Lecture: Soloup's "Aivali": A Graphic Novel about Greeks and Turks in 1922


Wednesday, November 6, 2019
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

 

Location:
Room 587, Humanities building
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Sponsor:
Center for Greek Studies
Contact:
Center for Greek Studies
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Phone:
(415) 338-1892

 

Athens-based comics artist Soloup and translator Tom Papademetriou discuss the graphic novel "Aivali," which illustrates life in a quaint city on the Aegean coast during the late Ottoman empire. This graphic novel covers events of life prior to the Greek-Turkish War (1919), the humanitarian disaster surrounding 1922, the population exchange of the Treaty of Lausanne and the resettlement by Muslims from Crete. Avali brings together the disciplines of history, literature and art, and presents a human story of violent displacement, war, nationalism, racism, homeland, brotherhood, coexistence and tolerance. This work emerges from Soloup's personal encounters and family memories, and literary landscapes of notable authors. Reception and book signing to follow in Humanities 577.

 

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