Paros Poetry and Translation Symposium

2015 Program

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PAROS POETRY AND TRANSLATION SYMPOSIUM

16 – 26 JULY 2015

ATHENS GREEECE

16 July Thursday

10.00 – 14.00 / Translation workshop

mid-day break

18.30 / Introductions, sharing work—please bring poems to read

17 July Friday

10.00 – 14.00 / Translation workshop

mid-day break

18.30 / Vladimir Boscovic, “Translating cultures: The ethos of (semantic meta)language?”

Poetry reading by Symposium participants Laura Scott (winner of the 2015 Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlets Award) and Jim Carruth (winner of the 2015 Callum McDonalds Awards)

Vladimir Boskovic 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.

18 July Saturday

10.00 – 14.00 / Translation workshop

mid-day break

18.30 / Meeting point at SEA to travel to Athens Festival / Visit Athens Festival at Pireos 260

20.30 / Presentation by Adonis Volanakis of his installation “The Holy Bachelorette in the Wedding Cave”, Pireos 260

Visual artist Adonis Volanakis’ 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.

19 July Sunday

Day off

Optional day-trip to the Saronic Gulf islands of Hydra, Poros, and Aegina

20 July Monday

10.00 – 14.00 / Translation workshop

mid-day break

18.30 / Discussion on theory & praxis of translation / Reading of Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator”

21 July Tuesday

10.00 – 14.00 / Translation workshop

mid-day break

18.30 / Performance by James Simbouras

Symposium participant Zafiris Nikitas, “How to recalibrate a soul: Notes on performance poetry”

Francesco Kiais, “About Love #2”, thoughts on Ritual-Body / Political Body in Athens

James Simbouras studied Fine Art at UCA Canterbury and at the University of Kent. He currently works as an artist and curator in Athens, Greece.

Francesco Kiais 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.

22 July Wednesday

10.00 – 14.00 / Translation workshop

mid-day break

19.30 / Book presentation of Symposium participant Vassiliki Rapti’s TRANSITORIUM

Commentary by Zafiris Nikitas, Nikos Poulopoulos, and Chloe Koutsoumbeli

Poetry reading from TRANSITORIUM

Music by Kostas Rekleitis, Stella Markou, Yiannis Filias, and Evgenios Bensis

23 July Thursday

10.00 – 14.00 / Translation workshop

mid-day break

18.30 / Symposium participant William Rowe, poetry reading and talk, “Militant Poetry”

Joulia Mermigka, “Art & activism inside / outside a squat”

Joulia Mermigka 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.

24 July Friday

10.00 – 14.00 / Translation workshop

mid-day break

18.30 / Meeting point at SEA to walk over to archeological site of Kerameikos

19.00 – 20.00 / Guided tour of Kerameikos, ancient Greek cemetery

21.00 / Film screening and discussion of Θηλειά (The Noose) and Ένας Λαμπερός Ήλιος (A Bright Shining Sun) with director Vassilis Loules (introduction Vassiliki Rapti)

Vassilis Loules 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.

25 July Saturday

10.00 – 14.00 / Translation workshop

mid-day break

19.00 / Paros Symposium 2015 final reading and celebration