Virtually in Greece today to say a few welcoming words at the symposium “City Literature – Athens from the Metapolitefsi to the “Greece in crisis””, co-organized with the Association for Literary Urban Studies. The symposium brings together important work on a city whose contemporary literature remains understudied in international perspective.

Thanks to Riikka P. Pulkkinen, Katerina Kostiou and others at Patras for organizing the event!

Really important to also see an ALUS event organized almost exclusively in a smaller European language – most of our events have been in English, but it is crucial also for localized knowledge about urban place, codified in smaller (national) languages, to also be disseminated and developed within broader international platforms such as ALUS.

source:uptras.gr

Hopefully I’ll be able to visit Patras in person at some point!