Program’s identity and key information
- Topic: Culture, Education and Politics
- Organized by: CHS Greece
- Dates: Monthly events from December 2018 to June 2019
Synopsis
This year’s Events Series 2019 is concerned with issues of Culture, Education and Politics. Prominent Greek and foreign scholars will engage with matters of geopolitical importance, architectural heritage, as well as with Latin, Byzantine, modern Greek and World Literature. From Rome and Byzantium to the Generation of the ‘30s, contemporary Greece and beyond, the lectures will focus on a variety of topics, employing the latest trends of research in the fields of humanities and social studies.
The Events Series 2019 includes seven lectures that begin on December 5, 2018 and continue through June 2019. The lectures will take place in Nafplio, Athens, Rethymno, Thessaloniki, and Patras. The institutions collaborating in the implementation of the current program include the Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning, the National Library of Greece, the University of Patras, the University of Crete, the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, the Harvard Club of Greece, and the Municipality of Nafplio.
Events Series 2019
- Latin Sayings, Culture and Lifestyle
- Continent or Archipelago? A geographical approach on the relationship between Greece and Europe
- 200 years of a National Identity in modern Greek poetry: from Solomos' Mother Magnanimous to Markos Meskos' Stepmother Homeland
- The language question and the "Generation of the '30's"
- World Literature from Mesopotamia to the Moon
- Education 'in', 'for' and 'through' architectural heritage
- Poetry of the Byzantine court and aristocracy