Symposium 21 :: Vancouver

Registration | Hotel info | Grad student info | Keynote | Events | Program

Registration

The Local Arrangements Committee has now set up the registration site for MGSA Symposium 21 which begins Thursday, 15 October.

Here is the “How to Register” information:

On-Line Registration
Complete the ON-LINE Form. You will be given the option of paying for your registration fees on-line via a secure server (Visa or MasterCard). Sorry, Simon Fraser University does not accept American Express or Diners Club. All credit card transactions will be processed in Canadian dollars and are subject to current exchange rates.

By Mail or Fax Registration
Complete the ON-LINE Form and mail with your bank draft (payable in Canadian funds) to Simon Fraser University to the address provided below. Forms can also be Faxed and bank drafts mailed separately.

Note: Faxed or mailed registrations will not be processed until payment is received.

Confirmation of your registration
If you register on-line and pay by credit card, you will receive immediate confirmation via our server.

Receipts
If you pay on-line by email transaction, please print out your receipt as this will be the original copy. If you pay by Canadian cheque or bank draft, your receipt will be mailed to the address shown on your completed registration form.

Hotel information

Delta Vancouver Suites
550 West Hastings Street
Vancouver BC, V6B 1L6
Phone: 604-689-8188 Fax: 604-899-3001

And from the local arrangements committee:

As an alternate accommodation with more economical rates for grad students, we have set up a "Book own-Pay own" system with the
Ramada Hotel
435 West Pender Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada, V6B 1V2
Toll Free 1-888-389-5888
Phone: 604-488-1088
Fax: 604-488-1090

To make a reservation, guests may call direct 24 hours a day at the toll free number above, and state that they are with the MGSA Symposium. This way all guests will be quoted the same provincial governnment rate of $75.00 + tax per night. An official confirmation code will be given early next week but quoting the MGSA upon reservation will also ensure that same rate.

Included in this rate is also a continental breakfast, as well as wireless internet in all rooms and public areas.

Credit card will be needed for check in.
Please let us know if you have any questions.

Warm regards,
Trina

Hellenic Studies
Simon Fraser University

Email
778.782.8466 AQ 6193

Note to grad students re: symposium expenses.

Graduate students participating in the symposium can expect to receive a CDN$300 VISA gift card to help cover some of the expenses. The gift card will be handed on site, when students pick up their registration material. In order to receive this fund, please send a formal request, identifying yourself as a graduate student during Fall 2009, and your intention to participate in the Symposium to Professor Yiorgos Anagnostou.
The deadline for the request is September 1st

KEYNOTE PANEL
Greek Worlds, Transnationalism, Globalization

How can we situate Greek worlds in the context of transnationalism and globalization? Conversely, how can Greek examples help us (re)frame questions regarding the transnational and the global? In this Symposium's keynote panel, scholars noted for their pioneering interdisciplinary work will engage with these question from the perspectives of anthropology, comparative literature, cultural studies, and history. Panelists will focus on an event, a text (or set of texts), an institution in the Greek context or the diaspora in order to examine how the Greek example helps us think about transnationalism and globalization.

Events

Hellenic Studies in China

Participants in the Symposium will have the first-ever opportunity to learn about the status of Hellenic Studies in China from the perspective of Chinese Hellenists. In a special panel, entitled 'Hellenic Studies in China,' Professors Zhiqiang Chen, Jialing Xu, and Lan Xu will introduce their programs in Classical, Byzantine, and Modern Greek Studies, and discuss the prospect of broader cooperation with North American institutions.

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke to Read her Poetry at the Symposium

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens in 1939. She studied foreign languages and literature at the universities of Nice, Athens, and Geneva. In 1962 she was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the City of Geneva. She received two grants from the Ford Foundation (1972, 1975), as well as the Greek National Prize for Poetry (1985) and the Greek Academy’s Poetry Prize (2000). She attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1974-75 and was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at Harvard, Utah, and San Francisco State Universities in 1982, as well as a Fellow at the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton in 1987. She has published fourteen books of poetry as well as four collected volumes. She is fluent in English, French, and Russian and is an acclaimed translator of Seamus Heaney and Alexander Pushkin, among others. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Serbian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Hebrew, and English.

For a view from elsewhere, see this post quoting a poem and replete with three charming photographs. Scroll down.