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CMGS Events Spring 2002

February 24 and 25th

Dimitris Tziovas, Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK)

Professor Tziovas gave a series of three lectures at the Center for Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University. Professor Tziovas' visit is being sponsored by the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), as part of a U.S. tour that includes visits to the Modern Greek programs at Columbia University, Arizona State University, Ohio State University, and the University of Maryland.

Public Lecture Sunday February, 24, 3 p.m.

"From Community to Privacy: Greek Culture in Transition" Humanities Building 133

Seminars Monday, February 25th

2:10-3:25 p.m. "Self-identity and the Poetics of Manhood in Kazantzakis' Freedom or Death" Humanities Building 384

6:10-8:55p.m. "Literary Responses to Censorship: Seferis' On Aspalathoi..."

Humanities Building 381


March 16		Workshop in Oral History Interview Techniques
Humanities 127 11:00-3:30 p.m.		Sponsored by the Center for Modern Greek Studies and the Modern Greek Studies Foundation. Workshop leader is Gail Kurtz, oral history consultant to the Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley, Judah Magnes Museum and other Bay Area institutions. For more information and to register, please call the Center Office at 415-338-1892. Open to the general public. No charge, but reservations are necessary For reservations, call or e-mail the Center. We advise bringing a sack lunch since most restaurants and snack shops on campus are closed Saturdays. We will provide coffee and cookies. For more information and to register, please call the Center Office at 415-338-1892.