“Greece and Spain:
Parallel Histories at the Margins of Europe?”
Conference and Film Screenings
November 2008
Conference Program
November 15, 2008
Pembroke Hall 202
172 Meeting Street
Introductory Remarks - 9:30am
David Konstan, Brown University
Panel I -
9:45am
Moderated by Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University
Pura Nieto, Brown University
"The Greek and the Spanish in Unamuno's El sentimiento trágico de la vida"
Tom Devaney, Brown University
"Public Rituals in Cyprus and Andalucía"
Catherine Zerner, Brown University
"Greece and Spain, By Way of Italy: The Example of El Greco"
Coffee break 11:30am
Panel II - 11:45am
Moderated by Enric Bou, Brown University
Mercedes Vaquero, Brown University
"Folk Literature of Sephardic Salonika"
Marinos Pourgouris, Brown University
"Federico García Lorca in Greece"
George Syrimis, Yale University
"Political Repression and Cultural Excess: the Cases of Pedro Almodóvar and Stamatis Kraounakis"
Lunch and coffee break - 1:30pm
Panel III - 3:00pm
Moderated by Elsa Amanatidou, Brown University
Enric Ucelay Da Cal, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona "Adjusting Old Systems: The Forgotten Debate between Monarchy and Republic in Europe, 1919-1949"
Kostis Kornetis, Brown University
"The Prolonged Civil Wars: Political Violence and Authoritarian Rule in Greece and Spain"
Irene Martín Cortés, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) "How Interested in Politics Have Greeks and Spaniards Been Since the Transitions to Democracy?"
Coffee Break - 4:45pm
5:00pm Keynote Speech by Edward Malefakis, Columbia University.
Introduction, David Konstan, Brown University
"Spain & Greece, Greece & Spain: Parallel Histories in What Ways?"
Concluding Remarks: Carlos Robles, Consul General of Spain in Boston
Jim Green, Brown University
Reception - 7:00pm
Film Screenings
Discussion with the students of Political Cinema
Films introduced by Elsa Amanatidou & Kostis Kornetis
All screenings begin at 6:00pm
November 10
"Salonika, City of Silence" (Amaraggi, 2006) and "El Greco" (Smaragdis, 2007)
Salomon Center, Room 202
November 11
"The Traveling Players" (Angelopoulos, 1975)
Salomon Center, Room 202
November 12
"The Spirit of the Beehive" (Erice, 1973)
Wilson Hall, Room 302
Co-sponsored by The Cogut Center for the Humanities, The Departments of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature and History, The Medieval Studies Program
For more information please visit:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Modern_Greek_Studies
To view the poster, click here.
Return to "Greece and Spain" Humanities Research Group webpage.