Literature & CultureColloquium
09:0016:00Alkis Argyriadis Amphitheatre
University of AthensMain Building
30 Panepistimiou Street
Invited Speaker:Ricardo Ambrosini
Università di Roma Tre
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National and KapodistrianUniversity of AthensFaculty of English
Language & Literature
Postgraduate Faculty of English
Postgraduate Student Conference
ProgrammeDepartment of
Literature & Culture
Professor of English Literature
Language & LiteratureNational & KapodistrianUniversity of Athens
16/2/2016
ProgrammeWelcoming Address
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
ASPASIA VELISSARIOU, ProfessorDirector of the Postgraduate Programme
Session I: Gender Matters Chair: ANNA DESPOTOPOULOU, Associate Professor
STAVROS DOULIS,“‘Is the whole thing a farce?'Female Artistry in Ella HepworthDixon's Story of a Modern Woman"
PANAGIOTIS GERAKIS,“A Sociohistorical Look at Masculinity in Crisis"
Session II: Postcolonial CommunitiesChair: MINA KARAVANTA, Associate Professor
POLYTIMI MITSAKOU,“Histories Beginning in the Middle: Communities of ResistanceOn or Over Board"
SOPHIA SALTA,“Inheritance is Affiliation: The Human and the Secularin J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K"
Coffee
Chair: NIC PANAGOPOULOS, Assistant Professor
RICARDO AMBROSINI, Professor of English Literature,Università di Roma Tre
Coffee and Lunch
Session III: Civic TensionsChair: VASSIA MARKIDOU, Assistant Professor
MIHALIS FOUNTOULAKIS,“Antigone's Kinship: Philia in the Ancient Polis"
DIKAIA GAVALA,“Rebellion and the Notion of the Mob in Tory Partisan Literature:Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter, John Dryden's Absalon andAchitopel and Thomas Otways's Venice Preserv'd "
Session IV: Power and the Modern Subject
KONSTANTINOS TZIKAS,“‘Men are Infinitely Malleable': Writing and the Human Subjectin Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway an George Orwell's NineteenEightyFour"
09:15-09:30
09:30-10:20
10:20-10:50
10:50-11:40
11:40-12:40
Chair: NIC PANAGOPOULOS, Assistant Professor
12:40-13:30
13:30-14:20
14:20-15:10
MARINA PYRLIMPOU,“‘Once a Riddle, Always a Riddle': Oedipal Territoriality vs. AntiOedipal Fluidity (?) in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series"
15:10 Closing
“Neocolonial Practices and Liberal Ideology in Conrad's Malay,Aftican, and South American Fiction (18991904)" www.enl.uoa.gr