Earthquake: Popular Memory and the Poetics of Fragments
The City Remembers Kalamata Ten Years Later: The 1986 Earthquakes
Friday, 8 November 1996
8:30 p.m. — Welcome Addresses
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
- Georgios Korres, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Athens
“Kalamata in Prehistoric and Classical Times” - Nikos I. Zervis, Historian–Researcher
“Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Kalamata” - Emmanouil Mavrommatis, Professor of Art History at the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“Place and Image: Kalamata through Engravings from the 17th to the 19th Century and Paintings by Contemporary Greek Artists”
Saturday, 9 November 1996
7:30 p.m.
MEMORY AND CULTURE
- Vassilis Panagiotopoulos, Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Modern Greek Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation
“Does the Present Have a History?” - C. Nadia Seremetakis, Author and Professor of Cultural Anthropology. Director of DEPAK’s Department of Literature.
“The Culture of the Earthquake: Popular Memory and the Poetics of Fragments.”
Audiovisual Documentation of the Earthquake: Video Film Screening.
INTERMISSION
THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF THE EARTHQUAKE
- Christos Malapanis, Mayor of Kalamata.
“Earthquake and Social Solidarity” - Leonidas Siavelis, Mayor of Aigio.
“The Mayor’s Personal Experiences of the Earthquake of 15 June 1995” - Vaios Vaios, Mayor of Grevena.
“The Grevena Earthquake”
Sunday, 10 November 1996
Morning
10:30 a.m.
THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REALITY OF THE EARTHQUAKLeonidas Kyvelos, Psychologist
“The Earthquake and the Human Face.”
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- Leonidas Kyvelos, Psychologist
“The Earthquake and the Human Face.” - Nadia Bergiannaki, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Athens.
“Kalamata: The Psychosocial Impact of the Earthquake One Year Later.”
INTERMISSION
- Dimitris Papanikolaou, Professor of Dynamic Tectonics and Geology. President of OASP.
- Konstantinos Ioannidis, Director of OASP.
“OASP: The Experience of the Kalamata Earthquake and Its Application to Seismic Planning and Protection.”
Presentation of the Kalamata Microzonation Studies Issue.
Evening
6:00 p.m.
Inauguration of the building facilities of ERT’s Kalamata Radio Station.
Complex 10–11, Eastern Centre of Kalamata.
RECEPTION
8:30 p.m.
Kalamata Radio Station presents a concert at the Main Stage of the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kalamata, featuring PETROS DOURDOUMPAKIS and the NEA SELINI ORCHESTRA.
(Free admission)
EXHIBITIONS AND VIDEO FILM SCREENINGS
Duration: 8–17 November 1996
EXHIBITIONS AND VIDEO FILM SCREENINGS
Duration: 8–17 November 1996
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Engraving Exhibition
Painting Exhibition.
Curated by: Takis Katsoulidis, engraver–painter and adviser to the Visual Arts Department of the Municipal Enterprise for the Cultural Development of Kalamata.
Β.
Exhibition of Objects of Memory
Objects preserved by citizens that now embody for them the memory of the earthquake.
Photography Exhibition.
Professional and amateur photographs.
Exhibition of Objects and Photographs Relating to Children.
Video Film Screenings:
The First Day – Rescue – The Second Earthquake – Life in the Tent
The Reporters (ET2) – Ten Days Later (Municipality of Kalamata)
Kalamata, the City of Many Forms
Scientific Research – Collection of Material – Curation:
DEPAK’s DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, C. Nadia Seremetakis, Director
