The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation hosts the presentation of Dimitra Anastasiades’ book Culture: narrative and memory, published by Herodotus Publications, on Thursday 6 June at 19.00, at the Historical Library in Piraeus.
The narrative about the place is the strongest wealth of knowledge. Ruins, places of relics, legends turn the place into a symbolic pending, through narratives-legends, names that haunt the place, the village, the district. The landscape is pierced by shadows. There are places where you are still tied to them, you remain tied to local legends, alleys full of silences and shadows. The practices and telling of legends to ourselves are practices of inventing spaces. The place produces a twist, an exploration of the wilderness of memory, an invention of relics and legends. Invisible landscapes contain invisible identities: here they were, there they were. We see what is missing, moving depths, ranges of permutations, results, new uses and practices, fragmented parts and cut off areas.
*(from the back cover of the publication)
For the book will talk with the author:
Pepi Rigopoulou, Om. Professor of Culture, University of Athens, Author
Litsa Bafouni, Historian, Department of Culture of the Municipality of Piraeus
Antigoni Efstratoglou, Postdoctoral Researcher, HOU
We are waiting for you!
(conducted in greek)