DrMaria Zarimis

2012–2014

Invited contributor to the European research project marking the 2009 Double Anniversary of Charles Darwin. This led to the chapter listed below in Publications and to a conference presentation at Cambridge University.

2013–2017

Completed preparatory work and fieldwork at UNSW for the project Cultural and Language Transmission in the Greek Cypriot Community, financed by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, in collaboration with Associate Professor James Lee. Findings were presented at conferences at Flinders University and UNSW in 2017.

Selected academic conference presentations

Zarimis M, 2027 (forthcoming), ‘Darwinian and Post-Darwinian Discourses in the Greek Language Question: A Transnational Perspective’. Paper to be presented at the 16^th Conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, ‘Greek Discourses, Destinies, and Dialogue Across Borders’, at La Trobe University, Melbourne, (3–5 Feb).

Zarimis M, 2026, ‘Investigating Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Odyssey. A Modern Sequel as an Evolutionary Epic’. Paper presented at the Conference of the Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit), Ghent University, on the panel ‘Literary Histories of Evolution: Case Studies’ (18 June).

Zarimis M, 2025, ‘Negotiating Sacred Tradition and Public Health: The Controversy of Holy Communion in the Greek Orthodox Church during the Covid-19 Pandemic’, on a panel ‘Epidemics and Literature’, presented at the 27^th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST), University of Otago, Dunedin (29 June–5 July).

Zarimis M, 2018, ‘Contextualising Kazantzakis: His Science and Spirit’, presented at the 3^rd International Conference on Science & Literature. Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST at Sorbonne University, Paris (2–4 July).

Lee J, Zarimis M, 2017, ‘International Language Transmission in an Australian Greek Cypriot Community: Roles for Ethnic Identity and Cultural Practices’, presented at the Symposium on ‘Multilingualism as a Resource: Bringing Home Language to the Fore’ at the School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW, Sydney (4 Dec).

Lee J, Zarimis M, 2017, ‘International Cultural Transmission in an Australian Greek Cypriot Community’, presented at the 12th International Conference on Greek Research at Flinders University (23–24 June).

Zarimis M, 2014, ‘Hellenic Continuity and Nationhood’, presented at the 12th Biennial Conference. Unframing Hellenism: Greek Culture after the Crisis, The Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand & The Department of Modern Greek Studies, University of Sydney, Australia (4–6 Dec).

Zarimis M, 2014, ‘Darwinism and Post-Darwinian Reflections of Greek Writers of the Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries’, presented at the 1st International Conference on Science & Literature. Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, at the Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens (9–11 July).

Zarimis M, 2013, ‘The Reception of Darwin in Greek Literary Circles in the Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries’, presented at the conference on ‘The Shared Cultural Milieu of Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century’ at the Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge (1–2 July).

Zarimis M, 2012, ‘Language and Culture: the Greek Perspective’, presented at the 11th Biennial Conference: Crisis, Criticism and Critique in Contemporary Greek Studies, at the University of Sydney (7–9 Dec).

Several other presentations at conferences in the School of Humanities and Languages including ‘Language and Culture: The Greek Perspective’ (April 2012).

Zarimis M, 2011, ‘Kazantzakis and Darwin’, presented at the 9th Biennial International Conference of Greek Research in Australia, at Flinders University, Adelaide (30 June–3 July).

Zarimis M, 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 (Oct 9).

Zarimis M, 2008, ‘A Re-reading of Grigorios Xenopoulos’ Πλούσιοι και φτωχοί [Rich and poor]: Biology or Sociology?’ at the 9th Biennial International Conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, at La Trobe University, Melbourne (11–13 Dec).