Events

SMGS 2013 AGM and public event: 1 June 2013 Hellenic Centre, London

The 6th Annual General Meeting of the Society will take place at 3:15 pm on Saturday 1 June at the Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS.

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Conference programme for Greece and Britain in Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013. (deadline for registration 5 April)

Greece and Britain in Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013

April 12th 2013

Selwyn College, Cambridge

Programme now available.

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/news/Women.html

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Professor Georgios Babiniotis: Language communication: how verbs make sense 4/03/2013 (18:30-20:00)

LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION

LocationGreat Hall King's Building Strand CampusCategoryLectureWhen04/03/2013 (18:30-20:00)

Professor Georgios Babiniotis (University of Athens; Hellenic Foundation for Culture; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation):

Language communication: how verbs make sense

There are many ways to approach language communication. The history of Linguistics as science consists of a number of proposals (“linguistic theories”) to conceive, analyze and teach language communication.

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Cypriot Identities in Literature 12.12.12

Cypriot Identities in Literature:
At a Crossroads between East and West

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU
6:00-9:00 pm

This event is free to the public, but booking is essential. Please contact:
joanna.zywotko@ext.ec.europa.eu

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Modern Greek Seminars at the University of Oxford: Michaelmas 2012

MODERN GREEK SEMINAR

Michaelmas Term 2012

25 October FOTINI DIMIROULI (Oxford)
Paradise Lost? Lawrence Durrell’s “romance” with the Hellenic
World

01 November VICTORIA REUTER (Oxford)
Ithaca Revisited: Modern Responses to Cavafy

08 November PETER MACKRIDGE (Oxford)
Vénise après Vénise: Official languages in the Ionian Islands, 1797-
1864

15 November ANGIE VOELA (East London)
“Becoming-Woman”: Literature between the social sciences and
the humanities

22 November PHILIP PHILLIS (Glasgow)
National or transnational? Reconfiguring contemporary Greek
cinema

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Peter Mackridge at the Classics Centre (Oxford) 6 June

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2011 Graduate Research Colloquium in Modern Greek Studies

CENTRE FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON/
SOCIETY FOR MODERN GREEK STUDIES

2011 Graduate Research Colloquium in Modern Greek Studies
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Room K2.31 (King’s Building), Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS

Panel 1 (1100-1230)
Victoria Reuter (University of Oxford), ‘Poetic re-visions of the recognition scene in the Odyssey’
Nikolas Kakkoufa (King’s College London), ‘Palamas estranged? The case of Satirical Exercises’
Maria Stylianidou (King’s College London), ‘Palamas’ theoretical views on verse translation’

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2011

THE SOCIETY FOR MODERN GREEK STUDIES

invites members and non-members to its

Annual Open Meeting

on Friday 20 May 2011.

Location:
The Hellenic Centre
16-18 Paddington Street
London, United Kingdom

Following the AGM (members only), Professor Geoffrey Horrocks (University of Cambridge) will give a lecture entitled 'Nobody didn't do nothing: one reason why Gemistos Plethon might have had trouble chatting to Plato.' The AGM will commence at 5p.m. and the lecture at 6 p.m

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Training Seminar for Teachers of Modern Greek

TEACHING GREEK AS A SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Seminar sponsored by the Onassis Foundation

Friday, 19 November 2010
10 am. – 4 p.m.

at

The Hellenic Centre,
16-18 Paddington Street,
London W1U 5AS

P R O G R A M M E

10.00-10.30
Registration and Coffee

10.30-11.00
KONSTANTINOS VOROS (Greek Embassy)
Greek state policy and the teaching of Modern Greek in the UK

11.00-11.30
SAVVAS PAVLIDES (Cyprus Educational Mission)

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2010

THE SOCIETY FOR MODERN GREEK STUDIES

invites members and non-members to its

Annual Open Meeting

on Saturday 15 May 2010

The event will take place in the Lecture Theatre of the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford, 66 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LU

PROGRAMME

2.00p.m ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Society (members only)

3.00p.m. WELCOME by the Chair of the Society, Prof. Marc Lauxtermann

3.15p.m. LECTURE by Professor Roderick Beaton on "From Frankenstein to Missolonghi: why Byron went to Greece"

4.00p.m. TEA

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