2024
Anastasios Koundouris, Kalliopi Koundouri, Barbara Kondilis & Charalampos Magoulas [Art, Graffity in the City (AGC)]
→ Whose Athens? Examining Graffiti and Street Art in Athens Historic Centre
19 March 2024
Alain Daniel Alvarez Vega [University of Cologne]
→ George Seferis and Octavio Paz: Marginal Literary Traditions as Counter-Narratives to Western Modernity
6 March 2024
Panos Stathatos [independent]
→ Allegories of the Fantastic in Globalization: The Four Levels of Medieval Allegory in Ioanna Bourazopoulou’s The Guilt of Innocence
8 February 2024
Orestis Tzirtzilakis [University of Oxford]
→ Hysterical Avowal: Thanasis Veggos’ Overappropriation of a Gesture
7 February 2024
2023
Kristina Gedgaudaitė [University of Amsterdam], Dimitris Papanikolaou [University of Oxford] & Theophilos Trampoulis [National Museum of Contemporary Art]
→ From Ithageneia to Politeiotita: A Conversation on Acts of Citizenship in Greece
28 December 2023
Panagiota Vogiatzi [University of Birmingham]
→ Émile Zola’s Nana: The Greek Translation and Reception of a Challenging Sexual Discourse in the Late Nineteenth Century
20 December 2023
Dimitris Soudias [University of Groningen] & Philipp Katsinas [Queen Mary, University of London and London School of Economics]
→ Commodifying Greece’s “Happiness of the Future”
23 February 2023
Anna Papaeti [National Hellenic Research Foundation]
→ Listening Across the Green Line
31 December 2023
Sofia Dona [Munich and Athens]
→ Shapeshifting as a Passage from Ithageneia to Politeiotita
27 December 2023
Dimitris Plantzos [National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]
→ Filippos Koutsaftis’s Zakros: Communal Memories of the Past, and the Present We’d Rather Forget
15 March 2023
Panayiotis Xenophontos [University of Oxford]
→ Greek literature and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
12 February 2023
Katerina Kallivrousi [University of Amsterdam]
→ Zombies in the Crypto-Colony: Narratives of Zombification in the 'Greek Crisis'
29 December 2023
Chrystos Chrysanthopoulos [University of Patras and National Hellenic Research Foundation]
→ 'The Only Good Thing': Citizenship and Vulnerable Bodies
27 December 2023
Ernst van Alphen [Cultural Analyst] & Boris Noordenbos [University of Amsterdam]
→ On Cultural Analysis in the Study of Local Contexts
28 February 2023
Billie Mitsikakos [University of Oxford]
→ ‘Dangerous’: C. P. Cavafy and the Art of Queer Survival
8 February 2023
2022
Dimitris Plantzos [National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]
→Essentially white; or, why do looters always return to the scene of the crime
11 November 2022
Julia Tulke [University of Rochester], Eirene Efstathiou [Visual Artist]
→ Dear Documenta, 5 Years On: A Conversation with Eirene Efstathiou
10 May 2022
Charlotte Fraser [University of Amsterdam]
→From Despair to Resistance: The Politics of Dreaming in Christos Ikonomou’s “The Blood of the Onion”
10 May 2022
Konstantinos Kalantzis [University of Thessaly]
→A clash over history and/as representation
21 March 2022
Maria Boletsi [University of Amsterdam & Leiden University]
→"Sotiris, Now What’s Going to Happen to Us Without Bills?" The Elevator, the Debt, and the Rejection of Cruel Optimism
10 January 2022
Georgios Podaropoulos [Leiden University]
→Ergativity as alternative subjectivity in times of crisis: The case of Vasilis Kekatos’ As you sleep the world empties
10 January 2022
Why Rethink Modern Greek Studies Today:
Notes from the Front of Cultural Analysis
5 June 2020
The reason we decided to put together this partnership and network is quite simple: working and teaching in similar areas for years – at the intersection of modern Greek studies, comparative literature, gender theory and cultural analysis – we have become aware (sometimes painfully aware) of the challenges that the cultural and social study of the Greek world still faces...
2021
Linda Xheza [University of Amsterdam]
→"We have never been racist" / Have we ever been racist?
