This one day colloquium is organized under the auspices of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture and the Sub-Faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek, Oxford. It was made possible thanks to a generous grant by the Onassis Foundation. All welcome. No prior booking required.
Programme
| 10.00–10.30 |
Opening Remarks Vassiliki Kolocotroni (Glasgow) and Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford) |
| 10.30–12.00 |
New Queer Histories/ Methodologies Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford), ‘How (not) to do the history of Modern Greek homosexuality’ Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Bangor), ‘Youth travel and the "sexual revolution" in Greece and West Germany, 1960s-1970s: the queer perspective’ |
| 12.00–1.00 |
Plenary Address Stavros Stavrou Karayanni (European University Cyprus), ‘Anamnesis, Affect, and Queer Poetics: Writing Dissident Sexualities into National Identities’ Respondent: Hector Kollias (King’s College London) |
| 1.00–2.00 | Lunch |
| 2.00–3.30 |
Activism/ Communities/ Politics Elisavet Kirtsoglou (Durham), ‘Free riders, or burnt out? Debating lesbian activism in a Greek provincial town’ Dimitra Georgiadou (Durham), ‘Families that Matter: Queer experiences and politics of kinship in contemporary Greece’ |
| 3.30–4.45 |
An archive of feelings/ A history of representations Elisavet Pakis (Manchester), ‘Queer and Feminist Archives of Feelings: Eleni Bakopoulou encounters Dora Rozetti on the border of the nation and belonging’ Spiros Chairetis (Oxford): The (In)Visibles: Lesbian Characters on Greek TV comedies. |
| 4.45–5.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 5.00–6.00 |
Doing queer research in Greece Saffo Papantonopoulou (Arizona), ‘Between Genos and Gender: Transgender thoughts on "Greekness" from the diaspora’ Respondent: Hector Kollias & open discussion |
| 6.00–7.00 |
Closing interventions: Performing alternative queer histories Marios Chatziprokopiou (Aberystwyth), ‘Queering the archive of Greek laments: a self-reflexive account on the lecture-performance Pustia Ke Ololygmos: Selections from the Occult Songs of the Greek People’ [Skype pre-recorded intervention] Closing performance: Stavros Karayanni, ‘“When the Body Re-members” Closing remarks: Vassiliki Kolocotroni |