International Cavafy Summer School 2017: Cavafy in the World
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Thanks to the generous support of the Onassis Foundation and the Cavafy Archive, the International Cavafy Summer School is in a position to cover all room and board expenses for participants. In addition, there are no tuition charges or other fees for participants. Students and early-career researchers can also apply for grants to cover their travel expenses in whole or in part.
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Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career scholars
Introduction
The inaugural International Cavafy Summer School 2017 is here. 15 new researchers and 6 leading academics from all over the world come together in the premises of the Onassis Library, under the auspices of the Onassis Foundation, for an intensive programme consisting of 56 hours of Cavafy.
Among the topics that the first Summer School will aim to revisit are: Cavafy’s relationship to movements such as symbolism, aestheticism, decadence and modernism; Cavafy's dialogue with other literary figures; Cavafy as a cultural myth; the place of biography in Cavafy studies; paratextual uses of Cavafy's poems; the construction of a Cavafy “canon” through editing and translating; Cavafy’s importance for modern queer writing and culture. It will also pose questions such as: What kind of methodological and theoretical approaches can be productive in revisiting Cavafyʼs work as world literature? How does Cavafyʼs appeal as a world literary figure relate to (and challenges) national appropriations of the poet in Greece? How does Cavafyʼs poetry speak to present cultural, social, and political concerns and what kind of responses does it offer to contemporary local and global realities?