8 July 2021
Omaira Gill [Journalist]
→We Need to Talk About Greece: Why Acknowledging Racism Is The First Step To Fixing It
2 June 2021
Philip Hager [Canterbury Christ Church University]
→Performing Fictions of Origin in the Greek Bicentenary Celebrations
24 May 2021
Trisevgeni Bilia [University of Oxford]
→‘Unfinishing Masterpiece’: James Joyce’s Ulysses in Greece
24 May 2021
Dimitris Plantzos [National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]
→A national bicentenary, a global pandemic, and the new past
22 March 2021
Elpida Karaba [art theorist, curator]
→The Temporary Academy of Arts on Waste/d: Spectralizing ‘a space of appearance’
24 May 2021
George Ttoouli [Independent Scholar]
→‘What Greece...?’: a pluralist antidote to nationalist fervour
13 May 2021
George Mantzios [University of Toronto]
→Ain’t No Future Like the Present: Archaeologies of the future in Yorgos Zois’ Third Kind
17 April 2021
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou [Durham University]
→‘Our Intense Biopolitical Moment’: eschatological narratives and counter-cultures of resistance
22 March 2021
Paul Apostolidis [London School of Economics and Political Science]
→Labour Biopolitics and Covid-19: Lessons from Latinx Migrant Workers in the USA
22 March 2021
Douliakas, Gedgaudaitė, Russello, Faia, Mauzy, Mineur, Mademli
→Rethinking Modern Greek Studies in the 21st Century: Virtual Roundtable
22 March 2021
Alekos Lountzis, Orestis Papaioannou
→The Fall of the House of Commons
A Sci-Fi opera based on material from an ever-closer reality
24 May 2021
Gregory Jusdanis [Ohio State University]
→From Cuzco to Constantinople: A Journey through Comparison
17 April 2021
Ares Kalandides [Manchester Metropolitan University and New York University, Berlin]
→The contradictions of the nation-state: a perspective from geography
17 April 2021
Daniel M. Knight [University of St Andrews]
→Greek and Green? Eco-turn in Modern Greek Studies. The Green Economy as Solution to Chronic Crisis?
22 March 2021
Marissia Fragkou [Canterbury Christ Church University]
→Reflections on a Green Turn in Modern Greek Studies: The case for an Eco-conscious Theatre
22 March 2021
2020
Eleonora Colli [University of Oxford]
→Writing from the Margins: Yannis Ritsos’ Anti-Nationalist Myths
5 June 2020
Alexander Kazamias [Coventry University]
→‘Return to Normality’ or Crisis as the New Normal?
5 June 2020
Francesca Zaccone [University of Rome La Sapienza]
→From Greece to Sweden and back – a few notes on Theodor Kallifatides
5 June 2020
Carl Mauzy [King’s College London]
→Greece Empowered: Marshall Plan Photography and the Construction of Post-War Greek Identity
5 June 2020
Marianna Georgouli [University of Amsterdam]
→Me and the Other in (the) Crisis: A Literary Critique of Ethnic and Social Interactions within the Greek Crisis
5 June 2020
Tonia Kazakopoulou [University of Reading]
→Young Women’s Deadly Rebellions: Cultural Complacency in the Films of Yorgos Lanthimos
5 June 2020
Geli Mademli [University of Amsterdam]
→Exhibiting a Media Ecology of Crises: A Visit in the Thessaloniki Cinema Museum
5 June 2020
Claudio Russello [University of Oxford}
→Greek Culture in the 1960s - A Case of Metamodernism?
5 June 2020
Anthi Argyriou [University of Amsterdam]
→From Governmentality to Solidarity: Contemporary Art on the ‘Refugee Crisis’ and George Drivas’ Laboratory of Dilemmas
5 June 2020
Eirini Tzouma [Durham University]
→On the Outside Looking In: Coming Out, Violence and Sexuality in Modern Greece
5 June 2020
Manolis Pratsinakis [University of Oxford]
→Perspectives from Migration Studies: Rethinking Modern Greek Studies beyond Greece
5 June 2020
Georgios Tsagdis [University of Westminster / Leiden University]
→On the Elsewheres of Modern Greek Literature
5 June 2020
Tatiana Faia [University of Lisbon]
→In Crete with the Minotaur: Greece in the Poems and Letters of Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge De Sena (1965-1977)
5 June 2020
Eveline Mineur [University of Amsterdam]
→Reflections on 'Modern Greek Studies in the 21st Century'
5 June 2020
Yiorgos-Evgenios Douliakas [Leiden University]
→C.P. Cavafy and the Golden Dawn: An Archival Affair
5 June 2020
Efi Giannetopoulou and Thomais Dermati [University of Newcastle]
→Athens Calling: The Commodification of a Landscape in Crisis
5 June 2020
Alexis Radisoglou [Durham University]
→Eurozone(s): On Articulating Europe, and the Case of Greece
5 June 2020
Maria Boletsi [University of Amsterdam and University of Leiden]
Dimitris Papanikolaou [University of Oxford]
→Why Rethink Modern Greek Studies Today: Notes from the Front of Cultural Analysis
5 June 2020