MGSA 2011, the twenty-second biennial international symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association, will take place October 13-16, 2011 in New York, and will be coordinated by the Hellenic Studies Program at New York University (http://hellenic.as.nyu.edu/page/home)

Abstracts for individual papers and proposals for entire panels are invited on any aspect of modern Greek culture, literature, language, history, society, politics, economics, and the arts.

Call for papers for a conference on

THE PERSONALITY CULTS OF MODERN DICTATORS

Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London

22-23 October 2010

Almost all modern dictators are the subject of personality cults that are highly organised even if they often also rest on spontaneous contributions. By creating a narrative of exceptionality around an individual they harness support and help consolidate a regime. The forms cults take depend on national traditions and histories, patterns of gender relations, and the existence or otherwise of an articulated civil society. In this sense, they are cultural as much as political phenomena. The highly specific nature of each cult means that comparative work is rare. The aim of this conference is to compare different aspects of many cults of personality, and, by so doing, raise new hypotheses of research and lay the foundations for new potential interdisciplinary collaborations.

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY & ANTIQUITY
THE SOCIETY FOR MODERN GREEK STUDIES

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CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE, OTTOMAN & MODERN GREEK STUDIES

2010 Graduate Research Colloquium in Modern Greek Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

This year’s Graduate Research Colloquium will take place at Birmingham University (Lecture Room 8, Arts Building) on Thursday 17 June 2010. Contributions may be in any area of Modern Greek Studies, including literature, history, linguistics, anthropology, media studies etc., or they may be of an interdisciplinary nature.

Date and venue: 29 May 2010, Room 2, Taylor Institution, St Giles, Oxford, U.K.

Duration: 1 day

Organiser: Erato Basea, D. Phil. Candidate, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, St Cross College, University of Oxford

Aims and Scope:
Current Trends in Greek Cinema is a one-day conference to be held on May 29, 2010, sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and the Sub-faculty of Modern Greek, at the University of Oxford.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies:
MODERN GREEK HISTORY, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY

Princeton University, May 7, 2010

The Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University announces our second International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies.

Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

Thursday 9 – Saturday 11 June 2011

Their aesthetic attributes apart, photographs have been seen (and used) as another historical source of documentation; as symbolic capital in collective narratives and propaganda wars; as windows onto a past that may or may not be singular; as testimonies that record as much the interests and concerns of photographers as they do the lives of their animate subjects and their surroundings.

The Society for Modern Greek Studies (SMGS)

2009 Graduate Research Colloquium

Exeter College, Oxford, Saturday 23 May 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

This year’s Graduate Research Colloquium will take place at Oxford, in the Saskatchewan Room of Exeter College (Turl Street), on Saturday 23 May, from 10.30 am until about 6.30 pm. Contributions may be in any area of Modern Greek Studies, including history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, art history, media studies etc., or they may be of an interdisciplinary nature.

Call for papers for the International Conference:
““The personal is political”: The interfaces between Politics and Culture across Europe in the 1970s”

Date: 26-27 August 2009

Location: Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

4th Conference of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies

Identities in the Greek world (from 1204 to the present day)

University of Granada, Spain
10-12 September 2010

You can read the first call for papers here.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies
http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies:

Princeton University, May 8-9, 2009

The Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University announces our first International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies.