Modern Greek Section

Modern & Medieval Languages

Modern Greek Section

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, except for that on TUESDAY 27 January, in Room 1.02 Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

MICHAELMAS TERM 2008

23 October
Professor Georgia Farinou-Malamatari (University of Thessaloniki):
Aspects of modern and postmodern Greek fictional biography in the 20th century
6 November
Dr Anthony Hirst (Queen's University, Belfast):
Truth, lies and poetry: Kalvos, Solomos and the War of Independence
20 November
Dr Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool John Moores University):
Greek film studies today: in search of identity

LENT TERM 2009

22 January
Professor Michalis Pieris (University of Cyprus):
"Πάθη"/"Passions": a latent poetic collection by Cavafy
TUESDAY 27 January
Professor Gunnar De Boel (Ghent University):
Psycharis: the conflict between the neogrammarian linguist and the language reformer
19 February
Professor Roger Just (University of Kent):
Marital failures: glimpsing the margins of marriage in Greece
5 March
Professor Kevin Featherstone (London School of Economics):
The enemy that never was: the Muslim minority in Greece in the 1940s

EASTER TERM 2009

30 April
Dr Victoria Solomonidis (Imperial College, London):
"Thou shalt not translate": the 1901 Gospel Riots in Athens
7 May
Dr Maria Athanassopoulou (University of Cyprus):
Reconsidering Modernism: the exile poems of Giannis Ritsos

 

 

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