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 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Dr James Ker-Lindsay (London School of Economics):
- Does a Cyprus solution still matter? 3 November
- Dr Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol):
- Greek tragedy and film genre: the cases of Michael Cacoyannis and Woody Allen 17 November
- Professor Roderick Beaton (King's College London):
- Byron's war: the politics of the Greek Revolution (1823-1824) 24 November
- Professor Margaret Kenna (Swansea University):
- Picturing Anafi as it was? Photographs and memories
MICHAELMAS TERM 2011
20 October- Dr Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University):
- Electra as modern Greek survivor: the reception of the tragic heroine in the poetry of Yannis Ritsos 16 February
- Dr Alexander Kazamias (Coventry University):
- The Ancients and the Cold War: the political use of the classical past in post-Civil War Greece 1 March
- Dr Klearchos A. Kyriakides (University of Hertfordshire):
- Pleading for justice, voicing dissent and dancing around the law in post-1922 Greece 8 March
- Professor Maria Kakavoulia (Panteion University, Athens):
- Second person narrative in 19th- and 20th-century Greek literature.
LENT TERM 2012
2 February- Professor Robert Holland (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London):
- The End of an Affair: the unravelling of the Anglo-Greek tie, 1940-1953
EASTER TERM 2012
3 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
