This talk represents a part of Dr Lemos’s broader collaboration with Dr Aikaterini Boura on a book project studying Greek and Turkish literary encounters, which will be published by the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

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Dr Lemos earned a PhD degree from SOAS, studying the literatures of Greece and Turkey inspired by the war of 1919-1922 and its aftermath. She has published widely on this subject and has also co-edited, with Eleni Yannakakis, a collection of essays titled Critical Times Critical Thoughts: Contemporary Greek Writers Discuss Facts and Fiction, in which leading Greek writers reflect on the crisis and its background. Dr Lemos is currently revising her dissertation for publication and exploring new sources, some unpublished, that are relevant to her subject. She has also contributed to major exhibitions in Greece (at the Benaki Museum and the Gennadius Library of the ASCSA) and to an activist campaign to prevent the installation of an illegal hydroelectric plant in a protected area of the Pindus National Park.