Modern Greek Lecture Series

Modern Greek and Linguistic Typology

Dr Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

Friday 09 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“Myth-history: Venice, Crete and Erotokritos”

Dr Alfred Vincent (University of Sydney).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“Kornaros’s Erofili”

Dr Natalia Deliyannaki.

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“From text to image: Erotokritos illustrated (18th-20th centuries)”

Dr Tassos A. Kaplanis (University of Cyprus).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“The poetics of plants in Erotokritos and Panoria”

Dr Tasoula Markomihelaki-Mintzas (University of Thessaloniki).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“Beauty and desire in Erotokritos”

Dr Tina Lendari (University of Athens).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“Erotokritos and the Cypriot Canzoniere”

Dr Marina Rodosthenous (University of Nicosia).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“Language and music, national identity and Orthodoxy: the ‘Destitute Dervish’ by Alexandros Papadiamantis”

Dr Polina Tambakaki (King’s College London).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“Aspects of the Greek Crisis and their articulation within the European context”

Professor Stephanos Pesmazoglou (Panteio University, Athens).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“Gods refusing to die: from Plutarch to Pound, via Wilde, Cavafy, Palamas and Seferis”

Dr Anthony Hirst (The Durrell School of Corfu).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“Guns and grammars, or the remarkable adventures of Romanos Nikiforou”

Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

The end of an Affair: the unravelling of the Anglo-Greek tie, 1940-1953

Professor Robert Holland (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Second-person narrative in 19th- and 20th-century Greek literature

Professor Maria Kakavoulia (Panteion University, Athens).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Pleading for justice, voicing dissent and dancing around the law in post-1922 Greece

Dr Klearchos A. Kyriakides (University of Hertfordshire).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

The Ancients and the Cold War: the political use of the classical past in post-Civil War Greece

Dr Alexander Kazamias (Coventry University).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Electra as modern Greek survivor: the reception of the tragic heroine in the poetry of Yannis Ritsos

Dr Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Picturing Anafi as it was? Photographs and memories

Professor Margaret Kenna (Swansea University).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Byron's war: the politics of the Greek Revolution (1823-1824)

Prof Roderick Beaton (King's College London).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Greek tragedy and film genre: the cases of Michael Cacoyannis and Woody Allen

Dr Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Does a Cyprus solution still matter?

Dr James Ker-Lindsay (London School of Economics).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Does Greece have a foreign policy?

Dr Spyros Economides (London School of Economics).

Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Panos Karnezis in conversation

Panos Karnezis.

Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

In search of the lost semi-colon: Greek poetry set to music (and how to read it)

Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou (St Cross College, Oxford).

Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Creating a culture of uncertainty: the socio-cultural consequences of common Greek linguistic patterns

Dr Renee Hirschon (St Peter's College, Oxford).

Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Cavafy, photography and fetish

Dr Eleni Papargyriou (King's College London).

Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

State, society and the religious "other" in nineteenth-century Greece

Dr Philip Carabott (King's College London).

Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

The hidden logic of Greek tense and aspect

Professor Amalia Moser (University of Athens).

Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Cavafy and the nineties

Professor David Ricks (King's College London).

Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

The agony of Greek Jews in World War II

Professor Stephen Bowman (University of Cincinnati).

Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Dreaming ruins: antiquity, materiality and national imagination in Greece

Dr Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

The rise of biographical fiction in contemporary Modern Greek literature

Dr Eleni Yannakaki (University of Oxford).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Personality, family and charisma: the case of Venizelos

Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith.

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

The language question, diglossia and the origin of "Common Modern Greek"

Professor Peter Mackridge (St Cross College, Oxford).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Mixed memories of occupation: The social impact of the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Syros, 1941-43

Dr Sheila Lecoeur (Imperial College London).

Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Post-classical memories: modern Greek attitudes to Antiquity

Professor Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Reconsidering Modernism: the exile poems of Giannis Ritsos

Dr Maria Athanassopoulou (University of Cyprus).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

“Thou shalt not translate”: the 1901 Gospel Riots in Athens

Dr Victoria Solomonidis (Imperial College, London).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

The enemy that never was: the Muslim minority in Greece in the 1940s

Professor Kevin Featherstone (London School of Economics).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Marital failures: glimpsing the margins of marriage in Greece

Professor Roger Just (University of Kent).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Psycharis: the conflict between the neogrammarian linguist and the language reformer

Professor Gunnar De Boel (Ghent University).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

