{"id":5339,"date":"2025-03-23T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T09:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/cambridge-and-the-battle-for-modern-greek-studies\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T09:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T09:28:35","slug":"cambridge-and-the-battle-for-modern-greek-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/cambridge-and-the-battle-for-modern-greek-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge and the battle for modern Greek studies"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Professors Napoleon Katsos and Ioanna Sitaridou. [Jet Photographic]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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A group of Greek professors from Cambridge have launched an effort to restore the Chair of Modern Greek Language and Culture, a position eliminated in 2013 due to financial constraints.<\/p>\n

Professors Napoleon Katsos and Ioanna Sitaridou explained their mission to Kathimerini.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, modern Greek studies lack the glamour that ancient Greek had \u2013 and to some extent still has \u2013 as a subject,\u201d Katsos says.<\/p>\n

Trinity College, where they work, is home to a statue of Lord Byron, an example of the complex history between Greece and Britain.<\/p>\n

\u201cByron was considered a \u2018bad boy\u2019 by the British establishment,\u201d Sitaridou said of the English poet, a national hero in Greece over his role in the Greek Revolution. The loss of the chair was part of broader cutbacks in the humanities, as economic austerity hit UK institutions.<\/p>\n

Their campaign aims to raise \u00a32.5 million to reinstate the position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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