Colloquium "Cavafy and Image"

The Cavafy Archive / Onassis Foundation and the Graduate Program "Cultural Management" of the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University, co-organize the colloquium "Cavafy and Image". On Friday 20 March, in the auditorium "Sakis Karagiorgas II", academics and artists will explore the relationship and interaction of Cavafy's work with cinema, comics and media art.

Program

17:00-17:20 Greetings — Introduction

17:20-19:00 First session
Chair: Yannis Skarpelos (Head of Department Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University)

Konstantinos Kyriakos (University of Patras)
"Traces of C.P. Cavafy’s presence on film and television screens (1966-2014)"

Theodoros Chiotis (Cavafy Archive)
"A stranger in Antioch: Cavafy’s work in a digital context"

Afroditi Nicolaidou (Hellenic Open University) and Maria Paradisi (Panteion University)
"Rhetorical devices and spatial patterns in cinematic adaptations of Cavafy’s text"

Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford)
"Seeking continuity: the Cavafy image and personal archive"

19:00-19:20 Break

19:20-20:45 Second Session
Round table with Takis Spetsiotis (director-writer), Thanassis Petrou (comics creator), Maria Varela (media artist) and Q&A

20:45 Small reception

Credits

Co-organised by
Cavafy Archive / Onassis Foundation, Postgraduate Program "Cultural Management", Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University
Academic Advisor
Anastasios-Ioannis D. Metaxas
Designer of Ιnitiatives of the Archive
Afroditi Panagiotakou
Scholarly Advisor
Dimitris Papanikolaou
Project Manager
Theodoros Chiotis