Published in Spring 2023 by Book Works (London), Diana Georgiou’s novel Other Reflexes offers an unprecedented depiction of Cyprus that captures the difficulties of queer female experience in a deeply conservative and patriarchal society.
On the occasion of the book being distributed to Cyprus, Diana Georgiou and Stavros S. Karayanni engage in a public discussion drawing on shared themes across their writing with particular attention to the intricacies of intimacy, gender, and the messy nature of sexuality.
Diana Georgiou is a writer, curator, and associate lecturer in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her curatorial work centres on artistic practices and theories that critically engage with (and hope to resist) the institutionalisation of queer politics. Her recent writing engages with the horrors of violence and the difficulty of their narration. Other Reflexes is her debut novel.
Stavros S. Karayanni is a Professor of English at European University Cyprus. He is the author of Dancing Fear and Desire: Race, Sexuality and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance, co-author of Sexual Interactions; The Social Construction of Atypical Sexual Behaviors, and co-editor of Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination (Brill, 2015). From 2007 to 2019 he was the Managing Editor of the multilingual journal Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus.
Friday, November 24, 08:30 p.m. at the State Gallery of Contemporary Art – SPEL, Nicosia
