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Student Congress on Greek Poet George Seferis

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Students, academics, authors, actors and journalists will participate in the student congress “George Seferis: From Smyrna to Istanbul” that will be held at Istanbul’s Zografeion Lyceum from 20 to 23 March. The congress is being organized by the Zografeion Lyceum and Mantoulides School, under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. All the participants will study the life and work of the Greek Nobel Laureate George Seferis.

The inaugural address of the congress will be made by Ecumenical Patriarch Barholomew. Some of the main topics that will be discussed at the congress include the poetry of George Seferis and young people today, the poems of George Seferis that have been turned into songs, myths and figures in Seferis’ poems, and the past, the present and the sense of history .

In addition, many experts and students are going to talk about George Seferis, while actors and students will recite Seferis’ poems. Oxford professor of modern Greek, Peter Mackridge, will also participate.

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