The Society for Modern Greek Studies: Annual General Meeting - Oxford, Saturday 19 May, 2012

The AGM will be held on 19th May in Oxford at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. For the open event, which will follow the AGM, our guest will be the distinguished novelist Victoria Hislop.

Author of the best-seller The Island and the recently published historical novel The Thread, Victoria will be in conversation with Dr. Anthony Hirst.

Further details will be circulated in the New Year.

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The Society for Modern Greek Studies: Graduate Research Colloquium 2012

The annual graduate research colloquium of the Society for Modern Greek Studies will take place on Thursday 7 June, 2012.

Place: The Chadwick Room, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
Time: approx. 10.30-6.00

The call for papers will issue early in the New Year.

Members of the Society, particularly graduate students researching in Modern Greek studies at UK universities, are encouraged to put the date aside in their diaries and to await further announcements.

Contact:
Prof David Holton
dwh11@cam.ac.uk

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Gerald Durrell's Corfu

Following the great success of "Gerald Durrell's Corfu" in 2011, it is being offered again this year by the Durrell School of Corfu. The dates are 11-18 May 2012.

The organizers write:

"Spend a week as part of a small group of like-minded travellers reliving the life of naturalist Gerald Durrell and experience the island of Corfu that he so cherished. Led by experts in botany, ecology, herpetology, ornithology and environmental sciences, you can be sure to get the most out of what this beautiful Greek island has to offer."

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Modern Greek Lecture Series at the University of Cambridge: Winter 2012

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: FACULTY OF MODERN AND MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES: MODERN GREEK SECTION & FACULTY OF CLASSICS

These open lectures will be given at 5pm on Thursdays, in Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

2 February
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

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Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies: Winter Seminars 2012

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE, OTTOMAN AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES

The Centre's General Seminar normally meets in the Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building on Thursdays at 5.15pm, unless otherwise stated, and is open to all interested in the related concerns of the Centre.

12 January
E. Georganteli, A. Miynat, M. Saxby, M. Vrij (Birmingham)
Money and the projection of power in Byzantium and the medieval Islamic world.

26 January
Spyros Economides (London)
The relevance of Europe to Greece's foreign policy

9 February
Guillaaume Saint-Guillain (Aimens)

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Fourth International Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University, May 2012

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
www.princeton.edu/hellenic/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourth International Graduate Student Conference

"CRISIS AND INNOVATION IN MODERN GREECE"

Princeton University, May 4, 2012

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Hellenic Observatory: Events, Winter 2012

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: EUROPEAN INSTITUTE, HELLENIC OBSERVATORY

Policy & Research Seminar Series

The Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar series provides a forum for academic and policy research addressed mainly to student and academic audiences within London, but also to the wider Greek community.

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Centre for Hellenic Studies: Modern Greek Seminars, Winter 2012

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: CENTRE FOR HELLENIC STUDIES

The Modern Greek Seminars of the Centre for Hellenic Studies are free, open to the public and designed to be accessible to a wide audience. Seminars will be held at 5.30pm in room 2A in the Chesham Building, Strand Campus, except where noted otherwise.

Monday 30 January 2012
Mr Stephen Duckworth (London), 'Edward Lear and his Cretan drawings'

Monday 13 February 2012
Dr Rowena Fowler (Oxford), 'Greek in Joyce: Joyce in Greek'

Monday 5 March 2012

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Voices From Greece 2012

Thessaloniki 1912-2012 in History, Literature and Music
Saturday 24 March at 4pm
Lecture Theatre 1, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Victoria Hislop (author of The Island), Professor David Connolly (Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki) and Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)

Followed by music from Thessaloniki
Admission free
Further information from h.anagnostopoulou@uea.ac.uk

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Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships in Hellenic Studies, academic year 2012-2013, for early career scholars, Princeton University

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Stanley J. Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships in Hellenic Studies, academic year 2012-2013, for early career scholars in Hellenic Studies, with a special emphasis on Modern Greek Studies, Byzantine Studies, or Late Antique Studies, including their relation to the Classical tradition.

The salary will be $46,400 for the academic year (September 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013).

Information:

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