The Department is an active participant in the European Program for Higher Education and Academic Mobility Erasmus. We have bi-lateral agreements with the following institutions: Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, University of London, University of Birmingham, University of Munich, University of Vienna. An essential part of our program is our regular Graduate Colloquium including seminars by foreign and Greek scholars, members of the faculty, and recent Ph.D. holders or candidates. In addition, we have organized 12 Scientific Workshops (taking place every other year) on modern trends in Modern Greek and Medieval Literature and Philology as well as on Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature. These meetings attract a great number of Greek and foreing scholars and the proceedings are published on a regular basis.
Collections:
1. The main collection of the Medieval Studies Sub-Faculty includes editions of texts, monographs, lexica and complete series (such as Studi e Testi, Patrologia Graeca, Sources Chretiennes, Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae), old and rare editions, as well as collections of Byzantine historical and philological texts.
The main collection of the Modern Greek Studies Sub-Faculty comprises texts and studies on Modern Greek, comparative literature, literary theory, as well as Modern Greek and European Theater, including the donations of (Chrysos Euelpidis, Takis Sinopoulos, Linos Politis, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, Manolis Triantafyllidis, Kyriazis Stephanakis, Alc. Yannopoulos, Al. Leukaditis, Dem. Eutychiadis, Th. Meggrelis and others).
2. Collection of rare books and editions (approximately 5.000 volumes).
3. Audio-visual material: readings of Modern Greek Literature, microfilms - microfiches, - CD ROMs.
Research Programs:
1. Research Program for a Dictionary of the period 1669-1821 in co-operation with the Manolis Triandafyllidis Foundation(in progress).
2. Research Program PYTHAGORAS ΙΙ on autobiography (Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature).
3. Research Program (PYTHAGORAS) for the compilation of a bibliography of the Modern Greek journals cultural and artistic journals (1901-1940).
