International Cavafy Summer School 2022: “Cavafy Mediated”

Dates

11.07 —16.07.2022

Tickets

Free admission

Time & Date

Day

Time

Venue

Day

Monday-Saturday

Time

10:00-19:00

Venue

Information

Addressed to

Doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career scholars

Cost

Free Admission

Application process and selection

Participants have been selected via the fall 2019 open call

All places have been filled

Introduction

In how many ways can you read Cavafy’s work today? For the fourth year in a row, academics and researchers from around the world come together to explore the means by which Cavafy’s work is mediated in the contemporary world, as well as the ways in which this mediation influences the readers’ experience.

Photo: Nikos Katsaros

After being postponed due to the measures against Covid – 19, the International Cavafy Summer School has returned, entering its fourth year under the title “Cavafy Mediated”.

This initiative of the Cavafy Archive and the Onassis Foundation focuses on the work of C. P. Cavafy and its impact in the world, following a specific theme per year. The International Cavafy Summer School 2022, “Cavafy Mediated” focuses on the myriad ways in which Cavafy’s work can be “read” today: from print volumes and translations to lyrics quoted in buses, in the metro and the city, from poems and Cavafy-related texts circulated online to abbreviated forms referenced in newspapers and speeches, from the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive to artworks – musical, filmic and theatrical pieces that are produced in response to Cavafy’s life and work. The goal of the International Cavafy Summer School is to bring together academics, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and young scholars, in order to present their research and discuss new approaches in regard to the work of Cavafy.

The program includes morning lectures and afternoon workshops.

Participants have been selected via an open call. All places have been filled.

Workshop Leaders

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University (USA)

Karen Emmerich

Professor Emeritus of General and Comparative Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Visiting Professor at the Centre of Hellenic Studies, King’s College, London (UK)

Michalis Chryssanthopoulos

Speakers

Associate Professor of English Literature, North Dakota State University (USA)

Adam Goldwyn

Associate Professor of Translation and Interpreting (Modern Greek), University of Malaga (Spain)

Vicente Fernández González

Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature, King’s College London (UK)

David Ricks

Academic Coordinator and Research-Track Postdoc in Research Area 5 “Building Digital Communities” of the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities”, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

Bart Soethaert

Assistant Professor in the Comparative Literature and Classical Studies Departments, University of Michigan (USA)

William Stroebel

Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies, University of Amsterdam (Marina Laskaridis Chair) / Assistant Professor at the department of Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University (Netherlands)

Maria Boletsi

Assistant Professor of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Martha Vassiliadi

Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Alexandra Rassidakis