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A Message from the Director
Greetings from the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies!
Our summer season at the Princeton Athens Center featured a range of seminars, presentations and academic events. This fall, we are engaged in teaching, learning and research on campus — complemented by workshops and lectures in Athens. Recent highlights are shared below: a Summer Institute on race and racialization; discussions with authors from our academic community; and visits by John Paul Christy, executive director of the Princeton Humanities Initiative, and Aly Kassam-Remtulla, vice provost for international affairs and operations at Princeton, to the Princeton Athens Center.
As always, we welcome the new postdoctoral and visiting research fellows who have joined the Center.
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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Students study "Race and Racialization"
at the Princeton Athens Center
| | Assistant Professor Marcus Lee (at left) and Lecturer Soo-Young Kim (second from left) lead the “Race and Racialization” seminar at the Princeton Athens Center. | |
Students, scholars, activists and artists convened at the Princeton Athens Center last June to study race and racialization in a transnational context.
The Center's newest Summer Institute, “Race and Racialization,” brought together graduate students based in Greece and at Princeton, as well as practitioners in the arts, education and activism in Greece, for in-depth engagement with key texts in Black studies.
Soo-Young Kim, a lecturer in Hellenic Studies and the Princeton Writing Program, and Marcus Lee, an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies, led the seminar June 8-12 and a related workshop on June 11 titled “Black Studies: What Is at Stake?”
| | John Paul Christy and Aly Kassam-Remtulla lead conversations at the Princeton Athens Center | | |
John Paul Christy, executive director of the Princeton Humanities Initiative,
speaks at the Princeton Athens Center.
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We traveled roads "full of adventure, full of discovery" at the Princeton Athens Center last June, exploring international trends in the humanities and Princeton's role in the wider world.
On Tuesday, June 23, John Paul Christy, executive director of the Princeton Humanities Initiative, spoke about “Public Humanities Today: Challenges and Opportunities.” Christy works closely with academic leaders at Princeton University to forge the foundation for a new Humanities Institute.
Aly Kassam-Remtulla, vice provost for international affairs and operations, joined us at the Princeton Athens Center on June 24. Kassam-Remtulla, who provides strategic leadership for Princeton's global engagement, discussed “Princeton in the World.”
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Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations Aly Kassam-Remtulla
leads a conversation about Princeton's global role.
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In our Director’s Bookshelf series, Dimitri Gondicas speaks with authors from the Center’s academic community about their new books and the research they conducted at Princeton.
Click below for interviews with Paolo Tedesco, Kostas Tsiambaos, and Justin Willson.
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From left: 2026-27 postdoctoral fellows Amanda Kubic, Dimitris Prokos,
Carlo Berardi and Jack Pappas. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy.
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The Seeger Center has appointed four new postdoctoral researchers for the 2026-27 academic year:
Our new postdoctoral fellows have expertise in Modern Greek literature, music, art history, theology, and the philosophy of religion. They are conducting research in the Hellenic collections at Princeton University Library and will share their work in progress in lectures at the Center.
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The Center welcomes
Hellenic Studies graduate students
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New and returning Hellenic Studies graduate students gather at the Seeger Center.
Photo by Catherine Curan.
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The Seeger Center welcomes our new and returning graduate students to campus for the fall term.
The Center grants Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Studies graduate awards to graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and mathematics.
In collaboration with the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), the Center also offers a graduate fellowship for midcareer Greek professionals in public service to pursue a Master in Public Policy at SPIA. This opportunity is made possible by the Paul Sarbanes ’54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service.
| The Center appoints fall 2026 visiting fellows | |
From left: fall 2026 visiting fellows Irene Nikolakopoulou,
Elisavet Kiourtsoglou,Thanassis Gkatzaras, and Anastasia G. Yangaki.
Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy.
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This fall, four visiting fellows have joined the Seeger Center:
• Thanassis Gkatzaras, Academy of Athens
• Elisavet Kiourtsoglou, University of Thessaly
• Irene Nikolakopoulou, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion
• Anastasia G. Yangaki, the Institute of Historical Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
At Princeton, they are conducting research and will present on topics in classical Greek philosophy, rural soundscapes in post-Civil War Greece, Bronze Age archaeology and religion, and ecclesiastical decoration in Venetian Crete.
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Fall 2026 PITHOS faculty and graduate students visit the Center.
Photo by Catherine Curan.
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Graduate students and professors from Princeton and two Greek universities engaged in a week of intensive, collaborative study of ancient Greek art and archaeology at Princeton last September — and immersion in the University's history and campus life today.
Faculty at Princeton, the University of Ioannina, and the University of Thessaly partner on PITHOS, which stands for Princeton-Ioannina-Thessaly On-Site Seminars. PITHOS launched in May 2023 at the Princeton Athens Center and is sponsored by the Seeger Center and the Department of Art & Archaeology.
PITHOS brings together graduate students from each participating university to engage in faculty-led workshops, discussions, and academic travel in Greece and the United States.
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Digital humanities for Hellenic studies students tell new stories of
a 'lost' Athens neighborhood
| Participants in the 2026 Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies Summer Institute. | |
Katerina Labrou spent the first day of a Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies Summer Institute in a Princeton Athens Center classroom, fusing the past and the future.
Labrou, a doctoral candidate at the Princeton University School of Architecture, began the seminar by delving into rare archival images of a lost Athens neighborhood, Vrysaki — and the cutting-edge digital tools that allow scholars to bring it back to life online.
She was one of a dozen student participants in “Historic Athens in 3D,” held July 6-10 at the Princeton Athens Center. Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities and the Athens University of Economics and Business designed this recurring seminar, which was sponsored by the Seeger Center. The summer institute teaches early-career scholars digital humanities methods for representing archival information and crafting narratives about historical urban spaces, preparing students to create their own digital cultural-heritage projects.
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