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CCGS Director receives Professorship

We are delighted to announce that CCGS Director Ioanna Sitaridou has been appointed Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics.Professor Sitaridou graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1997 with a BA in French Philology and after achieving a MA in Linguistics from University College, London in 1998, she went on to receive a P…
Greek Dialogues Online - Ancient Greek myth in the poetry of Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke: challenging tradition

In November's Greek Dialogues Online seminar, Dr Liana Giannakopoulou (Cambridge and CCGS) explores the work of Greek poet Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, with reference to her use of ancient Greek myth, specifically her revision of the figure of Iphigeneia. Liana discusses the relationship of Anghelaki-Rooke’s poetry with feminist writing, but…
The British School at Athens to hold "landmark" workshop - “The Greek language after Antiquity: recent research and future directions in historical linguistics”
Greek Dialogues Online - “We are all Greeks”: Philhellenism, Shelley’s Hellas and the Faces of Modern Greece

For our last GDO of 2021, we are joined by Dr. Jennifer Wallace (Cambridge) who examines popular depictions and expression of philhellenism before and during the Greek Revolution in the British magazines of the day, and compares them with the tragic challenge of Shelley’s play, "Hellas." Shelley’s preface to his poetic drama, written 200 …
The Embassy of Greece in London to host opening of the exhibition, "History has a Face"

To mark both Oxi Day (when Greek premier Metaxas rejected proposals from the Axis powers in 1940) and the Bicentenary of the Greek Revolution, the Embassy of Greece in London is hosting the launch of the Exhibition “History has a Face”.The event will feature presentations by a number of modern-day philhellenes including CCGS member Dr Jennifer Wal…
Dr Philippa Steele is the Latest Cambridge Academic to be honoured in Lego

Dr Pippa Steele (Cambridge), who presented her research into early writing systems as part of our GDO series, becomes the latest Cambridge Academic to be honoured in Lego.
Greek Dialogues - British and other philhellenes in the Greek Revolution during the 1820s

Date: Tuesday, 30th November, 2021 - 17:00h GMT Event location: Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, 26-27 Magdalene Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AF Also streaming online: see below Greek Dialogues returns as a live event with this fascinating seminar from distinguished Cambridge alumnus, Professor Roderick Beaton…
Greek Dialogues Online 21IN21 - The Greek War of Independence in the Visual Arts and Literature

Date: Friday, 22nd October, 2021 - 18:00h BST Event location: Online - see below A Greek Dialogues Online Special Seminar in collaboration with 21IN21 to celebrate the bicentenary of Greek Independence. This seminar, moderated by Liana Giannakopoulou (Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies and Faculty of Modern and…
Greek Dialogues Online - Daughters of the Labyrinth: from Chania's Synagogue to Perspectives on Layers of Crete's Past

Professor Ruth Padel (King's College, London) explores the interplay of cultures within cultures through an examination of the Jewish community on Crete. Using her latest novel, "Daughters of the Labyrinth," as a starting point, Prof. Padel highlights the cultural and historical impacts of interactions between between the predominantly…
The Weird Wave of Greek Cinema: a Movement or a Moment? - a talk by Dr Marios Psaras

‘Is it just coincidence that the world’s most messed-up country is making the world’s most messed-up cinema?’ wonders The Guardian journalist Steve Rose in his article ‘Attenberg, Dogtooth and the Weird Wave of Greek Cinema’, asking whether ‘the brilliantly strange films of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari [are] a product of Greece’s eco…
Material Entanglements of Writing Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus

With the return of Greek Dialogues Online in the new academic year, featuring Dr Pippa Steele's seminar on early writing systems - Greek Dialogues Online - Early writing systems and practices in Greece and beyond, Dr Steele outlines, in the following article, some theoretical aspects of the study of writing systems and practices. In this article, s…
CCGS Co-Director honoured by British Academy for outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences

We are delighted to report that Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, FBA, one of our Co-Directors, has been elected Fellow of the British Academy (BA).The British Academy is the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Founded in 1902, the Academy is a fellowship of over 1400 of world-leading scholars and researchers and acts …
Epic issues: epic poetry from the dawn of modernity
Cambridge University announces conference to mark retirement of prominent scholar - Athens: Economy & Democracy Conference

Cambridge University, the National University of Singapore, and Freiburg University, have announced an event to mark the retirement of the prominent scholar Dr. Paul Millett.Dr. Millett, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Vice-master of Downing College is bringing a long and illustrious to a close in 2022. Whilst studying both Economics and Classics a…
Greek Dialogues Online - Early writing systems and practices in Greece and beyond

Dr. Pippa Steele (Cambridge) reveals the fascinating insights arising from her research into the phenomenon of writing in and around the eastern Mediterranean during the 2nd and 1st millennia BC. The writing traditions of early Greece bear a close relationship with their cultural context, and evolve in accordance with changing social n…