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Oxford Modern Greek Seminar, HILARY 2020

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MODERN GREEK SEMINAR, HILARY 2020

 

Thursday 30 January: Maria Boletsi (University of Amsterdam / Leiden University) 'Οn Ghost Ships, Conjurations, and Broken Promises: C.P. Cavafy's Poetics of the Spectral'
 
Thursday 27 February: Vicky Kaisidou (University of Birmingham) '(Post)memory and political responsibility: twenty-first century novels of the Greek civil war in comparative perspective'
 
Thursday 12 March: Evie Papada (Loughborough University) 'A present denied: the politics of asylum and vulnerability in Lesbos'
 
 
All welcome
 

VOICES FROM GREECE 2020. Greek Μythology and Μodern Literature

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VOICES FROM GREECE

Saturday 14 March, 4:00 pm

Lecture Theatre 1

 

Greek Μythology and Μodern Literature

 

SPEAKERS

Vic Sage (UEA)    “Myth and Character is James Joyce’s Ulysses”

Liana Giannakopoulou (Cambridge)   “Myth and Greek Women’s Poetry”

Peter Mackridge (Oxford)     “The Geography of Myth in Modern Greek Poetry”

 

POETRY READINGS

Louis de Bernières

 

LIVE MUSIC

Performed by

 

PLASTIKES KAREKLES

 

Entrance is free. All welcome

 

https://www.uea.ac.uk/lcs/news/-/asset_publisher/IiaKX8RARGME/content/voices-from-greece-2020

A Tribute to Antonis Samarakis

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On the occasion of the 100 years since the birth of Antonis Samarakis the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports is organising an event to promote his literary work and humanist activities:

A Tribute to Antonis Samarakis

Talks by
Professor Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birmingham
"Samarakis and the Greek 1960s"

Professor Gonda van Steen, King’s College London
"Antonis Samarakis: I am only human after all"

Book launch: Greece – Biography of a Modern Nation

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Prof. Roderick Beaton will be presenting his new book, Greece – Biography of a Modern Nation, in conversation with Bruce Clark, at 7:00 pm on Thursday 14 March 2019 at The Hellenic Centre, London.

Entry is free but booking is essential. Please follow the link for further information:  http://helleniccentre.org/event/greece-biography-of-a-modern-nation/

 

 

 

 

Oxford Modern Greek Seminar: programme for Hilary Term

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17 January

NATASHA LEMOS

Common Topoi: Echoes across the National Divide in the War Literatures of Greece and Turkey

7 February

HUW HALSTEAD

(University of St Andrews)

Patrída as a Local Metaphor: Local Homelands, National Belonging,and the Expatriated Greeks of Turkey

21 February

KOSTIS KORNETIS

(University of Oxford)

Remembering the Metapolitefsi: The Inter-generational Memories of the Long Transition in Greece

7 March

NIKOLAOS PAPADOGIANNIS

(Bangor University)

Same-sex Practice in Greece and Spatial Mobility, 1960s-1980s

 

Seminars are held at 5 p.m.

Ground Floor Lecture Room

47 Wellington Square

Oxford OX1 2JF

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FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES

Subfaculty of Byzantine & Modern Greek

Voices from Greece: UEA, 23 March 2019

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The annual celebration of Greek culture at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, will take place on Saturday 23 March 2019.

This year's theme is "Greek poetry and music" and the speakers are: Roderick Beaton (King's College London), David Holton (University of Cambridge) and John Kittmer (former British Ambassador to Greece). The talks will be followed by live music: Greek poetry set to music by popular Greek composers, performed by Plastikes Karekles.

Further details in the attached poster or from h.anagnostopoulou@uea.ac.uk

Greek to Me: a memoir of academic life. A discussion with Richard Clogg

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Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies, will discuss with Professor Richard Clogg his recently published memoir  Greek to Me: a Memoir of Academic Life  (I.B. Tauris).  The discussion will be followed by questions.

