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)

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."

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: FACULTY OF MODERN AND MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES: MODERN GREEK SECTION & FACULTY OF CLASSICS

These open lectures will be given at 5pm on Thursdays, in Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

2 February
Dr Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University)
'Electra as modern Greek survivor: the reception of the tragic heroine in the poetry of Yannis Ritsos'

16 February
Dr Alexander Kazamias (Coventry University)
'The Ancients and the Cold War: the political use of the classical past in post-Civil War Greece'

1 March

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: CENTRE FOR BYZANTINE, OTTOMAN AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES

The Centre's General Seminar normally meets in the Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building on Thursdays at 5.15pm, unless otherwise stated, and is open to all interested in the related concerns of the Centre.

12 January
E. Georganteli, A. Miynat, M. Saxby, M. Vrij (Birmingham)
Money and the projection of power in Byzantium and the medieval Islamic world.

26 January
Spyros Economides (London)
The relevance of Europe to Greece's foreign policy

9 February
Guillaaume Saint-Guillain (Aimens)

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: EUROPEAN INSTITUTE, HELLENIC OBSERVATORY

Policy & Research Seminar Series

The Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar series provides a forum for academic and policy research addressed mainly to student and academic audiences within London, but also to the wider Greek community.

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: CENTRE FOR HELLENIC STUDIES

The Modern Greek Seminars of the Centre for Hellenic Studies are free, open to the public and designed to be accessible to a wide audience. Seminars will be held at 5.30pm in room 2A in the Chesham Building, Strand Campus, except where noted otherwise.

Monday 30 January 2012
Mr Stephen Duckworth (London), 'Edward Lear and his Cretan drawings'

Monday 13 February 2012
Dr Rowena Fowler (Oxford), 'Greek in Joyce: Joyce in Greek'

Monday 5 March 2012

Thessaloniki 1912-2012 in History, Literature and Music
Saturday 24 March at 4pm
Lecture Theatre 1, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Victoria Hislop (author of The Island), Professor David Connolly (Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki) and Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)

Followed by music from Thessaloniki
Admission free
Further information from h.anagnostopoulou@uea.ac.uk