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.
- 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
MICHAELMAS TERM 2008
23 October- 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
LENT TERM 2009
22 January- 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
EASTER TERM 2009
30 April-
Click on the following link for publication of some papers given in this Modern Greek Lecture Series in recent years:
- Kambos: Cambridge papers in Modern Greek
