{"id":31302,"date":"2022-12-15T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccualumni.com\/?p=31302"},"modified":"2022-12-15T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:20:11","slug":"colleagues-gather-at-dedication-ceremony-for-goran-stefanovski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/2022\/12\/15\/colleagues-gather-at-dedication-ceremony-for-goran-stefanovski\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Colleagues gather at dedication ceremony for Goran Stefanovski<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than 50 people, including faculty colleagues, the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education, Lynnette Turner, and the Charge D&#8217;Affaires of the North Macedonian Embassy in London, came together with Goran\u2019s widow Pat Marsh, for a dedication ceremony for our former colleague Goran Stefanovski, who very sadly passed away suddenly in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goran was an internationally renowned playwright and screen writer who was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts and Industries and had been at the University for 16 years before his untimely death. He was a great public intellectual and an inspiring educator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goran wrote over 30 plays for theatre, radio and television and a dozen television serials and film scripts. He was the School\u2019s most celebrated European public intellectual, holding awards from several European universities and membership of a pan-European think tank the European Council for Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the ceremony, a bench was dedicated to Goran\u2019s memory, along with a plaque constructed by the University featuring some of Goran&#8217;s writing and a Mediterranean garden space outside the Powell Building, and Pat Marsh gave a reading of his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reception was held in the Daphne Oram building after the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Event organiser Dr Ken Fox said: &#8220;It was wonderful to see so many of Goran&#8217;s friends and colleagues from inside and outside the University come together with his widow, Pat, to share this space of tranquillity and inspiration dedicated to Goran.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would like to thank the Macedonian Society in the UK, who paid for the erection of the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cccualumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Goran-pic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31318\" width=\"634\" height=\"345\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50 people, including faculty colleagues, the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education, Lynnette Turner, and the Charge D&#8217;Affaires of the North Macedonian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":434946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christ-church-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Fran Dawson","featuredImage":false,"postExcerpt":"More than 50 people, including faculty colleagues, the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education, Lynnette Turner, and the Charge D&#8217;Affaires of the North Macedonian [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/434946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}