Professor Vrasidas Karalis
Sir Nicholas Laurantus Professor of Modern Greek
Chair of Modern Greek Department
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 7252 |
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Biographical details
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).
Furthermore, my Australian involvement can be seen in the number of public lectures I have been invited to offer in Greek-Australian or mainstream Australian venues. I believe that our area of studies has to be gradually incorporated within the mainstream dominant environment and go beyond its introverted ghetto mentality. For my services I received the Federation Medal from the Federal Government in 2003.
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
- MGRK1601: Junior Modern Greek 1
- MGRK1602: Junior Modern Greek 2
- MGRK2631: Cultural Identities
- MGRK2653: Sex, Drugs and Music in Modern Greek Culture
- MGRK2675: New Testament Greek and its World A
- MGRK2676: New Testament Greek and its World B
Supervision - Current
- Uros Todorovic, The Relevance of Late Byzantine Art to Contemporary Artistic Movements
- Afroditi Vassos, The teaching of Greek as a second language
- Catherine Cassis-Liaros, the Poetics of Death in The work of George Sarantaris
Supervision - Completed
- Dr Panayiotis Diamadis, The Fate of the Greek Minority in Asia Minor
- Dr Jen Harisson, Anthropoligical Readings of Nikos Kazantzakis and Patrick White
- Dr Haris Cypridemos, The Cyprus Question between 1930 and 1960
Current research students
Project title | Research student |
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Gender Psychodynamics in Films by Contemporary Greek Female Directors | Sophia SAKELLIS |
Current 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)
Associations
- 2007: Elected member of the Australian Council of the School of Divinities
- 2005: Re-elected President of Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand
- 2005: President of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
- 2005: Elected Editor of the official journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
- 2003: Honorary member of the Greek-Orthodox Community of Lakemba
- 2002: Re-elected President of the Association fo Modern Greek Studies of Australia and New Zealand
- 2001: Member of the Sydney University based Society for Literature and Aesthetics
- 2000: Member of the Centre for Australian Culture and Spirituality
- 1998: President of the Association of Modern Greek Studies in Australia and New Zealand.
- 1998: Member of the Council of the Sydney School of Divinity
- 1998: Member of the Academic Board of the Sydney School of Divinity
- 1995: Vice-President, Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand.
- 1995: Member of the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (Societe des amis de N. Kazantzaki, Geneva)
- 1995: Co-founding member of the Greek-Orthodox Forum, a new cultural association, under the auspices of the Greek-Orthodox Archdiocese, for the promotion of the Hellenic and Byzantine Heritage in Australia.
- 1993: Vice-president, Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand..
- 1992: Committee member, Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand.
Selected grants
2017
- Understanding Europe: 3 x 2cp units (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Winter B, Moir C, Morgan P, Karalis V, Sorbera L, Stott C, Walsh A, Alba A, Rubino A; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.
- Research Data Management: THE Generic Skill of the 21st Century (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Denyer G, Todd M, Vervoort R, Karalis V, Yi X, Boddy A, Bridgeman A, Coleman R, Cruchley G, Faedo M, Hammond J, Ryan J; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.
- Cultures of Food (Europe; Asia; Middle East and North Africa) (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Scott C, Orsini R, Karalis V, Suter R; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.
2013
- Sydney Intellectual History Network; Milam J, Aspromourgos A, Borghesi F, Caine B, Ferng J, Fitzmaurice A, Gaukroger S, Helbig D, Karalis V, Kerridge I, Macarthur D, Nassar D, Redding P, Sadurski W, Sevel M, Sluga G, Smith M, Waldow A, Walton K; DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS).
- Title of the project; Karalis V; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FRSS 2013 Large Grants.
2012
- Writing the World - Transnationalism in Literary Studies; Bandhauer A, Borghesi F, Christie W, Cowan R, Dixon R, Giles P, Karalis V, Kirkpatrick P, Lu Y, Minter P, Morgan P, Parsons N, Rooney B, Suter R, Walsh A; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.
2007
- Critical history of Christianity; Karalis V; RIHSS (Inter-disciplinary research networks and clusters)/RIHSS Internal Research Grant Allocations.
Selected publications & creative works
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Realism in Greek Cinema: From the Post-War Period to the Present (I.B. Tauris, 2017)
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Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy (Brill, 2014)
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The Demons of Athens: Reports from the Great Devastation (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2014)
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Antigone Kefala: a writers journey (Owl Publishing, 2013)
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A History of Greek Cinema (Continuum, 2012)
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Power, Judgement and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt (Ashgate, 2010)
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Recollections of Mr Manoly Lascaris (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2008)
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Essay on Andreas Aggelakis (Odos Panos Publications, 2003)
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