2009 Graduate Research Colloquium - Saturday 23 May

Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre, Exeter College, Oxford

REGISTRATION: 9.30 – 10.00

SESSION 1: 10.00 – 11.00

Discovering τα βυζαντινά παλικάρια

Stratos Myrogiannis (Cambridge), ‘Mind the Gap: the invention of Byzantium in the Greek Enlightenment’

Mary Greensted (Birmingham), ‘British Arts and Crafts Movement architects and Byzantine architecture in Greece’

COFFEE BREAK: 11.00 – 11.30

SESSION 2: 11.30 – 13.00

Across the borders

Annika Demosthenous (Oxford), ‘Becoming the Bard: Robert Burns, Vassilis Michaelides and the conception of the National Poet’

Foteini Lika (Cambridge), ‘The Figures in the Text: Metaphor as Metacommentary in Swift and Roidis’

Victoria Reuter (Oxford), ‘A ‘Penelopean Poetics’: Feminist Re-Vision of Myth in the Poetry of Francisca Aguirre and Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke’

LUNCH: 13.00 – 14.00

SESSION 3: 14.00 – 15.30

Gender and identity/identities

Paschalina Domouxi (Birmingham), ‘From commitment to identity: A comparative reading of Axioti’s Twentieth century and Douka’s Fool’s Gold’

Eirini Kotsovili (Oxford), ‘Deconstructing the notions of identity and gender in Galanaki’s Eleni, or Nobody’

Eleni Mouatsou (Birmingham), ‘The role of the grammatical gender in Kiki Dimoula's poetry’

TEA BREAK: 15.30 – 16.00

SESSION 4: 16.00 – 17.00

Late in the afternoon

Nikos Mathioudakis (Univ. of Thrace), ‘The fuzzy areas of accuracy and confidence while guessing the idiosyncratic vocabulary of N. Kazantzakis ‘Οδύσεια’

John Kittmer (King’s College), ‘Ritsos and Vrettakos: Parallel Lives’

You can download a PDF-file with the abstracts here and the programme here.