Postgraduate and ECR Workshop: Publishing in Modern Greek Studies
Doctoral students and Early Career Researchers are invited to apply by 20th May 2026 for a one-day workshop on publishing in Modern Greek Studies. The workshop will take place at Royal Holloway University of London, Bedford Square Building, London, on 2 June 2026, 11 am to 5 pm. It is co-organised by the Society for…
SMGS annual lecture: ‘Gendered Archive Trouble: The Case of Eva Palmer ‘Sikelianos’ by Professor Artemis Leontis
2nd June 2026, at 7:30 pm. We warmly invite you to our annual lecture, this year given by Professor Artemis Leontis C.P. Cavafy Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature and Director of the Modern Greek Program at the University of Michigan. In ‘Gendered Archive Trouble: The Case of Eva Palmer ‘Sikelianos’, Professor Leontis traces the dramatic…
2026 Graduate Research Colloquium – registration open!
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…
Call for papers: workshop ‘Belonging Across Borders: Refugee Rights, Experiences and Protection in the Twentieth Century.’
Deadline for paper submissions: 10th February 2026. The workshop will be held on 22nd June 2026, at Stewart House, London. Keynote Speaker: Emeritus Professor Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester) 2026 marks the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention–the legal cornerstone of international refugee protection. This landmark convention was the culmination of a process defining the…
Call for Papers for our Annual Graduate Research Colloquium in Modern Greek Studies
Deadline: Sunday 22 February 2026. The Society for Modern Greek studies calls on graduate students (research or taught) and early career scholars (immediate postdoctoral, 0-2 years from the end of their PhD) from universities in the UK and abroad to participate in its annual Graduate Research Colloquium, this year taking place in person at the…
2025 Annual Graduate Research Colloquium programme!
The programme is now out for the SMGS Annual Graduate Research Colloquium, which will be held on Friday 30 May at the University of Reading! You can register your attendance here, or by using the QR code below. Also below is a flyer of visitor information. We hope to see you there!
AGM of the Society, with Lecture given by Ruth Padel and Paris Papamichos Chronakis.
We invite you to our annual lecture ‘Reading and Conversation on Jews in early twentieth-century Greece,’ on 21st of May 2025, 7:30 pm at the Friends’ Room at the Hellenic Centre 16-18 Paddington Street, London (open to all). The SMGS AGM will take place at 6:30 (members only). Professor Ruth Padel, author of Daughters of…
Niki Marangou PhD Dissertation Prize (Application deadline: Tuesday 31st December 2024)
The Society for Modern Greek Studies proudly announces the 2025 Niki Marangou PhD Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation completed in Modern Greek Studies in the UK. This annual prize, now in its fourth round, recognises the lasting contributions of Niki Marangou, a Cypriot poet, novelist, and painter, to Greek letters and the arts. The…
Graduate students and ECRs! The 2025 SMGS Graduate Research Colloquium call for papers is now open!
The Society for Modern Greek Studies calls on graduate students (research or taught) and early career scholars (immediate postdoctoral, 0-2 years from the end of their PhD) from universities in the UK and abroad to participate in its annual Graduate Research Colloquium, this year held in-person at the University of Reading. Applications should be made…
Travel writers in Greece: from the 1940s to the present
How have British and American writers portrayed their travels in Greece, and why? Professor Gonda Van Steen (King’s College London), award-winning author Peter Barber, and historian of travel writing Dr David Wills consider trends and examples from the 1940s to 2024. 24th October 2024, 7pm. More information and booking available here.
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