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📌A conference titled “Designing Belonging: Libraries as Inclusive and Open Public Spaces” organized by the Organizing Committee for the Support of Libraries will take place on 1-2 December 2025, at the Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος - National Library of Greece (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center).

In an era characterized by an overabundance of digital media and a multilayered social structure, #libraries are called upon to redefine their role as open and inclusive spaces where people gather to participate in shared activities that encourage genuine human connection. Within this context, the upcoming conference will delve into issues focusing on community development and social inclusion, aiming to enable libraries—through co-design—to redefine their identity as community hubs of socialization and innovation.

The conference will also highlight innovative practices that establish libraries as hubs of alternative and lifelong learning, places where curiosity thrives beyond formal education. In addition, emphasis will be placed on the importance of universal design and accessibility, showcasing inclusion strategies that welcome diverse users, including persons with disabilities and marginalized communities. Ultimately, the conference presentations propose a vision of libraries not merely as repositories of information, but as open, evolving spaces for human connection, equity, and democratic participation.

Participants will have the opportunity to engage in dialogue with leading experts from Germany, Finland, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Greece, and to exchange ideas on the socially inclusive character of libraries.

💡For more info👉 https://www.nlg.gr/news/designing-belonging-libraries-as-inclusive-and-open-public-spaces/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOLjCpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETB4OE16bXZzZ0JnRUJUaHpXc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvenoY-44p8--mdACyUROTucF0YEuYJpyaOXi1DmD921LXFQniGM66nRAfn0_aem_vjsYo0ha4YnnMD43XyeN6Q
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📚📚MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, features 30 selections of poems translated into English by contemporary poets expanding the linguistic boundaries of Modern Greek, Bulgarian and Arvanitika, reflecting on migrant crossings in the Mediterranean, female friendship, the transcription of orality, imagined plagues, the encounters of bodies, the AIDS pandemic, and artistic ruin, among other themes. Greek poetry, as perhaps all poetry, opens the heart to the beyond, to the liminal condition. The truth is that the idea of a national focus will forever be complicated given that migrants also form part of the tradition of a region, both those entering and those leaving (which is why a poem into Greek is also included, by a Cypriot poet residing in Ireland).

The authors translated in the Focus are Angelos Sikelianos, Anna Griva, Argyris Chionis, Argyris Stavropoulos, Christodoulos Makris, Danae Siozou, Dimitra Kotoula, Efstathia P., Eftychia Panayiotou, Eleni Kefala, Ersi Sotiropoulos, George Le Nonce, Iana Boukova, Iliassa Sequin, Ioannis Tsirkas, Jazra Khaleed, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina Iliopoulou, Konstantinos Loukopoulos, Krystalli Glyniadakis, Myrsini Ghana, Niki Chalkiadaki, Nikolas Koutsodontis, Panayotis Ioannidis, Peter Constantine, Phoebe Giannisi, Stamatis Polenakis, Suleyman Alayali-Tsialik, Thanos Gogos, Vassilis Kimoulis. Two introductory essays by Brian Sneeden and Kostya Tsolakis provide context.

For more info 👉https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/the-antidote-to-agony-focus-on-the-poetry-of-greece-and-cyprus/
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Reading Greece3 days ago
📚📚A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern #poets, "Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography" by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) looks closely at #Cavafy’s artistic journey, from his early poetic experiments to his startling reinvention in middle age, when he renounced much of what he had written and developed a new poetics. Erotic, philosophical, and linguistically suggestive, this widely imitated yet singular style is now recognized and revered as Cavafian.

Reading Greece spoke to Peter Jeffreys Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis about their decision to write a new biography of Cavafy, the challenges they faced in reconstructing his life, how they contextualized the themes he delved into within his modern cosmopolitan setting, as well as how their biography situates Cavafy in a global literary context.

The translator of the book in Greek (Εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο - Ekdoseis Metaixmio, 2025),, Mihalis Makropoulos, also spoke to Reading Greece about the challenging aspects of translating the book, how he navigated translating culturally specific references, especially those rooted in Hellenistic, Byzantine, or colonial Alexandria contexts, and whether he expects that this biography will shed new light on the life and work of Cavafy.

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ΒΟΟΚΟF THE MONTH: “Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography” by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis
A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets, Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis, captures the complexities of Cavafy’s life and work, showing him to have been a troubled, brilliant poet who sacrificed love for his art. In r...
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