Meet the Fellows: Professor Theo Maarten van Lint in Gent
PAST EVENT | 03 May 2019 18:00
*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF REGISTRATION*
Pembroke Fellow Theo Maarten van Lint leads a tour of Armenian literature in space and time, starting in Gent with Daniel Varouzhan, who combined symbolism and other European literary currents with Armenian models. The Armenian genocide of 1915 cut his life short. Varouzhan dedicated a poem to Eghia Demirjibashian, who died in 1909, an eccentric cared for in Istanbul by his Hungarian landlady, whose scintillating prose poem in praise of the Bosporus will be heard. Misak Medzarents, another poet from Bolis, the Armenian name of Constantinople-Istanbul, will take you through a 'night of light' and a thousand years back in time, to lake Van where the mystical poet, Saint Gregory of Narek, lived. Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Francis in 2015, he is as actual now as he was a millennium ago.
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This is a casual event, bringing you updates of the College alongside the fantastic research of Professor Theo Maarten van Lint.
This is a free event and you are welcome to bring a guest.
Meet the Fellows: Professor Theo Maarten van Lint in Gent
PAST EVENT | 03 May 2019 18:00
*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF REGISTRATION*
Pembroke Fellow Theo Maarten van Lint leads a tour of Armenian literature in space and time, starting in Gent with Daniel Varouzhan, who combined symbolism and other European literary currents with Armenian models. The Armenian genocide of 1915 cut his life short. Varouzhan dedicated a poem to Eghia Demirjibashian, who died in 1909, an eccentric cared for in Istanbul by his Hungarian landlady, whose scintillating prose poem in praise of the Bosporus will be heard. Misak Medzarents, another poet from Bolis, the Armenian name of Constantinople-Istanbul, will take you through a 'night of light' and a thousand years back in time, to lake Van where the mystical poet, Saint Gregory of Narek, lived. Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Francis in 2015, he is as actual now as he was a millennium ago.
Register your interest for this event by clicking here
This is a casual event, bringing you updates of the College alongside the fantastic research of Professor Theo Maarten van Lint.
This is a free event and you are welcome to bring a guest.