Guest post by Theodore Antoniadis, Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2020-21

Research topic during fellowship: Contextualizing Mobility and Immigration in Roman Myth and Latin Epic

New contextualizations of Greek mythological figures in Roman literature have always triggered many stimulating readings both in terms of ideology and metapoetics. Such discussions acquire further interest when when the subject comes around the various foundation myths and stories found in the core of such contextualizations with regard to the political, social, ethnic...

Guest post by Suzanne Paszkowski

This summer, I had the opportunity to develop an educational project for the B&E Goulandris Foundation in Athens as part of the summer internship program organised by the CHS and the B&E Goulandris Foundation. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, this internship was done remotely. Over the course of 5 weeks, I worked closely (though virtually) with the museum staff to develop a project for students and museum visitors to curate virtual exhibitions using the...

Guest post by Maria Nikolopoulou, Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2020-21

Research topic during fellowship: The reception of American literature in Greece in the long 1960s and the perception of Greece in the poetry of the Beats

During the 1960s, Greece can be placed on the border of two different mappings: regarding industrialization and capitalist development, it borders the developed countries; regarding the Cold War geography, it borders the Iron curtain. This defined an ambivalent attitude of Greeks vis...

Guest post by Greta Galeotti

When I saw the opportunity to work as an intern at the Museum of Cycladic Art, I immediately leaped at the chance to learn more about its permanent collection of Cycladic artwork, as well as to experience the inner workings of a museum in the preparation of the upcoming exhibition “Kállos.” While my academic focus is on the history of the Greek language and its dialects, I have cultivated an interest in the wider cultural factors that contribute to our understanding of how language changes, maintaining an interest above all in art history and...