Cavafy goes to University 2019-2020

Suspended due to safety measures

The Cavafy Archive collaborates with the Ionian University, in a series of workshops that explore the possibilities and limits of the interdisciplinary, intersectional and interartistic approaches to Cavafy’s life and work.

The program “Cavafy goes to University”, for a second year, focuses on the inquiry of contemporary theoretical developments and reading approaches of Cavafy’s life and work, through the combination of poetic discourse and digital archival material, drawing content, methods and practices from different arts and deploying experimental tools and applications.

The students that will attend the workshops will participate in discussions and events concerning various themes and applications on literature and criticism, translation, audio-visual arts, dance. Most of all, they will practically work with experimental tools, which will allow them to examine and empirically understand the dynamic potential of the subject, but also the methods of avant-garde movements.

In the workshops, digitized documents from the Cavafy Archive, such as manuscripts, notes, photographs, letters or the poet’s famous “broadsheets”, but also recordings and musical settings of the Cavafian poetry, as well as various versions of parody, mimicry and appropriation of Cavafian works –in Greek or other languages– will be deployed.

The program is realized in collaboration with the Ionian University, with the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, the Department of Music Studies, as well as the Department of Audio & Visual Arts.