The 29TH MGSA SYMPOSIUM
October 15-18, 2026 · University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
MGSA Symposium 29
The MGSA’s 29th biennial Symposium will be held at University of Illinois-Chicago on 15-18 October, 2026.
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Professors Nicholas Doumanis and Young Richard Kim of UIC’s Hellenic Studies Program will host the event and chair the Local Arrangements Committee.
Organizers
The Modern Greek Studies Association Executive Board, the Program Committee, and the Local Arrangements Committee.
The Program Committee is now accepting the electronic submission of abstracts for 20-minute individual papers, panels (of up to four 20-minute papers), special sessions, and undergraduate poster presentations. Submissions from all disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts and from interdisciplinary fields are welcome; comparative perspectives are encouraged.
Important Deadlines
Individual Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2026
Panel Submission Deadline: January 31, 2026
Special Session Submission Deadline: January 31, 2026
Undergraduate Poster Session Submission Deadline: January 15, 2026
Acceptances and rejections of individual abstracts and panels will be announced by March 15, 2026. Organizers of special sessions are notified of the PC’s decision by May 1, 2026.
The electronic forms for submission enforce the deadlines. They also enforce a 350-word limit for individual or panel abstracts and a 500-word limit for panel introductions and rationales. It is suggested that you write your abstract first and do a word count.
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Open Theme
Proposals may concern any aspect of Greek Studies, Greece, the Greek Diaspora, and Cyprus in early modern and modern times. The following topics are offered as suggestions to inspire and stimulate thought, and submissions on these or related areas would be particularly welcome:
- Climate change, conservation, sustainability, and environmental history
- Greek Linguistics and Language Pedagogy
- Literary Studies
- Transnational worlds and networks
- Dispersals, migration, return migration, exile, and displacement
- Mobilities and contact zones of people, practices, ideas, and objects
- Early Modern Greek world and identity
- Greek Orthodox history & culture in the early modern and modern periods
- War, Violence, and modern Greek political culture
- Empire, Imperialism, and Colonialism
- Decoloniality and social justice
- Technology and material culture
- Translation and translation studies
- Critical Heritage Studies
- Critical reflections on the state of the field of Modern Greek Studies
- Visual Culture, Media, and Film Studies
- Lost and found archives, archival studies; archival theory and practice
- Contemporary Greek Politics
- Tourism and Foreign Investment
- Digital Humanities, AI research, and online learning
- Greece, Cyprus, Israel, and Palestine
- Medical Humanities
- Asylum Seekers and Mixed Migration Flows in 21st century Greece
- Gender, Sexuality, Biopolitics
- Contested national narratives
- Memory Studies