Washington, April 4: Lecture on Preserving Culture by V. Kalotychos

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The Kosmos Hellenic Club together with The Cretan Association of Washington DC The Hellenic American Society for the Health Sciences The Hellenic Student Association Pegasus and The Department of Classics of the University of Maryland at College Park The Hellenic American Women's Council The American Hellenic Educational & Progressive Association

are pleased to present a lecture by:

Dr. Vangelis Kalotyhos

Preserving change and self-criticism in Greek Public Culture: Two Recent Controversies in the work of Rhea Galanaki and Thanassis Valtinos

Preserving Culture entails not only guarding a past (in some static sense); it also demands an engagement with present configurations of the past and the projection of a more vital role for it in the future. By touching on the work of cavafy, Galanaki and Valtinos, this talk will attempt to complicate our vision of what it is that we expect from a literary work and how we read its intervention in matters of Greek identity, history and society.

Friday, April 4, 1997 at 7:00pm 2201 G Street NW {FUNGER HALL Room #108} George Washington University

Vangelis Calotyhos received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. He is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Hellenic studies at New York University. He has taught at Boston University and at the Seferis Chair, at Harvard University. He is currently working on a book version of his dissertation on "Form and Ideology in Modern Greek Poetics (1790-1960) ". He has written on the politics of criticism in Seferis and Eliot; Elytis and neo-Orthodoxy; postmodernism and the writings of Rhea Galanaki, etc.

For more information please contact Vasiliki Katsikathas & Aneta Alexandridis , or call at (301) 589-3019

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