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OPEN CALL
International Cavafy
Summer School 2025
Cavafy and Egypt | Submission deadline: 27.12.2024
The International Cavafy Summer School 2025 will take place in the center of Athens from July 7th to July 12th. The annual scholarly initiative of the Cavafy Archive and the Onassis Foundation focused on Cavafy, his work, and his archive will engage with the role of Egypt in relation to Cavafy’s work.
The 2025 Summer School invites comparative, interdisciplinary proposals both on the poetics and politics of Cavafy in relation to Egypt and on broader intercultural, not least Egyptian-Greek, engagements with and beyond his corpus. As his poetry and prose attest, Cavafy did not only spend most of his life and die in the country of his birth; he was also, among others, of Egypt—an Egyptiote whose positionality and texts open a window onto the complexities of Greek-Egyptian convergence and divergence, as well as cosmopolitan and internationalist Mediterranean legacies.
We welcome proposals engaging Cavafy in relation to contemporary Egyptian poets; his reception in Arabic poetry and prose, as well as Arab cinema and the plastic arts; Arabic translations of his texts; comparative studies of the intertextual and intermedial resonances of things Egyptian/Arab in Greek, Egyptiote, and European texts produced by Cavafy’s contemporaries, including varieties of orientalism; Homeric mythology in Cavafy’s poetry in relation to the reimagining of ancient Greek myths in Egyptian/Syro-Lebanese literary culture, particularly inflected by the Nahda (Arab reawakening/renaissance).
The International Cavafy Summer School 2025 will be led by Hala Halim (New York University) and Martha Vasileiadi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and will take place in the center of Athens. Among the invited scholars who will hold seminars and act as mentors, offering feedback and responding to participants’ presentations, are Stefano Giannini (Syracuse University), Sabry Hafez (School of Oriental and African Studies, London), Monica Hanna (Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport), Emmanouela Kantzia (University of Thessaly), Yannis Papatheodorou (University of Patras), Ioulia Pipinia (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), and Abdelrehim Youssef (poet and literary translator).
Please address any remaining questions to cavafyarchive@onassis.org.
Candidates who wish to apply must create a personal account at the Onassis Directory through the below link, and they can fill in the application and upload the required supporting documents gradually until the submission deadline.
