Contemporary Greek Film Cultures 2013 is an international conference for the study of contemporary Greek film hosted by the Hellenic Centre in London (www.helleniccentre.org).

The Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, announces up to 4 scholarships for its MA (Master’s) programmes in Modern Greek Studies and in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, beginning in September 2013. Each scholarship has the value of £2,500 and is offered for either one year of full-time study or two years part-time.

For the full programmes of study and modules (courses) available in 2013-14 please visit

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/modules/level7/2013-4.aspx

Θεσσαλονίκη, 2-5 Οκτωβρίου 2014
www.eens.org

ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΕΙΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ
ΤΜΗΜΑ ΦΙΛΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ, ΤΟΜΕΑΣ ΜΕΣΑΙΩΝΙΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΝΕΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ

ΙΔ΄ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΗ ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗ
Ζητήματα νεοελληνικής φιλολογίας: Μετρικά, υφολογικά, κριτικά, μεταφραστικά
Μνήμη Ξ. Α. Κοκόλη

POLITICAL ACTORS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1918-1964: CYPRUS AND MALTA COMPARED

The Senate House, First Floor
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU

March 16, 2013

PROGRAMME

ASSOCIATION FOR CYPRIOT, GREEK & TURKISH AFFAIRS

Chairman: Demetris Roussounis
General Secretary: Zenon Stavrinides

The Peter Loizos Memorial Lecture

Being Between: Thinking with Peter Loizos’ Legacy

Dr Rebecca Bryant

Friday 8 March 2013 at 6.30 p.m.
London School of Economics

Please note new venue:
Lecture Room 1, Ground floor, Tower 1, Clements’ Inn
London WC2A 2AE

Chaired by Dr Jonathan Parry, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, and Peter Loizos' colleague and friend

The lecture is open and free to members of the public.

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.

Centre for Hellenic Studies Public Events

Through its regular weekly seminars, colloquia, public lectures and international conferences, the Centre for Hellenic Studies is a concentrated force for the advancement of research in all aspects of Hellenic culture.
All its activities are free, open to the public and designed to be accessible to a wide audience.
Public Events Diary 2012-13

Weekly CHS seminars in Late Antique & Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Studies take place on Tuesdays at 17.30
Small Committee Room - K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus

Public Events Diary 2012-13

Weekly CHS seminars in Late Antique & Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Studies take place on Tuesdays at 17.30
Small Committee Room - K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus

Tuesday 5 February 17.30 - 19.30
Christian Identity in the Seventh Century: the Case of Anastasios of Sinai
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A Byzantine Studies seminar with Yannis Papadogiannakis (KCL).

Thursday 7 February 18.00 - 20.00
the 22nd Annual Runciman Lecture: Constantinople: the medieval Muslim perspective
Great Hall, King's Building, Strand Campus

Identity – Inspiration – Creation – Legacy 300­‐2012: CBOMGS 14th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium, 25 May 2013

Papers are invited for the 14th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, which will convene on 25th May 2013.

This colloquium aims at exploring the theme of “the individual and the society”.

A special series of six lectures on the Cretan romance Erotokritos, by Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553-1613/14), to be given by Cambridge alumni, to mark the 300th anniversary of the work’s first publication

5.00 pm on Thursdays, Room 2, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue

7 February
Dr Marina Rodosthenous (University of Nicosia)
“Erotokritos and the Cypriot Canzoniere”
14 February
Dr Tina Lendari (University of Athens)
“Beauty and desire in Erotokritos”
21 February
Dr Tasoula Markomihelaki-Mintzas (University of Thessaloniki)

23rd biennial conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association November 14-16, 2013 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana

For detailed call for papers and information about the conference and submission process see the MGSA Symposium 2013 website:
http://mgsasymposium.org/

(ALL submissions must be made ELECTRONICALLY by website. Note that this is a new procedure and website).

Hosted by the Modern Greek Program and West European Studies at Indiana University.

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 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

Κάμπος: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek (2012)

Volume 19 (2012) is now available. It includes articles by Roderick Beaton on Byron and the politics of the Greek Revolution, Robert Holland on Anglo-Greek relations during and after WWII, and Alexander Kazamias on the discourse of German Idealism in post-Civil War Greece, as well as news about Modern Greek studies at Cambridge.

For further details and an order form, see Modern Greek Section - Kambos

A COMMEMORATION BY THE SOCIETY FOR MODERN GREEK STUDIES AND THE CENTRE FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

Venue: Anatomy Theatre, King's College London, Strand Campus, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Date and time: Tuesday 20 November 2012, 6.30pm followed by a reception in the Anatomy Museum from 8.15pm

This event will celebrate the travel-writing of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), author and Hellenist.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Sub-faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek

Greece in Translation

Friday 5 - Saturday 6 October 2012
Venue: Taylor Institution, Oxford

DRAFT PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER 2012

09.00-09.30 Registration

ROOM 2

09.30-10.0
Simos P. Grammenidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
"Practical trends and theoretical issues in mediating Greek culture to English"

10.00-10.30
Maila García Amorós
Universidad de Granada

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: FACULTY OF MODERN AND MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES: MODERN GREEK SECTION & FACULTY OF CLASSICS

These open lectures will be given at 5pm on Thursdays, in Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

25 October
Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford):
"Guns and grammars, or the remarkable adventures of Romanos Nikiforou"

8 November
Dr Anthony Hirst (The Durrell School of Corfu):
“Gods refusing to die: from Plutarch to Pound, via Wilde, Cavafy, Palamas and Seferis”

15 November
Professor Stephanos Pesmazoglou (Panteio University, Athens):

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: EUROPEAN INSTITUTE, HELLENIC OBSERVATORY

Policy & Research Seminar Series

The Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar series provides a forum for academic and policy research addressed mainly to student and academic audiences within London, but also to the wider Greek community. Topics cover mainly current economic, public policy and foreign policy issues related to Greece, Cyprus and southeast Europe region but also extent to topics on culture and history.

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE, OTTOMAN AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES

The Centre's General Seminar normally meets in the Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building on Thursdays at 5.15pm, unless otherwise stated, and is open to all interested in the related concerns of the Centre.

11 Oct
TRAVELLERS’ TALES
Students of the Centre
Followed by CENTRE PARTY

25 Oct
ALEXANDER PANAYOTOV and GETHIN REES (Cambridge)
Putting the Jewish communities of Byzantium on the map: a geographical information systems approach to minority history

15 Nov