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, in Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

MICHAELMAS TERM 2012

25 October
Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford):
"Guns and grammars, or the remarkable adventures of Romanos Nikiforou"
8 November
Dr Anthony Hirst (The Durrell School of Corfu):
"Gods refusing to die: from Plutarch to Pound, via Wilde, Cavafy, Palamas and Seferis"
15 November
Professor Stephanos Pesmazoglou (Panteio University, Athens):
"Aspects of the Greek Crisis and their articulation within the European context"
24 November
Dr Polina Tambakaki (King's College London):
"Language and music, national identity and Orthodoxy: the 'Destitute Dervish' by Alexandros Papadiamantis"

LENT AND EASTER TERMS 2013

A series of six lectures on the Cretan romance Erotokritos, by Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553-1613/14), to mark the 300th anniversary of its first publication


7 February
Dr Marina Rodosthenous (University of Nicosia):
"Erotokritos and the Cypriot Canzoniere"
14 February
Dr Tina Lendari (University of Athens):
"Beauty and desire in Erotokritos"
21 February
Dr Tasoula Markomihelaki-Mintzas (University of Thessaloniki):
"The poetics of plants in Erotokritos and Panoria"
28 February
Dr Tassos A. Kaplanis (University of Cyprus):
"From text to image: Erotokritos illustrated (18th-20th centuries)"
7 March
Dr Natalia Deliyannaki:
"Kornaros's Erofili"
2 May
Dr Alfred Vincent (University of Sydney):
"Myth-history: Venice, Crete and Erotokritos"

 

 

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