Individual and collective identities

Self-identification in the modern world

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Speakers

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Countries

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The 2nd Chania Book Festival has as its main theme: "Individual and collective identities: self-definition in the contemporary world". It will explore the concept of identity in the fields of literature and history as well as in the context of current social and technological developments.

The 2nd Chania Book Festival, this new, purely "festival" institution of the book in Greece, began on Tuesday 20 June and was completed on Saturday 24 June with remarkable success, organized by the Municipality of Chania with the cooperation of the Region of Crete.

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With a rich program of thematic discussions, presentations, seminars, with more than 100 speakers -authors from Greece, Great Britain, France, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Argentina, Colombia, Nicaragua, Nicaragua, Cuba, publishers, academics, translators-, as well as concerts, screenings and theatrical performances, the 2nd Chania Book Festival attracted more than 5. 000 visitors of all ages, both from Chania and from other parts of Crete, Greece and abroad, who attended the approximately 60 events around books of contemporary Greek and foreign prose and poetry, at the Mikis Theodorakis Theatre, the Great Arsenal (Mediterranean Architecture Centre), the Sabbionara Gate, the Yali Mosque, the "Chrysostomos" Literary Society, the Municipal Garden of Chania and the Firkas Fortress.

 

 

Thematic axes of the 2nd Chania Book Festival

Individual and collective identities: self-definition in the contemporary world

The 2nd Chania Book Festival had as main theme: "Individual and collective identities: self-definition in the contemporary world". It explored the concept of identity in the fields of literature and history as well as in the context of current social and technological developments.

A world in quest

A tour of contemporary, key phenomena and demands around gender identity, real gender equality and inequalities based on origin or gender, which are at the center of international literary interest.

Man and machine

Will artificial intelligence change human identity?

The trauma of exchange

100 years since the Treaty of Lausanne, which decided the population exchange between Greece and Turkey based on religion, redefining national and individual identities.

The unique cultural characteristics of the Cretans within the framework of Greek identity

The particular cultural characteristics of the Cretans in the context of Greek identity.

Ancient Greece revisited in the contemporary novel

Ancient Greece returns in the modern novel. A new literary reading of the past, in search of contemporary identities.

Locality and globality

Cavafy's poetry today, its multiple interpretations and identities, on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the poet's birth and the 90th anniversary of his death. 

Nikos Kazantzakis and the role of his work in shaping the image of Greek and Cretan identity abroad, on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of his birth, as well as his current publishing relevance.