"Πάθη"/"Passions": a latent poetic collection by Cavafy

Professor Michalis Pieris (University of Cyprus).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Greek film studies today: in search of identity

Dr Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool John Moores University).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Truth, lies and poetry: Kalvos, Solomos and the War of Independence

Dr Anthony Hirst (Queen's University, Belfast).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Aspects of modern and postmodern Greek fictional biography in the 20th century

Professor Georgia Farinou-Malamatari (University of Thessaloniki).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Answers without questions: the emergence of fragments in child English and Greek

Dr Dimitra Kolliakou, Newcastle University.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

The portrait of the female artist in modern Greek prose fiction

Dr Philothei Kolitsi, University of Thessaloniki.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Adamantios Korais and the dilemmas of liberal nationalism

Professor Paschalis Kitromilides (University of Athens).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Erotokritos into music

Dr Natalia Deliyannaki.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Why Greek vowels aren't boring

Professor Peter Trudgill (University of East Anglia).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Militant intellectuals against the literary establishment: Giorgos Kotzioulas and Giannis Skarimbas (1935-1952)

Dr Athina Vogiatzoglou (University of Ioannina).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Britain and the ambiguity of Greek sovereignty since 1832

Professor Robert Holland (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Kazantzakis the Cretan: versions of the Minoan past from the author of Zorba the Greek

Professor Roderick Beaton (King's College London).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

A language in the image of the nation: language and national identity in Greece since the eighteenth century

Professor Peter Mackridge (St Cross College, Oxford).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Dismantling the Millet: religion and national identity in contemporary Greece

Canceled

Professor Renée Hirschon (St Peter's College, Oxford).

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Inventing a literary past: the first two surveys of Modern Greek literature

Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford).

Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics.

Thursday 03 May 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Recording the history of the Cretan War (1645-1669): an overview

Dr Tassos O. Kaplanis (University of Cyprus).

Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics.

Thursday 08 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Modern Greek in the 11th century

Professor Michael Jeffreys (King's College London).

Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

An epidemic of dreaming on Naxos in 1930: antecedents and consequences

Dr Charles Stewart (University College London).

Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics.

Thursday 15 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

The Parthenon in poetry

Dr Liana Giannakopoulou (King's College London).

Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics.

Thursday 08 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

After Philhellenism: perceptions of the modern Greeks among the Victorian intellectual elite

Dr Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London).

Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics.

Thursday 25 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Defining the Diaspora: the case of the Greeks

Professor Richard Clogg (St Anthony's College, Oxford).

Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics.

Thursday 09 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Peripheral Modernisms in Greece and Argentina: the cases of Borges, Cavafy, Kalokyris and Kyriakidis

Dr Eleni Kefala (University of St Andrews).

Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics.

Thursday 02 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

"A faint sweetness in the never-ending afternoon": Cavafy and the Greek epigram

Dr David Ricks (King's College London).

Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics.

Thursday 19 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Richard M. Dawkins - a pioneer in the field of Modern Greek folktales

Dr Birgit Olsen, University of Aarhus.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 11 May 2006, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

When art criticism meets poetry: the case of the post-war Greek poet Eleni Vacalo (1921-2001)

Prof. Maria Kakavoulia, Panteion University, Athens.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 04 May 2006, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

What price success? The population exchange of 1923 as a political and moral conundrum

Bruce Clark, The Economist.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 27 April 2006, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Modern Greek variations on the myth of Helen

Dr Anastasia Markomihelaki-Mintzas, Modern Greek variations on the myth of Helen.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 02 March 2006, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Author and readers: the making of the early modern Greek Physiologos

Prof. Ulrich Moennig, University of Hamburg.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 23 February 2006, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Conformity, humour and parody: handwritten newspapers from an exiles' commune, 1938-1943

Dr Margaret Kenna.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 26 January 2006, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Transcending politics: symbolism, allegory and censorship in Greek fiction

Prof. Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birmingham.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 17 November 2005, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Fictions of continuity: time in lieu of place in Cavafy's poetry

Prof. M. Chryssanthopoulos.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 10 November 2005, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Ancient sites, modern eyesores? The transformation of the city of Athens in English-language accounts (c. 1945-2005)

Dr David Wills.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 27 October 2005, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Representations of Achilles in medieval and early modern Greek literature

Dr Vicky Panagiotopoulou-Doulavera, University of New South Wales.

Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

Thursday 13 October 2005, 17:00-18:30