Programme

9.30 – 10.00 REGISTRATION - INTRODUCTION

10.00 – 11.30 SESSION 1.

‘SIMPLICITY AND MASTERY OF EXPRESSION’

Maria Nikolopoulou: The polyphony of memory: Claire Mitsotaki’s Niki as a phoenix, Niki as a palm-tree

Flora Manakidou: Peripatetic ‘ecphrasis’ in the poetry of Niki Marangou: the miracle of the everyday

Eleni Papargyriou: Literature and photography: the case of Niki Marangou

11.30 – 12.00 BREAK

12.00 – 13.00 SESSION 2.

THE ‘SWEET LAND OF CYPRUS’: FICTION AND REALITY

Nikos Falagkas: Biography as fiction: Evangelos Louizos from the Generation of the Thirties to Is the Panther Alive?

Polina Tambakaki: Niki Marangou and ‘The Maid of Athens’: Cyprus and female writing, trauma and narrative

13.00 – 14.30 BREAK

14.30 – 15.30 SESSION 3.

THE POETRY OF NIKI MARANGOU

Nicoletta Hadjipavlou: Reconfiguring the past in the poetry of Niki Marangou

Evripides Garantoudis: People and places in the poetry of Niki Marangou

15.30 – 16.00 BREAK

16.00 – 17.30 SESSION 4.

NIKI MARANGOU AND HISTORY

Maria Mandamadiotou: The invasion of 1974 in Niki Marangou’s Eighteen narrations: memory and history Frangiski Ambatzopoulou: Niki Marangou and Cypriot women’s narratives

Sia Anagnostopoulou: The different temporalities of Cyprus in the work of Niki Marangou

17.45 – 19.30 CLOSING SESSION:

‘REMEMBERING NIKI’

Michalis Ganas, Dionysis Kapsalis, Edmée Leventis, Julia Tsiakiris, Miltiades Hatzopoulos, Anna Boghiguian