Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue


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))

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))