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A Message from the Director
Greetings from the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies! As the spring term gets underway, our classes, research lectures, and events are ramping up on campus and at the Princeton Athens Center. We share recent highlights below, including Dean of the College Michael D. Gordin’s keynote lecture and graduate seminar at the Princeton Athens Center, new books by members of our academic community, and undergraduate research in the Hellenic collections at Princeton University Library. As always, we welcome the visiting research fellows who joined the Center this semester.
For all the latest updates, news and events, we invite you to visit our website, hellenic.princeton.edu, and connect with us on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Dimitri Gondicas
Director, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
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The Princeton Athens Center hosts
Dean of the College
Michael D. Gordin
| | Princeton University Dean of the College Michael D. Gordin delivers the keynote lecture for the “Sciences, Knowledge, and Society in Late 20th-century Greece” workshop. Photo by Lina Chordaki. | |
The Princeton Athens Center hosted Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University's dean of the college, for two events last month exploring knowledge and politics in science during the post-dictatorship period in Greece.
A specialist in the history of the modern physical sciences and Russian, European, and American history, Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History. At the Princeton Athens Center, Gordin gave a keynote lecture for a workshop titled “Sciences, Knowledge, and Society in Late 20th-century Greece” and led a graduate seminar.
| | Spring 2026 visiting fellows | | HLS 222 students share their research | | |
HLS 222 students present their research on
Hellenic studies topics. Photo by Chris Twiname.
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For their final project for HLS 222, “Hellenism: The First 3,000 Years,” students researched a question that interests them about Hellenism, delving into the Hellenic collections at Princeton University Library.
Reflecting decades of collaboration between the Library and the Seeger Center, these collections now include over 100,000 titles in Byzantine and modern Greek studies, over 5,000 photographs, over 1,000 historic maps, and notable archival collections and Greek manuscripts.
| | Modern Greek at the Seeger Center: conjugations, camaraderie, and Epicurean traditions | | A 2024 academic trip to Athens inspired Nicholas Manetas (center) to study Modern Greek at Princeton. Photo by Anna-Maria Katzouraki. | |
Nicholas Manetas, a member of the Class of 2027, shares reflections on three semesters in Professor Nikos Panou’s Modern Greek class and an academic trip to Athens for the Center's “Made in Greece” summer seminar:
I will tell every student I can at Princeton: Modern Greek is not like other languages. Professor Panou cares deeply about his students’ well-being, and if you are willing to show up to class on time, participate, and spend a little time practicing, you will be well prepared to benefit from his expert instruction.
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