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.
- 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"
MICHAELMAS TERM 2012
25 October- 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"
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
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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
