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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The cultural politics of the Greek crisis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The second workshop of the
<span style="color:#272836">two-year research network project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council  (UK) on the cultural politics of the Greek crisis will take place at the University of Birmingham on Saturday 23 May 2015. 
</span>The objectives of this workshop are:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">how contemporary Greek literature, performing arts and cinema are responding to the Greek economic crisis;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">to investigate the extent to which the economic crisis has led to an interrogation of established cultural practices.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">to study the impact of the economic crisis on cultural institutions, media, museums and publishers, and the proliferation of online cultural journals and dedicated blogs during this period.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> how modes of intellectual engagement have changed due to the crisis;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">how notions of cultural purity and perceptions of the ancient past have informed identity claims.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#272836">Those who might be interested in contributing to the workshop and the website of the project should get in touch with the principal
 investigator of the project Professor Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birmingham (</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="mailto:d.p.tziovas@bham.ac.uk"><b>d.p.tziovas@bham.ac.uk</b></a><b><span style="color:#272836">).</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#272836"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor Dimitris Tziovas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of History and Cultures</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel: 0044- (0)121-4145769</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Fax:0044-(0)121-4143595<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">E-mail:
</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:d.p.tziovas@bham.ac.uk"><span style="color:blue">d.p.tziovas@bham.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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