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.

2 February
Dr Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University)
'Electra as modern Greek survivor: the reception of the tragic heroine in the poetry of Yannis Ritsos'

16 February
Dr Alexander Kazamias (Coventry University)
'The Ancients and the Cold War: the political use of the classical past in post-Civil War Greece'

1 March
Dr Klearchos A. Kyriakides (University of Hertfordshire)
'Pleading for justice, voicing dissent and dancing around the law in post-1922 Greece'

8 March
Prof Maria Kakavoulia (Panteion University, Athens)
'Second-person narrative in 19th- and 20th-century Greek literature'

Contacts:
Prof David Holton (dwh11@cam.ac.uk)

Secretary of the Modern Greek section:
Mrs Nan Taplin (moderngreek@mml.cam.ac.uk)