Reading Hellenic relations
This event is part of St Andrews Greek Week, a celebration of Greek Culture organised by the academic community at the University of St Andrews.
Programme
9am to 10am: Arrival and introduction (hybrid)
10am to 11am: Session 1 (hybrid)
Professor Vassiliki Kolocotroni: ‘Eleftherios Venizelos and Compton Mackenzie at Glasgow, or Ancient Universities and Great Ideas: A Counterfactual Approach'
Dr Lenia Kouneni: ‘Greek Art 3000 B.C.–A.D. 1938: Exhibiting Continuity in Wartime'
11am to 11.20am: Break
11.20am to 12.20pm: Session 2 (hybrid)
Professor Georgia Gotsi: 'The Nation's Letters: Writing Modern Greek Literary History Through the Grammar Book'
Professor David Ricks: 'Classics, Modern Greek, and Translation: A Complicated Relationship'
12.30pm to 1.30pm: University Special Collections visit (in person only, Napier Room, Martyr's Kirk)
Opportunity to view the papers of Antonios N. Jannaris, the first lecturer in Post-Classical and Modern Greek in Britain (University of St Andrews, 1896-1903).
1.30pm to 2.30pm: Lunch
2.30pm to 3.30pm: Session 3 (hybrid)
Professor Gonda Van Steen: ‘Greece at the Turning Point: When Geopolitics and Soft Power Meet in Post-War Greece'
Professor Aristides Hatzis: ‘Alexandros Mavrokordatos and Constitutionalism: A Complex Relationship'
3.30pm to 4pm: Break
The introduction and sessions 1, 2 and 3 are hybrid. All sessions take place in the Lapworth Room (Irvine Building) unless otherwise stated.
Booking
Free event. All welcome. Book for workshop.