“Crossing the Adriatic: Christians and Jews between Italy and Greece”
April 21, 2017
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall lower level
Address
701 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Download iCal FileTwo papers explore the fascinating but long-neglected connections between Italy and Greece during the tumultuous nineteenth century. In the early 1800s, Mario Pieri, an Ionian intellectual and resident of Florence, became a Greek exile by not moving at all as he gradually discovered his new national home across the Adriatic Sea, Greece. In the late 1800s, the Jewish merchants of Corfu established a philanthropic network spanning from Trieste to Alexandria turning the Adriatic Sea into a Jewish space and Corfu into a diasporic identity. Mobility across the Adriatic Sea fostered new belongings that both sustained and transcended the nation.
Dr. Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University), “Becoming an exile: Mario Pieri and the Greek Revolution from the Italian Shores”
Constanze Kolbe (Indiana University, Bloomington), “A Jewish Odyssey: Transnational Philanthropy and the Limits of Jewish Solidarity in fin-de-siècle Adriatic”
Discussant: Dr. Dean Kostantaras (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Light refreshments will be offered. The event is free and open to the public.
Date posted
Jun 12, 2020
Date updated
Sep 25, 2020