Nektaria Klapaki, Assistant Professor of Hellenic Studies, will be offering two new courses this spring (2017).
Multiculturalism and Migration in the Mediterranean (JSIS A 349) focuses on immigrant communities of Greek diaspora in multicultural cities of Smyrna in nineteenth century Ottoman Empire, and of Alexandria in twentieth century Egypt. It considers how immigration to contemporary Greece transformed an ethnically homogeneous, mono-cultural Greek society into an increasingly multicultural one.
The course will be offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-11:00 Art 004.
Money, Love and Marriage in Europe and America (JSIS 488 C) explores romantic and economic issues related to marriage from the perspective of History, Anthropology, Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies.
The course will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30-3:20, SIG 229.