[MGSA-L] Cavafy conference at University of Missouri-St. Louis

[Syrimis, George]

150 YEARS CAVAFY
Constantine P. Cavafy: Poetry in a Time of Crisis!

Program

2pm – 2:15 pm
-Michael Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Opening Remarks
-Ioanna Efthymiadou, Consul General of Greece in Chicago, Greeting

2:15pm – 2:40pm
George Syrimis, Yale University
The End of an Era? The Fourth Century A.D. in the Poetry of C. P. Cavafy

2:40pm – 3:05pm
Eamonn Wall, University of Missouri-St Louis
"Always in Your Mind Keep Ithaca": C.P. Cavafy's and James Joyce's Diasporas

3:05pm – 3:30pm
Philip Purchase, Washington University
"The City is the Teacher": Hellenistic Poetics in Cavafy's Alexandria

Discussion

Coffee Break

4:15pm – 4:40pm
Katerina Stergiopoulou, Princeton University
Cavafy’s Greeks: A Translator’s Crisis?

4:40pm – 5:05pm
Nikos Poulopoulos, University of Missouri-St Louis
“Waiting for the Barbarians”: A Crisis of Civilization or Cavafy's Anatomy of a False Crisis?

5:05pm – 5:30pm
Karen Emmerich, University of Oregon
“??? ?? ?? ?????????”: Crisis and an Imperfect Future in the Poetry of
C. P. Cavafy

Discussion

Reception
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Presented by The Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Professorship in Greek Studies, International Studies and Programs, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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