[MGSA-L] Modern Greek studies seminar at King's College London

[Beaton, Roderick]

NATIONAL POETS STAMMERING THE NATION: FOSCOLO, KALVOS AND SOLOMOS
Location
K0.31 (Small Committee Room) Strand Campus
When
14/10/2013 (17:30-18:30)
Contact
Everyone welcome, no need to book.

Contact chsevents at kcl.ac.uk<mailto:chsevents at kcl.ac.uk> for any queries

Part of the Modern Greek Studies Seminar Series

This lecture is about the story of three poets who set off from the same island of the Ionian Sea, Zante, and ended up becoming the "national poets" of two different countries, Italy and Greece. Ugo Foscolo, Andreas Kalvos and Dionysios Solomos were born within years of each other (Foscolo in 1778, Kalvos 1792, and Solomos 1798), but enough to inculcate in them different choices regarding language, poetry and, finally, national identity. Their divergent routes are seen as a metaphor for the dissolving Venetian "cultural continuum" of the Adriatic. Their lives encompass the efforts, successful or not, of a whole generation of intellectuals born within empires to cope with the emerging vocabulary of nationalism. Theirs is a story of intellectuals adjusting to a changing world, of individuals repositioning themselves in a reality of rapidly shifting loyalties between old and new empires and nation-states.

Konstantina Zanou, Adjunct Professor (Open University of Cyprus) and Research Affiliate (School of History, Queen Mary, University of London)
Konstantina Zanou is an adjunct professor of History at the Open University of Cyprus. She holds a PhD from the University of Pisa and of the European Doctorate in the Social History of Europe and the Mediterranean (2008). Since then she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus (affiliated as a researcher to the University of Nicosia), a Fulbright Fellow and visiting scholar at New York University, visiting fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies Sofia, Bulgaria, while she is currently a British Academy at Athens Fellow and Research affiliate at Queen Mary, University of London. She has published several articles on Greek intellectuals in Italy, and on nostalgia, exile, cultural transfers and nationalism in the early nineteenth-century Adriatic. Her book-in-progress is entitled “Stammering the Nation: Transnational Patriotism in the Ionian Islands and the Adriatic, 1800-1830”.
Roderick Beaton
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and
Literature
Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
UK
tel. 0044 20 7848 2517

Webpage:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/people/academic/beaton/index.aspx

Byron's War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (CUP, April 2013):
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item7127689/?site_locale=en_GB



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