These open lectures will be given at 5.00 p.m. on Thursdays, in Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.
MICHAELMAS TERM 2012
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"
24 November
Dr Polina Tambakaki (King's College London):
"Language and music, national identity and Orthodoxy: the 'Destitute Dervish' by Alexandros Papadiamantis"
LENT AND EASTER TERMS 2013
A series of six lectures on the Cretan romance Erotokritos, by Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553-1613/14), to mark the 300th anniversary of its first publication
7 February
Dr Marina Rodosthenous (University of Nicosia):
"Erotokritos and the Cypriot Canzoniere"
14 February
Dr Tina Lendari (University of Athens):
"Beauty and desire in Erotokritos"
21 February
Dr Tasoula Markomihelaki-Mintzas (University of Thessaloniki):
"The poetics of plants in Erotokritos and Panoria"
28 February
Dr Tassos A. Kaplanis (University of Cyprus):
"From text to image: Erotokritos illustrated (18th-20th centuries)"
7 March
Dr Natalia Deliyannaki:
"Kornaros's Erofili"
2 May
Dr Alfred Vincent (University of Sydney):
"Myth-history: Venice, Crete and Erotokritos"