The 2015 Graduate Research Colloquium of the Society for Modern Greek Studies will take place at King's College London on Wednesday 10 June 2015.

Venue: The Council Room (K2.29), Strand Campus, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS.
Admission is free but registration is required via Eventbrite. Please register at: http://2015grc.eventbrite.co.uk

Programme
11.00-13.00 COMMEMORATION: MONUMENTS AND RITUALS
Martha Papaspiliou (King’s College London), Literary monuments to ‘national heroes’: nationalizing Kyra Phrosyne in the 19th century
Jessica Kourniakti (Oxford), Rebuilding the Colossus of Rhodes in the 1960s: Greek-American identity landmark or tourist attraction?
John Burke (Newcastle), Commemorating a troubled past on a divided island: Britain, Cyprus and the Kyrenia Memorial controversy of 2009
Marios Chatziprokopiou (Aberystwyth), Ashura in Piraeus: the performance and politics of lamentation by Shia Pakistani migrants in Greece

13.30-15.00 DEFINING IDENTITY: GENDER, CLASS, SELF AND OTHER
Mikela Fotiou (Glasgow), The cinematic work of Nikos Nikolaidis and female representation
Helga Malshi (Manchester), Pre-head and post-head adjectival modification in Modern Greek
Elena Bitsiani (Birmingham), Representing the bourgeoisie in fictional texts of the 1920s and 1930s

15.15-16.45 THE ‘SICKNESS OF THE CENTURY’?
Iakovos Menelaou (King’s College London), Homosexuality as illness in Cavafy
Chloe Howe-Haralambous (Oxford), The cultural poetics of murder: the case of the Ogre of Seih Sou
Russell Henshaw (Oxford), Reform in Crisis: austerity and the social economy in Greece

17.00-18.30 THE WRITTEN WORD AND ITS ADDRESSEES
Anastasios Mikalef (Birmingham), The pro-British press in the Ionian Islands (1849-1864)
Elissavet Evangelidou (Birmingham), The Dekemvriana in literature for young adults: the case of George Sari’s novel Oi nikites
Fiona Antonelaki (King’s College London), The sound recordings of Nikos Engonopoulos and Odysseus Elytis: a comparative listening

Abstracts of the papers can be found in the attachment.

A Workshop at the University of Birmingham, 23 May 2015, ERI building G51

This workshop is part of a two-year research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). For further details and for abstracts of papers please visit the project’s website: http://culpolgreekcrisis.com/

PROGRAMME

9.00-9.15 Introduction and Welcome
Professor Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham)

9.15-10.45 Session 1: Economy, Culture and Institutions

Professor Roderick Beaton (King’s College London)
Foreshadowing the crisis: Lord Byron and the cultural and economic politics of Greece in 1824

Professor Dimitris Plantzos (University of Athens)
Amphipolitics: archaeological performance and governmentality in Greece under the crisis

Dr Lina Molokotos-Liederman (Uppsala University & Paris GSRL)
The Orthodox Church of Greece and the Economic Crisis: A Moment of Challenge and Opportunity

10.45-11.00 Tea and coffee

11.00-13.00 Session 2: Literature and Street Art

Professor Patricia Felisa Barbeito (Rhode Island School of Design)
‘Nothing feels right about this case’: Gender malaise and economic disorder in Petros Markaris's Crisis Trilogy

Ms Lambrini Kouzeli (Athens)
Creative writing workshops: A growing trend during the Greek crisis

Ms Julia Tulke (Berlin)
Visual Encounters with Crisis and Austerity: Reflections on the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Street Art in Athens

Professor Maria Boletsi (Leiden University)
From the Subject of the Crisis to the Subject in Crisis: Middle Voice on Greek Walls

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Session 3: Cinema and Music

Dr Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool John Moores University)
The economy and ecology of post-crisis Greek cinema: Between production, circulation and reception

Professor Vangelis Calotychos (Brown University)
On Being Good, Very Good, and Breaking Bad in Killer Times: The Film Economies of Yannis Economides

Dr Katerina Levidou (University of Athens and King’s College London)
Feasts in Time of ‘Plague’: Festivals of Western Art Music in Greece during the Crisis

15.30-16.00 Tea and coffee

16.00-17.30 Session 4: Festivals and Performance

Dr Eleftheria Ioannidou (University of Birmingham) & Dr. Natascha Siouzouli (Freie Universität Berlin)
Imperceptible Performances: A Recent History of the Hellenic Festival

Dr Philip Hager (University of Birmingham)
Performances of Democracy and Dramaturgies of the Crisis: The Return of History

Dr Alexandros Efklidis (Greek National Opera)
An opera for the crisis: Yasou Aida! (2012)

The workshop is free and those interested in attending should contact Professor Dimitris Tziovas (d.p.tziovas@bham.ac.uk) by 20 May 2015.

