📚📚On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of
#poet Manolis Anagnostakis, a symposium organized by the Department of Modern Greek Studies of the University of Geneva, in cooperation with the Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis, with the support of the Consulate General of Greece in Geneva, aims to shed light to the multi-faceted work of the great Greek poet.
Reading Greece spoke to the symposium’s organizers, Valia Tsaita-Tsilimeni (University of Geneva) and Thalia Ieronymaki (Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis), about the scope of the symposium, the various lectures that aim to contribute to a renewed understanding of Anagnostakis’s poetic vision, also discussing the way his moral and intellectual stance may speak to our present-day cultural and political realities, and the role that such events play in recontextualizing modern Greek
#poetry within global literary studies.
Consulate General of Greece in Geneva - Consulat général de Grèce à Genève
