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Conversations on Europe. "The Role of Greece in the Discourse of Modernity." Maria Koundoura, associate professor, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing, Emerson College. Thu, Jan 31, 2008. (audio) [See 7th conversation on web page]

The Modern Greek Devil: Cosmology or Rhetoric? by Charles Stewart (PDF)
Department of Anthropology, University College London

Democracy as a Tragic Regime by Nathalie Karagiannis (PDF)
Research Fellow in Political Sociology, University of Sussex

"A Heretical (Orthodox) History of the Parthenon" by Anthony Kaldellis Associate Professor, Department of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University

"Enlightenment, Emancipation, and National Identity: Koraes & the Ancients" by Ioannis Evrigenis
Click here to download Prof. Evrigenis's lecture that was delivered as part of the European Union Center's Conversations on Europe lecture series on January 11, 2006.

Audio File - "Enlightenment, Emancipation, and National Identity: Koraes & the Ancients" by Ioannis Evrigenis
Click here to be taken to the European Union Center's website where you can download and listen to the audio file of Evrigenis' lecture.

"Interiority in Greek Rap, Television, and Film" (PDF)
Lecture delivered on November 5, 2004 by Prof. Franklin Hess, University of Iowa, Copyright 2006 Franklin Hess

"The Restoration of the Athenian Acropolis (1834 - 2005)" (PDF)
Lecture delivered on January 18, 2006 by Dr. Fani Mallouchou-Tufano, head of the Documentation Office at the Acropolis Restoration Service. Copyright 2006 Dr. Fani Mallouchou-Tufano

"On Greek Literature" by Dr. Nicholas Papandreou (PDF)
In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nicholas Papandreou (fiction writer, essayist, finance & development consultant) offers an eloquent account of his encounters with poems and novels in the Greek language.

"The Moderns between the Greek and Romans: Tony Blair's Athenian Birthday" by Sir Peter Stothard
Click here to be taken to the European Union Center's website where you can download Sir Peter Stothard's lecture.

"Haunting Europe: Some Modernist Uses of Hellenism" by Vassiliki Kolocotroni, University of Glasgow, UK
Click here to be taken to the European Union Center's website where you can download Vassiliki Kolocotroni's lecture.

Dow CEO Andrew Liveris Talks to Class on Modern Greek Culture (PDF)
Notes from talk and written text delivered on March 17, 2005

The 3rd Annual Pallas Lecture Delivered by Kevin Featherstone, Feb. 17th, 05 (PDF)
Kevin Featherstone of the London School of Economics and Political Science discusses the state of Greek governance

Moderns between the Greeks and Romans Roundtable Talks (PDF)
Compiled in this one pdf file are four talks recently given at a roundtable discussion of the Moderns between the Greeks and Romans series