From vrasidas.karalis at sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 5 11:04:25 2019 From: vrasidas.karalis at sydney.edu.au (Vrasidas Karalis) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 01:04:25 +0000 Subject: [Moderngreek-l] CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS IN THE ANTIPODES-ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM Message-ID: ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS IN THE ANTIPODES November 29th, 2019 DEPARTMENT OF MODERN GREEK AND BYZANTINE STUDIES SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY AAIA Rm 480 Madsen Building CALL FOR PAPERS AUTONOMY AND PHILIA (????????? ??? ?????) IN CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS' LIFE AND THOUGHT Drawing from Aristotle's suggestion that '...cities are held together by philia [friendship] and legislators should study it more than justice,' we want to explore philia as found in Cornelius Castoriadis' theoretical thinking and understanding of politics. Since his youth Castoriadis established life-long friendships with many individuals whose life, ideas and practical engagement had a permanent presence in his own work. The symposium wants to bring together the abstract and the concrete, the life of the philosopher with the social ontology of his theory. During the one-day meeting, we would like to explore the concept of political or civic friendship especially within the overall Castoriadis project to restore democratic politics to the immediacy and radicalism of their origins in classical Athens. After the recent death of the philosopher and friend Agnes Heller, papers are invited to address friendship as political virtue in contemporary anti-political societies. Key-Note Address: Professor John Rundell The University of Melbourne 'Celebrating Imagination: elective affinities between Agnes Heller and Cornelius Castoriadis' Deadline for submission of papers: October 4th, 2019 Entrance Free All Welcome. Sponsored by the Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies School of Languages and Cultures The University of Sydney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vrasidas.karalis at sydney.edu.au Fri Aug 30 12:23:49 2019 From: vrasidas.karalis at sydney.edu.au (Vrasidas Karalis) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 02:23:49 +0000 Subject: [Moderngreek-l] THE LAST NOTE BY P. VOULGARIS, FREE SCREENING THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5, AT 6 PM Message-ID: The Department of Modern Greek Studies and the Sydney University Greek Society present the film The Last Note (2017) by Pantelis Voulgaris At the Old Geology Lecture Theatre The University of Sydney on Thursday, September 5th, 2019 6-8pm Free Entrance. All Welcome The film is about the execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters and Communists by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis. The film takes us to the concentration camp of Chaidari, the period before the execution and introduces us to the people behind the tragic events. Leading character of the story is the 34-year-old Napoleon Soukatzidis, a Cretan with Asia Minor origin, who fought and was held in prisons and exiles since 1936. His dilemma becomes the peak moment in this tragic story (more on the screen....) The Last Note is one of most emotionally charged and aesthetically accomplished films produced in Greece during the prolonged crisis of the last ten years, which amongst others, gave the opportunity to revisit recent history and explore the predicament of the people. It is a gripping historical drama based on true events. As film journal Cineuropa declared that "this is ultimately how we should be leaving screenings about the history of war and broken lives: with tears in our eyes." [Image result for the last note voulgaris][Image result for the last note voulgaris] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 8549 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 7404 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: