Registration information for graduate colloquium
The Graduate Research Colloquium is open to all postgraduate students who are working in any area of Modern Greek Studies, at master’s or doctoral level, at UK Universities. Visiting students from universities outside the UK are also welcome to attend. The provisional programme will be circulated by e-mail to all registered participants, about two weeks before the Colloquium.
Registration:
Graduate Research Colloquium provisional programme
Selwyn College, Cambridge, Thursday 7 June 2012
(All sessions will take place in the Chadwick Room)
10.30 Registration and Coffee
11.00-1.00 SESSION 1: Crossing languages, reviewing texts
Chair: Professor David Ricks
Maria Antonopoulou (University of Birmingham): “Exploring Kostas Varnalis’ approach to socialist realism: a comparison with Bertolt Brecht’s theory”
Nikolas Kakkoufa (King’s College London): “Greek, Diasporic or Hybrid? Issues of identity in Calas’ work”
Call for papers: Greece in Translation, Oxford 5–6 October 2012
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Sub-faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek
Call for papers
Greece in Translation
5-6 October 2012
Translation, apart from being a linguistic activity, is increasingly seen as an activity that bridges the gaps between different cultures. It is widely believed that translation modifies or preserves the perception of the other. Thus, translating as an activity and translation as the product of this activity are inseparable from culture.
The Society for Modern Greek Studies: Annual General Meeting - Oxford, Saturday 19 May, 2012
The AGM will be held on 19th May in Oxford at 3pm at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. For the open event, which will follow the AGM, our guest will be the distinguished novelist Victoria Hislop.
Author of the best-seller The Island and the recently published historical novel The Thread, Victoria Hislop will be in conversation with Dr. Anthony Hirst at 4 pm, followed by tea at 5 pm.
Lecturer in Modern Greek at University of Illinois
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
invites applications for a three-year, full-time position as Lecturer in Modern Greek
Studies with a target start date of 08/16/2012. The position is renewable each year and is contingent on funding and strong performance reviews. Renewal of the position after the third year is contingent on the level of external support generated.
PhD programmes in Modern Greek at KCL
PhD IN BYZANTINE STUDIES
PhD IN MODERN GREEK STUDIES
AT KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (2012-13)
The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London invites applications for PhD study in these fields, beginning in September 2012.
Proposals are particularly welcomed in the following areas:
• Byzantine history
• Byzantine material culture
• Nation-formation in Modern Greece
• Modern Greek literature from the twelfth century to the present
• Comparative Literature
• Greek sociolinguistics
• Digital Hellenic Studies
Funding opportunities are available:
Post-graduate programmes in Modern Greek at KCL
TAUGHT MASTERS IN MODERN GREEK LITERATURE AT KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (2012-13)
The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London invites applications for the one-year (full-time) MA in Modern Greek Studies (Literature), for entry in September 2012.
Funding opportunities are available:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/study/fund/index.aspx
Modules (courses) to be offered in 2012-13:
Taught modules
Greek modernity and the city (20 credits)
Modern Greek poetry and the epic tradition (20 credits)
A.G. Leventis Visiting Fellowship in Contemporary Greek Studies at SEESOX, Academic Year 2012/13
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
A.G. Leventis Visiting Fellowship in Contemporary Greek Studies at SEESOX, Academic Year 2012/13
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)
Gerald Durrell's Corfu
Following the great success of "Gerald Durrell's Corfu" in 2011, it is being offered again this year by the Durrell School of Corfu. The dates are 11-18 May 2012.
The organizers write:
"Spend a week as part of a small group of like-minded travellers reliving the life of naturalist Gerald Durrell and experience the island of Corfu that he so cherished. Led by experts in botany, ecology, herpetology, ornithology and environmental sciences, you can be sure to get the most out of what this beautiful Greek island has to offer."
