2013 Special Issue of Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) - Crossing Boundaries
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Entitled Crossing Boundaries: Greek Textual and Cultural Landscapes, this Special Issue of Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) contains papers which discuss many issues in Greek Studies. The papers deal with ancient Greek and Byzantine philosophy, philology, the history of Greece and the Greek world, the history of the Greek Diaspora, and the teaching of the Greek language. They cover a considerable span of time and space, crossing the boundaries of various fields of research.
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Πρωτόγονη ευαισθησία και νεωτερική διάνοια στο Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά του Νίκου Καζαντζάκη
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. Primitive sensibility and modernist mentality in N. Kazantzakis’ Zorba the Greek: This paper explores the recreation of mythic or primitive sensitivity and the dissociation of rational ... -
Βυζαντινός Κόσμος και Εννοιολογική Ιστορία
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. The Byzantine World and Conceptual History: The article examines the idea of the Byzantine world through the methodologies of conceptual history and socio-history. A criticism of the ... -
Auto/biographical writing and Greek-Australian historiography
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)This paper outlines a methodology for 'auto/biographical' life-history writing and argues for its merits based on a particular case study. In the present context 'auto/ biographical life writing' refers to life writing ... -
Blending Greek with Aboriginal Australian cultural elements in artistic expression
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)This paper pursues another transnational course extending the paper I presented at the Eighth International Conference on Greek Research, where the influence of cultural aspects of Aboriginal Australians upon a variety of ... -
Faces beyond the Greek café: the traditional diversity of Greek-Australian occupational pursuits, 1820s–2010
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)From the late nineteenth century until the closing decades of the twentieth century, Greeks played a large part in Australia’s food catering industry. They continued, nevertheless, to enter a wide variety of occupations. ... -
Never to return: migration and old age in Venezis’s “The State of Virginia”
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)This paper discusses Ilias Venezis’s short story “The State of Virginia” with special emphasis on the themes of migration and old age. Published in 1954, in the aftermath of WWII and the Greek Civil War, “The State of ... -
Ageing and immigration in the Greek capital. Policy issues and developments since the early 1990s
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)The paper deals with socio-demographic change and spatial transformation in Athens during the post war period and, in particular, since the early 1990s. It focuses on the interaction of two parallel processes — the ... -
The Greek audience 'discovers' the Turkish soap-series: Turkey’s 'soft power' and the psyche of Greeks
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Today’s world is mainly characterised, among other things, by interdependence and confusion. And the best way for a state to distinguish itself from the others is to promote globally a “shiny image”. This kind of strategy ... -
“Remember the Greek and Armenian Refugee Children”: South Australian relief efforts in the Hellenic, Armenian and Assyrian Genocides
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Even the most sweeping mega-narratives are composed of collections of micro-narratives, the stories of actions and experiences of individuals. By blending the stories of individuals and organisations from South Australia ... -
Aristotle and the intuitionists
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Intuitionist mathematics has claimed a philosophy deriving from Kant. This paper aims to draw attention to significant similarities with a much older source, Aristotle. At the same time, the connection should not be ... -
Aristotle's four conceptions of time
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)In this paper I will describe four theories of time that can be found in Aristotle. I will compare these four theories with modern notions of time, and propose that the ancient and modern views are substantively the same. ... -
Myth, dialogue and the allegorical interpretation of Plato
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)From the late Classical period until the Nineteenth Century, Plato was admired for his inspiration and vision, rather than for his theories and argumentation. Then with the advent of analytic philosophy in the Twentieth ... -
Copper and foreign investment: the development of the mining industry in Cyprus during the Great Depression
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)This paper evaluates the impact of the rapid growth of mining on the Cypriot economy during the period 1921–1938, with special focus on the expansion of copper sulphate mining. During this period the industry was transformed ... -
Harbours, harbour works and commerce in Cyprus, 1878-1910
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)The lack of harbour facilities was always a setback in the financial development of Cyprus. The paper aims to describe the harbour facilities of the island in 1878–1879, and to analyse how the harbour works in Limasol, ... -
Migrants’ Belongings: preliminary considerations of Greek and Italian migrants’ travel trunks in the post-Second World War period of settlement to South Australia
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ), 2013-07)The Migrants’ Belongings project, while considering both the scholarly work of the past and more contemporary trends, aims to take migration studies one step further by investigating the significance of belongings brought ... -
The 'invisible' immigrants: Greek immigrant women in Australia (1952–1972)
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ), 2013-07)1952–1972 is considered as the twenty-year period of mass or chain migration, during which the greatest number of Greek immigrants arrived in Australia. Just under half of these immigrants were women, who arrived mainly ... -
Planning for authentic language assessment in higher education synchronous online environments
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ), 2013-07)The teaching of some languages in Australia is under threat due substantially to small enrolments. There is considerable need to preserve Australia’s community languages as part of the country’s cultural and linguistic ... -
Coping with school bullying: a cross national pilot intervention study
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ), 2013-07)In Australia and Greece the issue of school bullying is a significant concern of educators and students. While victims are not to be blamed for being bullied, research suggests that the strategies utilised by victims to ... -
Textiles: symbols and meaning in the embroidery of Epirus
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ), 2013-07)In the past all textiles produced were imbued with symbols and meanings easily identified by all members of the community. These same symbols and designs are often echoed in other arts and crafts such as architecture, ... -
Revolution, death , transformation and art: Delacroix's 'Scenes from the Massacres at Chios'
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ), 2013-06)“Of all foreign artists, Delacroix is the one whose name is most closely associated with the Greek Revolution of 1821.” By examining this famous Romantic painting, 'Scenes from the Massacres at Chios', it will become ...
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