The annual Graduate Research Colloquium of the Society for Modern Greek Studies, will be hosted by the University of Birmingham on Thursday 12 June 2014 (Lecture Room 1, Arts Building). The registration form is attached below.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
11.00-13.00 Session 1 Chair: TBA
Georgia Tsatsani (University of Birmingham), The Modern Greek translations of Jean-Baptiste Racine during the nineteenth century: Antiquity, independence and cosmopolitanism
Panagiotis Petridis (University of Birmingham), Alexandros R. Rangavis’ The Lord of Morea: Fiction and Diplomacy
Georgia Kouta (King’s College London), A diasporic discourse on Irredentism: Anglo-Hellenic League’s propaganda regarding the ‘Megali Idea’
Maria Rizou (King’s College London), The loans of the National Bank of Greece to the Greek refugees from Romania and Bulgaria (1917-1920)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.15 Session 2 Chair: TBA
Ioanna Skordi, (King’s College London), «με την ιερή που Σ’ το θρεψε Πλατωνική μανία»: the case of Angelos Sikelianos
Ioannis Stamos (University of Birmingham), Aristos Kambanis (1883-1956) and To Neon Kratos
Jessica Kourniakti (University of Oxford), Alexander the Great in education under the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-1973)
Klairi Angelou (University of Bristol), Modern Greek sculpture: in quest of a national and international identity (as seen through the work of Jeanne Spiteris-Veropoulou, 1920-2000)
Varvara Mystaka, (University of Oxford) Reclaiming the Artist: The viewing of Jiannis Kounelli’s art by the Modern Greek audience.
16.15-16.30 Tea & Coffee
16.30-18.30 Session 3 Chair TBA
Dimitris Kalantzopoulos (King’s College London), The creation of a new political space in colonial Cyprus: KKK and AKEL, 1931-1950
Nicoletta Hadjipavlou (King’s College London), From a World War to an Armed Struggle: representations of British Colonial rule in the poetry of Costas Montis
Aglaia Despoina Giannakou (University of Birmingham), Spyros Plaskovitis’ The Dam and Vassilis Vassilikos’ The Leaf: characterization and the Kafkaesque atmosphere
Spyridon Chairetis (University of Oxford), Between Victimhood and (Queer) Resistance: Exploring the Representation of Male Homosexuality in Οι Απαράδεκτοι
Registration forms should be returned by 25 MAY to:
Professor Dimitris Tziovas
Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology
Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: 0121-4145769
Fax: 0121-4143595
E-mail: d.p.tziovas@bham.ac.uk
The Society is grateful to the Hellenic Foundation for a grant to support this Colloquium.
