GATSOS IN TRANSLATION
Join us for this extraordinary Zoom event!
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Time: 12pm EST, 7pm EET
chs.harvard.edu/gatsos-celebration<https://chs.harvard.edu/gatsos-celebr…
Harvard Library joins Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of the
Classics to celebrate the birthday of Greek poet Nikos Gatsos and the launch of the Gatsos
Translation Project.
Internationally acclaimed singer Nana Mouskouri, close friend and collaborator of Gatsos,
will be the guest of honor among the panel of distinguished
speakers<https://chs.harvard.edu/event/gatsos-celebration/#speakers>rs>. Mouskouri will
talk about her experience musically interpreting Gatsos's lyrics. Professor
Panagiotis Roilos, Harvard's George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, will
speak on the significance of Gatsos himself. Professor Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
and Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard Social Studies and Center for Hellenic Studies), will
talk with Agathi Dimitrouka, the poet's literary executor and a translator and
lyricist in her own right, on translation and the Greek language.
Harvard Library's 2018
acquisition<https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2018-06-11/nikos-gats…
of the archive of avant-garde Greek poet and lyricist Nikos Gatsos (1911-1992) has been
widely celebrated by the Harvard community and beyond, with concerts in Cambridge and
Washington D.C., lectures, panel presentations, and receptions. On December 8th Harvard
Library will join the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of the
Classics to celebrate the 110th birthday and legacy of this great twentieth century icon
of Greek culture and to acknowledge both his songmaking and his work as a translator.
The celebratory event will introduce the Nikos Gatsos Archive online
platform<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gatsosarch…
developed by Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies. This electronic resource will
serve primarily as a tool to discover and access the poet's rich collection of
manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and musical recordings
held at the Houghton Library, once these materials have been digitized. It will also
connect users to research and teaching activities relating to the poet. We hope that this
unique resource will promote the work of Gatsos across borders and encourage
transformative uses of the Library's archive.
One such innovative use provides a second occasion, in addition to the poet's
birthday, for next week's celebration: the initial release of the Gatsos Translation
Project<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gatsosarchi…sbeAsOm-wtKE2JyPjIk&e=>,,
which is the first segment of the online platform to be completed. The Translation Project
offers the text of all the songs of Nikos Gatsos and invites the user to engage with the
Greek language through the medium of these lyrics. It will provide a forum for students
and lovers of Greek music alike to translate the verses into their own language. The songs
on this site can also be used by teachers of modern Greek as source texts in their
classrooms.
This event will take place online via Zoom and will be live streamed to the CHS YouTube
Channel<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube…GG8pQROqIwvAkwpK1cw&e=>.
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Rhea K. Lesage
Librarian for Hellenic Studies and Coordinator for the Classics &
Center for Hellenic Studies Associate for Collaborative Initiatives
Americas, Europe, and Oceania Division (AEOD)
Widener Library Room G60A
One Harvard Yard
Harvard College Library
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
(office) 617.495.2426
(facsimile) 617.496.8704
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