Keynote Speakers

Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature and currently Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and Co-Director of the Hellenic Studies Program at Columbia University. He has also taught at Princeton, UCLA, Yale, and the National Technical University in Athens, and has been Research Fellow at the Center for Critical Analysis at Rutgers, the International Institute at the University of Michigan, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens under a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship. He has served on the Board of Supervisors of the English Institute at Harvard and is currently on his second elected term as President of the Modern Greek Studies Association of North America. He is the author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford UP, 1996) – translated in Serbo-Croatian (Belgrade Circle, 2004) and in Greek (Kritiki, 2007), Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford UP, 2003), translated in Greek (Nefeli, 2006), and editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham UP, 2010). His current research is yielding two books of lessons in secular criticism, The Perils of the One and Nothing Sacred.He is also a poet, with four volumes of poems published in Greek, the most recent one being Εισαγωγή στην Φυσική (Melani, 2005), as well as a translator of poetry from Greek into English and vice versa. His translation of the poems of Yiannis Patilis, Camel of Darkness (Selected Poems 1970-1990) was published by QRL Books in 1997.

Professor Gourgouris will present the lecture, Derealizations of the Ideal - Walcott Encounters Seferis.

Professor Dr. Kostas Gouliamos is elected Vice-Rector for Research & External Relations of the European University Cyprus.  He has been appointed Member of the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research of the Council of Europe. He has also been appointed Member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg (2005-2011) as well as Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Social Survey(ESS) – a project that was awarded Europe’s top annual science award, the Descartes Prize. Since he began teaching (1980) in Higher Educational Institutions in North America (Canada) and Europe (Greece, Cyprus), Prof. Gouliamos has written with a critical perspective several books, many chapters in various volumes while a considerable number of papers have been published in journals or/and magazines. He has also contributed to two (2) World Reports on media, culture and communication (published in 1996 and 1997 by the International Institute of Communication. His co-authored book  “Elusive Margins: Consuming Media, Ethnicity and Culture (1998)”, the co-edited volume Mediating Culture: the politics of representation (1994), and the co-authored book  “Happy Slaves: a duologue on multicultural deficit” have been selected and included in the libraries as well as in the curricula of the twenty (20) best universities of the world. Parts of the total body of his work have been translated into French, Spanish, Greek, Slovak and Italian. Distinguished scholars or/and intellectuals in North America and Europe have written special articles or chapters based on his work. He is the Senior Editor for the high ranking Journal - the Journal of Political Marketing - as well as member of several Editorial Boards of leading academic Journals. He is also the new Editor of the “Journal of Critical Studies on Business and Society”. Upon his appointment, he has invited internationally known scholars to join the new Editorial Board. Among them who have accepted to be in the Board are: Ulrich Beck, Ernesto Laclau, Fredric Jameson, Martin Jay, Douglas Kellner, Mark Poster, Bob Jessop, Stuart Ewen, Cees Hamelink, Sut Jhully, Martin Parker, Henry Giroux, Bruce Newman.

Professor Gouliamos will present the lecture, Examining Typologies of Hellenism in the era of Globalization.

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