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Read more at: Greek Dialogues - Anglo-Greek radio culture, 1945-1960

Greek Dialogues - Anglo-Greek radio culture, 1945-1960

Thursday, 5 March, 2026 - 17:00

Dr Persefone Antonelaki explores the BBC’s Greek-language service for Cyprus during and after the Second World War, showing how radio broadcasting became a space for literary creativity, cultural exchange, and the reimagining of ancient Greek myth within a changing Anglo-Greek world.


Read more at: Greek Dialogues - What is the sexuality of Athena?

Greek Dialogues - What is the sexuality of Athena?

Thursday, 5 February, 2026 - 17:00

Professor Susan Deacy discusses sex, sexuality, and gender in ancient Greece, using mythology to explore how these ideas were understood and debated.


Read more at: Poetry, Myth, and the Body: The Launch of Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi

Poetry, Myth, and the Body: The Launch of Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi

Friday, 14 November, 2025 - 17:00

Join poet Phoebe Giannisi and translator Brian Sneeden for the launch of Goatsong — a lyrical journey through myth, body, and transformation in Greek poetry.


Read more at: R. M. Dawkins and the British School at Athens: from archaeology to dialects and folklore

R. M. Dawkins and the British School at Athens: from archaeology to dialects and folklore

Friday, 13 March, 2026 - 14:00

A joint Colloquium by the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies and the British School at Athens will reassess the life, work, and wide-ranging legacy of Richard M. Dawkins


Read more at: Greek Dialogues - High vowel deletion and middle rising: Two of the most typical isoglosses that divide Northern from Southern Greek Dialects. Or not?

Greek Dialogues - High vowel deletion and middle rising: Two of the most typical isoglosses that divide Northern from Southern Greek Dialects. Or not?

Tuesday, 2 December, 2025 - 17:00

Professor Dimitris Papazachariou (University of Patras) re-examines the classic North–South divide in Greek dialects, revealing how new acoustic data challenge long-held linguistic boundaries.


Read more at: Greek Dialogues - A new verse-inscription from Teos: Anacreon on stone?

Greek Dialogues - A new verse-inscription from Teos: Anacreon on stone?

Tuesday, 4 November, 2025 - 17:00

Professor Andrej Petrovic presents a newly discovered verse-inscription from late Archaic Teos that sheds fresh light on Anacreon and the interplay between poetry, inscription, and performance.


Read more at: Greek Dialogues - From Women’s Catalogues to Dramatis Persona: Exploring the figure of Danae and female “folk” performance in ancient Greek poetry

Greek Dialogues - From Women’s Catalogues to Dramatis Persona: Exploring the figure of Danae and female “folk” performance in ancient Greek poetry

Thursday, 30 October, 2025 - 17:00

Dr Andromache Karanika examines the figure of Danaë across myth, poetry, and performance, exploring how her shifting portrayals illuminate the interplay between maternal voice, genre, and Greek theatrical tradition.


Read more at: Greek Dialogues - Greek language in interwar Greece: a reproduction of social and cultural inequalities

Greek Dialogues - Greek language in interwar Greece: a reproduction of social and cultural inequalities

Tuesday, 27 May, 2025 - 17:00

Professor Georgios Kritikos (Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellow and Harokopio University, Attica) explores the role of demotic Greek in shaping national identity, social integration of the Greek diaspora in interwar Asia Minor.


Read more at: Greek Dialogues - Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts

Greek Dialogues - Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts

Friday, 9 May, 2025 - 17:00

Prof Roberta Mazza discusses academic complicity in illegal papyrus trafficking, explored in her book Stolen Fragments, with a panel of experts


Read more at: Greek Dialogues - Intimacy and Diversity in Classical Collecting

Greek Dialogues - Intimacy and Diversity in Classical Collecting

Tuesday, 6 May, 2025 - 17:00

Dr. Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis uncovers the hidden histories of classical collecting within a 19th-century British-Levantine family.