UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: FACULTY OF MODERN AND MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES: MODERN GREEK SECTION & FACULTY OF CLASSICS

These open lectures will be given at 5pm on Thursdays, in Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

25 October
Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford):
"Guns and grammars, or the remarkable adventures of Romanos Nikiforou"

8 November
Dr Anthony Hirst (The Durrell School of Corfu):
“Gods refusing to die: from Plutarch to Pound, via Wilde, Cavafy, Palamas and Seferis”

15 November
Professor Stephanos Pesmazoglou (Panteio University, Athens):
"Aspects of the Greek Crisis and their articulation within the European context"

22 November
Dr Polina Tambakaki (King’s College London):
"Language and music, national identity and Orthodoxy: the 'Destitute Dervish' by Alexandros Papadiamantis"

Contacts:
Prof David Holton (dwh11@cam.ac.uk)

Secretary of the Modern Greek section:
Mrs Nan Taplin (moderngreek@mml.cam.ac.uk)