http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/greece The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/are-their-intellectuals-better-ours <p>What was more dazzling, my view of the Bosphorus with the Aghia Sophia and the Blue Mosque or the conversation? In Istanbul last month I rediscovered what I treasure whenever I go abroad: the well-roundedness and cosmopolitanism of intellectuals in comparison with whom we here appear narrow and specialized.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/are-their-intellectuals-better-ours">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/are-their-intellectuals-better-ours#comments Colombia functional differentiation Greece Third-World Intellectuals Turkey world literature http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1656 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:16:54 -0800 Gregory Jusdanis 1656 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/connecting-cartagena-latin-america-and-classics <p>Literature seems to be everywhere in Cartagena and not just because Gabriel García Márquez still has a house there.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/connecting-cartagena-latin-america-and-classics">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/connecting-cartagena-latin-america-and-classics#comments Classical culture Francisco de Miranda Greece Latin American nationalism René Arrieta Pérez Simón Bolívar http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1510 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:43:51 -0700 Gregory Jusdanis 1510 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/feeling-spirits-of-san-agust%C3%ADn-belatedness-of-latin-america <p>We too find ourselves in a modernidad tardía. That is what my audience reported to me at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogota where I had come to present a series of seminars on Greek culture through the support of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/feeling-spirits-of-san-agust%C3%ADn-belatedness-of-latin-america">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/feeling-spirits-of-san-agust%C3%ADn-belatedness-of-latin-america#comments Archaeology belated modernity Colombia globalization Greece progress the past time travel http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1463 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:05:44 -0700 Gregory Jusdanis 1463 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/end-of-travel <p>Many travelers still seek solitude among the tourists, the luxury to communicate personally with the ruins. They long to leave their minds on idle, while they enter the vista before them, undisturbed by the other souls striving for the same illusion. I often feel this contradiction of being alone with others when I travel. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/end-of-travel">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/end-of-travel#comments Economic crisis Europe Greece Mark Twain politics of austerity Robert Byron tourism http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1450 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:42:26 -0700 Gregory Jusdanis 1450 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/culture-second-fiddle <p>Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. That still sums up the way we view culture today. We undervalue its place in the world, always elevating the importance of the economy as a factor in social change. Culture, to change the metaphor, still plays second fiddle, following the lead of the economic conductor. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/culture-second-fiddle">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/culture-second-fiddle#comments Culture and social change Greece Materialism/Idealism Ottoman Empire Postcolonialism Revolution Turkey http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1203 Mon, 02 May 2011 07:39:38 -0700 Gregory Jusdanis 1203 at http://arcade.stanford.edu