Harvard University,: May 3-4, 2019
*From Byzantium to the Early Greek Enlightenment: Books, Authors, and
Ideologies in Early Modern Greek Contexts (15th-18th c.)*
International Conference
*In Memory of Evro Layton*
Harvard University, Department of the Classics
May 3-4, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street
The conference is co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval
Studies, Harvard University, and organized by Panagiotis Roilos, with the
assistance of Calliope Dourou
*May 3*
*9:00-11:00 *
Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University)
Introductory Remarks
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
Introductory Remarks
Josiah Blackmore (Harvard University)
Introductory Remarks
*Comparative, Methodological, and Archival Perspectives*
*Chair*: Josiah Blackmore (Harvard University)
Ann Blair (Harvard University)
Keynote Remarks: *The Growth of Book History in Early Modern* *Studies*
Dia Philippides (Boston College)
*From Evro Layton's Archival Legacy at Harvard *
Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University)
*The Beginnings of Modern Greek Literature: Boundaries, Definitions, and
Ideological Constructs*
*11:00-11:15*
*Coffee Break*
*11:15-13:15*
*From Manuscript to Print Networks*
*Chair**: *Marc Lauxtermann (University of Oxford)
David Speranzi (National Central Library, Florence)
*A Byzantine Humanist and His Manuscripts: Demetrios Kastrenos (late 15th
c.)*
Geri Della Rocca de Candal (University of Oxford)
*The Output of the Earliest Greek Press: Circulation and Use of Laonikos's
and Alexandros's* Batrachomyomachia *and* Psalterium *(Venice, 1486)*
Kostas Yiavis (Aristotle University of Thessalonike)
*Birth in Venice: Inventing Greek Modernity in the Sixteenth-century
Printing House*
Natasha Constantinidou (University of Cyprus)
*Books for Greeks and Books for non-Greeks in the Sixteenth
Century: Evidence from the Editions*
*13:15-14:30 *
*Lunch Break*
*14:30-16:30*
*Texts and Authors*
*Chair*: Alexander Riehle (Harvard University)
Marc Lauxtermann (University of Oxford)
*The Grammar of Nikolaos Sophianos *
Calliope Dourou (Harvard University)
*Reciting the Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes and the Poetics of a Renaissance
Epos*
Walter Puchner (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and
Dimitris Stamatis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens*) *
*Ancient Greek Tragedies in the Orthodox Tradition*: Domna *(after
1714) and* Abel *by Zacharias Karantenos *
Jacques Bouchard (University of Montreal)
*The Innovative Impact of French Letters on the Early Greek Enlightenment *
*May 4*
*10:00-11:30*
*Ideologies*
*Chair**: *Dia Philippides (Boston College)
Simos Zenios (University of California, Los Angeles)
*The Metaphorics of Eros: Between Aesthetics and Ideology in the Cypriot *
Canzoniere
Nikos Panou (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
*Sovereign Virtue: Statecraft and Morality in the Age of Absolutism*
Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard University)
The Story of Markada: *Antisemitism and Ethnic Ideologies in a Popular Late
17th-century Poem *
Colloquium organizer (with the assistance of Calliope Dourou):
Panagiotis Roilos
George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of
Comparative Literature
Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University
Member of the Governing Board, European Cultural Center of Delphi
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Announcement forwarded by:
Dia Philippides
Professor Emerita
Dept. of Classical Studies
Boston College
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<https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/classics/people/faculty-directory/philippides-dia.html>*
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