7th Niki Marangou Memorial Lecture: Dr Catia Galatariotou

  • March 13, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

  • Council Room, KCL Strand Campus

    London, London WC2R 2LS
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Description

Seventh Niki Marangou Memorial Lecture

Dr Catia Galatariotou: Reality and Truth in the Writings of Niki Marangou

This lecture explores the multiple layers of Reality in the writings of Niki Marangou. Unlike the island of Cyprus where she comes from, Marangou’s work has no hard dividing lines: within a framework of shifting Memory and Time she merges fact and fiction, subjectivity and objectivity, Past and Present, Conscious and Unconscious, human will and Fate. In the process, the author emerges as an unreliable yet supremely true witness – a paradox which is as subtle as it is subversive.

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About the speaker: Catia Galatariotou was born in Cyprus; England has been her second home since 1972. She took a degree in the history of art and English literature in 1976, before studying law and being called to the Bar. Returning to academic study, she took a PhD in Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham and held a Research Fellowship in history at Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1997 she was elected Member and later Fellow of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. For decades she worked concurrently as a researcher on the cultural history of Byzantium and Cyprus, and as a practising psychoanalyst and university lecturer in psychoanalysis. Her publications, usually interdisciplinary in nature, include The Making of a Saint (Cambridge University Press, 1991), translations, and numerous papers in international journals and collective volumes on the cultural history of Byzantium and of Medieval and modern Cyprus, art, and psychoanalysis.

 

Date & Time

Thu, Mar 13, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Venue Details

Council Room, KCL Strand Campus

London, London WC2R 2LS Council Room, KCL Strand Campus
Centre for Hellenic Studies

The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London is a unique grouping of academics in different disciplines and departments, with interests and expertise covering more than three millennia, from Aegean prehistory to the history, language, literature and culture of Greece, Cyprus and the worldwide Greek diaspora today.Founded in 1989, the Centre is committed to promoting knowledge and understanding of Greek history, language, and culture of all periods, and in particular the fostering of research with a comparative focus, whether cross-cultural or exploring the diachronic spectrum of Hellenism itself.