Gender and Identity in Contemporary Greece

Saturday 18 October, Room 2, Taylor Institution Library, St Giles Road, Oxford OX1 3NA

Programme

10.00 -10.30: Welcome and Opening Remarks

10.30-11.15: Keynote lecture by Professor Efi Avdela (University of Crete): Gender in Greek history and social sciences: unequal effects, difficult connections

11.15-11.30: Break

11.30-13.30: Subject positions/representations in Contemporary Greek Literature and Cinema (chair: TBA):

Eirini Kotsovili (University of Oxford), Representing the feminine; A closer look at the construction of lead feminine heroines in selected works of Maro Douka

Victoria Reuter (University of Oxford), Narrating Through the Body: Eugenia Fakinous “The Seventh Garment”

Achilleas Hadjikyriacou (European University Institute/University of Oxford), ‘Looking for reasons behind fiction’: contextualizing and interpreting the representations of masculinity and gender relations in Greek cinema, 1950-67 

Eirini Theodoropoulou (King`s College, University of London), Constructing Gender in Greek Popular Culture: The Case of Northern Suburban Athenian Women

13.30-14.15: Lunch:

14.15-16.15: Gender and politics: State institutions, protest movements and gender identities (chair: Peter Loizos)

Katherine Stefatos (Goldsmith`s, University of London), The Psyche and the Body: reconstructing women’s experience in the Greek Civil War as the ‘ethnic’ and ‘political’ other

Nikolaos Papadogiannis (University of Cambridge), Gender, Sexuality and Youth Politicisation in post-dictatorship Greece, 1974-81

Nayia Kamenou (LSE), National Identity and the Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Cyprus

16.15-16.30: Break

16.30- 18.30: The intersection of gender and national/religious/local identities (chair:Efi Avdela):

Anastasia Papanastasiou (University of Oxford), Hijab : A religious or a political symbol? The case of Greece

Eleni Stamou (University of Oxford), Female young Albanians’ narratives of the self: Identifications and Disidentifications in the making of the self

Elizabeth Hough (Princeton University/Oxford), Contesting Place and Identity on a Greek Island

18.30-18.45: Break

18.45-19.15: Closing Lecture by Professor Peter Loizos (LSE): Post-disaster recovery: a gendered view of some key issues