La Trobe University’s Modern Greek Studies Department, in association with the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture of the Greek Community of Melbourne, is offering an interesting summer course on Transterritorial Hellenism.
The course lasts six weeks and involves six hours teaching a week, starting on 12 January and ending on 11 February.
In this subject students explore issues in the modern construction of ethno-national, civic, multiple and other identities.
The evolution of the concept of ‘Hellenism’ and the diversity of its manifestations in various parts of the modern world will be examined by way of an imaginary journey through the cities of Istanbul, Izmir, Thessaloniki, London, Nicosia, New York, and Melbourne.
The course will also explore the life of Greeks as Ottoman subjects, students and scholars, victims of genocide, political exiles, guest workers, Europeans, and citizens of multicultural states, as well as the impact of the Greek Orthodox Church, Greek irredentism, political conflict and modernisation on Greek identity.
Competing visions of Hellenism that developed in these cities will be juxtaposed to the realities of Greece today.
Where: at the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture (168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC) from 12 January – 11 February, 2016.
For more information, email Dimitris Gonis at d.gonis@latrobe.edu.au. –