Room 1.02, Classics, Faculty of


2005-10-13 17:00: Representations of Achilles in medieval and early modern Greek literature (Dr Vicky Panagiotopoulou-Doulavera, University of New South Wales)

2005-10-27 17:00: Ancient sites, modern eyesores? The transformation of the city of Athens in English-language accounts (c. 1945-2005) (Dr David Wills)

2005-11-10 17:00: Fictions of continuity: time in lieu of place in Cavafy's poetry (Prof. M. Chryssanthopoulos)

2005-11-17 17:00: Transcending politics: symbolism, allegory and censorship in Greek fiction (Prof. Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birmingham)

2006-01-26 17:00: Conformity, humour and parody: handwritten newspapers from an exiles' commune, 1938-1943 (Dr Margaret Kenna)

2006-02-23 17:00: Author and readers: the making of the early modern Greek Physiologos (Prof. Ulrich Moennig, University of Hamburg)

2006-03-02 17:00: Modern Greek variations on the myth of Helen (Dr Anastasia Markomihelaki-Mintzas, Modern Greek variations on the myth of Helen)

2006-04-27 17:00: What price success? The population exchange of 1923 as a political and moral conundrum (Bruce Clark, The Economist)

2006-05-04 17:00: When art criticism meets poetry: the case of the post-war Greek poet Eleni Vacalo (1921-2001) (Prof. Maria Kakavoulia, Panteion University, Athens)

2006-05-11 17:00: Richard M. Dawkins - a pioneer in the field of Modern Greek folktales (Dr Birgit Olsen, University of Aarhus)

2007-10-18 17:00: Dismantling the Millet: religion and national identity in contemporary Greece (Professor Renée Hirschon (St Peter's College, Oxford))

2007-10-25 17:00: 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))

2007-11-08 17:00: Kazantzakis the Cretan: versions of the Minoan past from the author of Zorba the Greek (Professor Roderick Beaton (King's College London))

2007-11-22 17:00: Britain and the ambiguity of Greek sovereignty since 1832 (Professor Robert Holland (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London))

2008-01-31 17:00: Militant intellectuals against the literary establishment: Giorgos Kotzioulas and Giannis Skarimbas (1935-1952) (Dr Athina Vogiatzoglou (University of Ioannina))

2008-02-14 17:00: Why Greek vowels aren't boring (Professor Peter Trudgill (University of East Anglia))

2008-02-28 17:00: Erotokritos into music (Dr Natalia Deliyannaki)

2008-03-06 17:00: Adamantios Korais and the dilemmas of liberal nationalism (Professor Paschalis Kitromilides (University of Athens))

2008-05-01 17:00: The portrait of the female artist in modern Greek prose fiction (Dr Philothei Kolitsi, University of Thessaloniki)

2008-05-08 17:00: Answers without questions: the emergence of fragments in child English and Greek (Dr Dimitra Kolliakou, Newcastle University)

2008-10-23 17:00: Aspects of modern and postmodern Greek fictional biography in the 20th century (Professor Georgia Farinou-Malamatari (University of Thessaloniki))

2008-11-06 17:00: Truth, lies and poetry: Kalvos, Solomos and the War of Independence (Dr Anthony Hirst (Queen's University, Belfast))

2008-11-20 17:00: Greek film studies today: in search of identity (Dr Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool John Moores University))

2009-01-22 17:00: "Πάθη"/"Passions": a latent poetic collection by Cavafy (Professor Michalis Pieris (University of Cyprus))

2009-01-27 17:00: Psycharis: the conflict between the neogrammarian linguist and the language reformer (Professor Gunnar De Boel (Ghent University))

2009-02-19 17:00: Marital failures: glimpsing the margins of marriage in Greece (Professor Roger Just (University of Kent))

2009-03-05 17:00: The enemy that never was: the Muslim minority in Greece in the 1940s (Professor Kevin Featherstone (London School of Economics))

2009-04-30 17:00: “Thou shalt not translate”: the 1901 Gospel Riots in Athens (Dr Victoria Solomonidis (Imperial College, London))

2009-05-07 17:00: Reconsidering Modernism: the exile poems of Giannis Ritsos (Dr Maria Athanassopoulou (University of Cyprus))

2009-10-22 17:00: Post-classical memories: modern Greek attitudes to Antiquity (Professor Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham))