Past Events

A two-day conference celebrating the work of renowned Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis

As the project Being an Islander: Art and Identity of the Large Mediterranean Islands draws to a close, PI Dr Anastasia Christophilpoulou reflects on its insights and successes

Dr Dawn Lavalle Norman (Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellow and Australian Catholic University) explores the often-overlooked, unique contributions of female philosophers in Ancient Greece

 Professor David Goldstein (Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellow and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, explores the development of ancient Greek dialects and the use of current analytical methods

Professor Georgia Gotsi (University of Patras and Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellow, Cambridge) examines the politics and impacts of compiling anthologies of Greek texts in 19th-century Britain

On the 100th anniversary of the 1922 war in Asia Minor, the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies and the the Academy of Athens are organizing a one-day workshop presenting recent research on Greek as spoken in Asia Minor

Professor Anna Roussou, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Patras, Greece and Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellow, asks whether the grammatical structure of the Greek language is inherently biased towards one gender. Live in Gr06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP9 and streaming online.

Dr Maria Nikolopoulou examines how prose fiction in the 1960s altered the national recollection of the 1922 Asia Minor Disaster

Dr Ivan Matijašić, Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies examines the research of Enoch Powell into Thucydides and the latter's influence on Powell's political career