"Travel as a Thread of Civilization" Workshop

• Organized by: CHS Greece
• Academic coordination: Christos N. Tsironis (Professor at the School of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Harvard University CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2018-19)

Synopsis

The workshop approaches travel as a historical, social, and cultural practice that runs through human experience from the mythical journeys of antiquity to contemporary digital forms of movement. Travel will be explored not as a simple movement through space, but as an experience, as a bearer of meaning and memory, and as a way through which societies construct and narrate their civilization. Travel thus constitutes a thread of civilization: it shapes the social canvas on which various cultural expressions are inscribed and at the same time continually weaves new cultural horizons. Learn more about the workshop on "Travel as a Thread of Civilization. From Troy to Utopia and from Boston to the Digital World."