[MGSA-L] What Greece...? (April 21, 2021) - Greek Studies Now

[Claudio Russello]

Dear all,

On behalf of the network Greek Studies Now, I would like to invite you to our next event "What Greece...?", taking place on April 21 at 5pm UK / 12pm (noon) EDT in the frame of a series of webinars organised by our network for the bicentennial of the 1821 Greek War of Independence.

For our second meeting of this series, we have asked a group of cultural creators to take part in a digital equivalent of an open-mic. Literary authors, filmmakers, comic-book writers have contributed submitting a short video reflecting on the word, concept, idea and geopolitical, imaginary that the word "Greece" conjures for them today, in the current socio-political and cultural conjuncture. We have asked for fragments, extracts from work in progress, provocative ideas. We have invited our contributors to think not of the question "what is Greece", but to consider the very title "What Greece..." as a puzzling, often absurd, and certainly open-ended fragment in itself. Reintroducing it in their own narratives in different ways, from "what kind of Greece" or "what Greece means to you" to "what the hell, Greece...", the responses we will showcase mix the national and the personal, the rational and the absurd, the familiar and the weird, the playful and the austere.

In the first part of this event, we will present the videos we have collected, offering a heterogenous collage of literary, visual, aural, and multi-media reflections. In the second part, we will open the floor for a live conversation with the contributing artists, taking further the many threads they open up in their contributions.
Video contributions will be in English or in Greek with English translation/subtitles and the roundtable discussion will be in English.

Confirmed participating artists and authors:
Alexis Alexiou
Vassilis Amanatidis
Orfeas Apergis
Glykeria Basdeki
Marios Chatziprokopiou and Anna Tzakou
Theodoros Chiotis
Christos Chrissopoulos
Maria Fakinou
Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Erofili Kokkali
Patricia Kolaiti
Alekos Lountzis and Orestis Papaioannou
Pavlina Marvin and Danae Sioziou
Afroditi Nikolaidou
Dimosthenis Papamarkos
Vassiliki Petsa
Elina Psykou
Soloup
Vicky Tselepidou
George Ttoouli

The event will be livestreamed on YouTube. Register here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-greece-tickets-151030543421> in order to receive the link for the livestream. If you would like to share the FB event, you can find it here<https://www.facebook.com/events/753241485334801>.

The first webinar in these series of events to mark the Bicentennial of the Declaration of Greek Independence, was held on 22 March: a discussion on the nation by revisiting Stathis Gourgouris' classic book "Dream Nation"<https://youtu.be/bf3agCqO4-A>. Following this second event "What Greece...?", our third webinar in this series will be held on 17 May 2021 under the title "We have never been racist": Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Greece".
Sign up here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fR9cIl6N1W-K4uMjhQ_UrXYtqOlzDhLPUWnYiFeE5II/edit> if you would like to receive news and updates about other events organized by the network Greek Studies Now.
We really hope to see you all next Wednesday!

Best wishes from us all,
'Greek Studies Now' cultural analysis network
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