# Research presentations by CHS Fellows Aikaterini Peppa, Yannis Stamos, and Michail I. Marinis ![A red-leafed tree wrapped in small white lights stands in front of a white building, surrounded by blooming flower beds and spring greenery along a curved stone wall and pathway.](/sites/g/files/omnuum7151/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2026-02/HOUSE_A_CHS_US.jpg?itok=toSarI_V) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 27, 2026** 11:00AM - 12:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **CHS in Washington, DC (via Zoom for CHS community)** [3100 Whitehaven St NW Washington, DC 20008 United States ]() [ Register for all three presentations arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/l8lZf-dYTuemD7zDPA1ixw) - **Full title:** Research presentations by [Aikaterini Peppa](/fellows/aikaterini-peppa "Aikaterini Peppa"), [Yannis Stamos](/fellows/yannis-stamos "Yannis Stamos"), and [Michail I. Marinis](/fellows/michail-marinis "Michail Marinis"), Early Career Fellows in Hellenic Studies 2025-26 - **Language:** English - **Organized by:** CHS US, CHS Greece - **Open to:** All - **Schedule:** - 11:00-11:30 AM – Presentation by Aikaterini Peppa - 11:30 AM-12:00 PM – Presentation by Yannis Stamos - 12:00-12:30 PM – Presentation by Michail I. Marinis ### Synopsis On April 27, Aikaterini Peppa, Yannis Stamos, and Michail I. Marinis will give presentations of their research to the CHS community. Aikaterini is a Byzantine Archaeologist, an Archivist at the French School at Athens, and an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2025-26. Her presentation will be on "Κεραμέως πλοῦτος: Potters and Pottery Makers in the Medieval Period." Despite the fundamental importance of pottery for understanding past societies, the people involved in its production remain understudied, particularly in medieval historiography. The sources provide only fragmentary evidence, often leaving the pottery makers in the background, which highlights the need to consider the factors that contributed to their limited representation in the historical record. At the same time, different types of ceramics were shaped by the socio-economic position of producers and users, as well as by the wider economic environment in which they operated. Yannis is a Cultural and Intellectual Historian-Philologist, Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies, University of Thessaly, and an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2025-26. His presentation will be on "Antiquity at the Service of Dictatorship: The Greek Pavilion in the 1939 New York World's Fair." The presentation will explore the 4 August regime's use of antiquity in the New York World's Fair. Linking past and present in an ambitious modernist project, the dictatorship promoted both modern Greece as the legitimate heir to ancient Greek heritage and itself as its legitimate government. Antiquity dominated the pavilion, but its curation and integration with new creations advanced a vision of "Greek Hellenism," intended to supersede dominant conceptions of Hellenism shaped in the West. Michail is a Linguist, a Fellow at the Ohio State University, and an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2025-26. His presentation will be on "When the Previously Different Become Identical." This talk presents a comprehensive diachronic and diatopic survey of the Greek nominal inflectional system from antiquity to the present day, with particular attention to case syncretism (*ψυχή*.F.NOM.SG. = *ψυχή*.F.ACC.SG.) and its structural interaction with the reorganization of inflectional paradigms. He argues that Greek has sustained, across both time and dialect geography, a substantial and systematic reduction of morphological information at the level of nominal inflection: distinctions once robustly encoded in surface morphology (e.g. *μήτηρ*.F.NOM.SG. ≠ *μητέρα*.F.ACC.SG.) have been progressively neutralized, yielding paradigmatic identities of the sort μητέρα.F.NOM.SG. = *μητέρα*.F.ACC.SG. The dominant syncretic pattern—the nominative-accusative merger—is shown (Marinis 2024: 548–549) to be advancing inter-paradigmatically with increasing systematicity. He further argues that the primary determinant governing the distribution of syncretic patterns is grammatical gender, with inflectional class membership constituting a secondary conditioning factor. In closing, Michail proposes inter-paradigmatic similarity as a novel yet theoretically consequential variable—one conspicuously underexplored in the existing literature—that operates as a structural brake on the further expansion of syncretism within the paradigm. The series of presentations is open to CHS fellows and affiliates as well as to the CHS community via Zoom. See the [Early Career Fellowships in Hellenic Studies in Greece and Cyprus description on our website](/research-fellowships/early-career "Early Career Fellowships in Hellenic Studies in Greece and Cyprus"). See also:- [ Research Opportunities ](/activities-type/research-opportunities) - [ Humanities ](/activities-field/Humanities) - [ Open to all ](/target-audience/open-to-all) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://greece.chs.harvard.edu/node/1917161/event-feed.ics) Copy link link