International Conference ‘Paris – Athens 1919 – 1939. The Double Voyage’

The Conference is the final step of a four-year Research Programme of the same name concerning the artistic and intellectual relations between Greece and France from 1919 to 1939, carried out by the Ecole Francaise d’ Athenes (EFA), the Benaki Museum and the Institute of Mediterranean Studies – FORTH from 2008 to 2011. Over this period, day conferences and individual studies were utilised to study, systematically and in depth, the artistic and more general cultural relations and exchanges that took place between Greece and France over the period of 1919-1939.

The Conference, which focuses on the study of this period, will host French and Greek art -, literature -, architecture -, photography -, theatre – and decorative arts historians; musicologists; and architects; who will investigate the cultural relationships between Greece and France in various cultural fields, and will attempt to highlight the relationships between the two countries through artistic production and their more general intellectual life.

The Conference Scientific Committee, as well as that of the Research Programme, is comprised of:

Lucile Arnoux – Farnoux (Université François Rabelais, Tours)
Sophie Basch (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris – IV)
Polyna Kosmadaki (Benaki Museum)
François Loyer (CNRS)
Evgenios Matthiopoulos (University of Crete, IMS-FORTH)
Paul-Louis Rinuy (Université Paris VIII)
Panagiotis Tournikiotis (National Technical University of Athens)
Maria Tsoutsoura

Announcements and discussions will take place in Greek and French with simultaneous interpreting in both languages.

The Conference continues at the Auditorium of the Institute Française d’Athènes (21/01/2012)