http://www.slideshare.net/zarkadakis/greece-and-europe On March 25th 2013 I was invited at the Catholic University of Lille to give a lecture on Greece and Europe (see my slides above). My lecture explored some of the ideas in my Washington Post article. March 25th is Greece's National Holiday commemorating the Uprising against the Ottoman...
Month: March 2013
The ocean in the sky
We dived at approximately moondown. The navigator explained how up was down - and vice versa - and that in the new medium of exploration common perceptions would be challenged. Forget what you know, he said. Forget we did. The familiar ripples on the fabric of the ocean floor was...
Literary narratives and global warming
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/25679327 w=400&h=300] My talk (in Greek) at the Onassis Foundation in Athens,where I discussed my novel "The Passage" and the relationship between literary narratives and the contemporary understanding of global warming.