Over thousands of years Greek culture has spread to many foreign peoples – through language, medicine and sciences, philosophy, art and culture, archaeology, architecture and politics which Greek civilization has given to the world.

Greek culture has survived from the 3rd millennium BC., when the original Hellenes first arrived in the area now known as Greece. Despite many wars, foreign occupations and other threats to its culture, Hellenism has survived. Today, however, we question its future. How will Hellenism survive in a globalised world? The paramount question is: What do we mean by the concept of Hellenism?

This will be discussed by academics in the field of Greek Studies as well as members of the wider academic community.

at

the biennial conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association, Australia and New Zealand,

to be held in December 2010