Symposium on "Editing Modern Greek Literary Texts"
April 27th, 2015
Amphitheater of the Cast Museum, New Building of the Faculty of Philosophy, A.U.Th., Thessaloniki
The Institute of Modern Greek Studies [Manolis Triandaphyllidis Foundation], Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, organized a one-day Symposium under the title “Editing Modern Greek Literary Texts”, to be held on April 27th, 2015 in Thessaloniki (Aristotle University, Basement of the New Building of the Faculty of Philosophy, Amphitheater of the Cast Museum).
The Symposium was dedicated to the memory of Eleni Pachini-Tsantsanoglou (1937-1995) and George P. Savidis (1929-1995), two distinguished editors of Modern Greek literary texts, who, despite their premature death, left behind a legacy of exceptional quality and impact. Both editors were not only extremely successful teachers and researchers at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (the former in the period 1966-1990, the latter in the years from 1967 to 1983), but they also developed close ties with the Institute of Modern Greek Studies and its work: G. P. Savidis as a member of the Institute’s Board of Directors, and Ε. Tsantsanoglou through a postgraduate scholarship in her memory, granted by the Institute in collaboration with the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, following the donation of Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou, a former member of the Institute’s Board of Directors.
Progress, delays and, sometimes, setbacks; common trends, heterogeneity, even inconsistency; tendencies, problems and proposals in the field of editorial strategy and tactics: during the last decades, all these show that the time has come for a scientific workshop, where selected experts with editorial experience will present their own views
and exchange ideas both with each other and with the audience, while, at the same time, interested participants (prospective editors, teachers, philologists, critics, students, etc.) will have the opportunity to learn more about the current status in editing Modern Greek literature as well as about relevant research issues and plans.
The following thematic areas are covered:
– The editorial work of E. Pachini-Tsantsanoglou and G. P. Savidis: evaluations and comments.
– Research report in the field of editiοns of Modern Greek literature (by ‘commercial’ publishing houses or by organizations, institutes etc.): tendencies and problems, accomplishments and failings.
– Editions of Modern Greek literary texts for educational purposes: tendencies and problems, accomplishments and failings.
– Editorial plans, prospects and directions: proposals of editorial method and text establishing (linguistic, orthographical etc.), proposals concerning accompanying material (introduction, commentary, glossary and indexes, appendixes etc.).