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Cavafy Goes to University 2018-2019

Cavafy joins university students in the classroom

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Monday-Friday
Time
18:00-21:00
Venue
University of Ioannina

Information

Cost

Free admission

For information and applications, interested parties can communicate electronically at education@onassis.org.

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 5 December 2018

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For students at the University of Ioannina

Students of Greek Literature and Fine Arts and Art Sciences approach Cavafy from various points of departure through two creative workshops.

The Cavafy Archive, in collaboration with the University of Ioannina and specifically the Workshop in Modern Greek Literature and the Workshop in Art History, will hold two workshops that will bring an interdisciplinary approach to Cavafy’s poetry.

The participating students from the two departments will collaborate, activating or uncovering their own skills and talents, making creative use of the materials of the digital Cavafy archive, experimenting with transcribing Cavafy’s poems, and creating new artworks and interventions based on those poems.

An innovative program that encourages the interdisciplinary use of digital archival material, enriching philological material with content and methodologies that derive from other academic fields.

Co-organized by

  • Workshop in Modern Greek Literature, School of Philosophy, Department of Philology, Professor of Modern Greek Literature, University of Ioannina

    Takis Kayalis

  • Workshop in the History of Art, School of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences, University of Ioannina, Associate Professor of Anthropology of Art, University of Ioannina

    Christos Dermentzopoulos

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The program “Cavafy Goes to University” is intended for 4th year undergraduate students and for postgraduate students in the Department of Literature and the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences at the University of Ioannina. In exceptional circumstances 1st, 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate students of the same departments may be accepted. The students that will attend all workshops sessions will receive a certificate of attendance.

The program “Cavafy goes to University” is conceived by the Cavafy Archive. It takes place for the first time in the academic year 2018-19, in collaboration with the Workshops for Modern Greek Literature and Art History of the University of Ioannina. This first pilot implementation of the program uses the experience gained from our earlier innovative and creative project “Cavafy goes to school”. “Cavafy goes to school” runs successfully for many years now, and has been hosted by 48 schools in the whole country. “Cavafy goes to university” is not a research or education program. Its aim is to break the strictly academic frame, and to encourage students from various faculties to approach the work and digital archive of C.P. Cavafy in a creative and interdisciplinary way. This should lead to new theoretical links, and to unusual artistic elaborations of the Cavafian poetic world.

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