"The Return of Three Muses Concert"
Conducted by Tikey Zes and Gus Gundunas

Sunday, February 10th
4:00 pm
McKenna Hall, SFSU Campus

The Modern Greek Studies Foundation and the Center for Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University presented a Gala Celebration Commemorating the Twenty Fifth Anniversary of the Creation of the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair at SFSU

“The Return of the Three Muses”
An Afternoon of Song. Poetry and Dance
 Featuring the 50 singers and the 30 Musicians of the
Festival Folk Singers
Conducted by Tikey Zes and Kosta Gundunas
Produced by George Liviakis

Reception hosted by the
Pan Cretan Associations of Northern California

Platon Mavromoustakos
Professor of Theatre Studies, The University of Athens

"The Art Theatre of Karolos Koun and Modern Greek Theatre Practice"

Thursday, February 21st
7:30 pm
HUM 587

Platon Mavromoustakos is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens, where he has been teaching since 1991.  He received his Doctorate in Theatre Studies at the Institut d’Etudes Théâtrales, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III,  in 1987.  He has collaborated with many state theatres in Greece and has directed several research projects on the history of Modern Greek theatre,  the reception of Italian Opera and the history of ancient drama performances in Europe and Modern Greece.  He has widely published including the study Theatre in Greece 1940-2000. A Survey (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2005) and is the General Editor of Moliere’s Complete Works in Greek.

This public lecture is sponsored by the University Seminars Programs of the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)  

Dr. Susan Heuck Allen
Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics, Brown University

"Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik"

Thursday, March 6th
7:30 pm
HUM 587

Dr. Allen teaches at Smith College and is a visiting scholar in the Department of Classics at Brown University where her research focuses on the history of archaeology.  She is the former chair of the Archives Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America and now chairs its Women in Archaeology Committee.  She has worked in Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, and Israel and swam the Hellespont, from Asia to Europe in 1997.  Her first book Finding the Walls of Troy received both scholarly and popular acclaim with the History Book Club. Her second, Excavating Our Past (2002), looks at the history of American archaeologists.  Other areas of research concern British communities in the Ottoman Empire and American archeologists’ of the OSS Greek Desk in World War II, the subject of her next book.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Classics at SFSU

Andromache Karanika
Assistant Professor of Classics, University of California, Irvine

"Witches and Wonders: Magical Realism in Modern Greek Literature"

Thursday, March 13th
7:30 pm
HUM 587

Andromache Karanika received her Ph.D at Princeton University. The title of her dissertation is The Work of Poetry and the Poetics of Work: Women's Performances at Work in Early Greek Literature. Her main interests are on ancient Greek epic lyric poetry, and the representation of women’s narratives, oral tradition and rituals in ancient Greek literature.  She has written articles on Athena's cult in classical Greece, work-songs of ancient Greece, ecstatic healing practices in antiquity, the poetics of grape-harvesting songs, the agonistic performances in pastoral poetry and the parody of lamentation rituals in ancient drama.  

She has also co-authored a textbook for learning Modern Greek (Greek Today: A Communicative Course on Greek language and Culture, University Press of New England, 2004). She is currently working on a book, Voices at Work: Women, Production and Performance in Ancient Greek Literature and Society, as well as articles on Homeric poetry, orphism, children's games in antiquity, the poetry of Erinna and Sappho. During 2002-4 she served as a Humanities Fellow at Stanford University.

Dr. Susanna Hoffman

"The Peopling and the Feasting of Greece: From Neanderthal Man to
Modern Times"

Thursday, April 10th
7:30 pm
HUM 587

Since the earliest days, various populations have wandered into Greece to live off the bounty of the land and sea. This lecture follows the many people who have settled in Greece, from Neanderthal Man to Minoans, Myceneans, Indo-Europeans, and others, and talks about the foods they have consumed, cooked, and cultivated. It is a
journey through humans, history, and olive oil.

Susanna Hoffman is an anthropologist (PhD, UC Berkeley) who has worked in Greece for over thirty years. She is the author, co-author, or author/editor of nine anthropology, non-fiction, and food books, along with two ethnographic films. Among her food books are: THE OLIVE AND THE CAPER: ADVENTURES IN GREEK COOKING (Workman 2004).  Among her anthropology books are: CATASTROPHE AND CULTURE (with
Anthony Oliver-Smith (School of American Research, 2002), THE ANGRY EARTH (with Anthony Oliver-Smith, Routledge, 1999). Her ethnographic films are the award-winning KYPSELI: WOMEN AND MEN APART and the Emmy winning THE NATURE OF CULTURE. She appears frequently on television
and radio shows (Good Morning America, Oprah, Discovery, The Food Network, CNN, PBS).

In 2001, she was the first recipient of the Fulbright Foundation's new Aegean Initiative grant shared between Greece and Turkey, where she worked on the disaster issues facing both countries. In the last two years she has also worked on disaster issues in Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, El Salvador, the U.S, and other places.

Professor Theodore Pelagidis

"Comparing Administrative and Financial Autonomy of Higher Education Institutions in Seven EU Countries"

Monday, April 21st
4:00 pm
HUM 587

"Expensive Living Under the Euro (with a focus on Greece)"

Monday, April 21st
7:30 pm
HUM 587

Theodore Pelagidis is Professor of Economics at the University of Piraeus, Greece. He received his M.Phil. from Sussex University, U.K., and his Ph.D from Paris University.  He has also conducted post-doctoral research on the EMU at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University.  He has published widely in some of the leading peer-reviewed journals in his field and has co-edited the collection Welfare State and Democracy in Crisis: Reforming the European Model (Katseli: Aldershot, Ashgate Publishers, 2001).

These lectures are sponsored by the University Seminars Programs of the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA).

San Francisco Greek Film Festival

5th Annual San Francisco Greek Film Festival at the Delancey Screening Room

Sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Foundation and the Center for Modern Greek Studies.

For information on film screening times and purchase of tickets, please visit

www.grfilm.com