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

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