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:

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”

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.