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 2007
18 October
Professor Renée Hirschon (St Peter's College, Oxford):
Dismantling the Millet
: religion and national identity in contemporary Greece
25 October
Professor Peter Mackridge (St Cross College, Oxford):
A language in the image of the nation: language and national identity in Greece since the
eighteenth century
8 November
Professor Roderick Beaton (King's College London):
Kazantzakis the Cretan: versions of the Minoan past from the author of Zorba the Greek
22 November
Professor Robert Holland (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London):
Britain and the ambiguity of Greek sovereignty since 1832
LENT TERM 2008
31 January
Dr Athina Vogiatzoglou (University of Ioannina):
Militant intellectuals against the literary establishment: Giorgos Kotzioulas and Giannis
Skarimbas (1935-1952)
14 February
Professor Peter Trudgill (University of East Anglia):)
Why Greek vowels aren't boring
28 February
Dr Natalia Deliyannaki:
Erotokritos into music
6 March
Professor Paschalis Kitromilides (University of Athens):
Adamantios Korais and the dilemmas of liberal nationalism
EASTER TERM 2008
1 May
Dr Philothei Kolitsi (University of Thessaloniki):
The portrait of the female artist in modern Greek prose fiction
8 May
Dr Dimitra Kolliakou (Newcastle University):
Answers without questions: the emergence of fragments in child English and Greek
