DrMaria Zarimis

2026 Interview with Professor Vassilis Lembessis about my Greek monograph. Interview published in the platform inscience.gr Στα Χνάρια του Δαρβίνου: Μια συνέντευξη με την συγγραφέα Μαρία Ζαρίμη | InScience Magazine (30 Aug)

2025 Interview with author and journalist Dimitris Doulgeridis about my Greek monograph. Interview  published in Greece’s national newspaper, TA NEA. Ο Δαρβίνος, ο Καζαντζάκης, ο Ροΐδης και η «Φόνισσα» - ΤΑ ΝΕΑ (14 Dec).

2023 ‘Film Screening | 33.333: The Odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis’. I was part of a panel discussion at UNSW, the event marking the 140 year anniversary of his birth. It was organised by the School of Humanities and Languages of UNSW in collaboration with the Foundation for Greek Studies of UNSW, the Hellenic Society of UNSW and the Sydney Branch of the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (8 Nov).

2019 Presented ‘Voyage to Kythera: The Poetics of a Kytherian’, at the 8^th International Symposium of Kytheraismos, Brisbane (14–17 Nov).

2016 “Lifting the Veil― Challenging the Stereotype of the Hellenic Woman throughout History”, Hellenic Lyceum Symposium and the Greek Festival of Sydney. Challenging the Norm– in Discussion with Three Greek Australian Authors. Invited as one of the authors. (9 April).

2015 Invited to speak on SBS Greek radio on my book publication Darwin’s Footprint (June).

2015 Invited to speak at Hellenic Lyceum event in Sydney on my book Darwin’s Footprint and on the Darwinian and Founder of the Hellenic Lyceum, Kalliroi Parren (1861–1940). (April).

2014 ‘The "Mantinades" (rhymed couplets) and "Moirologia" (dirges) of Kythera a Cultural Evolution’, presented at the 6th International Symposium of Kytheraismos, Sydney (7–9 Nov).

2013 At the UNSW Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences chaired the International Symposium on Constantine Cavafy (18–20 June).

2012 Invited by the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (Sydney Branch) to speak on ‘Nikos Kazantzakis’ at the University of Sydney (Sept).

2011 Invited to speak on 2MM local Greek radio on the state of the Greek language in Australia (Sept).

2009 ‘Darwin and Greece’ held at the Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Sydney. The public lecture (in English) was part of the celebrations of Charles Darwin’s Double Anniversary (9 Oct).

2009 Invited to speak on SBS Greek radio on Darwinism and its general impact on society (Sept).