News

• 2025-04-02

  In the planning (for 2026): A presentation of the ‘Literary History 19th-21st centuries’ section, whose development is supported by the Kostas & Eleni Ourani Foundation

• 2025-03-31

  The CENSUS team is advancing to the ‘Early modern Greek literature’ section.

• 2024-10-20

  Friends of the Princeton University Library research grants (with funding from the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies): to W.F. Bakker, to consult rare sources for the CENSUS in the Special Collections, and to Dia Philippides, to trace Evro Layton, fundamental bibliographer, in the MGSA Archives, held in the Special Collections.

• 2024-10-18

  PRESENTATION 5 (MGSA – PRINCETON): “CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature: A Bibliography for Speakers of English”: Presentation given live at the Symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association held at Princeton University (Dia Philippides and Yiorgos-Evgenios Douliakas) — in a Special Session (‘Innovative Digital Resources for Modern Greek Studies Worldwide’) shared with the Greek Digital Journals Archive (GDJA)

• 2024-10-03

  PRESENTATION 4 (NEOGRAECA - IOANNINA): «Έργα αναφοράς-υποδομής για την ξενόγλωσση πρόσληψη της πρώιμης νεοελληνικής λογοτεχνίας»: An invited presentation (W.F. Bakker, Dia Philippides, and Ben Florin) in the opening session of the Neograeca Medii Aevi VIII conference held at the University of Ioannina. Pre-recorded.

• 2024-05-16

  PRESENTATION 3 (CYPRUS): «Ανοίγοντας την ελληνόγλωσση λογοτεχνία στον αγγλόφωνο κόσμο: Η ηλεκτρονική πλατφόρμα ‘CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature’»: An invited presentation given live at the University of Cyprus (W.F. Bakker and Dia Philippides present; Ben Florin virtual). In hybrid format (in person and online). Many interesting meetings, and visits to libraries and other institutions, held at that time.

• 2023-12-15

  PRESENTATION 2 (PATRAS): «The CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature: μια βιβλιογραφία για το διεθνές και το ελληνικό κοινό»: An invited presentation (in Greek) by the CENSUS team to the University of Patras’s Dept. of (Modern Greek and Comparative) Philology. Event (held online) recorded.

• 2023-10-30

  The CENSUS is pleased to report the award of a grant from the Boston College Association of Retired Faculty. The grant will support the development of the section “General Works of Literary History” (on modern Greek literature from the 12th century onwards).

• 2023-10-28

  The CENSUS online database now has an entry on WorldCat and an OCLC number. Also a LibGuides listing under ‘Classical Studies Databases’ at the Boston College Libraries.

• 2023-08-21

  The CENSUS gratefully acknowledges the award of a grant from the Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation (Academy of Athens). The grant will support the current development of the section “Literary History 19th-21st centuries”.

• 2023-07-15

  The closure of major academic libraries during the pandemic and a disaster to their personal library have presented an unexpected challenge to the CENSUS’s principal editors, which they are currently addressing.

• 2023-04-05

  One-year anniversary online! First presentation held April 5, 2022.

• 2023-03-31

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• 2023-02-01

  The CENSUS team is preparing the next section, ‘Literary History 19th-21st centuries’.

• 2022-04-05

  PRESENTATION 1 (ONLINE OPENING): The The ‘CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature’ - “Greek Authors 19th-21st centuries” was presented online by the CENSUS project team with funding from the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation. Simultaneous opening of the site to users.