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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:29:30 -0400 (EDT) 
From: Ellen Elias-Bursac <bursac at fas.harvard.edu> Add to Address Book 
To: Ellen Elias-Bursac <bursac at fas.harvard.edu> 
Subject: Carsten Giersch on Kosovo and NATO 

"NATO Intervention in the Kosovo Conflict"

Carsten Giersch, Ph.D.
Thyssen Visiting Scholar

Wednesday, April 21, 1999
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Coolidge Hall, Seminar Room 3

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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:19:27 -0400 (EDT) 
From: Ellen Elias-Bursac <bursac at fas.harvard.edu> Add to Address Book 
To: SEEUROPESTUDYGROUP <bursac at fas.harvard.edu> 
Subject: THIS FRIDAY: SE Europe Talk on Tirana, Albania 

SOUTHEAST EUROPE STUDY GROUP

at the Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge

Friday, April, 16, 4:15, Lower Auditorium, Center for European Studies



LINDA MITROJORGJI
Fulbright Scholar in Urban Planning, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champagne

"Urbanism of a City under the Pressure of Economic and Political
Changes:
a case study of Tirana, the capital city of Albania"


For this talk we do not have a text available for distribution in
advance.

See below:
OTHER SPRING EVENTS IN THE SE EUROPE STUDY GROUP SERIES! WE ARE HOLDING
A
CONCERT IN MAY!!!!!!

Please note the time change listed below.:
*****
Please note the change in time for the Verdery talk to 4:15!)
Monday, April 26, 4:15, Lower Auditorium, Center for European Studies

KATHERINE VERDERY
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

"Reburying Transylvania's Uniate Bishop: Exhumation, Evangelization,
and
the postsocialist Religious Market"


*****
A CONCERT!!!!  PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDARS!!!
Wednesday, May 12, 8:00 Sanders Theater

ZABE I BABE

with musicians: Tim Eriksen, Mirjana Lausevic, Peter Irvine, Tristra
Newyear, Donna Kwon

Singing in Bosnian and Macedonian, these five musicians perform music
ranging from popular eighties Sarajevo rock to authentic folk music.

*****

Thursday, May 20, 4:15, Lower Auditorium, Center for European Studies

GAIL KLIGMAN
Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles

"Reproductive Politics, the State and Social Control in Ceausescu's
Romania"

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The Southeast Europe Study Group is hosted by the Center for European
Studies and sponsored by the Kokkalis Program at the Kennedy School. It
is
designed to provide scholars and students from a wide variety of
disciplines (Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Government, History, Law,
Literature, Sociology) with a forum to discuss topics relevant to the
region of Southeastern Europe (defined here as Albania, Bosnia,
Bulgaria,
Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia
and
Yugoslavia). Co-chairs: Ellen Elias-Bursac, Dimitris Keridis, Ana
Siljak.

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From: dimitris_keridis at Harvard.Edu Add to Address Book 
To: kalypso_nicolaidis at Harvard.Edu 
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:37:33 -0400 
Subject: Conference on Greek Culture 




You are cordially invited to the following event. Dimitris Keridis



The George Seferis Chair, Harvard University,
The Socrates Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe,
Harvard University, and
literary magazines Harvard Review and MondoGreco present

The Spirit of Greece
                     INSPIRES

April 16 and 17, 1999
Emerson Hall, Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Friday, April 16
6:00 pm
The Greece of Fiction
Olga Broumas
Jeffrey Eugenides
Dario Fo with Franca Rame
Edmund Keeley
Patricia Storace
Barry Unsworth

Saturday, April 17
10:00 am
The Greece of Reality
Kerin Hope
Marcia Christoff Kurop
Patrick Quinn
Helena Smith

2:30 pm
Round Table
Greece Replayed
first impressions and
personal experiences from authors and journalists
Moderator: Christopher Hitchens


Participants

Olga Broumas, born and raised in Greece, came to the United States in
1967
through a Fulbright scholarship. In 1972, she won the Yale Younger
Poets
award. She later received Guggenheim, NEA, Witter Bynner and State Arts
fellowships, and published seven collections of poetry and three
translations of the work of Greek Nobel laureate Odysseus Elytis. She
is a
passionate performer, a pioneering educator and a gifted practitioner
of
the healing arts. Currently a poet-in-residence at Brandeis University
and
the director of the Undergraduate Honors Writing Program, Broumas
resides
in Cape Cod.

Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of Virgin Suicides which has been
translated into 13 languages, including Greek. His fiction has appeared
in
The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and Granta. He is
the
recipient of many awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, NEA, a Whiting Writers' Award and the Henry D. Vursell
Award
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eugenides teaches at
Princeton University and lives in New York City with his wife and
daughter.

Dario Fo's name is synonymous with anarchic political comedy. His best
known plays in English include "Accidental Death of An Anarchist,"
"Can't
Pay, Won't Pay," "Trumpets and Raspberries," and "The Pope and the
Witch."
Fo, often in collaboration with his wife Franca Rame, has held the
field in
political satire in Europe. Outside Italy, his comedies are often
adapted
to reflect local political conditions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize
for
Literature in 1997.

Christopher Hitchens is a regular contributor to Harper's, Vanity Fair,
The
Nation, The Times Literary Supplement, and The London Review of Books.
His
books include Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to
Kissinger,
Prepared for the Worst, Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the
Parthenon
Marbles, and The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish. His
book, No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulation of William Jefferson
Clinton, was recently published by Verso. A 1970 graduate of Oxford,
Hitchens resides in Washington, DC with his wife and daughter.

Kerin Hope, born in the UK, grew up in Australia and Ireland. She
studied
the classics, drama and archaeology at Bristol and Oxford universities,
and
took part in excavations in Greece. Hope has worked for United Press
International in Athens and London, and for the Associated Press (AP)
in
Athens and Nicosia. While an AP reporter, she also worked in Turkey,
Lebanon, Syria and Libya. Currently, she covers Greece, Cyprus and the
south Balkans for The Financial Times and The Economist.

Edmund Keeley studied at Princeton and Oxford universities. He is
currently
a professor of English, emeritus, at Princeton, where he taught for 40
years and served as director of the creative writing program and the
Program in Hellenic Studies. He is the author of seven novels, 14
volumes
of poetry in translation, and nine volumes of nonfiction. Keeley's
awards
include the Rome Prize for fiction of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, two Guggenheim fellowships, the Landon Translation Award of
the
Academy of American Poets and the first European Prize for Translation
of
the European Union. Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-1947,
will
be published next month.

Marcia Christoff Kurop, a graduate of Columbia University, has
contributed
articles to The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune,
The
Economist and The Christian Science Monitor. Based in Sofia, she has
covered the Balkan countries since 1993. In Athens, Kurop is at work on
a
book concerning the history of U.S. policy towards Greece, Turkey and
Cyprus since the end of the Cold War.

Patrick Quinn, a reporter for the Associated Press, has covered Greece,
Turkey and the Balkan region for more than 10 years. Based in Athens,
Quinn
has covered most wars and conflicts that broke out in the region
following
the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. He has also traveled
extensively in Turkey and Albania, first visiting the latter before the
fall of Communism and on through the armed uprising in 1997. Quinn also
reported on the region from the Boston area in the mid-1980s.

Helena Smith, a reporter for The Guardian and The Observer, has studied
modern Greek and philosophy at King's College, London University. A
regular
correspondent for BBC, CBS Radio (New York), RFI (Paris) and RTE
(Dublin),
Smith also worked for the Associated Press, Daily Express, New
Statesman
and Society, the European, Conde Nast Traveler, and Wall Street Journal
Special Reports.

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, and Dinner
with Persephone, a travel memoir of Greece. She is the recipient of a
poetry prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A frequent
contributor to The New York Times Book Review and Conde Nast Traveler,
Storace lives in New York City.

Barry Unsworth is the author of 12 novels, including Sacred Hunger,
winner
of the 1992 Booker Prize. Two of his novels, Pascali's Island and
Morality
Play, were shortlisted for this prize and the former served as a basis
for
a feature film with the same title. Losing Nelson, his latest novel, is
due
out later this year. He has held literary residencies at the
universities
of Durham, Newcastle and Liverpool in Britain and Lund in Sweden. He
has an
honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester, where he
graduated
and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.



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