The workshop “Diversity in 20th- and 21st-Century Greek Popular Culture(s) and Media” will take place on Saturday 14 March 2015ย at the University of Oxford. The event is organized by the Society for Modern Greek Studies, with sponsorship from The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).
The programme includes discussions around the following topics:
1.ย Inquiring about Identity: Methodologies, Frameworks, Practices
a. โGreece the Imagined Nationโ: A study of selfhood and subjectivity through auto-ethnographic visual representations of โEllinikotitaโ (Greekness)
Michael Chronopoulos, University of South Wales
b. Oral evidences on Greek Popular literature of the 50s and 60s
Nikos Filippaios, University of Ioannina (Greece)
c. Social media and Greeks: the case of Facebook
Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Maria Xenofodos, Achilleas Karadimitriou, Ioulia Daga & Elias Athanasiadis, University of Athens (Greece)
2.ย Building Musical Identities
a. Greekness and Gender in the โ80s and ’90s Greek Popular Music Press
Reguina Hatzipetrou-Andronikou, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)
b. Asikiko Poulakiย – Regionalising in Greek music and poetry after 1974
Josh Barley, Kingโs College London
c. Why Rebetiko today?
Elli Leventaki, University of Ioannina (Greece)
3. Filming Greek Subjectivity: Representations of selfhood, tradition and heteronormativity in Greek film and TV
a. Gays and Straights (queer things up): Negotiating Heteronormativity in Angelos
Spyros Chairetis, University of Oxford
b. Challenging the Patriarchal Canon: Paths of Diversity in Dogtooth and Miss Violence
Vera Mystaka, independent researcher
c. Subversion and Stereotype in โฮคฮฟ ฮฮฑฯฮญ ฯฮทฯ ฮงฮฑฯฮฌฯโ
Annie Demosthenous, independent researcher
4. An Ode to Suffering: Othering and Identifying in Digital and Television Media
a. Infecting the body politic: the HIV โDeath Trapโ and the Porous โOtherโ
Chloe Howe Charalambous, University of Oxford
b. Networks of suffering: encountering diversity in cross-cultural dialogues on the Internet
Huw Halstead, University of Kent
c. Multiculturalism and racism depicted in Greek satirical drawings
Emmanouela Tisizi, University of Edinburgh
5. Intersecting Identities: Art and Place in Multimedia
a. โAnd everywhere you turn: Gods..myths..heroesโ: YouTube and the Greek modernist project
Ioanna Zouli, South Bank University & Tate Research
b. Nudity in the Imaret: Heritage and the Art of Exhibitions
Elizabeth Cohen, University of Cambridge
c. โVasanizomaiโ: From a Message of Agony Sprayed Across the Walls of Athens, to Internet Sensation
Jessica Kourniakti, University of Oxford
More info can be found here.
