WHY READ?
The Role of Writers & Books in the 21st Century
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"Why Read: The Role of Writers & Books in the 21st Century” is
the overall theme of a symposium being held at the Cultural Center of the City
of Athens on October 18 and 19, 2018. Why & how do we read? Why write? Why
translate? Why publish? Aspects of these questions are addressed by
distinguished Greek and other authors, critics, translators, and scholars who
participate in this international symposium being organized by the Hellenic
Authors' Society, in cooperation with the Institute for Comparative Literature
& Society at Columbia University and the Department of English Language
& Literature of the School of Philosophy at the National & Kapodistrian
University of Athens, on the occasion of UNESCO’s designation of Athens as World
Book Capital. Four panels (11:00 to 13:30 and 16:00 to 18:30 on both Thursday
and Friday) and a round table (19:00 to 21:00 on Friday) are being held at the
Antonis Tritsis Amphitheater of the Cultural Center of the City of Athens.
Languages: Greek & English, with parallel interpretation. Free admission.
What is the future of writing? How do relations between writers, books
& readers, language & translation evolve? Do writers have common
motives in all periods? Who are the future readers? How does love for or enmity
toward reading emerge? How are orality, writing, and electronic speech
distributed? How do literature & writing sail in an ocean of orality? How
do they respond to material conditions of production & circulation, to
social & political environments, to international cultural divisions of
labor? How are relations shaped between "minor” and "major”
languages, in terms of numbers, in multi-lingual, mono-lingual & a-lingual
conditions? What is the place of the Greek language? How do critics & criticism
become involved? Is there literature without translation?
Athens World Book Capital 2018 is made possible thanks to its donors and
contributors. Major Donor is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Gold Donors are
John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation and
Core SA. Donors are Onassis Foundation, Welfare Foundation for Social &
Cultural Affairs, Laskaridis Foundation, and Greek Collecting Society for
Literary Works (OSDEL). Valuable contributors are Aegean Airlines, Athens
International Airport, and Urban Rail Transport SA (STASY).
The Hellenic Authors’ Society symposium on "Why Read?” is
undertaken under the auspices and with the support of the Hellenic Parliament
and the Ministry of Culture & Sports, with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation
as major donor, and supported by the City of Athens and its Organization for
Culture, Sports & Youth (OPANDA) and the Greek Collecting Society for
Literary Works (OSDEL) among others, while special appreciation is extended to
Hotel Kimon, public relations company ArtsPr, and Indigo Graphics.
Thursday & Friday, October 18 & 19, 2018, in Greek & English
Cultural Center of the City of Athens (50 Academias Street)
HELLENICAUTHORS’ SOCIETY, 8 Kodrigtonos Street, 112 57 Athens, Greece
Τ +30 210 823 1890, F +30 210
823 2543, e-mail.
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