Greek Studies Now, a cultural analysis network that started in Oxford in 2020, celebrates its five years of collaborative research with a two-day event on 23 and 24 May, reuniting members of the network from the Universities of Oxford, Amsterdam, Durham, Vienna and beyond.
On 23 May (4-7pm, Taylor Institution, St Giles’, OX1 3NA), join us for an evening of presentations and discussion on ‘Cavafy and His Spectres’.
Taking our cue from Prof Maria Boletsi’s recent book Specters of Cavafy (University of Michigan Press, 2024),we discuss how poetry like that of C. P. Cavafy makes us reconsider haunting and being haunted not only as a theme but also as an analytical and methodological perspective. How does poetry concerned with the past, memory, loss, and death, carry futurity? How does it haunt, and how is it haunted by, future presents?
Short presentations and discussion by: Dimitris Papanikolaou, Alexis Radisoglou, Kristina Gedgaudaitė, Tatiana Faia, Claudio Russello, Trisevgeni Bilia, Pria Louka, Artemis Ffytche, and Billie Mitsikakos. Followed by a Q+A with Maria Boletsi.
On 24 May (10 am-5:30pm, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, 47 Wellington Square, OX1 2JF), a colloquium where members of the ‘Greek Studies Now’ network present their ongoing research projects:
PANEL 1: ‘Press, Translation, and the Nation’ (Christopher Jotischky, Trisevgeni Bilia, Claudio Russello, Yiorgos-Evgenios Douliakas)
PANEL 2: ‘Weird, Queer, and Resistance’ (Orestis Tzirtzilakis, Katerina Kalivrousi, Elliot Koubis, Billie Mitsikakos)
The day will close with two keynote papers, ‘On German Literature (Written in Greek)’ by Alexis Radisoglou and ‘Comics, Performativity, Critical Literacies’ by Kristina Gedgaudaitė.
See the detailed programme and paper titles here: https://gc.fairead.net/greek-studies-now-a-two-day-programme
Free events. All welcome. To give us an idea of numbers please register
for ‘Cavafy and His Spectres’, here: https://forms.office.com/e/CemHCNkvGn
for ‘Greek Studies Now: A Colloquium’, here: https://forms.office.com/e/4MCh7rACPQ
Event poster based on the cover of 'Specters of Cavafy' (University of Michigan Press, 2024); original artwork: Cavafy bust by Apostolos Fanakidis, 2013.
