Modern Greek Seminars
This term’s seminars will be held at 17.30 in room 2A in the Chesham Building, Strand Campus, except where noted otherwise.
Directions to the Chesham Building:
to get to room 2A in the Chesham Building – Head to the end of the main corridor in the King’s building. Turn left as you approach the large staircase, heading towards Macadam Building, follow the corridor then turn left and go down stairs into Macadam Building. Turn right then left into the Terrace (you will see Chesham Building signposted). Go straight through the Terrace and continue down the steps into Chesham Building. Turn left and head down the stairs, then left through the door and down the next stairs – take care on the stairs and they are a little uneven. Room 2A is directly across the hallway.
Semester 2
Monday 13 February 2012
Dr Rowena Fowler (Oxford), Greek in Joyce: Joyce in Greek
Monday 5 March 2012
Professor Georgia Farinou-Malamatari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Alexandros Papadiamantis and New Woman Fiction: His translation of Sarah Grand's, "The Heavenly Twins"
Monday 19 March 2012
Sappho Xenakis (Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions (CESDIP), Paris) 'State and Public Punitiveness in Contemporary Greece'
Past seminars:
Monday 10 October 2011
Professor Roderick Beaton (King’s College London):
Re-imagining Greek antiquity in 1821: Shelley’s Hellas in its literary and political context
Monday 24 October 2011
Peter Mackridge (Oxford/Kings): Theatre in the Colonels’ Greece: impressions of an eye-witness
Monday 14 November 2011
Niketas Siniossoglou (King’s): Hellenic identity: essentialist and anti-essentialist approaches
Monday 28 November 2011
Klearchos Kyriakides (University of Hertfordshire), The rule of law and ethics in contemporary Greece
Monday 12 December 2011
James Pettifer (Oxford), 'W.M.Leake in Epirus 1804-1809 - Espionage and Text'
Monday 30 January 2012
Mr Stephen Duckworth (London), Edward Lear and his Cretan drawings