Past Events

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

The workshop will take place at Queens’ College, Cambridge on Friday 21st October 2022. Speakers include Prof. Roderick Beaton, Prof. David Holton, and Prof. Ioanna Sitaridou

Professor Anna Roussou, Professor of Philology at the University of Patras and Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies, discusses the grammar of complement causes

Dr Deniz Türker and Dr Elizabeth Key Fowden discuss the dynamic transference of materials, patterns, and forms present in embrioderies across the Eastern Mediterranean

Dr Marios Psaras re-evaluates landmark films that have been identified as part of the ‘weird corpus’ of contemporary Greek cinema

We regret to announce the postponement of Thursday's GDO seminar due to illness

Dr. Ioanna Manolessou (Academy of Athens) presents entertaining and fascinating insights into Tsakonian, one of the oldest and most intriguing linguistic varieties of (Modern?) Greek.