Digital Cavafy Archive Modules: “Unlocking the Cavafy Archive: People – Images – Histories”

The CAVAFY ARCHIVE is livening and enriching the learning experience for students and educators, both inside and outside the classroom. Original learning materials, carefully curated examples, and unexpected connections drawn between documentary materials in digital collections, archives, libraries, catalogs, and stores in Greece and around the world all pave new avenues for understanding literary output and the cultural tradition in a series of ten standalone digital lessons. Activities supplemented by digital documentary materials are being made available to educators, students, and anyone else who might be interested, and feature all the possibilities open-access digital learning has to offer.

The aim of this initiative is to systematically familiarize all interested parties with the archival materials held in the Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, to propose thematic pathways that visitors can follow as they explore the archive, if they so wish, and to smooth the way for the teaching community to make use of Cavafy archive resources to broaden the methodologies and topics of literary education. The Digital Cavafy Archive Modules are a pioneering initiative at an international level: a first attempt at an expansive, detailed, and easy-to-use presentation of a personal literary archive, designed to be informative for the teaching community and anyone else who might be interested.

ADDRESSED TO

Teachers of all grades, students, and the general public.

DIGITAL MATERIAL

These materials are available to be accessed on classroom.onassis.org.

These learning materials were developed as part of the “Training Educators in the Use of Literary Archives and Research Libraries for Literacy” project, run in collaboration with the Hellenic Institute of Educational Policy (IEP), with Polyxeni Bista (Modern Greek literature lecturer, and lead IEP consultant) and Anastasios Emvalotis (Associate Professor at the Department of Primary School Education, University of Ioannina, and Member of the IEP Administrative Board) acting as consultants.

Credits

Project Lead
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Takis Kayalis
Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University
Educational Content Creation
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Alexandros Katsigiannis
Assistant Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the University of Crete
Takis Kayalis
Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University School of Humanities
Angeliki Mousiou
Philologist, Scholarly Research assistant, Cavafy Archive
Sofia Zisimopoulou
Philologist and doctoral candidate at the Athens School of Fine Arts
Linguistic Editing
Vassilis Douvitsas
Coordination
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Eleanna Semitelou
Educational Programs Coordinator at the Onassis Foundation
Marianna Christofi
Communication and Initiatives Coordinator at the Cavafy Archive