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Open Lecture: Cavafy - From Paganism to Christianity
Location: Greek Centre, Mezzanine, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Date: Thursday 5/10/2017 @ 7:00pm
Presenter: Michalis Tsianikas
Entry: FREE | Lecture will be delivered in Greek
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Synopsis
A significant number of Cavafy's poems refers to the passage from Paganism to Christianity, a cosmohistorical change that lasted more than five hundred years. It is this long period where almost everything is constantly and irrevocably changed and tested and societies, as Hellenism is profoundly altered. No other poet focuses on this period as long as Cavafy. His views may be either historical or aesthetic, or both, without taking a clear position, leaving the reader to make conclusions on his own. One thing is however certain: Cavafy puts us in serious thinking that is not at all irrelevant to our time. The central point of reference, however, is the revelation of the psychic shiver, the uninhibited and unmistakable work of consciousness, in its attempt to give meaning to its existence.
The lecture will be in Greek.
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Bio
Professor Michael Tsianikas of Flinders University, South Australia, studied Literature at the University of Thessaloniki. He did his postgraduate studies in France (PhD) and he taught in french secondary schools. Since 1989 he been based at Flinders University. He has published eight books and numerous articles, and he was founding member of the Logos Centre at Flinders. He played an instrumental role in establishing the LOGOS Centre in Flinders. He has organised eleven international conferences for Greek Studies and four for the Elderly (CALD). Together with his colleagues, they conceived and organised a Greek teaching program online, for advanced and beginners, open to all Australian universities.
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