Registration is now open for the 2026 SMGS Graduate Research Colloquium in Modern Greek Studies, which will be held on Friday 26 June 2026, 9am-5pm at the University of Reading.

You can register your attendance using either this link, or the QR code in the flyer below.  

The sessions will take place in Room G27 – Tony Watkins Lecture Theatre, Edith Morley Building, Whiteknights Campus, Shinfield Road RG6 6EL.  

As the programme shows, the colloquium will be divided into three panels, and it will include a wide range of papers on topics such as:  

• the 1897 Greek invasion of Crete 
• the ‘adventurers’ of the Prokopiou brothers in Ethiopia
• the culture wars of the 1980s Greece as interpreted by movie critics 
• German and Austrian exiles in 1930s Athens and Greek-German literary interactions
• Soviet literature in the Greek Civil War 
• school history and national identity in contemporary Greece 
• the Greek reception of Édouard Louis through the lens of family, elective kinship, and queer self-writing 
• Hellenism in the poetry of George Seferis and C.P. Cavafy 
• Greek parliamentary debates on gold standard adoption, 1875–1885 
• the political party EDA and anti-imperialist movements 

We hope to see you there!