Thursday 23 June

Gerasimus Katsan (CUNY)
Of Anxiety and Obsolescence: Fiction, History and National Ideology After 1989​

Chair: Dimitris Tziovas

Patricia Felisa Barbeito (Brown)
"Unleashing Demons": Noir, Economic Crisis and Protest in the Work of Petros Markaris.

Maria Boletsi (Leiden)
Recasting the Past from the Future: Utopia and Middle Voice in Sotiris Dimitriou's Fiction

Vasiliki Kaisidou (Oxford)
Memories that Hurt and Console: The Representation of the Queen’s Camps in Yiannis Atzakas’s Tholos Vythos

History in Greek Fiction - author panel (public event)Moderator: Patricia Felisa Barbeito
Sophia Nikolaidou and Amanda Michalopoulou

Dinner and St John's Bonfire

Restaurant TBA

Friday 24 June

Keynote
Vangelis Calotychos (Brown)
Places, Spaces, and Races after 1989: Geocritical Transgressions in Greek Fiction and Film

Rehabilitating the Ottoman Past
Chair: Mogens Pelt

Trine Stauning Willert (Copenhagen)
The Ottoman Era: A new Greek Golden Age? 

Maria Akritidou (FU Berlin)
Narrative re-appropriations and the modality of the “Ottoman past” in Modern Greek fiction

Yannis Papadopoulos (Panteion)
Popular culture and public history: A peregrination in the filmography of the Ottoman past and Greco Turkish relations

The Past in (the) Crisis (public talk)
Dimitris Tziovas (Birmingham)
Greek crisis: archeopolitics and preposterous history

Public Histories of Contested Pasts
Chair: Gersimus Katsan

Constantina Georgiadi (Mediteranean Studies, Crete)
Towards an anti-heroic concept of modern Greek history: the reception of Lena Kitsopoulou Athanasios Diakos: the comeback (2012)

Yiorgos Anagnostou (OhioState)
Literature Trans-versing History: Greek Immigration in David Mason’s Ludlow

Kostis Kornetis (Madrid)
Holocaust Awareness in Salonica through Public History: The Cases of “Ouzeri Tsitsanis” and “Little Jerusalem”

Special session: Photography and Humanitarianism (public event)
Penelope Petsini (Patras)
Representing Contemporary Refugeedom and Displacement: The Photography of Crisis Globalization

George Giannakopoulos (Queen Mary London)
Depicting the Pain of Others: Notes on the Asia Minor refugee crisis

Dinner

Restaurant TBA

Saturday 25 June

Negotiating Lagacies of Identity on Screen
Chair: Vangelis Calotychos

Maria Chalkou (Ioannina)
The Greek Heritage Film: Memory, Nostalgia, and Cosmopolitanism

Georgia Aitaki (Gothenburg)
Legitimating the ‘modern Greek’: Greekness and Europeanness in television comedy Oi Afthairetoi

Jessica Kourniakti (Oxford)
Failures of transgression and the culture of the Neohellene in «ΟΥΚ αν λάβοις παρά του μη έχοντος» (2010-2011)

Moderator: Charles Lock (Copenhagen)
Sonia Liza Kenterman