CFP: The Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium Welcomes Submissions on Greek Cinema

From: Hess, Frank <[email protected]>

Submissions on Greek Cinema are being welcomed for the Modern Greek Studies
Association Symposium 2013,
November 14-16, 2013 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

For detailed information about the conference and submission process see
the MGSA Symposium website: http://mgsasymposium.org/.  (ALL submissions
must be made ELECTRONICALLY by website.  Note that this is a new procedure
and website.)

Hosted by the Modern Greek Program and West European Studies at Indiana
University.

Organized by The Modern Greek Studies Association Executive Board and the
MGSA 2013 Local Arrangements and Program Committees.

Deadline for abstracts for 20-minute papers:  January 15, 2013;
Deadline for panel proposal: January 31, 2013;
Deadline for special sessions (roundtables, lunch brainstorming, workshop,
etc.):  March 1, 2013

Open topic on Greek, Greeks, Greece, and Cyprus, and ideas of the Greek in
modern times. Approaches are welcome from all disciplines in the
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts and from interdisciplinary fields.
Comparative perspectives are encouraged.

Topics of special interest are:

    40 years after the Polytechneio
    Migration and citizenship
    Gender relations and the politics of sexuality
    Historical culture and social memory
    Pedagogy and curriculum development
    Teaching Greek as a foreign language: linguistic and other approaches
    Material culture, museums and heritage
    Crisis and critique
    Cultural circulation, exchange, and change
    Spaces of intellectual fertilization in and out of Greece
    Transnational communities
    Greek literature and arts in national and post-national contexts
    Greece, Greeks, Cyprus in the arts or media today
    New economies of labor
    Cypriot and other identities
    Greek studies and the critical vocation

Program Contact Information

Questions may be submitted via the contact form on the website or to: Prof.
Victor Papacosma, MGSA Executive Director, [email protected]<mailto:
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Franklin L. Hess
Coordinator, Modern Greek Program
Lecturer, Western European Studies
Indiana University