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Specters of Cavafy, a new book by Maria Boletsi

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:58:00 +0000

A new book has just been published by the University of Michigan Press and is appearing in bookstores and on websites around the world.

Vassilis Lambropoulos Essays on New Directions in Modern Greek Studies

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:58:00 +0000

The 1st annual Vassilis Lambropoulos Essays on New Directions in Modern Greek Studies have been published!

Despina Margomenou explores how technological integration may aid novice learners in their study of Modern Greek

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:58:00 +0000

"Technological Integration and different pathways to language learning for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs): A view from Modern Greek"

A Musical Journey to Cyprus: Traditional Songs of Love, Sorrow, and Hope

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:58:00 +0000

A concert in observance of the 50th year of a divided Cyprus

Generation G - an Interview with Idra Kayne on Putting Soul into the Greek Music Scene

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:53:00 +0000

Ms. Kayne, known throughout Greece as a soul-funk-jazz-popp singer-performer, talks about her sources of inspiration, career, relationship with audiences, Black Lives Matter, Greek identity, and what it was like growing up African-Greek.

Conversations on Culture, 2020-2021

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:56:00 +0000

The Modern Greek Program collaborates with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in peer teaching, cultural exchanges between UM students learning Modern Greek and AUTH students in the English language program.

Generation G - an interview with Mary Katrantzou on the Future of Fashion and Creativity Inspired by Her Greek Roots

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:44:00 +0000

Ms. Katrantzou discusses her work in the fashion industry during the most challenging year of 2020 in an interview by VOGUE Greece editor Giota Tachtara on the basis of questions from students and the broader community.

A. E. Stallings, poet, essayist, translator, and refugee activist, and MacArthur Fellowship winner, names Artemis Leontis's Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins as one of her "Books of the Year 2019"

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:20:15 +0000

Stallings writes, the book "dazzled as biography and scholarship,” untangling “the life of this heiress, cultural figure, and wife” to explore “’implications’ of queer identity and the crucible of modern Greece.

Ambassador Lysiotis at the University of Michigan

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Ambassador Marios Lysiotis of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States, visited the University of Michigan in February 2019.

Professor Leontis Named New C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek Studies & Comparative Literature

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:24:00 +0000

Effective Jan. 1st, 2019

Όταν τα ελληνικά ζωντανεύουν! «Αριστοτέλειο καλεί Αμερική!». Ένα πρόγραμμα γλώσσας και ανταλλαγής ιδεών μέσω Skype.

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:36:00 +0000

When Greek comes to life!

The Lost Letters

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:56:00 +0000

One LSA professor uncovered a lost trove of correspondence between two artists from the early twentieth century, bringing their love lives and professional careers into sharper focus.

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Artemis Leontis

Tue, 29 May 2018 18:37:00 +0000

Professor Artemis Leontis incorporated blogging in her course on graffiti or street art as a way to focus on the strategies writers can use in different rhetorical situations.

The Welcome Desk

Tue, 29 May 2018 17:41:00 +0000

One LSA student works to help imperiled people in Athens.

Students of Public Policy Study and Visit Greece

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:48:00 +0000

In Winter 2017, 20 students of the Ford School of Public Policy studied Greece in the classroom and on location.

A splendid present from a Cavafy scholar

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 06:30:00 +0000

Prof. Bruce Frier presents Modern Greek with two Cavafy original prints by David Hockney

Watch UM's "Global Graffiti Project"

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:00:00 +0000

a creative partnership between the Institute for the Humanities and Modern Greek Studies that engaged the campus and larger community with international artists who offer a global perspective on public art.

Vassilis Lambropoulos interviewed by Η Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 19:45:00 +0000

“I read in order to comment and participate energetically.”

Despina Margomenou Interviewed by "Her Campus at U-M"

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 06:30:00 +0000

A Greek Archaeologist

Conversations on Culture 2016

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 07:30:00 +0000

UM students connect to University of Thessaloniki students to learn from each other and discover more about what it is like to live in Ann Arbor and in Thessaloniki!

Athens Street Artist Cacao Rocks Paints a Mural in Downtown Ann Arbor and Talks About Street Art

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:45:00 +0000

Mural Painting and Discussion

Greek Artists participate in the "Global Graffiti Project"

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:00:00 +0000

Watch the Artists at Work

Summer Classics Reading List

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:15:00 +0000

Compiled by Netta Berlin, Department of Classical Studies

Explore the Greek Campus of the University of Michigan

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 06:00:00 +0000

Discovering the Greece of history and the imagination at an American university.

Fall 2016 Modern Greek Courses

Sun, 03 Jul 2016 07:15:00 +0000

Our courses bring students in close contact with faculty, and help them strengthen skills to succeed in our fast-changing world of professional flexibility and diversity. They also open a window on Greece, a country at the center of world events today!

Cavafy Scholar Lambropoulos Speaks on Many Things Greek

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 06:30:00 +0000

Professor Lambropoulos spoke with The National Herald, a NY weekly newspaper, on 200 years of Greek life on the Michigan campus

Etienne Charrière to do post-doctoral research fellowship at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul

Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:45:00 +0000

Charrière is interested in the social and cultural processes that both enabled and resulted from the globalization of prose fiction in the 19th century.

Congratulations to Professor Johannes Foufopoulos and Dr. Despina Margomenou

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 06:30:00 +0000

Professor Johannes Foufopoulos (UM, School of Natural Resources) and Dr. Despina Margomenou (Modern Greek Program) Awarded International Institute's Experiential Learning Funding

Efimerida ton Syntakton, 4/4/2015

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:30:00 +0000

Poets, novelists, literary critics and academics answer the archetypical, labyrinthine and slippery question "Why write?".

This article is in Greek. For more information, please follow the link at the end of the article.

Modern Greek Studies for the 21st century

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:00:00 +0000

A View from the "Chair R. P. Cavafy" and Modern Greek Programme University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA.

This article is in Greek. For more information, please see the link at the end of this page.

The C.P. Cavafy Chair in the US is not in danger

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:45:00 +0000

Interview with Professor of the University of Michigan, Vassilis Lambropoulos published in the newspaper "Eleftherotypia" on 04.06.2013

Article in Greek. Please see link at end of page for more information.

London School of Economics and Political Science Podcast

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:30:00 +0000

10/04/2015

Literature's Refuge: Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape by William Stroebel

The book recovers and tells stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East.

New Publication by Vassilis Lambropoulos on C.P. Cavafy