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The Program in Hellenic Studies offers an undergraduate curriculum in Modern Greek and Greek Diaspora Studies, interdepartmental support for graduate students working on Greece and the Balkans, and a series of events and conferences for the larger academic and Greek communities in the New York area. Under the auspices of the Classics Department, the Program allows students to study Greece through a contemporary lens and prepares them for further academic study and later professional work in the field. Students are encouraged to study in Greece in the summer and during their Junior year. The curriculum aims to build a strong linguistic base, a knowledge of the field, and a theoretical framework for analyzing cultural difference more generally.
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A New Poem Translation by Karen Van Dyck
Karen Van Dyck translates the poem All Alone by Greek writer Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke.
Read the poem and translator's note here.
A New Translation by Karen Van Dyck
In her translation of a poem by Greek writer Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Karen Van Dyck asks how, when responding to wildfires in Greece and Canada, giving yourself to translating is like “giving yourself to plants growing.”
Read the poem and essay here.
Professor Stathis Gourgouris on the Cavafy Festival
Columbia News features Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies, Professor Stathis Gourgouris, who discusses why C. P. Cavafy "belongs to the world on a global scale" and invites readers to attend the free events on May 1st at the SOF/Heyman Center and the Miller Theater.
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Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies
Classics/ English/ ICLS
608 Hamilton Hall, New York, NY 10027
+1 212 854 3902
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Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Classics
617A Hamilton Hall, New York, NY 10027
+1 212 854 3902
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Program Coordinator, Hellenic Studies
Department of Classics
617 Hamilton Hall, New York, NY 10027
+1 212 851 0297
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Ο Καραγκιόζης στην Αμερική: του καραγκιοζοπαίχτη Δημήτρη Μανωλόπουλου; Stamps, from the Private collection of Neni Panourgia; Photo: Drapetsona, Petros Gourgouris (2014); Ρακένδυτοι: Σχέδια του Ραλλή Κοψίδη σχολιασμένα ποιητικά. Εκδόσεις Φαρφουλάς. Αθήνα, 2019; Giannis Stavrou, Private Collection (Athens); Καραγκιοζολόγιο (τεύχος 6, χειμώνας 2018); Kosmas Stathis, Private Collection (Athens).