Cyprus, Female Voice and Memory: Literature, Arts and History in the Work of Niki Marangou
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Presented By
King’s College London, British School at Athens
Location
The British School at Athens (Upper House), 52 Souedias Street, Athens 106 76
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