Dear All:
After the highly successful 1st Biennial International Conference on Modern
Greek Studies in December 2007, which was dedicated to the work of C. P. Cavafy,
the Program of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard-George Seferis Chair announces
the 2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek
Fictional Writing, December 4-5, 2009.
Please take note that the 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern
Greek Studies will be also held in the frame of this Conference on December
4rth, at 6:30 P.M. in 202 Harvard Hall. The Keynote Speaker, Professor
Elizabeth Jeffreys, Oxford University, will be talking on the topic of Digenes
Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee and the
Department of the Classics.
Full details of both these events are offered in the Program of the Conference
below, as well as on our website
(
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html):
2nd Biennial International Conference on Byzantine and Early Modern Greek
Fictional Writing
& The 23rd Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies
December 4-5, 2009, Harvard Hall 202
PROGRAM
Friday, December 4
11:00-12:45 Opening Remarks
Panagiotis Roilos, Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative
Literature, Director, Program of Modern Greek Studies, Harvard University
Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Director,
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University
Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture Chair, The
Medieval Studies Committee, Harvard University
Fictional Narratives across Genres
Thomas Hägg
"Fiction and Factography in the Life of St. Antony"
Paul Magdalino
"Apocryphal Narrative: Patterns of Fiction in Byzantine Prophetic and
Patriographic Literature"
Paolo Cesaretti
"The Exegete as a Story-teller: The Dawn of Humankind according to Eustathios of
Thessalonike"
Lunch Break
14:30-16:15 Narrative Strategies and Discursive Forms
Michael Jeffreys
"Three Forms of Byzantine and Modern Greek Oral Narrative and Their Written
Reflections: Unrhymed, Rhymed, and Tragoudia"
Anthony Kaldellis
"Philosophy and the Rise of Literary Fiction in Byzantium"
Niels Gaul
"Dialogic Constructions of Fictitious Worlds and Literary Realities: Late
Byzantine Dialogues and Mimesis"
18:30 The Twenty-Third Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek
Studies
Elizabeth Jeffreys
"Digenes Akrites and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative"
Saturday, December 5
11:00-12:45 Flights of Imagination: Discursive and Visual Representations
Carolina Cupane
"Other Worlds, Other Voices: Form and Function of the Marvelous in Late
Byzantine Fiction"
Ioli Kalavrezou
"The Marvelous Flight of Alexander in Byzantium"
Massimo Peri
"The Four-color Tradition in Early Demotic Greek Poetry"
Lunch Break
14:30-16:15 Conceptualizing Genres
Ulrich Moennig
"Literary Genres and Mixture of Generic Features"
Roderick Beaton
"Hopeful Monsters or Living Fossils? The Komnenian Novels and Their Medieval and
Modern Reception"
Panagiotis Roilos
"Toward a Historical Anthropology of Byzantine Fictional Writing"
Thank you very much for your attention.
Sincerely,
Vasiliki Rapti
Vassiliki Rapti, PhD
Preceptor in Modern Greek
Modern Greek Studies Program
Harvard University
Department of the Classics e-mail: rapti(a)fas.harvard.edu
204 Boylston Hall Office tel.: (617)384-7794
Cambridge MA 02138
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek