International Cavafy Summer School 2022: “Cavafy Mediated”

Photo: Nikos Katsaros

After being postponed due to the measures against Covid – 19, the International Cavafy Summer School has returned, entering its fourth year under the title “Cavafy Mediated”.

This initiative of the Cavafy Archive and the Onassis Foundation focuses on the work of C. P. Cavafy and its impact in the world, following a specific theme per year. The International Cavafy Summer School 2022, “Cavafy Mediated” focuses on the myriad ways in which Cavafy’s work can be “read” today: from print volumes and translations to lyrics quoted in buses, in the metro and the city, from poems and Cavafy-related texts circulated online to abbreviated forms referenced in newspapers and speeches, from the digital collection of the Cavafy Archive to artworks – musical, filmic and theatrical pieces that are produced in response to Cavafy’s life and work. The goal of the International Cavafy Summer School is to bring together academics, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and young scholars, in order to present their research and discuss new approaches in regard to the work of Cavafy.

The program includes morning lectures and afternoon workshops.

Participants have been selected via an open call. All places have been filled.

Workshop Leaders

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University (USA)
Karen Emmerich
Professor Emeritus of General and Comparative Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Visiting Professor at the Centre of Hellenic Studies, King’s College, London (UK)
Michalis Chryssanthopoulos

Speakers

Associate Professor of English Literature, North Dakota State University (USA)
Adam Goldwyn
Associate Professor of Translation and Interpreting (Modern Greek), University of Malaga (Spain)
Vicente Fernández González
Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature, King’s College London (UK)
David Ricks
Academic Coordinator and Research-Track Postdoc in Research Area 5 “Building Digital Communities” of the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities”, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Bart Soethaert
Assistant Professor in the Comparative Literature and Classical Studies Departments, University of Michigan (USA)
William Stroebel
Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies, University of Amsterdam (Marina Laskaridis Chair) / Assistant Professor at the department of Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University (Netherlands)
Maria Boletsi
Assistant Professor of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Martha Vassiliadi
Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Alexandra Rassidakis