David Ricks' Inaugural Lecture: Cavafy's quarrel with Tennyson 21/05/2013 (18:00-19:30)
Location: Safra Lecture Theatre (Ground Floor), Strand Campus, King's College London
Free to attend but booking is required via eventbrite.
For any further enquiries email us: ahri@kcl.ac.uk
SMGS 2013 Graduate Research Colloquium, Tuesday 4 June, Oxford
Tuesday 4 June, 9.45 am -4.30 pm
Venue: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford
C P CAVAFY THE LONG ROAD TO ITHACA - 26/04/2013 (11:00-18:00)
C P CAVAFY THE LONG ROAD TO ITHACA 26/04/2013 (11:00-18:00)
A symposium on C. P. Cavafy to mark 150 years from the poet's birth
Morning session, 11.00-13.00
'Current perspectives on Cavafy': PhD Colloquium. Introduced and presented by graduate students of King's College London
Chair: Professor David Ricks
Nikolas Kakkoufa, ‘Palamas and Cavafy: a comparative approach’
Nicoletta Hadjipavlou, ‘Kyriacos Charalambides: reconstructing the past in a Cavafian manner’
Save the Date: 4-6 September, Byzantium and British Heritage: Byzantine influences on the Art & Crafts Movement
Byzantium and British Heritage: Byzantine influences on the Art & Crafts Movement
A conference organised by the British School at Athens in conjunction with
the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London
4-6 September, 2013 in the Safra Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s College London (with possible one-day excursion on Saturday, 7th September).
Academic Administrator Hellenic Studies, NYU
The A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies is seeking an Academic Administrator to govern services involving faculty, students, and administration for the Hellenic Studies Program; advise students on program offerings and requirements; implement Hellenic Studies policies and procedures; develop and maintain department website; manage the Program's budget, including grant accounts; prepare annual and interim reports, analyze trends, and projections; and coordinate large events for the department.
Princeton International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies May 10 2013
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
http://www.princeton.edu/hellenic/
International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies
Robert Browning Memorial Fund Graduate Scholarship in Hellenic Studies at King’s College London
Robert Browning Memorial Fund Graduate Scholarship, King’s College London
The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London is pleased to announce the award of one new Graduate Scholarship from the Robert Browning Memorial Fund, tenable for up to 3 years from September 2013. This fund has been created substantially thanks to the generosity of the Ministry of Education & Culture of the Republic of Cyprus.
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.
Greece / Precarious/ Europe: Culture and Crisis Saturday 16 February, 10.00am-6.30pm
Greece / Precarious/ Europe: Culture and Crisis
Saturday 16 February, 10.00am-6.30pm
The Hellenic Centre, London, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS
Postgraduate Studentships in Modern Greek Studies 2013-2014, University of Birmingham
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTIQUITY
CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE, OTTOMAN AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES
Postgraduate Studentships in Modern Greek Studies 2013-2014
Contemporary Greek Film Cultures Conference, London Hellenic Centre, 5-6 July 2013
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).
MA studentships at King's College London
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
Ε΄ Συνέδριο της Ευρωπαϊκής Εταιρείας Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών
Θεσσαλονίκη, 2-5 Οκτωβρίου 2014
www.eens.org
ΙΔ΄ Επιστημονική Συνάντηση Τομέα Μεσαιωνικών και Νέων Ελληνικών Σπουδών ΑΠΘ
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
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
The Peter Loizos Memorial Lecture: 'Being Between: Thinking with Peter Loizos’ Legacy'
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.
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.
Centre for Hellenic Studies Public Events
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
Centre for Hellenic Studies Public Events
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
CBOMGS postgraduate colloquium at the University of Birmingham, 25 May 2013
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”.
Modern Greek Lecture Series at the University of Cambridge: Lent and Easter 2013
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)
MGSA Symposium 2013
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 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
Κάμπος: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek (2012)
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
Sounds of the Greek World and Beyond: The travel writing of Patrick Leigh Fermor
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.
Greece in Translation, University of Oxford 5–6 October 2012
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
Modern Greek Lecture Series at the University of Cambridge: Michaelmas 2012
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):
Hellenic Observatory: Events, Autumn 2012
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.
Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies: Autumn Seminars 2012
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
