International Cavafy Summer School 2024: Cavafy, Theater and Performativity
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Doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, and early-career scholars.
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Participants to be selected through an open call for the International Cavafy Summer School 2024.
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Τ.: +30 210 371 3000
Email: cavafyarchive@onassis.org
Introduction
The International Cavafy Summer School is returning for the sixth year, inviting academics, doctoral students, and early-career researchers from across the world to attend a week of seminars, presentations, and discussions centering around the work of Cavafy. The International Cavafy Summer School 2024 will be focusing on Cavafy and theater.
Taking the theatricality of Cavafy’s oeuvre and dramatic elements of his poetry as its point of departure, the International Cavafy Summer School 2024 will be seeking to approach Cavafy from the perspective of theater, performance, and performativity. This year, seminars and presentations will spotlight theatrical elements of Cavafy’s poetry, the poet’s directorial efforts within his poems, and even his links to the theater scene. Participants and speakers at the Summer School will be engaging with Cavafy’s connections to theater, touching upon such issues as the performative use of language, the multiple identities constructed within the Cavafian canon, and the reception of both the life and work of the poet as theater/performance.
Through its open call, the International Cavafy Summer School 2024 is seeking to attract advanced postgraduate and doctoral students, as well as early-career scholars, from a variety of disciplines within the humanities, social sciences, and arts, aiming to suggest new ways to approach C. P. Cavafy and his work.
