PAROS POETRY AND TRANSLATION SYMPOSIUM<\/p>\n
16 \u2013 26 JULY 2015<\/p>\n
ATHENS GREEECE<\/p>\n
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16 July Thursday<\/span><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/ Translation workshop<\/p>\n mid-day break<\/p>\n 18.30 \/\u00a0 Introductions, sharing work\u2014please bring poems to read<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 17 July Friday<\/span><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/\u00a0 Translation workshop<\/p>\n mid-day break<\/p>\n 18.30 \/\u00a0\u00a0 Vladimir Boscovic<\/strong>, “Translating cultures: The ethos of (semantic meta)language?”<\/p>\n Poetry reading by Symposium participants Laura Scott<\/strong> (winner of the 2015 Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlets Award) and Jim Carruth<\/strong> (winner of the 2015 Callum McDonalds Awards)<\/p>\n Vladimir Boskovic<\/strong> is a Modern Greek scholar with a Classicist background, currently living in the United States. His doctoral thesis deals with Elytis’ philosophy of language. He works with Greek, English, and his native Serbian.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 18 July Saturday<\/span><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/ Translation workshop<\/p>\n mid-day break<\/p>\n 18.30 \/ Meeting point at SEA to travel to Athens Festival \/ Visit Athens Festival at Pireos 260<\/p>\n 20.30 \/ Presentation by Adonis Volanakis<\/strong> of his installation \u201cThe Holy Bachelorette in the Wedding Cave\u201d, Pireos 260<\/p>\n Visual artist Adonis Volanakis<\/strong>\u2019 practice is a collaborative amalgam of human relations and aesthetics, poetry and politics, fine art and theater. His work has been shown internationally. He has been commissioned for, curated or participated in multiple exhibitions, and his work in performance designing and\/or direction consists of multiple productions. He currently teaches at NYU.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 19 July Sunday<\/span><\/p>\n Day off<\/p>\n Optional day-trip to the Saronic Gulf islands of Hydra, Poros, and Aegina<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 20 July Monday<\/span><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/\u00a0 Translation workshop<\/p>\n mid-day break<\/p>\n 18.30 \/ Discussion on theory & praxis of translation \/ Reading of Benjamin\u2019s \u201cThe Task of the Translator\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 21 July Tuesday<\/span><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/\u00a0 Translation workshop<\/p>\n mid-day break<\/p>\n 18.30 \/\u00a0\u00a0 Performance by James Simbouras<\/strong><\/p>\n Symposium participant Zafiris Nikitas<\/strong>, \u201cHow to recalibrate a soul: Notes on performance poetry\u201d<\/p>\n Francesco Kiais<\/strong>, \u201cAbout Love #2\u201d, thoughts on Ritual-Body \/ Political Body in Athens<\/p>\n James Simbouras<\/strong> studied Fine Art at UCA Canterbury and at the University of Kent. He currently works as an artist and curator in Athens, Greece.<\/p>\n Francesco Kiais<\/strong> is associate curator at the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK, teacher and theoretician at PAS | Performance Art Studies. He lives and works as an artist in Athens, Greece.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 22 July Wednesday<\/span><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/\u00a0 Translation workshop<\/p>\n mid-day break<\/p>\n 19.30 \/\u00a0\u00a0 Book presentation of Symposium participant Vassiliki Rapti<\/strong>\u2019s TRANSITORIUM<\/p>\n Commentary by Zafiris Nikitas, Nikos Poulopoulos,<\/strong> and Chloe Koutsoumbeli<\/strong><\/p>\n Poetry reading from TRANSITORIUM<\/p>\n Music by Kostas Rekleitis, Stella Markou, Yiannis Filias, <\/strong>and Evgenios Bensis<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 23 July Thursday<\/span><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/\u00a0 Translation workshop<\/p>\n mid-day break<\/p>\n 18.30 \/\u00a0\u00a0 Symposium participant William Rowe<\/strong>, poetry reading and talk, \u201cMilitant Poetry\u201d<\/p>\n Joulia Mermigka<\/strong>, \u201cArt & activism inside \/ outside a squat\u201d<\/p>\n Joulia Mermigka<\/strong> is an Athenian based independent researcher, filmmaker and cultural activist. She holds a PhD from the Media and Communication Department of the University of Athens. Her thesis was on Cinema and Philosophy. Her interests revolve around the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, grassroots politics and arts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 24 July Friday<\/span><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/\u00a0 Translation workshop<\/p>\n mid-day break<\/p>\n 18.30 \/\u00a0 Meeting point at SEA to walk over to archeological site of Kerameikos<\/p>\n 19.00 \u2013 20.00 \/\u00a0 Guided tour of Kerameikos, ancient Greek cemetery<\/p>\n 21.00 \/\u00a0 Film screening and discussion of \u0398\u03b7\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03ac<\/em> (The Noose<\/em>) and \u0388\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u039b\u03b1\u03bc\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2 \u0389\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> (A Bright Shining Sun<\/em>) with director Vassilis Loules<\/strong> (introduction Vassiliki Rapti<\/strong>)<\/p>\n Vassilis Loules<\/strong> is a fiction and documentary director. He has collaborated with the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) and with the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs Film Archive. His films, which deal with personal stories amidst the turbulence of History, have won awards at festivals, have been shown on TV in Greece and abroad and are used as educational material at universities. His documentary Kisses to the Children (2012) was screened at events throughout Greece and received many rave reviews. It is currently in special screenings in Europe, North America and Australia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 25 July Saturday<\/span><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/ Translation workshop<\/p>\n mid-day break<\/p>\n 19.00 \/ Paros Symposium 2015 final reading and celebration<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PAROS POETRY AND TRANSLATION SYMPOSIUM 16 \u2013 26 JULY 2015 ATHENS GREEECE 16 July Thursday 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/ Translation workshop mid-day break 18.30 \/\u00a0 Introductions, sharing work\u2014please bring poems to read 17 July Friday 10.00 \u2013 14.00 \/\u00a0 Translation workshop mid-day break 18.30 \/\u00a0\u00a0 Vladimir Boscovic, “Translating cultures: The ethos of (semantic […] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}