Category: Reading Greece

📚📚Regional #libraries play a crucial role in preserving, processing, maintaining, and promoting the intellectual heritage of communities, offering free and equal access to all. Libraries also preserve both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, through the collection, documentation, and digitization of personal testimonies and memorabilia, transforming them into sources of information, research, and education for both Greece and the wider world.

Reading Greece spoke to Paraskevi Choudalaki, Head of Libraries & Creative Activities Center for Children of the Municipality of Chania, about the libraries of the Municipality of Chania, the great wealth of #books and archives that are housed there, the main challenges they are faced with, and the prospects ahead.

Δημοτική Βιβλιοθήκη Χανίων
Δήμος Χανίων - Municipality of Chania

📚📚Distinguished translator Eleana Ziakou spoke to Reading Greece about the challenges of translating Greek #literature into Albanian and vice versa, and the crucial role of #translators as cultural ambassadors fostering deeper understanding between peoples and cultures.

"Translators are the invisible hand that ensures the perpetuation of the author’s name and work beyond national borders. A world without translators would resemble the setting of the Tower of Babel, doomed to incoherence".

ΤHE INTERNATIONAL CAVAFY SUMMER SCHOOL IS ON!

The International Cavafy Summer School returned for its seventh year, inviting academics and early-career researchers from across the world to attend a week of seminars, presentations, and discussions centering on Cavafy’s work in relation to Egypt.

Twelve researchers and students from Universities in Greece and abroad meet in Athens for a series of workshops, presentations, and discussions on the multiple ways the Alexandrian poet's work engages with Egypt. The participants discussed Cavafy's Alexandria, his engagement with Hellenistic antiquity, as well as the varying forms of nostalgia expressed in the works of Cavafy, Marinetti, and Ungaretti.

This year's Cavafy Summer School sessions will continue until Saturday, July 12.

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