Tuesday 4 December 2018 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Hosted by The Hellenic Observatory

The event will take place in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics. For more information, please visit:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/Hellenic-Observatory/Events/events-pages/2018-19/Greek-to-Me-memoir-of-academic-life/greek-to-me

A CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS FROM THE FOUNDING OF THE KORAES CHAIR

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Great Hall, King's College London
Monday, 18 June 2018, 18.00

To celebrate the centenary of the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature  distinguished experts will speak on relations between Britain and the world of Hellenism in the fields of culture, literature and history, from the time of Adamantios Koraes to the present, and prospects for the future.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Welcome by the President and Principal of King's College London, Professor Edward Byrne
Introduction by Professor Roderick Beaton (Koraes Professor 1988 - 2018)
Introduction by the Chairman of the Anglo-Hellenic League, Mr John Kittmer (former UK Ambassador to Athens)
Presentation of the Katie Lentakis Prize for 2018, awarded by the Anglo-Hellenic League to a final-year student of King's College London by Mr John Kittmer (former UK Ambassador to Athens)
Talks:
Professor Paschalis Kitromilides (University of Athens), Adamantios Koraes and the vision of a free society
Professor Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith (former UK Ambassador to Athens and Visiting Professor, CHS), Eleftherios Venizelos and the Koraes Chair
Professor Dame Averil Cameron (University of Oxford, founding Director of CHS), Why Byzantium matters
Vote of thanks by the Koraes Professor-designate, Professor Gonda Van Steen
Closing remarks: H.E. the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic, Mr Dimitrios Caramitsos-Tziras

Oxford Modern Greek Seminar: Hilary Term 2018

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The seminar programme for the Hilary Term is as follows:

 

25 January

 

Marissia Frangou & Philip Hager

(Canterbury Christ Church University & University of Kent)

 

Dramaturgies of Change: Greek Theatre Now

 

 

1 February

Eleni Papazoglou

(University of Thessaloniki)

 

Texts, Bodies and Moral Panics: Hofmannsthal's Electra goes to Epidaurus (2007)

 

22 February

Irene Loulakaki

(Greek Ministry of Education)

 

The Metamorphosis of the Muses in Recent Greek Poetry: Classical Reception in the Era of Postmodernism

 

26 February*

Gonda van Steen

(University of Florida)

Rewriting tragedy on a prison island: Aris Alexandrou's Antigone (1951)

 

*part of the 'Reading the Classical Past' lecture series

This seminar held at 5 p.m. First Floor Lecture Room 2, 47 Wellington Square

 

1 March

Eleftheria Ioannidou

(University of Groningen)

 

A Classical Modernity: Greek Theatre and Fascism

 

8 March

Marilena Zaroulia

(University of Winchester)

 

What Makes our Motherland? Performing Greece (in crisis) at the National Theatre

 

 

FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES

Subfaculty of Byzantine & modern greek

http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/greek

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Since 2015 the Greek Seminar has been generously supported by an A. S. Onassis Foundation special grant

VOICES FROM GREECE

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Greek Literature in Visual Arts & Music

University of East Anglia

Saturday, 3 March, 4.00 pm, Lecture Theatre 1

 

Part 1     SPEAKERS

Roderick Beaton (King’s College London) :  Introduction

Liana Giannakopoulou (Cambridge): “Words into Images: The case of N.Engonopoulos and Y. Halepas” 

Eleni Papargyriou (Hellenic Open University): “C. P. Cavafy and Painting”

Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford) : “Retelling as a community: Remarks from the archive of Modern Greek adaptations”

 

Part 2       LIVE MUSIC

Greek poetry set to music by M. Theodorakis, M.Hatzidakis, I.Andriopoulos, D.Moutsis, Y.Markopoulos

Performed by        PLASTIKES KAREKLES

Entrance  Free,  All Welcome

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