Oxford Modern Greek Seminars: Winter 2012
TIME/DAY: 5pm on Thursdays
VENUE: Ground Floor Lecture Room, 47 Wellington Square
Open to all
Convener: Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou
9th February (4th week)
Dr Alexander Kazamias (Coventry)
'With Plato in NATO: The political uses of antiquity in the discourse of
Ethnikofrosyni'.
16th February (5th week)
Screening: Reconstruction (1970) by Theo Angelopoulos; presented by Dr Erato
Basea.
Followed by round-table discussion on the work of the late director.
23rd February (6th week)
Dr Elias Dinas (Oxford)
'The historical roots of ideological perceptions: How the right ceased to be
wrong in post-1974 Greece'
1st March (7th week)
Screening: Attenberg (2010) by Athina Rachel Tsangaris; presented by
Dimitris Papanikolaou.
Followed by discussion.
8th March (8th week)
Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Oxford)
'Guns and grammars, or the remarkable adventures of Romanos Nikiforou'
