Stratis Tsirkas: The Artist’s Signature

The list of speakers (from Greece and Cyprus) includes:

• Angela Gioti (Studied Modern Greek Philology at the University of Crete and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has worked as a researcher in programs of the National Book Centre of Greece, A.U.Th., and the Centre for the Greek Language, and has taught at the University of Crete. Since 2010, she has been teaching Modern Greek Philology at the Institute of Modern Greek Studies at Freie Universität Berlin),
• Giannis Dimitrakakis (He holds a degree from the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens and a Ph.D. in Modern Greek Philology from the University of Sorbonne (Paris IV). He has worked as a philologist in Secondary Education. Since spring 2011, he has been teaching modern literature at the Department of Philology at the University of Crete. He has published studies on N.G. Pentzikis, N. Kahtitsis, Th. Valtinos, Z. Lorenzatos, G. Beratis, P. Prevelakis, A. Frangias, A. Gide, etc.),
• Maria Iatrou (Assistant Professor of Modern Greek Philology at A.U.Th. She is involved with 19th and 20th century poetry and prose),
• Angela Kastrinaki (Associate Professor in the Philology Department at the University of Crete. She studied philology at A.U.Th. and dealt with the phenomenon of orality in Greek prose: The Voice of the Native Land (1997), and literature during the war, the Occupation, and the Civil War. She has been awarded the Abdi Ipekci Peace and Friendship Award for studies related to the image of the Turk in Greek narratives, and the State Essay Award),
• Elisavet Kontogiorgi (Graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1981), with postgraduate studies (MPhil) in European and Greek history at the University of Glasgow (1988). She holds a Ph.D. in History (DPhil) from the University of Oxford (Saint Antony’s College, 1997). She is currently a researcher at the Centre for Modern Greek History at the Academy of Athens, with interests in migrations and population exchanges in the Balkans during the 1912-1923 period, the refugee and Macedonian issue, the social policy of the League of Nations in Greece, and 19th-century church history),
• Elisavet Kotzia (Born in Athens in 1954. She studied economics in Athens and London. Since 1987, she has been a literary critic for the newspaper Kathimerini),
• Petros Markaris (Novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and translator. He was born in Istanbul. His crime novels (Night Report, Zone Defense, Che Committed Suicide, The Main Shareholder, Old, Very Old, Expired Loans) have been translated into fourteen languages, and his hero, Commissioner Haritos, is one of the most popular crime novel heroes in Europe. He collaborated with Theo Angelopoulos on several of his film scripts. He has also translated works by Brecht, Wedekind, and Schnitzler into Greek. His latest translation is Goethe’s Faust, parts I and II),
• Giannis Papatheodorou (Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern Greek Philology at the University of Ioannina. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Athens, Department of Philology. His doctoral dissertation focused on the relationship between narrative and ideology in Stratis Tsirkas’ Unruly Cities),
• Miltos Pechlivanos (Studied at A.U.Th. and the University of Konstanz. He is an assistant professor of General and Comparative Literature at A.U.Th. and has been elected to the position of Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Freie Universität Berlin),
• Alexis Politis (From 1976 to 1989, he worked at the Centre for Modern Greek Studies at the National Hellenic Research Foundation and since then at the University of Crete. His main works include: The Folk Song: Klephtic, Athens 1973, The Discovery of Greek Folk Songs, Athens 1984; Claude Fauriel, Greek Folk Songs, vols. A-B, Heraklion 1999. The Folk Song: Comparative Approaches; From Oral to Written Tradition; Minor Analyses, Heraklion 2010),
• Marlena Politopoulou (Studied political sciences at the University of Athens. She worked as a journalist for almost twenty years in newspapers and radio. She taught radio speech and creative writing at Panteion University and the University of Athens in the Departments of Communication and Mass Media. She works as a publishing director and translates from German. Her latest crime novel, The Polaroid Memory, was published by Metaichmio in 2009),
• Lizy Tsirimokou (She studied philosophy and philology in Athens (1967-1972) and Paris (1972-1979) and since 1979-80 has been teaching literary theory and comparative literature at A.U.Th. She has published The Literature of the City (1988), the collected volume of essays Internal Speed (2000), and the annotated correspondence of Yiannis Ritsos with Kaity Drosou and Aris Alexandrou (Trajectories in Intersection, 2008),
• Vangelis Hatzivasileiou (Studied political sciences and regional economics. He collaborated with the newspapers Proti and Kathimerini and various literary magazines, worked as a literary critic for Avgi (1982-1991) and Eleftherotypia (1991-2010), was a member of the editorial team of the Library supplement of Eleftherotypia (1998-2009), an editorial consultant for the electronic magazine Apiliotis of the European Centre for Translation – Literature and Human Sciences (EKEMEL), and a regular contributor to Books’ Journal, Entefktirio, and Nea Estia),
• Giorgos Georgis (Graduate and Ph.D. of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. He worked in secondary education in Cyprus and Greece and at the Press and Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus. He served as Cultural Attaché in Athens from 1982-1994 and 1997-2000. He was the first director of the Cyprus House in the Greek capital (1987-1993, 1997-2000). From 1994 to 1997, he was a Visiting Research Associate at King’s College London and a research associate at the Cyprus Research Center. He is an associate professor of Modern Greek History at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus. He served as Cyprus’ Ambassador to Greece, concurrently accredited to Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania from 2005 to 2009),
• Kostas Nikolaidis (Studied Greek philology at the University of Athens. He taught in Secondary Education and at the Cyprus Pedagogical Academy. Co-editor and member of the editorial team (with Levkios Zafeiriou, Alexis Ziras, and Natia Charalambidou) of the annual magazine of criticism and literature Simeio (1992–1998), and
• Lefteris Papaleontiou (Studied Modern Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he continued postgraduate studies. Since 1994, he has been teaching at the University of Cyprus. He has published studies on Modern Greek and particularly Cypriot literature. He has published books on Kostas Montis, Cypriot literary magazines, and other figures and issues of Cypriot literature. He is the editor of the biannual magazine Microphilologica (1997 onwards). Together with Professor Giorgos Kehagioglou, he has published The History of Modern Cypriot Literature (2010).

Sponsors of the Symposium were the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education, the Municipalities of Limassol and Nicosia, the Embassy of Greece in Cyprus, the National Book Centre of Greece, the Bank of Cyprus, the offshore company Lemissoler Navigation Co. Ltd, the President of the Alumni of Moraitis School, Mr. Haris Petropoulos, and his wife, Ms. Melina Patakaki.

The official air carrier was Cyprus Airways.

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