Pimplis Manolis
Pimplis Manolis
Book Festivals in the Modern World
Discussion on the challenges, the impact of international book festivals and their networking, will be held by: Adriana Martinez from Colombia, director of the LEA Festival; Claudia Neira from Nicaragua, director of the Centroamérica Cuenta Festival; Pilar Reyes, literary director of Penguin Random House; Mexican author and essayist Jorge Volpi; Spanish journalist Juan Cruz Ruíz, founding member of El Pais newspaper, author, and literary critic; and Manolis Pimplis, Chania Book Festival director.
Co-organized by the Greek Ibero-American LEA Festival
3rd Chania Book Festival 2024
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“Oi dosilogoi” (“The Collaborationists”) by Menelaos Charalampidis
The historian Menelaos Charalampidis, Founder of Athens History Walks, which conducts historical tours in Athens for the period of the Occupation and the Dekemvriana, talks about his book (Alexandria Publishing), in which, through the study of archives published for the first time, he describes the activities of those who collaborated, examines the reasons and mechanisms of the development of the phenomenon of collaboration with the occupier, as it manifested itself in the prefecture of Attica, as well as the political and economic conditions that favoured its emergence. Introduced by Manolis Pimplis, the Chania Book Festival director.
3rd Chania Book Festival 2024
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The archaeological construction of Europe: orientalism, myths of whiteness, and the Global South
Yannis Hamilakis, Professor of Archaeology and Modern Greek Studies at Brown University, USA (“Archaiologia, ethnos kai fyli”/“Archaeology, Nation and Race”, “Archaiologia kai Evropaiki Neoterikotita”/“Archaeology and European Modernity”), discusses with Manolis Pimplis, Chania Book Festival director, about how archaeological accounts of the “Minoans” proclaimed Crete, cradle of the “first European civilization”, how archaeologists contributed to the Europeanization of Greece and the production of a geopolitics of whiteness, and how we could rethink Greece in the context of the debate on the Global South.
Co-organized by Eikostos Protos Publishing
3rd Chania Book Festival 2024
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Book Festivals in the Modern World
Discussion on the challenges, the impact of international book festivals and their networking, will be held by: Adriana Martinez from Colombia, director of the LEA Festival; Claudia Neira from Nicaragua, director of the Centroamérica Cuenta Festival; Pilar Reyes, literary director of Penguin Random House; Mexican author and essayist Jorge Volpi; Spanish journalist Juan Cruz Ruíz, founding member of El Pais newspaper, author, and literary critic; and Manolis Pimplis, Chania Book Festival director.
Co-organized by the Greek Ibero-American LEA Festival
3rd Chania Book Festival 2024
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“Oi dosilogoi” (“The Collaborationists”) by Menelaos Charalampidis
The historian Menelaos Charalampidis, Founder of Athens History Walks, which conducts historical tours in Athens for the period of the Occupation and the Dekemvriana, talks about his book (Alexandria Publishing), in which, through the study of archives published for the first time, he describes the activities of those who collaborated, examines the reasons and mechanisms of the development of the phenomenon of collaboration with the occupier, as it manifested itself in the prefecture of Attica, as well as the political and economic conditions that favoured its emergence. Introduced by Manolis Pimplis, the Chania Book Festival director.
3rd Chania Book Festival 2024
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The archaeological construction of Europe: orientalism, myths of whiteness, and the Global South
Yannis Hamilakis, Professor of Archaeology and Modern Greek Studies at Brown University, USA (“Archaiologia, ethnos kai fyli”/“Archaeology, Nation and Race”, “Archaiologia kai Evropaiki Neoterikotita”/“Archaeology and European Modernity”), discusses with Manolis Pimplis, Chania Book Festival director, about how archaeological accounts of the “Minoans” proclaimed Crete, cradle of the “first European civilization”, how archaeologists contributed to the Europeanization of Greece and the production of a geopolitics of whiteness, and how we could rethink Greece in the context of the debate on the Global South.
Co-organized by Eikostos Protos Publishing
3rd Chania Book Festival 2024
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The new multipolar and multicultural world: the role of Crete
Georgios-Stylianos Prevelakis, Professor Emeritus of Geopolitics at Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1), who served as Permanent Representative of Greece to the OECD, analyses the fact that we live in an era when all geopolitical data are changing, the world is reshaping and the role of Crete is being revised or even upgraded. Moderated by Manolis Pimplis, director of the Chania Book Festival.
3rd Chania Book Festival 2024
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“Laikes teletourgies stin Kriti. Ethima ston kyklo tou chronou” (“Folk rituals in Crete. Customs in the cycle of time”) by Nikos Psilakis
40 years in… 40 minutes. Presentation of a luxurious volume (published by Karmanor Publishing), which is the fruit of 40 years of photography and ethnological study of ritual practices and customs that were the building blocks of Cretan cultural identity, from ritual purifications to the “milking” of goats and sheep on the day of Ascension. Unknown aspects of Crete, a Cretan folk culture that is still a living reality. The author Nikos Psilakis in conversation with Manolis Pimplis, journalist, translator, Chania Book Festival director.
2nd Chania Book Festival 2023
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“Chania, omorfi poli” (“Chania, beautiful city”)
The book “Chania, omorfi poli: Selidodeiktes mnimis kai logotechnias” (“Chania, Beautiful City: Bookmarks of Memory and Literature”) [Text selection: Niki Troullinou, author; Eni Kakoula, photographer, coordinator] will be discussed by Manolis Pimplis, Chania Book Festival director, Niki Troullinou, writer and Eni Koukoula, photographer. Moderation: Matthaios Frantzeskakis, CFF director, responsible for Pyxida tis Polis Publishing.
Co-organised by Pyxida tis Polis Publishing and Chania Film Festival (CFF)
2nd Chania Book Festival 2023
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Éric Vuillard: from Nazi Germany to Leopold‘s Congo
The 2017 Goncourt Prize-winning French author Éric Vuillard, for his book “The Order of the Day”, discusses with the journalist and translator Manolis Pimplis about his four books-“narratives” of the author that are published in Greek: ” The Order of the Day”, “14 juillet” (“July 14”), “Congo” and “The War of the Poor”.
1st Chania Book Festival 2022
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“Ta paidia tou Lagou” (“The Children of the Rabbit”) by Nicolas Christo
The Cypriot author Nicolas Christo (Nicolas Christodoulou), member of the French Institute of Greece, talks with the vice-president of the Greek-German Association of Chania, Gina Pavlaki-Kalogeri, and with the journalist and translator Manolis Pimplis about his book “Ta paidia tou Lagou” (“The Children of the Rabbit”).
Co-organized by Le Livre Ouvert Publishing
1st Chania Book Festival 2022
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“O Tzimis stin Kypseli” (“Jimis in Kypseli”) by Christos Chomenidis
The writer Christos Chomenidis talks with journalist and translator Manolis Pimplis, on the occasion of his new novel “O Tzimis stin Kypseli” (“Jimis in Kypseli”) .
Co-organized by Patakis Publishing
1st Chania Book Festival 2022
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Ukraine on fire
Author Petros Markaris discusses with George-Stylianos Prevelakis, Professor of Geopolitics, Urban Planning and Cultural Geography at the Sorbonne School of Geography (Paris I) and the Institute of Political Studies, about the war in Ukraine, its dramatic consequences for the country and its consequences in the formation of a new geopolitical environment in Europe and the world.
Moderation: Manolis Pimplis, journalist.
1st Chania Book Festival 2022
