Christodoulos Makris

On Wednesday 26 May I will be discussing my book this is no longer entertainment in the second instalment of 'Poets Talk Politics', a series of events run by The University of Porto's Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (ILCML) . 'Poets Talk Politics' is an online series organised by João Guimarães where poets are invited to read from their work and talk about political topics related to it with researchers and academics from The University of Porto and elsewhere. The series is livestreamed on Facebook - and in this session I will be talking with Guimarães and his colleagues Elina Siltanen (University of Eastern Finland), Daae Jung (SUNY Buffalo) and Lígia Bernardino (ILCML). In the second session of our series, Makris will read some poems from his latest book and talk to us about the political implications of social media, from which much of the material that the author appropriates and recontextualizes in his work comes. We will discuss, among ot...

My essay 'The Psycho-delic European Trek' commissioned for the project Kaleidoscope II: Europe in Ireland , an initiative of The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) based in Leuven, Belgium, was published last week. This essay represents a temporary gear change for me, and was written very much against type:  'The Psycho-delic European Trek' makes use of aspects of my personal life and experience presented in a formally fragmented structure to comment on the shifts and instabilities in European identity and borders (internal and external) across time, in parallel with considerations of composite personal identity and outlook - all under the light cast by Brexit. As a form-driven interpretation of Europe, with its strengths and challenges residing in how the pieces fit together - not always entirely smoothly or coherently - the essay relies on the interplay between its form and content. Europe in Ireland is the second in the EFACI...