe and the IMF
March 3, 2017
Speaker: Paul Blustein, senior fellow at the Centre for Governance Innovation in Waterloo, ON
Greece and the Refugee Crisis
April 27, 2016
Speaker: Evangelos Venizelos, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Greece
Economic Distress inside the European Monetary Union: Post-Election Risks of the Greek Economy
April 30, 2015
Speaker: Gikas Hardouvelis, Former Greek Minister of Finance