Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
-
Wikipedia Robots Fight Over Alexander the Great
Humans and software robots (bots) fight over the content of the Alexander the Great entry in Wikipedia, according to new British scientific research. The research show that bots behave more like humans than one would expect, “unleashing” a war in cyberspace concerning what to include in the Wikipedia entries. Alexander the Great has always been such a…
-
Hellene, Romios, Greek: Collective Identifications and Identities
“Έλλην”, “Ρωμηός”, “Γραικός” (Hellene, Romios, Graikos [Greek]): Three terms which by and large refer to the identity of the Greeks in the long course of History. The Greek people have been identified by many ethnonyms, with the most common being “Hellene” (Greek: Έλλην), while the name “Greeks” (Latin: Graeci) was used by the Romans, which gradually entered European languages through…
-
Migration Routes: First Greek Australian Archive Underway
How has the large Greek community in Australia been formed? How did the Greeks travel to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s? What were conditions like on ships like The Patris, The Flaminia and the others? What do Greeks remember of that experience? What happened when the boats arrived in Circular Quay? The generation of…
-
Cavafy in the World: International Cavafy Summer School 2017
What kind of methodological and theoretical approaches can be productive in revisiting Cavafy’s work as world literature? How does Cavafy’s appeal as a world literary figure relate to (and challenges) national appropriations of the poet in Greece? How does Cavafy’s poetry speak to present cultural, social, and political concerns and what kind of responses does…