The Durrell School of Corfu (http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org) is hosting a week-long "seminar" (conference), on "Cultural Collisions: Culture, Society and the State", 31 May to 5 June 2009. The seminar will be based in the Durrell School's Headquarters in the old centre of Corfu town. The topic allows plenty of scope for submissions on Modern Greek themes. For general information about the Durrell School go to http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org.

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):

MGSA 2009, the twenty-first biennial international symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association, will take place October 15-17, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada, and will be coordinated by the Hellenic Studies Program at Simon Fraser University (http://www.sfu.ca/hellenic-studies/).

The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity

Selwyn College, Cambridge

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 is available here. Here is some further practical information.

Registration:

Applications are being accepted for an instructor’s position in Modern Greek Studies for the Fall 2008 or the Spring of 2009. We are seeking doctoral candidates or holders of a PhD who specialize in the teaching of Modern Greek language, literature and/or history to teach at least one course in these aforementioned areas in the Modern Greek Studies Program at San Francisco State University.

The Society for Modern Greek Studies

has the pleasure of inviting all those interested in the culture of the Greek-speaking world to the festive and inaugural part of its first Annual General Meeting, which will be held on Saturday 28 June 2008 at 4.30 p.m. in King’s College London.

2.30 p.m. Inaugural AGM of SMGS (for members only) (the exact location of this meeting in KCL will be circulated nearer the time)

This will be followed by a Public meeting in the Edmund J. Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTIQUITY

CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE, OTTOMAN AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES
Postgraduate Studentships in Modern Greek Studies 2008-9

Narrative research is frequently described as a diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they tend to be autobiographical and elicited in interviews. This book sets out to carve out a space alongside this narrative canon for stories that have not made it to the mainstream of narrative and identity analysis, yet they abound as well as being crucial sites of subjectivity in everyday interactional contexts.

The University of Reading will be running its first Summer School in Modern Greek from 30th June to 5th July 2008.

Classes will be offered at two levels, Beginners and Intermediate, and will occupy 3-4 hours per day. No prior knowledge is needed for the Beginners' level.

All are welcome. Accommodation is available on campus for those who would like it. A number of bursaries to assist with costs is available through the generosity of SMGS (formerly SCOMGIU).

Further information, and application forms, can be found at: