5 July 2007

Graduate Research Colloquium in Modern Greek Studies

Organised by King's College, London & SCOMGIU,

10.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.

Historiography and mock-historiography

(Chaired by Professor Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birminghasm)

Stratos Myrogiannis (University of Cambridge), ‘Old wine in new bottles: the Historia tes Byzantidos (1767)’

 Foteini Lika (University of Cambridge), ‘Footnotes and prefaces: echoes of Gibbon and Macaulay in Roïdis’ Pope Joan’

11.50 a.m. – 12.50 a.m.

The place of the past in the twenty-first century

(Chaired by Professor David Holton, University of Cambridge)

Anastasia Stamoglou (University of Birmingham), ‘The canon revisited: secondary literature textbooks in the Greek educational system, 1983-2007’

Erato Bassea (University of Oxford), ‘Vizyenos adapted: his place in contemporary Greek cinema and theatre’

2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.

Writing and power

(Chaired by Dr Alexandra Georgakopoulou, King’s College London)

Christiana Mygdali (University of Oxford), ‘Literary translation and its place under the Junta: the case of Pavlos Zannas’

Eirini Kotsovili (University of Oxford), ‘Women’s writing and questions of identity in contemporary Greece: Rhea Galanaki and Maro Douka’

4 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.

Local identities

(Chaired by Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou, University of Oxford)

Asli Comu (University of Cambridge), ‘The Greeks of Ayvalik, 1770-1923’

Korina Giaxoglou (King’s College London), ‘From the performative to the memorialized: Maniat lament as narrative’

Dimitris Kitis (King’s College London), ‘Dramatizations of discourse in contemporary Greece: the case of Thessalonian discourse’

© scomgiu 2007