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EEE Annual Dinner & Dance
Saturday, 31 May 2008
The Hellenic Society of Professional People and Scientists in Great Britain (Eteria Ellinon Epistimonon) annual Dinner & Dance was held at the Thomas Lord Suite, Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood, London NW8 8QN.
EEE AGM
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Annual General Meeting of The Hellenic Society of Professional People and Scientists in Great Britain (Eteria Ellinon Epistimonon). Venue: Friends Room, The Hellenic Centre.
Oscar Wilde meets Greece: His Response and its consequences in the poetry of Cavafy and others
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
The first part of the lecture will present what little is known (and some more that may be guessed) about Oscar Wilde's first and only visit to Greece - as a student in 1877 - together with impressions of Greece, and particularly Corfu, by other anglophone writers. The second part will take as its starting point the only poem of Wilde's which is specifically connected with Corfu, and which deals with the death (or not) of the gods, and more specifically of the god Pan - a theme which goes back to Plutarch and belongs in the Ionian Islands. A chain of echoes of Wilde's poem (or of Plutarch) will be followed through the work of Cavafy, Palamas and Ezra Pound, leading to the recent solution (come upon almost by accident, and involving Seferis) of a literary puzzle which has bothered both this year's and last year's C. N. Hadjipateras Memorial lecturer for fifteen years or more.
Anthony Hirst was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1945. He studied Theology and English at Cambridge University. After Cambridge he worked briefly as a librarian and then as a researcher for Amnesty International, working on Indonesia, Iraq and Greece (it was at the beginning of the Junta period). In 1969 he embarked a twenty-year career in furniture making, building contracting and architectural design, followed by two years as a postman in East London, before returning to university, King's College London, where he obtained an MA in Byzantine Studies (1994) and a PhD in modern Greek poetry (1999). He is now a part-time Lecturer in the Institute of Byzantine Studies at Queen's University Belfast, and a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, where he has also taught part-time. He previously held full-time research fellowships at Princeton University (1999-2000) and Belfast (2000-06).
His main research interests are in Greek poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular focus on the use of religious language and the representation of Byzantium. He is preparing the first critical edition of the Greek texts of the main body of Cavafy's poetry. He is also interested in the writings of Lawrence Durrell and is Academic Advisor to the Durrell School of Corfu, and a member of the Board of the School.
He is a member, and currently the Secretary, of the Standing Committee on Modern Greek in the Universities, the national UK subject organization, and an honorary member of the recently founded Greek Community of Northern Ireland. In addition to his academic publications, he has published a small number of poems in literary journals. His publications include:
• Anthony Hirst, God and the poetic ego: the appropriation of biblical and liturgical language in the poetry of Palamas, Sikelianos and Elytis (Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang AG, 2004).
• Anthony Hirst and Michael Silk (eds), Alexandria, real and imagined (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
• C. P. Cavafy, The collectd poems, Greek text edited by Anthony Hirst, translations by Evangelos Sachperoglou, Introduction by Peter Mackridge, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
• Two volumes of translations forthcoming in the Library of Classic Modern Greek Authors (Vivliothiki Klassikon Neoellinon Syngrapheon): Cavafy, and (with Kathryn Baird) Vrettakos.
EEE Vassilopitta
Sunday, 20 January 2008
Organised by the Eteria Ellinon Epistimonon for its Members and Friends.
Venue: The Crypt, St Sophia Cathedral, Moscow Road, London W2 4LQ. |
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