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This section contains webinars and live events aiming to bring together scholars situated (mainly or partly) in Modern Greek studies alongside scholars in other fields. We aim at inclusivity and diversity in participants and audiences and at stimulating interdisciplinary dialogues that will take scholars outside the comfort zones of their disciplines. In each event, invited speakers from different disciplines and career stages converse with each other, in order to promote exchanges among scholars who might normally not sit around the same academic table.

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Cultural Analysis Seminars

Anafi, 22 - 25 June 2025

Members of the Greek Studies Now collective gathered in the Aegean Island of Anafi in the last week of June for the first edition of Anafi Summer School, led by Prof Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford). We worked on unpublished material and shared work in progress, while also organising exchanges with artists and academics who made invaluable guest visits.

 

Greek Studies Now: A Two-Day Programme

Oxford, 23 - 24 May 2025

Greek Studies Now celebrated its five years of collaborative research with a two-day event that reunited members of the network from the Universities of Oxford, Amsterdam, Durham, Vienna and beyond.

Modern Greek Studies in the 21st Century: Agonistic Realisms

Durham, 13 - 15 July 2023

This event was the third conference organised by the "Greek Studies Now" Cultural Analysis Network.

Greek Studies Now: Local Cases, Global Debates

Amsterdam, 15 - 17 June 2022

This event was the second conference organised by the "Greek Studies Now" Cultural Analysis Network.

Thirty Years Later: Rethinking Albanian-Greek identity

9 December 2021

Today, ethnic Albanians constitute approximately 5% of the population of Greece, with a large number of them being the children of those first-generation migrants.

The Politics of Public Memory: HIV/AIDS Activism in Greece

7 June 2021

40 years after the first HIV/AIDS diagnosis, Greek activists look back at the collective history of the fight against the disease and its political, social and cultural ramifications

“We Have Never Been Racist”: Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Greece

24 May 2021

...in light of recent public debates and with the reverberations of the Black Lives Matter protests reaching Greece as the country was preparing to celebrate its bicentenary, there is now a new urgent call to reconsider topical and longstanding legacies of race, racialization and racism at different levels.

What Greece...?

21 April 2021

We have asked a group of cultural creators – literary authors, filmmakers, comic-book writers - to submit a short video reflecting on the word, concept, idea and geopolitical, imaginary that the word “Greece” conjures for them today, in the current sociopolitical and cultural conjuncture.

Dream Nation: 200 Years On

22 March 2021

What is the role of the nation in today’s social and political landscape? What aspirations of social cohesion, equality, longevity and prosperity are expressed through the nation as both a symbolic structure and an ongoing sociopolitical project? To what extent are these aspirations disrupted and undermined, always in the name of the nation? What projects of violence, erasure and disavowal lie behind the national fantasy? How do they still haunt the national everyday? How does the nation still matter and could it also matter differently?

Art and its Histories in Contemporary Greece: Concepts, Challenges, Debates

11 February 2021

As geopolitics change and the dominance of the West is confronted with its impact on human and non-human ecosystems around the globe, a more symbiotic approach to diverse cultures, identities, beliefs and narratives in the plural is gaining ground in academia.

Our Intense Biopolitical Present: COVID and Before

21 January 2021

In this roundtable we aim to revisit the question of biopolitics - the politics over life - and to assess its contemporary relevance. In 2020 biopolitics has reemerged as a popular concept, as well as perhaps the best way to understand the COVID-19 global emergency. At the same time, biopolitics was already part of the public debate; in Greece, particularly, it was central to discussions in the last decade of constant crisis and austerity politics.

On Islands and Camps: From Leros to Lesvos

10 December 2020

Facing what many have called a 'crisis within a crisis', the islands of the eastern Aegean saw the arrival, and eventually the confinement, of thousands of refugees on their soil since 2015. Five years on, emergency hotspots accommodating refugees in many of those islands have developed into fully-fledged permanent settlements, today entangled in yet another crisis – that of covid-19.

Golden Dawn: The End of the Story?

19 November 2020

A few days after the final chapter in the historical trial of the Golden Dawn, Greece’s neo-Nazi party, has been completed with its conviction as a criminal organization, this is a moment to return to the phenomenon of its popularity and scrutinize the narrative of its rise and fall.

Greek and Green? Eco-turn in Modern Greek Studies

21 October 2020

Is it possible for the green economy to provide sustainable solutions to chronic social and economic problems? How do green programmes help people invest in visions of the future away from overarching narratives of destitution and hopelessness?...

Partnership Launch Event: ‘Modern Greek Studies in the 21st Century’

31 January – 1 February 2020

On 31 January – 1 February 2020, a two-day colloquium Modern Greek Studies in the 21st Century: Perspectives and Practices in Cultural Analysis, launched a TORCH International Partnership between the universities of Oxford and Amsterdam.