The workshop "Diversity in 20th- and 21st-Century Greek Popular Culture(s) and Media" will take place on Saturday 14 March 2015 in the Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building (2nd floor), Woodstock Road, Oxford, from 9:00 until 18:30. (Note change of venue.)

The event is organized by the Society for Modern Greek Studies, with sponsorship from The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).

You can register, until 9 March, at mgworkshop2015@gmail.com

PROGRAMME

9:00 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 11:00
Panel 1: Inquiring about Identity: Methodologies, Frameworks, Practices
1. ‘Greece the Imagined Nation’: A study of selfhood and subjectivity through auto-ethnographic visual representations of ‘Ellinikotita’ (Greekness)
Michael Chronopoulos, University of South Wales
2. Oral evidences on Greek Popular literature of the 50s and 60s
Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina (Greece)
3. Social media and Greeks: the case of Facebook
Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Maria Xenofodos, Achilleas Karadimitriou, Ioulia Daga & Elias Athanasiadis, University of Athens (Greece)

11:05 – 12:05
Panel 2: Building Musical Identities
1. Greekness and Gender in the ’80s and '90s Greek Popular Music Press
Reguina Hatzipetrou-Andronikou, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)
2. Ασίκικο Πουλάκι - Regionalising in Greek music and poetry after 1974
Josh Barley, King’s College London
3. Why Rebetiko today?
Elli Leventaki, University of Ioannina (Greece)

12:05 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 13:30
Panel 3: Filming Greek Subjectivity: Representations of selfhood, tradition and heteronormativity in Greek film and TV
1. Gays and Straights (queer things up): Negotiating Heteronormativity in Angelos
Spyros Chairetis, University of Oxford
2. Challenging the Patriarchal Canon: Paths of Diversity in Dogtooth and Miss Violence
Vera Mystaka, independent researcher
3. Subversion and Stereotype in ‘Το Καφέ της Χαράς’
Annie Demosthenous, independent researcher

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30
Panel 4: An Ode to Suffering: Othering and Identifying in Digital and Television Media
1. Infecting the body politic: the HIV “Death Trap” and the Porous “Other”
Chloe Howe Charalambous, University of Oxford
2. Networks of suffering: encountering diversity in cross-cultural dialogues on the Internet
Huw Halstead, University of Kent
3. Multiculturalism and racism depicted in Greek satirical drawings
Emmanouela Tisizi, University of Edinburgh

15:30 – 15:45 Short Break

15:45 – 16:45
Panel 5: Intersecting Identities: Art and Place in Multimedia
1. “And everywhere you turn: Gods..myths..heroes”: YouTube and the Greek modernist project
Ioanna Zouli, South Bank University & Tate Research
2. Nudity in the Imaret: Heritage and the Art of Exhibitions
Elizabeth Cohen, University of Cambridge
3. ‘Vasanizomai’: From a Message of Agony Sprayed Across the Walls of Athens, to Internet Sensation
Jessica Kourniakti, University of Oxford

16:45 – 17:15 Coffee Break

17:15-18:15 Round-Table Discussion

18:30 Wine Reception

29 January George Vassiadis
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
'Honoured Prisoners of the Reich':
the Rizos Rangavis Family, 1941-1945

5 February Maria Margaronis
(The Nation Newspaper & University of Oxford)
Covering the Greek Elections

19 February Elizabeth Kirtsoglou
(University of Durham)
We are All Immigrants:
Anthropological Analysis of Recognition and Political Subjectivity

5 March Akis Papantonis
(University of Cologne)
Literature and Biology of Affection in a Story Set in Oxford
A presentation on the novella Καρυότυπος (Athens, 2014), by the author, Akis Papantonis, in conversation with Petros Ligoxygakis and Dimitris Papanikolaou

All welcome

Seminars are held at 5 p.m.
ground floor lecture room
47 Wellington Square
Oxford OX1 2JF

The annual event "Voices from Greece" will take place at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, on Sunday 22 February 2015, from 4 pm onwards.
The theme is "Greeks in Southern Italy. From Antiquity to Modern Times: History, Dialect and Culture" and the event will end with live music of the Greeks of Calabria.
Further information on the attached poster: