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, in Room 1 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Professor Steven Bowman (University of Cincinnati):
- The agony of Greek Jews in World War II 28 October
- Professor David Ricks (King’s College London):
- Cavafy and the nineties 18 November
- Professor Amalia Moser (University of Athens):
- The hidden logic of Greek tense and aspect 25 November
- Dr Philip Carabott (King’s College London):
- State, society and the religious “other” in nineteenth-century Greece
MICHAELMAS TERM 2010
14 October- Dr Eleni Papargyriou (King’s College London):
- Cavafy, photography and fetish 3 February
- Dr Tina Lendari (University of Athens):
- Mirrors and arrows of love in late medieval and early modern Greek literature 17 February
- Dr Renee Hirschon (St Peter’s College, Oxford):
- Creating a culture of uncertainty: the socio-cultural consequences of common Greek linguistic patterns 3 March
- Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou (St Cross College, Oxford):
- In search of the lost semi-colon: Greek poetry set to music (and how to read it)
LENT TERM 2011
27 January- The writer Panos Karnezis will read extracts from his work and answer questions 12 May
- Dr Spyros Economides (London School of Economics):
- Does Greece have a foreign policy?
EASTER TERM 2011
5 May-
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
