An inflatable boat with Syrian Refugees just arrived safely to Skala Sykamias, Lesvos island, Greece.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Prof. Karavanta’s presentation examines contemporary representations and ideas of community and the human, grounded in the scene of the human disaster on the Mediterranean shores. This scene, she suggests, reveals a new chapter of European exceptionalism while at the same time staging the possibility of new communities to come: “communities of belonging on behalf of vulnerable strangers.”
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Mina Karavanta is Associate Professor of Literary Theory, Cultural Studies and Anglophone Literature in the Faculty of English Studies of the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She holds degrees in English Language and Literature from the National and University of Athens (BA), and in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton (MA and Ph.D).
Prof. Karavanta specializes in postcolonial studies, critical theory and comparative literature and has published numerous articles in international academic journals such as boundary 2, Feminist Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Mosaic, and Symplokē, Journal Of Contemporary Theory. Her work has also appeared in edited volumes abroad and in Greece. She has co-edited Interculturality and Gender, with Joan Anim-Addo & Giovanna Covi, (London: Mango Press, 2009) and Edward Said and Jacques Derrida: Reconstellating Humanism and the Global Hybrid, with Nina Morgan (London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). She has translated George Steiner’s Heidegger into Greek (Athens: Patakis, 2009), and Haris Vlavianos’s poetry into English, Affirmation: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (Dublin: Dedalus: 2007).
