Modern & Medieval Languages
FACULTY OF MODERN AND MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES
- (Modern Greek Section)
FACULTY OF CLASSICS
Modern Greek Lecture Series
These open lectures will be given at 5.00 p.m. on THURSDAYS,
in Room 1.02 Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.
MICHAELMAS TERM 2006
19 October
Dr David Ricks (King's College London):
"A faint sweetness in the never-ending afternoon". Cavafy and the Greek epigram
2 November
Dr Eleni Kefala (University of St Andrews):
Peripheral Modernisms in Greece and Argentina: the cases of Borges, Cavafy, Kalokyris and Kyriakidis
9 November
Professor Richard Clogg (St Antony's College, Oxford):
Defining the Diaspora: the case of the Greeks
LENT TERM 2007
25 January
Dr Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London):
After Philhellenism: perceptions of the modern Greeks
among the Victorian intellectual elite
8 February
Dr Liana Giannakopoulou (King's College London):)
The Parthenon in poetry
15 February
Dr Charles Stewart (University College London):/dt>
An epidemic of dreaming on Naxos in 1930: antecedents and consequences
1 March
Professor Michael Jeffreys (King's College London):
Modern Greek in the 11th century
8 March
Dr Tassos A. Kaplanis (University of Cyprus):
Recording the history of the Cretan War (1645-1669): an overview
EASTER TERM 2007
3 May
Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford):
Inventing a literary past: the first two surveys of Modern Greek literature
