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Between, Against, Beyond: Challenging National Identities in Contemporary Greek Theatre
Get PDFThis thesis explores how contemporary theatre critically deals with the question of national identity. The theatre’s interest in the question of national identity in the twenty-first century should not be explained only as an answer to extremist nationalist voices. Much more, one should account for the reasons why the idea of nation still evokes emotional responses in our societies. In which ways might contemporary theatre, with its non-representational aesthetics, not only deconstruct, but also critically redefine the concept of identity without completely rejecting it? How is theatre’s response to nation affected by the historical, cultural and institutional context within which performances are produced and received? How different theatrical approaches to national identity (on stage as well as on an institutional level) might invite the spectators to reconsider their own national self-perceptions and (often unnoticed) national attachments? This thesis proposes a typology of three modes of theatre’s critical engagement with the concept of national identity: a dialectical, a deconstructive and a nation-transcending mode. In my analysis I focus on the case of contemporary Greek theatre in the period 2006 – 2015 and particularly on productions of the National Theatre of Greece and the Hellenic Festival (Athens and Epidaurus Festival). Due to the “national” terms under which their tradition and identity have been constructed, both these cultural institutions lend themselves well to an exploration of the relationship between theatre and nation through the suggested typology of the three modes. During the examined period, their programming choices and strategies concerning theatre space challenged homogeneous narratives and singular conceptions of nation and national identity
Confessionalization and/as Knowledge Transfer in the Greek Orthodox Church
Get PDFThis volume examines the potential of the confessionalization concept for the purposes of a history of knowledge regarding the clerical milieus of the early modern Greek Orthodox Church. Its point of departure is an understanding of confessionalization processes as an epistemic challenge that opened up a field of inter-confessional communication. On the one hand, communication born out of this epistemic challenge – and Orthodoxy’s need to articulate novel, authoritative positions in order to respond – resulted in epistemic movements that shaped confessional boundaries, intellectual profiles and academic curricula. In this sense, confessionalization functioned as knowledge transfer. On the other hand, confessionalization may be perceived as the very context of an unfolding communication process that triggered knowledge mobility in a wide range of epistemic fields, beyond the strictly theological: confessionalization and knowledge transfer. The volume comprises studies on conflict, negotiation and modification of knowledge, on interpersonal networks and networks of books, on genres and discourses in motion, on materialities and medialities of knowledge transfer, on accommodation strategies and institution-building processes in the Greek Orthodox Church, and, last but not least, on fluent confessional identities and trans-confessional discourses in clerical milieus
DISCOURCES OF MODERNITY BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE GREEK STATE: NIKOLAOS MAYROKORDATOS-IOSIPOS MOISIODAX-ADAMANTIOS KORAIS
No full textOffenheit durch Dokumentation: Lose Forschungsfäden im "Online-Compendium der deutsch-griechischen Verflechtungen" zusammenführen
No full textDas "Online-Compendium der deutsch-griechischen Verflechtungen" (comdeg.eu) ist ein Forschungs- und Publikationsprojekt im Open Access, initiiert und konzeptualisiert durch das Centrum Modernes Griechenland (CeMoG) unter Federführung der Professur Neogräzistik (FU Berlin). Dem öffentlichen Start des ComDeG im September 2020 ging ein mehrjähriger Design- und Entwicklungsprozess voraus, in dem Offenheit als konzeptionelle Anforderung alle Aspekte in der informationstechnischen Konzeption des ComDeG als lebhaftes Publikationsprojekt berührte, sei es im Bereich der inkrementellen Inhaltserstellung und -publikation, in der Verwaltung und Ergänzung der Indexierungsvokabularen, oder in der Integration von fortwährend mit Zotero verwalteten bibliographischen Daten. Die funktionalen Leistungseigenschaften der CeMoG-Wissensbasis bringt das ComDeG unter dem Vorzeichen der Offenheit in die Lage, sein Potenzial nicht nur als Medium einer domänenspezifischen Wissenskommunikation sondern vor allem auch als heuristisches Forschungsinstrument für neue kontextbezogene Wissensgenerierung zu entfalten. Ein Beitrag zur 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture
Deutsch-griechische Beziehungen im ostdeutschen Staatssozialismus (1949-1989)
No full textDer vorliegende Konferenzband untersucht das deutsch-griechische Beziehungsgeflecht, das sich aus der Entstehung und dem internationalen Agieren der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik entwickelte. Seine Beiträge dokumentieren die vielschichtigen Aspekte dieses Geflechts, das von wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen bis hin zu wissenschaftlichen Beziehungen reicht. Dabei geht es zum einen um die Geschichte(n) der DDR-Griechen als Geschichte(n) der Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung, des Ineinandergreifens weltpolitischer Entwicklungen, ideologischer Konflikte und persönlicher Lebensläufe, des Heimatverlustes und der Loyalität zum DDR-Regime, gesellschaftlicher Integrations- und politischer Instrumentalisierungsversuche, aber auch um die außen-, kultur- und wissenschaftspolitischen Beziehungen zwischen der DDR und Griechenland.
Marco Hillemann, Miltos Pechlivanos (Hg.): Deutsch-griechische Beziehungen im ostdeutschen Staatssozialismus (1949-1989). Politische Migration, Realpolitik und interkulturelle Begegnung
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Literatures, Communities, Worlds
No full textLiteratures, Communities, Worlds explores the consciousness of global connections in various literary milieus across the world. While world literature is a well-established theoretical perspective, previous research has often concentrated on literary works available in English translation, predominantly published and marketed by US publishing houses. This reflects a US-American vision of the world. The present volume, by contrast, looks at different, or competing, intellectual and cultural communities in Asia, Europe, and the Americas from the thirteenth century to the present. Literatures, Communities, Worlds reveals a diversity of world-making efforts and cosmological conceptions in literary media throughout centuries of entangled practice. The chapters provide fresh insights into worlds of literature in multiple linguistic traditions, enriching the current debate on global literary and intellectual connections beyond English.Publishe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Vowel System of Mišótika Cappadocian
No full textThis paper discusses changes in the vowel system of contemporary Mišotika, the Cappadocian variety of Misti. We compare the current vowel system with the one described by Dawkins (1916) and propose a hypothesis to explain the differences between the two, taking into consideration mechanisms of language contact linguistic and change. According to Dawkins (1916), the vowel system of Cappadocian consisted of eight vowels. In addition to the Greek vowels [a,e,i,o,u], it included the Turkish vowels [y, oe, ɯ]. These appeared mainly in Turkish loans, e.g. karı ‘woman’ > [kaˈrɯ], tütün ‘tobacco’ > [tyˈtyn] (Janse, 2009; 2015), whereas their presence in Greek words was rare, if not unattested, e.g. σκυλιού > [ʃcyˈʎy], ήκουσεν > [ˈyksen]. The current vowel system diverges significantly from the older one. In particular, [y, oe, ɯ] are rapidly disappearing, especially in the casual speech of younger adults. At the same time, a previously unattested vowel [æ] seems to have emerged in the speech of both elderly people and young adults. We argue that the changes in the vowel system result from language contact. In particular, the Turkish vowels [y, oe,
ɯ] are in the process of elimination due to mechanisms of levelling, as Mišótika has been in contact with Modern Greek since the population exchange of the 1920s, and Turkish features were highly stigmatized for many decades.
The presence of the vowel [æ] is in need of explanation. It occurs in many words of Greek origin, e.g. εδαρέ ‘now’ > [dæˈræ], τα ημέτερα ‘our’ > [tæˈmær]. It is well attested in Pontic (α̈ or α̤ in standard Pontic orthography) and occasionally in Pharasiot (Dawkins, 1916). We discuss the phonological status of [æ] in contemporary Mišótika and its possible origins, including its presence in Turkish loans, e.g. tepe ‘hill’ > [dæˈpæ], sever ‘time’ > [sæˈvær]
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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