C.P. Cavafy: The Long Road to Ithaca

In association with the TLS, the Hellenic Foundation for Culture in the UK and King’s College London would cordially like to invite you to:

C. P. Cavafy:

The Long Road to Ithaka

A SYMPOSIUM TO MARK 150 YEARS FROM THE POET’S BIRTH

Friday 26 April

King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Morning session, 11:00-13:00

‘Current perspectives on Cavafy’: PhD Colloquium
Introduced and presented by graduate students of King’s College London.
Chair: Professor David Ricks
Nikolas Kakkoufa, ‘Palamas and Cavafy: a comparative approach’
Nicoletta Hadjipavlou, ‘Kyriacos Charalambides: reconstructing the past in a Cavafian manner’
Ioanna Skordi, ‘Religious feelings and Homosexuality in Cavafy and Ioannou: the emergence of the ‘’Holy Sinner’’
Stavrini Ioannidou, ‘’’His last Alexandrian days’’: fictional portraits of the ageing Cavafy’

Afternoon session, 14.00-18.00

Victoria Solomonidis (Hellenic Foundation for Culture), ‘Cavafy and England’
David Ricks (King’s College London), ‘The poets’ poet’
Roderick Beaton (King’s College London), ‘Cavafy’s Greek world’
Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford), ‘The past as memory, the present as aesthetics, the future as ethics: C.P. Cavafy in queer time’
Peter Robinson (University of Reading), ‘Intimacy Published: A Reading of Poems’
Avi Sharon (New York), ‘A Long Journey to Ithaca: Translating Cavafy for the 21st Century’ with readings by Michael Pennington

Event free. Booking essential through http://cavafy.eventbrite.co.uk/