Greek Studies Conference (MGSAANZ)

Καλώς ήρθατε. Warm Greek greetings from Melbourne!

Join us for a three-day international conference bringing together researchers, students and community members to explore contemporary Greece and Greekness across borders, disciplines and ideas.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan
Dr Themistoklis Aravossitas, University of Toronto and York University

Details

Location: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Format: In person
Languages: English and Greek

About the conference

Hosted in 2027 by La Trobe University’s Greek Studies Program, this international conference explores how ideas of Greece – its people, cultures and heritage – are shaped, shared and reinterpreted across global contexts.

It brings together established and emerging researchers to examine how Greek identities and narratives are formed across disciplines, communities and borders, and how they continue to evolve in a global context.

Submit your abstract

We welcome proposals on contemporary Greece and Greekness (19th–21st centuries). We're particularly interested in interdisciplinary work that reflects critically on methods, perspectives and the field of Modern Greek Studies.

• Length of individual papers: 20 minutes. We also welcome and encourage submissions for panels, roundtables, workshops, posters or creative performances.
• Submit by: 1 August 2026
• Email: 2027mgsaanz@gmail.com, ensuring you include:
  • Title
  • Abstract (200 words)
  • Bio (100 words).

View the Call for Papers [PDF 109.1 KB]

Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2026
Presenter registration deadline: 1 November 2026.

Conference themes

The research questions and topics we aim to explore in this conference include – but are not limited to – the following:

• decolonising Greek language curricula (in primary, secondary and higher education); decolonial approaches and versions of Greekness
• practices of bilingualism; multilingualism; code-switching; translanguaging; the politics of translation; Greek as a plural language methodological questions in Modern Greek language and culture studies
• methodological questions in Modern Greek language and culture studies
• spaces of contestation; regional particularisms; transformative digital public spheres
• major historical events / disasters and social mobilisations
• struggles for justice, law and representation
• social, political and protest movements in Greece and its many diasporas
• Greece and the Global South; Greece and the Mediterranean; Greece, Cyprus and the Middle East; Greece and Asia
• ecological imaginaries and ecocritical perspectives
• temporalities and Hellenic futurisms
• intersectionality; politics of age, gender, sex and queerness
• migration, mobility, and multiculturalism, past and present
• race/racialisation in the Greek world
• cultural productions in literature, cinema, the arts, and public discourse
• narratives of resilience, resistance and reconstruction.

Conference Organising Committee

We thank the organising committee for helping bring this conference together.

• Dr Stavroula Nikoloudis – Greek Studies Coordinator, La Trobe University
• Dr Andonis Piperoglou – Hellenic Senior Lecturer in Global Diasporas, The University of Melbourne
• Dr Peter Pantazis – Lecturer in Greek Studies, La Trobe University
• Dr Melina Mallos – Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne
• Dr Nick Dallas – Greek Community of Melbourne/The University of Macedonia
• Dr Spiridoula Demetriou – Greek Community of Melbourne
• Olympia Nelson – PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney
• Daphne Arapakis – PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
• Sofia Chaniotaki – PhD Candidate, La Trobe University.

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