In collaboration with the Institute of Neohellenic Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the University of Ioannina, we are delighted to present Professor Terry Eagleton in a lecture on The Death of Criticism.

Terry Eagleton will deliver a second lecture entitled The Meaning of Life at the invitation of the University of Athens Doctoral Program in Economics (UADPhilEcon), the Sakis Karagiorgas Foundation and the Greek Trades Union Confederation. The event takes place in the framework of the 5th Annual Public Lecture on Economics and Philosophy in Memory of Kosmas Psychopaidis.

Terry Eagleton is an internationally celebrated literary scholar and cultural theorist and currently holds a Chair within the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University as Professor of Literature, and at the National University of Ireland, Galway, as Professor of Cultural Theory.

His specialities are literary and cultural theory, and the English-language literature and culture of Ireland, on which he has recently completed a trilogy of works. He is also becoming rather more broadly involved in comparative literature, and a recent book on tragedy considers the literature of various European cultures.

His books of literary criticism include Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) and After Theory (2003). He is also the author of the novel Saints and Scholars (1987) and The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001). His latest books are How to Read a Poem (2006), The Meaning of Life (2007), and Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics (2008).

Simultaneous translation into Greek will be provided.

Admission Free