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.
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.
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.
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
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
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’
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
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)
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
