The 2017 Cavafy International Summer School

The first Summer School will be held from July  10th to July 17th  2017 in the historic building that houses the Onassis Foundation and Library, downtown Athens. Having “Cavafy in the world” as its central theme, this year’s Summer School intends to investigate the poet’s contribution in wider literary and cultural contexts, reviewing him as an outstanding personality of literature and reassessing the impact of his life on the Greek and international culture.

The themes of the first Summer School include: the relationship between Cavafy and movements such as symbolism, aestheticism, the movement of decadence and modernism, the dialogue between Cavafy and other literary personalities,   Cavafy as a cultural myth and other related issues. The working language of the Cavafy Summer School is English.