Politics, Culture and the Ancient World in Post-War Greece

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 12:00am

This one-day symposium was held jointly under the auspices of the APGRD and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Oxford.

2pm Constanze Guthenke (Princeton University), 'Inside or Outside the University? Greek Classical Scholarship after 1945'
2.45pm Eleftheria Ioannidou (University of Oxford), 'The heterotopia of the ancient theatre: Greek tragedy and cultural politics in post-war Greece'
3.30pm Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford), 'Popular Culture, Banal Exceptionalism and the Classical tradition in post-war Greece'
4.15pm Tea
4.30pm Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol), 'The Tragedy of History in Theo Angelopoulos' Travelling Players'
5.15pm Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham), 'Meta-Classical Revisions: Modern Attitudes to the Past'
6pm Plenary discussion led by Edith Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London, Co-Director APGRD) and Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford, Co-Director APGRD).
6.30pm Drinks reception