Cyprus: contact phenomena and identity
Located at the easternmost corner of southern Europe, Cyprus has been for millennia a gateway between Europe and the Middle East; it thus provides a unique case-study for our understanding of how contact phenomena shape identities.
Modern Greek Studies hosts a one-day cross-disciplinary seminar with the aim of exploring Cyprus as an area of contact.
The seminar includes presentations from scholars working with Cypriot politics, archaeology, and language from the Hellenistic-Roman period until today.
The seminar is kindly supported by the Sophia Scopetéa Foundation.
Programme
Session 1 (History and archaeology)
14:00 - 14:30 Cypriot archaeology – or how to find your place in the world
Kristina Winther-Jacobsen (Associate Professor, Saxo Institute, University
of Copenhagen, director of the Danish Institute in Athens)
14:30 - 15:00 One State, Two Histories: Imperial Past and Communal Education in
Modern Cyprus, 1878-2015
Michalis N. Michael (Assistant Professor, Department of Turkish and Middle
Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus)
15:00 - 15:10 Break
15:10 - 15:40 The emergence of the Cyprus-issue in Turkey in the 1950s
Mogens Pelt (Associate Professor, Saxo Institute, University of
Copenhagen)
15:40 - 16:10 Panel discussion
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee break
Session 2 (Language)
16:30 - 17:00 Language contact and linguistic identities in Medieval Cyprus
Theodore Markopoulos (Lecturer, Department of Philology, University of
Patras)
17:00 - 17:30 Language contact in perspective: The case of Cypriot Arabic
Marilena Karyolemou (Associate Professor, Department of Byzantine and
Modern Greek Studies, Univiversity of Cyprus)
17:30 - 18:00: Panel discussion
18:00 - 19:00 Reception hosted by the Embassy of Cyprus in Denmark
The seminar is open to the public.
Contact
Sandra Lucas, external lecturer at Modern Greek Studies, Department of Croos-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.