On Monday, October 20, from 4-5:30pm in Oxley Hall 103, presentation of The Balkan Languages, a comprehensive study of the languages of the Balkans including Greek and neighboring languages. Speakers will include Professors Dan Collins, Andrea Sims, Sunnie Rucker-Chang, and Dorey Noyes.
You are invited to an Open-House Reception
with Distinguished Speakers
for the
Inauguration of
The Laboratory for the
Study of the Greek Language
and
The Establishment of the
Brian D. Joseph Fund for Greek Dialectology
Thursday April 25, 2024, from 6:30 – 8:00PM
Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43210
On Thursday, April 18, from 2-3pm in University Hall room 448, the Ohio State Modern Greek Program will celebrate the accomplishments of our students and mark the end of the academic year. Faculty will recognize graduating seniors Modern Greek Majors Panayiotis Gentis, Avgero Kopasakis, and Thanasi Gentis, and Modern Greek Minor Eirini Kellis. Food will be served, and selections from Greek language podcasts produced by students in Modern Greek 3570 will be played.
All OSU Modern Greek students and friends of the Modern Greek Program are invited to join us for the occasion.
Friends and members of the Greek community are invited to an open house on Thursday, April 25, to mark the Inauguration of the Greek Language Center in the Department of Linguistics, and to mark the establishment of the Brian D. Joseph Fund for Greek Dialectology. The event will be held from 6:30-8pm in Oxley Hall (1712 Neil Ave), with parking available at the nearby 11th Avenue (229 W 11th Ave) and 12th Avenue (340 W 12th Ave) Garages.
Starting at 6:30pm, the Greek Dialectology Lab will be open to visitors, food will be served, and starting about 6:50pm there will be a program in 103 Oxley Hall featuring remarks from the OSU Dean of Arts and Humanities, speakers from the Ohio State Modern Greek Program and Department of Classics, and distinguished scholars of Greek from around the world. On the occasion of his retirement Professor Brian Joseph will speak about the ongoing work of this Greek language center, including archival work on the historical dialect of Kefallonia, documentation of the Greek dialect of Mesta, Chios, by John Kellis, and an open-access publication series, Publications from the Greek Dialectology Lab. Professor Joseph has made a significant bequest to establish the Fund For Greek Dialectology, to ensure that this Center for the Greek Language will, in conjunction with the Marinakis Professorship in Modern Greek Studies, continue to foster Greek language research, promote Greek language teaching and pedagogy, and attract major scholars from Greece to Columbus for lectures to the University and the Greek communities. Information on donating to this Fund for Greek language studies can be found here or at give.osu.edu/Greek
Professor Brian D. Joseph
As part of its mission to support Greek language teaching and research, the Modern Greek Program, together with the OSU Laboratory for Greek Dialectology, hosted Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Michail I. Marinis, Lecturer at the Hellenic Open University, for the month of April. Dr. Marinis is collaborating with Brian Joseph in researching the archive of the newspaper TA NEA from the 1920s to today, examining language change as reflected in the headlines of the newspaper. On April 26 he gave a lecture introducing this research project entitled The stylistics and structure of Greek Newspaper Headlines: The first decade of “Eleutheron Vima.”
Dr Marinis also visited Modern Greek language classes of all levels, teaching students about palatalization in Modern Greek. He also spoke at the 2nd International Ohio State – Ca’ Foscari Joint Workshop on South Slavic and Balkan languages on April 22. His lecture was entitled A first morphological analysis of the toponyms of the Peloponnese. This talk discussed the special grammar of Greek place names, including the phenomenon he calls “counter-defectiveness” in the inflectional system of toponyms.
Dr. Marinis’s visit was sponsored by the Miltiadis Marinakis Endowed Professorship in Modern Greek and the Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship. We look forward to a return visit from Dr. Marinis later this year.
The Leontis lecture on April 6, well attended by students and the community, featured Professor Peter Jeffreys of Boston University discussing The Other Cavafys: The Creative Aspirations of John, Aristides and Paul.
The Spring, 2023, newsletter of the Ohio State Modern Greek Progam has been mailed out and is available online at this link. The newsletter features news of faculty activities, departmental events, and OSU students studying in Greece. There are extracts from a new Greek language textbook featuring the OSU Modern Greek Program and the work of alumnae Marissa Kazes and Maria Nicoloulias, including an interview with Mrs. Nicoloulias. Photographs and descriptions of our graduating and recently graduated seniors are included. If you would like to receive the Modern Greek Program newsletter by mail, please respond to this announcement with your mailing address.
Over the March 28 weekend OSU Modern Greek faculty visited Greek communities in Campbell and Steubenville.
The academic year ended with a Modern Greek Program celebration on Friday, April 21 in University Hall. Graduating seniors were recognized, and Mauretta Patitsas ’23 showed a video she prepared with classmates.
Join us Tuesday, April 26 from 2-4pm in Crane Cafe, Hagerty Hall for live Greek broadcasts and the OSU Modern Greek Program year-end celebration
There will also be a brief ceremony to recognize our graduating seniors, Yanni Patitsas, Andrew Manokas, Anna Boulas, Chloe Kargiotis, recent graduates Stephanie Duros, Nikhil Punwani, Christopher Haritos, Alexandra Mustric, and others.
More information on broadcasts can be found here.
If you cannot attend, and would like to listen live, click here between 2-4pm on Tuesday.
For the event poster, click here.
The schedule of broadcasts is as follows:
2pm: Avi Kopasakis & Linda Tiano on heritage and family history
2:55pm: Recognition of graduating students
3:05pm Andrew Manokas and Thanasi Tsigas on Greek sports
Catering by Mediterranean Food Imports courtesy of the Olympic Society and OSU Modern Greek Fund
Three recently graduated Modern Greek Majors, Anna-Maria Thalassinos, Stavroula Pabst, and Emily Pandis (the latter two are now living in Greece) met up in Athens recently and sent us this lovely photograph.
On Friday April 1 at 4:00 in Oxley Hall room 103, there will be an in-person lecture by Dr. Konstantinos Sampanis, of Bogazici University (Istanbul) on “Typological Shift in Asia Minor Greek”. He will discuss the effects of contact with Turkish on the structure of the Modern Greek varieties spoken in Asia Minor into the early 20th century. Dr. Sampanis is a visitor at the Laboratory for Greek Dialectology in the Linguistics Dept here at OSU.
For those who want to view the talk via Zoom, the Zoom invitation is given below (the space will be open at 3:30 but the lecture will not begin until 4:00.
Hope to see you there – Asia Minor Greek is very controversial within study of Contact Linguistics, so this promises to be an interesting presentation.
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Voices of Excellence: Gregory Jusdanis looks at the poet C. P. Cavafy and blossoming in middle ageGregory Jusdanis, a professor in the Department of Classics, researches modern Greek literature and culture, including the poet C. P. Cavafy. His recent work is a biography of Cavafy, co-written with Peter Jeffreys, exploring, among other areas, how Cavafy rejected his early poetry and found new expressions in his later years. For more of Jusdanis’ discussion with David Staley, listen to this week’s Voices of Excellence on Soundcloud and iTunes. |
