Cultural Studies: Texts-Creators-Actions

The group“Cultural studies: Texts-Creators-Actions” aims to promote important, either older or contemporary texts on the topics of the workshop. These activities are planned to present literary and other texts combined with different arts, such as painting, film, music. The group wishes to highlight the interaction of speech and other arts, the influence of literature, its importance in expressing the deepest feelings, in revealing the ineffable, in uncovering the hidden and thus in narrating the most important aspects of the human experience.

Dan Georgakas: A Personal History of Greek America

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INVITATION

As part of the “CULTURAL STUDIES: TEXTS-CREATORS-ACTIONS” Cycle, we are discussing, on Monday 5/20/2024, at 6:00 p.m., in the welcoming area of Pikap Kato (Olympou 57, downtown Thessaloniki), about the Greeks of America on the occasion of the book by Dan Georgakas “My Detroit” (Translated by Anastasia Stefanidou), Athens: “The publications of colleagues” 2016.

Speakers:

Kostis Karpozilos, PhD in History, University of Crete

Anastasia Stefanidou, Ph.D. in English Literature, AUTH (translator of the book)

Antonis Balasopoulos, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Cyprus

Entry is free to the public.

Event Language: Greek

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“The Things We Said in the Past Still Hold True”

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(A Journey to Vodená by Markos Meskos)

INVITATION

Within the framework of the Cycle
“CULTURAL STUDIES: TEXTS-CREATORS-ACTIONS”
we present and discuss the film by Pigi Dimitrakopoulou

The Things We Said in the Past Still Hold True

(A Journey to Vodená by Markos Meskos)

on Wednesday, 29/11/2023, from 18:00 to 20:00, at the Cultural Venue of Islahane

We invite our students and the public of our city to a free screening of the film “The Things We Said in the Past Still Hold True” about the poet Markos Meskos and his work. We believe that the combination of poetic language and cinematic perspective can open horizons of knowledge and sensitivity in an era when these are needed more than anything else. Markos Meskos (1935-2017) captures in his poems the overwhelming experience of life in civil war and post-civil war Greece, the bitterness of the persecution of his mother tongue, and his love for the landscape and people of his homeland, western Macedonia.

The film, a chronicle of a friend’s pilgrimage to his grave, framed by the beautiful music of Markos’ fellow countryman and friend, Kostas Theodorou (Dine Doneff), leads us through the protagonist’s journey to an acquaintance with Markos Meskos’ poetry and a reflection on his censored, forbidden mother tongue. A discussion will follow.

Organization: Prof. Alexandra Ioannidou, Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, musician Kostas Theodorou (Dine Doneff) “The Things We Said in the Past Still Hold True” (duration: 53′ – produced in 2013)
Screenplay: Thanos Lambropoulos, direction: Pigi Dimitrakopoulou, music: Dine Doneff.
Event language: Greek

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