Christina Michael, who is in the third year of her PhD at City, will be delivering a conference paper on the 30th of September entitled ‘Issues of Authenticity and National Identity in Greek Popular Music: The Entechno Laiko [art-popular] tradition’. Her paper will be part of  The Languages of Popular Music: Communicating Regional Musics in a Globalized World conference, which will take place in Osnabruck, Germany between 29th of September and the 2nd of October 2014.

Following this, Christina will be presenting a paper on the 2nd of October entitled ‘The employment of cultural and musical continuity in Manos Hadjidakis’ 1949 Lecture on Rebetiko’ for the conference Continuities, Discontinuities, Ruptures in the Greek World (1204-2014): Economy, Society, History, Literature, which will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece between the 2nd and 5th of October 2014.