Greece and its History


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)

2006-10-19 17:00: "A faint sweetness in the never-ending afternoon": Cavafy and the Greek epigram (Dr David Ricks (King's College London))

2006-11-02 17:00: Peripheral Modernisms in Greece and Argentina: the cases of Borges, Cavafy, Kalokyris and Kyriakidis (Dr Eleni Kefala (University of St Andrews))

2006-11-09 17:00: Defining the Diaspora: the case of the Greeks (Professor Richard Clogg (St Anthony's College, Oxford))

2007-01-25 17:00: After Philhellenism: perceptions of the modern Greeks among the Victorian intellectual elite (Dr Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London))

2007-02-08 17:00: The Parthenon in poetry (Dr Liana Giannakopoulou (King's College London))

2007-02-15 17:00: An epidemic of dreaming on Naxos in 1930: antecedents and consequences (Dr Charles Stewart (University College London))

2007-03-01 17:00: Modern Greek in the 11th century (Professor Michael Jeffreys (King's College London))

2007-03-08 17:00: Recording the history of the Cretan War (1645-1669): an overview (Dr Tassos O. Kaplanis (University of Cyprus))

2007-05-03 17:00: Inventing a literary past: the first two surveys of Modern Greek literature (Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford))

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))

2009-11-05 17:00: 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))

2009-11-12 17:00: The language question, diglossia and the origin of "Common Modern Greek" (Professor Peter Mackridge (St Cross College, Oxford))

2009-11-26 17:00: Personality, family and charisma: the case of Venizelos (Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith)

2010-04-29 17:00: The rise of biographical fiction in contemporary Modern Greek literature (Dr Eleni Yannakaki (University of Oxford))

2010-05-06 17:00: Dreaming ruins: antiquity, materiality and national imagination in Greece (Dr Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton))

2010-10-14 17:00: The agony of Greek Jews in World War II (Professor Stephen Bowman (University of Cincinnati))

2010-10-28 17:00: Cavafy and the nineties (Professor David Ricks (King's College London))

2010-11-18 17:00: The hidden logic of Greek tense and aspect (Professor Amalia Moser (University of Athens))

2010-11-25 17:00: State, society and the religious "other" in nineteenth-century Greece (Dr Philip Carabott (King's College London))

2011-01-27 17:00: Cavafy, photography and fetish (Dr Eleni Papargyriou (King's College London))

2011-02-17 17:00: Creating a culture of uncertainty: the socio-cultural consequences of common Greek linguistic patterns (Dr Renee Hirschon (St Peter's College, Oxford))

2011-03-03 17:00: In search of the lost semi-colon: Greek poetry set to music (and how to read it) (Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou (St Cross College, Oxford))

2011-05-05 17:00: Panos Karnezis in conversation (Panos Karnezis)

2011-05-12 17:00: Does Greece have a foreign policy? (Dr Spyros Economides (London School of Economics))

2011-10-20 17:00: Does a Cyprus solution still matter? (Dr James Ker-Lindsay (London School of Economics))

2011-11-03 17:00: Greek tragedy and film genre: the cases of Michael Cacoyannis and Woody Allen (Dr Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol))

2011-11-17 17:00: Byron's war: the politics of the Greek Revolution (1823-1824) (Prof Roderick Beaton (King's College London))

2011-11-24 17:00: Picturing Anafi as it was? Photographs and memories (Professor Margaret Kenna (Swansea University))

2012-02-02 17:00: Electra as modern Greek survivor: the reception of the tragic heroine in the poetry of Yannis Ritsos (Dr Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University))

2012-02-16 17:00: The Ancients and the Cold War: the political use of the classical past in post-Civil War Greece (Dr Alexander Kazamias (Coventry University))

2012-03-01 17:00: Pleading for justice, voicing dissent and dancing around the law in post-1922 Greece (Dr Klearchos A. Kyriakides (University of Hertfordshire))

2012-03-08 17:00: Second-person narrative in 19th- and 20th-century Greek literature (Professor Maria Kakavoulia (Panteion University, Athens))

2012-05-03 17:00: The end of an Affair: the unravelling of the Anglo-Greek tie, 1940-1953 (Professor Robert Holland (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London))

2012-10-25 17:00: “Guns and grammars, or the remarkable adventures of Romanos Nikiforou” (Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford))

2012-11-08 17:00: “Gods refusing to die: from Plutarch to Pound, via Wilde, Cavafy, Palamas and Seferis” (Dr Anthony Hirst (The Durrell School of Corfu))

2012-11-15 17:00: “Aspects of the Greek Crisis and their articulation within the European context” (Professor Stephanos Pesmazoglou (Panteio University, Athens))

2012-11-22 17:00: “Language and music, national identity and Orthodoxy: the ‘Destitute Dervish’ by Alexandros Papadiamantis” (Dr Polina Tambakaki (King’s College London))

2013-02-07 17:00: “Erotokritos and the Cypriot Canzoniere” (Dr Marina Rodosthenous (University of Nicosia))

2013-02-14 17:00: “Beauty and desire in Erotokritos” (Dr Tina Lendari (University of Athens))

2013-02-21 17:00: “The poetics of plants in Erotokritos and Panoria” (Dr Tasoula Markomihelaki-Mintzas (University of Thessaloniki))

2013-02-28 17:00: “From text to image: Erotokritos illustrated (18th-20th centuries)” (Dr Tassos A. Kaplanis (University of Cyprus))

2013-03-07 17:00: “Kornaros’s Erofili”  (Dr Natalia Deliyannaki)

2013-05-02 17:00: “Myth-history: Venice, Crete and Erotokritos” (Dr Alfred Vincent (University of Sydney))