Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University

09/22/2026

In the September 22, 2026, edition of Director’s Bookshelf, Seeger Center Director Dimitri Gondicas speaks with Kostas Tsiambaos, editor of “The Architect and the Animal,” published by The MIT Press in December 2025.

Tsiambaos was appointed as a visiting fellow at the Center in 2019. He is an associate professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens in Greece.

DIRECTOR’S BOOKSHELFAn Agora of IdeasSeeger Center Director Dimitri Gondicas in conversation withKostas Tsiambaos     The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies supports Princeton scholars — students, faculty, and fellows — who conduct research on Hellenic studies topics at the University and ...

09/22/2026

Coming up this week:

• Monday, Sept. 21, to Friday, Sept. 25, PITHOS (Princeton-Ioannina-Thessaly On-Site Seminars) graduate exchange program. Sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.

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• Wednesday, Sept. 23. “From Rulers’ Dwellings to Temples: Thirty Years On.” PITHOS (Princeton-Ioannina-Thessaly On-Site Seminars) graduate exchange program lecture, Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. Sponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Art & Archaeology.

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• Thursday, Sept. 24, Princeton University Art Museum Curator Talk, "Intimate Grief: Death in Ancient Greece." Carolyn Laferriere, curator of ancient Mediterranean art, and Nathan Arrington, chair of the Department of Art & Archaeology and professor of Art and Archaeology and Hellenic Studies.

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• Friday, Sept. 25, to Saturday, Sept. 26, “Athonite Collections and Their Challenges: Scholarly Access and Digital Surrogates,” symposium. Sponsored by The Index of Medieval Art, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the Department of Religion, the Department of Art & Archaeology, and the Princeton Institute for International for International and Regional Studies.

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Captions (left to right):

• The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Scheide Caldwell House. Photo by Emily Taylor.

• Oropos. Graphic reconstruction of early Iron Age compounds. (3D drawing by Markos Mazarakis Ainian.)

• Classical Period (ca. 480–323 BCE), Athens, Greece, Grave stele of Mnesikles, ca. 400–350 BCE. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund.

• Monks in icon painting studio, St. Panteleimon monastery, 1929 Mount Athos Expedition Collection, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.

09/19/2026

Call for proposals for our “Applied History” research community based at the Princeton Athens Center.

This community is an interdisciplinary group of scholars and policy practitioners working on international relations, security studies, and Greek foreign and defense policy from the Cold War to the present day. We seek approaches that combine rigorous historical scholarship with attention to contemporary policy implications, treating history as an analytical tool for informed strategic reasoning. The group will provide a forum for historians, political scientists, diplomats, and members of the policy community to discuss Greek foreign policy and international affairs in historical perspective.

Eligibility: doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers currently affiliated with an institution in Greece.

Information and how to apply: https://bit.ly/4xotfz3

Deadline: Friday, October 9, 2026.

The Princeton University Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies invites proposals by doctoral candidates and early-career scholars who wish to join our “Applied History” Research Community at the Princeton Athens Center for the academic year 2026-27.

09/19/2026

Call for proposals for our “Early Modernities” research community based at the Princeton Athens Center.

This community focuses on early modernity, broadly defined as the period from 1450 to 1800. We strongly encourage comparative, cross-cultural, and transregional approaches that engage with current scholarship on early modernities, including work that situates the history of early modern/Ottoman Greeks in a global context.

We invite proposals from scholars in disciplines including history, literature, art, archaeology, history of science, religion, architecture, and music.
Eligibility: doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers currently affiliated with an institution in Greece.

Information and how to apply: https://bit.ly/4A9nTuk

Deadline: Friday, October 9, 2026.

The Princeton University Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies invites proposals by doctoral candidates and early-career scholars who wish to join our “Early Modernities” Research Community at the Princeton Athens Center for the academic year 2026-27.

09/18/2026

We’re happy to welcome our new visiting fellows to the Seeger Center.

The fall 2026 cohort includes (from left to right) Irene Nikolakopoulou, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Elisavet Kiourtsoglou, University of Thessaly, Thanassis Gkatzaras, Academy of Athens, and Anastasia G. Yangaki, the Institute of Historical Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation.

At Princeton, they will conduct research and present on topics in classical Greek philosophy, Bronze Age archaeology and religion, ecclesiastical decoration in Venetian Crete, and rural soundscapes in post-Civil War Greece.

Learn more about our visiting fellows program: https://bit.ly/4lXhudD

Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy.

09/18/2026

A warm welcome to our new postdoctoral fellows!

Pictured here (from left to right) are 2026-27 Edmund and Mary Keeley Postdoctoral Fellow Amanda Kubic, 2026-27 Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Fellow Dimitris Prokos, 2026-27 Mary Seeger O’Boyle Postdoctoral Fellow Jack Pappas, and 2026-27 Mary Seeger O’Boyle Postdoctoral Fellow Carlo Berardi.

They have expertise in Modern Greek literature, music, art history, theology, and the philosophy of religion. They will conduct research in the Hellenic collections at Princeton University Library and share their work-in-progress in research lectures at the Seeger Center.

Learn more about our postdoctoral fellows program: https://bit.ly/4juw500

Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy.

09/18/2026

Call for proposals for our “Byzantium in Progress" research community based at the Princeton Athens Center.

“Byzantium in Progress” focuses on Byzantine studies across a range of fields including literature, history, art, archaeology, history of science, religion, architecture, and music. We strongly encourage comparative, cross-cultural, and transregional approaches that engage with current scholarship on the global Middle Ages.

Eligibility: doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers currently affiliated with an institution in Greece.

Information and how to apply: https://bit.ly/4hni5WA

Deadline: Friday, October 9, 2026.

The Princeton University Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies invites proposals by doctoral candidates and early-career scholars who wish to join our “Byzantium in Progress” Research Community at the Princeton Athens Center for the academic year 2026-27.

09/17/2026

We enjoyed this spotlight on the role of Princeton’s residential college heads in building community on campus.

AnneMarie Luijendijk, the William H. Danforth Professor of Religion and a member of the Seeger Center's executive committee, serves as the Head of Huo College, and Effie Rentzou, professor of French, and a former Hellenic Studies lecturer and postdoctoral fellow, is the new Head of Mathey College.

Read more about Luijendijk, Rentzou and the five other residential college heads in the story by Emily Aronson, Office of Communications:

The professors play a vital role on Princeton's campus, cultivating community in academic and residential life.

09/16/2026

Call for proposals for our “Classical Receptions” research community based at the Princeton Athens Center.

“Classical Receptions” explores questions concerning the functions, agendas, and influence of representations of the ancient world.

We welcome scholars working on the reception of classical antiquity (Greek, Roman, or other ancient cultures) in late antiquity, Byzantium, the Renaissance, or the modern or contemporary periods.

Eligibility: doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers currently affiliated with an institution in Greece.

Information and how to apply: https://bit.ly/3T24WZH

Deadline: Friday, October 9, 2026.

The Princeton University Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies invites proposals by doctoral candidates and early-career scholars who wish to join our “Classical Receptions” Research Community at the Princeton Athens Center for the academic year 2026-27.

09/11/2026

Our warmest congratulations to Louis Ruprecht, a fall 2010 Visiting Research Fellow, on the publication of “Cosmopolitan Crete: A History of Cultural, Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Mixing."