The Greek Community of Melbourne will host an online seminar titled ‘Gender in Modern Greek’, examining the role of Greek gendered terms in sustaininig social gender ideologies that reinforce sexism.
The seminar will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube and will be held on Thursday 3 July at 7pm, with it to be delivered by Dr Angeliki Alvanoudi.
The first part of the lecture will explore the relationship between grammatical and lexical gender, and the construction of social gender.
It will focus on the generic use of the masculine and the semantic derogation of women, and we expose the biased representation of women and men in Greek language use.
The second part of the seminar will feature a discussion on the different language reform strategies (e.g. gender-specification and gender-neutralization) that Greek speakers can use to eliminate linguistic sexism.
Dr Alvanoudi is Assistant Professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specializing in Sociolinguistics with applications to the French language.
She is well-versed on the subject of the seminar with her research focusing on the relationship between language and gender, phenomena of language contact in the Greek diaspora, and grammar in social interaction.
