International Cavafy Summer School 2024: Cavafy, Theater and Performativity

Taking the theatricality of Cavafy’s oeuvre and dramatic elements of his poetry as its point of departure, the International Cavafy Summer School 2024 will be seeking to approach Cavafy from the perspective of theater, performance, and performativity. This year, seminars and presentations will spotlight theatrical elements of Cavafy’s poetry, the poet’s directorial efforts within his poems, and even his links to the theater scene. Participants and speakers at the Summer School will be engaging with Cavafy’s connections to theater, touching upon such issues as the performative use of language, the multiple identities constructed within the Cavafian canon, and the reception of both the life and work of the poet as theater/performance.

Through its open call, the International Cavafy Summer School 2024 is seeking to attract advanced postgraduate and doctoral students, as well as early-career scholars, from a variety of disciplines within the humanities, social sciences, and arts, aiming to suggest new ways to approach C. P. Cavafy and his work.