ProfessorVrasidas Karalis
Chair of Discipline, Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Orcid identifier0009-0002-5775-763X (opens in a new tab)
- Chair of Discipline, Modern Greek and Byzantine StudiesFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: Modern Greek
Summary of opportunity:
For the last 20 years, my main area of research has been in Modern Greek, Byzantine, Cultural Studies and more recently New Testament Studies. I have also worked in translation, especially of the Australian Nobel Laureate Patrick White and translated three of his major novels into Greek (Voss, The Vivisector, A Cheery Soul).
---------------Current Research Projects----------
- Six Greek Film-Makers I.B. Tauris (forthcoming)
- Editing a volume on Cornelius Castoriadis and the Project of Radical Autonomy, Brill Publications (forthcoming)
- Greek Philosophy After the Greeks re-press, Melbourne (forthcoming)
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA study of the dramatic style and interpretative techniques used by Romanos the Melode, Byzantine ecclesiastical poet of the sixth century.
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCharles Taylor's Conception of Authenticity: Re-enchanting the Self in a Disenchanted World
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONEU-Palestine relations in 2020: Is political engagement possible?
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONFrom Athena to the Theotokos: Images of Divine Patronage in Classical and Byzantine Athens”
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONGender Psychodynamics in Films by Contemporary Greek Female Directors
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONHOLISTIC PEDAGOGICAL PHILOSOPHY, Political theories, Curriculum Change, Influence of Art on Sociological Ecology
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPolitics of Abandonment: The Biopolitics of National Sacrifice Zones
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONResolving Political Disputes of National Identity by Treaty: An Examination of the National Identity Provisions of the Prespa Agreement
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONSainthood, Animals, and Techne from Byzantium to Britain
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONSelf and Authenticity: Marshall Berman’s Reading of Rousseau
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONStrange Time and Other Worlds in Late Nabokov
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONSunless City, Imperfect Commonwealth: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark and Utopian Thought in Scotland
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Art Of Myth And Intercultural Pedagogy: Teaching Greek, as Second or Foreign language
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Emotional Empire: faith and feeling in Byzantium
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Geopolitics of Greek Foreign Policy: From the Great Idea to Great Ideas?
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Person of Christ and the dialectics of the theandric union: From Cyril of Alexandria to Symeon the New Theologian
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONWhat are the Successes and Failures of Democracy and its Institutions in post-1975 Greece?