{"id":12689,"date":"2025-05-08T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/on-writing-and-performing-femininity-and-diaspora-a-literary-evening-with-koraly-dimitriadis\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:45:32","slug":"on-writing-and-performing-femininity-and-diaspora-a-literary-evening-with-koraly-dimitriadis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/on-writing-and-performing-femininity-and-diaspora-a-literary-evening-with-koraly-dimitriadis\/","title":{"rendered":"On Writing and Performing Femininity and Diaspora: A Literary Evening with Koraly Dimitriadis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>15 May 2025, 18:30-20:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nVenue: <\/strong>Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH)<strong> \u2013<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/KZcH7ca\">26, Mandrokleous Str., Neos Kosmos<\/a><strong> (\u201cNeos Kosmos\u201d Metro Station, exit: E.Pissa)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Organisation: Dr. <strong>Vasiliki Petsa<\/strong>, P.I. of the R.P. \u2018Gender and Ethnicity in Greek Working-Class Literature\u2019 (H.F.R.I., 3<sup>rd <\/sup>call, Project Number: 7520), University of Thessaly \u2013 RCH Fellow<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean, and how does it feel, to be a second generation Cypriot-Australian female artist? What role does memory play in identity formation and artistic creation? Which personal, social and aesthetic challenges arise and how are these tackled?<\/p>\n<p>Join us for an evening of discussion, video poetry and performance.<\/p>\n<p>KORALY DIMITRIADIS is an award-winning, best-selling poet, writer and actor who creates poetic film\/theatre. She was born in Australia to Cypriot migrants and explores feminism through this lens. She is the author of poetry books <em>Love &amp; F&#8211;k Poems<\/em>, long-listed for Poetry Book Awards UK (2024) also translated into Greek as <em>\u03a0\u03bf\u03b9\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1 \u03b3\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b1\u03b3\u03ac\u03c0\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b3\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b3\u03b1\u03bc\u03ae\u03c3\u03b9<\/em>, <em>She\u2019s Not Normal<\/em> (2024), <em>Just Give Me The Pills<\/em> (2018) winner best book of narrative poetry American Book Fest (2024), and the short story collection <em>The Mother Must Die<\/em> (2024). Koraly&#8217;s vast opinion articles\/personal essays have been published globally, including The Age, Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Today. Her award-winning poetry film <em>Yiayia mou<\/em> won first place at the Monologues and Poetry International Film Festival in California and was a finalist for International film festivals and poetry prizes and was televised in Australia and Cyprus on PIK. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koralydimitriadis.com\/\"><strong>www.koralydimitriadis.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/koraly-dimitriades-australian-cypriot-poet-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/koraly-dimitriades-australian-cypriot-poet-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/koraly-dimitriades-australian-cypriot-poet-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/koraly-dimitriades-australian-cypriot-poet-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/koraly-dimitriades-australian-cypriot-poet.jpg 1083w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Download the event&#8217;s programme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/On-Writing-and-Performing-Femininity-and-Diaspora_15-MAY-2025-1.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 May 2025, 18:30-20:00 Venue: Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) \u2013 26, Mandrokleous Str., Neos Kosmos (\u201cNeos Kosmos\u201d Metro Station, exit: E.Pissa) Organisation: Dr. Vasiliki Petsa, P.I. of the R.P. \u2018Gender and Ethnicity in Greek Working-Class Literature\u2019 (H.F.R.I., 3rd call, Project Number: 7520), University of Thessaly \u2013 RCH Fellow What does it mean, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-activities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12699,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions\/12699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}