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CONFERENCE From 7 December, 2012 to 9 December, 2012 The Modern Greek Studies Association of Australian and New Zealand and The Department of Modern Greek Studies, University of Sydney 11th Biennial Conference: Crisis, Criticism and Critique in Contemporary Greek Studies CONFERENCE PROGRAM UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Thursday 6 December 2012 6.00-7.30 - OPENING AT THE NICHOLSON MUSEUM MAIN SPEAKER: Professor George Leontsinis Brief Celebration of the Life and Work of Professor Manuel Aroney Friday 7 December 2012 NEW LAW BUILDING ROOM 104 Registration 9.00 am SESSION 1 Each paper should be around 20 minutes allowing 10 minute discussion at the end Chair: Dr Panayota Nazou 09.30-10.00 Dr Stavroula Nikoloudis (University of Melbourne), Commemorating the Decipherment of Linear B 10.00-10.30 Dr Maria Zarimis (University of New South Wales), Language and Culture: The Greek Perspective 10.30-11.00 Dr Maria Palaktsoglou, Mr Antonios Litinas, Mrs Cecily Wright, (Flinders University) Towards a Model for Online Deliver of Modern Greek 11.00-11.30 Dr Erma Vassiliou (Australian National University), Language Change in Byzantine Greek: examples from the texts of Annna Comnena‟s Alexiad COFFEE BREAK - 11.00-12.00 Key Note Address Chair: Vrasidas Karalis 12.00- 13.00 pm Professor Andrew Horton (University of Oklahoma): Theo Angelopoulos and the Cinema of Contemplation Lunch break - 13.00-14.00 SESSION 2 Chair: George Leontsinis 14.00-14.30 Associate Professor Nicholas Doumanis (University of New South Wales): Intercommunality: Theory and Practice of everyday coexistence in the Late Ottoman Anatolia before 1912 14.30-15.00 Dr Johanna Hyslop, A Brief and Personal Account: the evidence of rev. Charles Dobson on the Destruction of the city of Smyrna in September 1922 15.00-15.30 Dr Panayiotis Diamadis, (University of Technology) „THAT was a CRISIS!‟: How Hellenism dealt with the aftermath of the Asia Minor Catastrophe COFFEE BREAK - 15.30-15.45 SESSION 3 Chair: Michael Tsianikas 15.45-16.15 Dr Steven Van Renterghem (University of Ghent), Political Immobilism and Hellenism 16.15-16.45 Maria Shialis (Flinders University) Footprints through History: The Greek Cypriot Foundations in South Australia 16.45-17.15 John Yannakis (Curtin University), ANZACS and the AEGEAN: Addressing the Lemnos Heritage of Gallipoli and the Forgotten Foundations of Anzacs 1915-1918 17.15-17.45 Martyn Brown (University of Queensland) END OF DAY ONE BOOK LAUNCH Nikos Athanasou: The Person of the Man (novel) Published by Brandl and Schlesinger, Sydney 2012 To be launch by Vrasidas Karalis 6-8pm CCANESSA Saturday 8 December 2012 NEW LAW BUILDING ROOM 104 SESSION 4 Chair: Dr Eleni Leontsinis 9.30-10.00 Dr Dimitris Paivanas (Babel Language Centre, Athens) Blindness to Parody, National Crisis in Thanassis Valtinos‟ novel Three Greek One Act Plays 10.00-10.30 Dr Patricia Kokkori, (Panteion University, Athens) Crisis & Humour in Contemporary Greek Dramaturgy 10.30-11.00 Dr Gonda Van Steen (University of Florida), Pathways to Critical Self-Reflection: Aris Alexandrou‟s Antigone (1951) 11.00-11.30 Dr Tatjana Aleksic (University of Michigan), Performing the real of History COFFEE BREAK - 11.30-12.00 KEY-NOTE ADDRESS Chair: Anthony Dracopoulos 12.00-13.00 Dr Dimitris Papanikolau (University of Oxford) Archive Trouble: Cultural responses to the Greek crisis LUNCH BREAK - 13.00-14.00 SESSION 5 Chair: Maria Palaktsoglou 14.00-14.30 Dr Eleni Leontsini (University of Ioannina) Making Sacrifices for the Greater Good: The Use and Abuse of Utilitarian Arguments in the Current Greek Fiscal Crisis" 14.30-15.00 Kathryn Koromilas (University of Adelaide) Greece: Crisis, crime and crime writing 15.00-15.30 Jorge Sotirios, Travel Writing during calm and crisis COFFEE BREAK - 15.30-15.45 SESSION 6 Chair: Elizabeth Kefallinos 15.45-16.15 Dr Ian Cambell, Pablo Neruda‟s Canto General Musical Adaptation, creation and Performance by Mikis Theodorakis 16.15-16.45 Dr Areti Devetzidis (Flinders University) Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugene Delacroix, French Triumph Hellenic Disaster 16.45-17.15 Leonard Janiszweski and Effy Alexakis (Maquarrie University) Breaking the Silence: Aphrodite Speaks, Greek Female Voices of Australia‟s Greek cafes 17.15-17.45 Cheryl Simpson, (Flinders University) Greek Heritage and the Meaning of Textiles BRIEF BREAK - 17.45-18.00 18.00-20.00 Screening the film version of Konstantine Koukias‟ opera Waiting for the Barbarians (58 min) Discussion with the composer OFFICIAL DINNER OF THE CONFERENCE (venue to be announced) Sunday 9 December 2012 NEW LAW BUILDING ROOM 104 SESSION 7 Chair: Patricia Kokkori 09.30-10.00 Dr Nick Trakakis (Australian Catholic University), Tasos Leivaditis, Blind Man with the Lamp 10.00-10.30 Professor Michael Tsianikas (Flinders University), Μετεξελίξεις του Ποιητικού υποκειμένου 10.30-11.00 Dr Petro Alexiou (Maquarrie University) Crisis and Everyday Life: reading Alekos Doukas‟ Letters (1921-1962) 11.00-11.30 Helen Goritsas “Η Oικογένεια” The Family: A Greek Obsession in Lanthimos‟ Dogtooth (2009) COFFEE BREAK - 11.30-11.45 SESSION 8 Chair: Dimitris Paivanas 11.45-12.15 Prof. George Leontsinis (University of Athens) The Sinking of Warship HMS Cloucester (22 May 1941) Kythera, Anthikythera and the battle of Crete 12.15-12.45 Mr Peter Prineas, Money, Sovereignty and the Modern Greek State. 12.45-13.15 Maria Palaktsoglou, (Flinders University) Greek migrant women in Australia‟s domestic service LUNCH BREAK - 13.15-14.00 SESSION 9 Chair: Vrasidas Karalis 14.00-14.30 Prof, Athanasia Leontsinis (University of Athens) Orientalism in modern Greek art 14.30-15.00 Dr George Couvalis, (Flinders University) David Hume‟s Lucianic Thanatotherapy COFFEE BREAK - 15.00-15.15 SESSION 10 Chair: Panayota Nazou 15.15-15.45 Dr Elizabeth Kefallinos (Maquarrie University) (TBA) 15.45-16.15 Mersina Tonys-Soulos (Maquarrie University) The Lighthouse: a journey into Anglicanism. 16.15-17.00 DISCUSSION ABOUT CRISIS IN MODERN GREEK STUDIES END OF CONFERENCE 17.15-18.00 - GENERAL MEETING OF MGSAANZ--ELECTIONS Contact: Associate Professor Vrasidas Karalis Email: Contact Vrasidas Karalis
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