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SUMMARY:Messenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art\, Archaeology\, and Reception of the Second Millennium BCE
DESCRIPTION:Two Pendants with Hathor\, Levantine\, 1630–1440 BCE. Gold\, lapis lazuli\, glass\, and semiprecious stones.\n© Hellenic Ministry of Culture – HOCRED / Archaeological Museum of Chora\, NSF10540 / \n© Palace of Nestor Excavations\, Department of Classics\, University of Cincinnati\nPhoto: Jeff Vanderpool\nVEX.2025.1.55\nMessenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art\, Archaeology\, and Reception of the Second Millennium BCE \nScholars Presenting: Emily Egan (Associate Professor\, University of Maryland)\, Joanne Murphy (Professor\, UNC Greensboro)\, David Schneller (Assistant Professor\, UCLA)\, and Efthymia Tsiolaki (Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Toronto) \nUCLA Graduate Students Presenting: Jayme Capazo\, McKenna Lincoln\, Talia Neelis\, Emma Pauly\, Duncan Restrepo\, Natalie Rudin\, Alexandra Seiler\, and Selman Oğuzcan Ünal \nHosted by the\nUCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\nin collaboration with\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum\nand held in conjunction with the exhibition\nThe Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece \nSaturday\, December 6\, 2025\n9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA Campus\nReception to follow \nRegistration for this event is now closed. \nView full schedule here \n \nJoin us for an interdisciplinary symposium that reimagines the art and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia during the second millennium BCE. This event—the culmination of a graduate seminar in ancient art history held in conjunction with the Getty Villa exhibition The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece – brings together invited scholars and UCLA graduate students from Art History\, Classics\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)\, and the Interdepartmental Program in Archaeology. Together\, participants will share new discoveries\, fresh ideas\, and creative approaches to understanding the interconnected worlds of this pivotal era in the ancient past. \nBios: \nEmily Catherine Egan is Associate Professor of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She holds a dual B.A. in Classics and Old World Archaeology and Art from Brown University\, an M.Phil. in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge\, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on artistic practice in the Bronze Age Aegean\, and particularly on the production\, consumption\, and iconography of Mycenaean painted surface decoration. She has undertaken archaeological fieldwork in Italy\, Turkey\, Jordan\, Armenia\, Cyprus\, and most recently in Greece\, where she is engaged in the study of wall and floor paintings from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos\, and Petsas House\, Mycenae. \nJoanne Murphy is a professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Archaeology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro\, where she has worked since 2008 and serves as Department Head. She is also the current Director of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies\, President of The American Friends of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies (a 501c non-profit)\, and an Academic Trustee at the Archaeological Institute of America. She received her BA and first MA from University College Dublin\, Ireland\, and an MA and PhD from University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses primarily on religion and death and how they connect with identity\, community\, and political economies. As well as giving tens of lectures both nationally and internationally\, she has published over 30 papers and five edited volumes on these and related topics and has one monograph in press and two other volumes underway. She has led two major research projects: one\, a legacy study\, on the tombs around Pylos in southwestern Greece and one\, an archaeological survey on the Greek island of Kea. She has received awards for her research and for initiatives at UNCG and non-profits from various foundations including INSTAP\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Onassis Foundation\, the NEH\, and the Loeb Foundation.  She has also been recognized for her teaching and was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and UNCG College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. She has a great love of sharing the past and has led tours in Greece\, Ireland\, France\, England\, Italy\, and Turkey\, as well as running an annual archaeological field school in Greece. \nDavid Schneller is an art historian and archaeologist whose research and teaching focuses on the ancient eastern Mediterranean and western Asia. He is currently working on his first book\, Crafting Across Time and Space: Artistic Exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean\, a study of artworks that resist categorization in the conventionally accepted fields of art history. This study makes the case for creative\, cross-cultural experiments and collaborations among a diverse group of artists and their patrons during the early first millennium BC by exploring materially-informed object histories and crafting knowledge. This research has been supported by the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation\, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Prior to joining the Department of Art History at UCLA\, Professor Schneller taught in the Core Curriculum and Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and in the Art History Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. \nEfthymia Tsiolaki is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. She is an archaeologist specializing in the Bronze Age Aegean\, with a focus on the social and economic organization of the Greek mainland. Her current research project explores the long-term history of settlement and land use in Messenia from the bottom-up\, integrating surface survey and excavation data with GIS-based analysis to highlight the dynamic character of peripheral communities before and during the rise of the Mycenaean palace at Pylos (ca. 3000 – 1100 BC). She also studies the technology and function of ground stone tools across several archaeological projects\, examining their roles in domestic and craft activities. \nThis event is organized by Professor David Schneller (UCLA) and Dr. Claire Lyons (Getty) and is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nCo-Sponsored by:\nUCLA College\, Division of Humanities\nThe Peter J. and Caroline Belz Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts\nThe George P. Kolovos Family Centennial Term Chair in Hellenic Studies\nThe Joan Palevsky Chair of Classics at UCLA\nGefyra\nUCLA Global Antiquity\nUCLA Department of Art History\nUCLA Department of Classics\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/messeniatomesopotamia/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classics,Cultural Heritage,Gefyra,Humanities
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SUMMARY:International Conference on “Plato and Lyric Poetry” - Cancelled
DESCRIPTION:a conference presented by\nthe UCLA Department of Classics \nFor more information and the conference schedule\, see: Plato and Lyric Poetry conference \nWe regret to inform you that this conference originally scheduled for May 10 and 11 has been cancelled. If you have any questions\, you can contact us at hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu. 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/platoandlyricpoetryconference/
CATEGORIES:Classics,Conference,Humanities
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SUMMARY:“Who Invented the ‘Modern Greeks’ and Why?” Lecture by Anthony Kaldellis
DESCRIPTION:Who Invented the Modern Greeks\, and Why? \nLecture by Anthony Kaldellis\, Professor\, University of Chicago \nTuesday\, March 12\, 2024\n5:00 p.m.\n247 Dodd Hall \nReception to follow \nNo RSVP required \nThis event will not be livestreamed or recorded. \nIn the case of no other people is the distinction between “ancient” and “modern” more symbolically potent and seemingly clear-cut than with the Greeks. Their antiquity is an internationally recognized prestige culture\, and their modernity was born full of promise for the future\, as one of the first nations to emancipate itself from imperial domination. But\, this lecture will show\, the distinction arose long before the nineteenth century\, in a context that is now forgotten. Who first began to speak of the “modern” Greeks\, and why? The answer will take us to the Middle Ages and to the polemics that divided Christendom and set the stage for modern Europe. \nAnthony Kaldellis is a Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago who specializes in the history\, culture\, and literature of the eastern Roman Empire\, also known as Byzantium. He has published translations of many Byzantine works as well as monographs on aspects of its culture and politics\, and recently wrote a 1\,000-page history of Byzantium entitled The New Roman Empire (Oxford University Press\, 2023). \nThe event is part of the Reception of Hellenic Culture Lecture Series\, co-organized by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the UCLA Department of Classics. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nParking Information: \n\nParking for Dodd Hall is available in Parking Structure 2 located at 602 Charles E. Young Drive\, East Los Angeles\, CA 90095. If you have accessibility needs\, this structure offers parking spots for drivers with disabilities.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information. \nFor further information\, please consult UCLA Visitor Parking. \nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/who-invented-the-modern-greeks-and-why-lecture-by-anthony-kaldellis/
LOCATION:247 Dodd Hall\, 315 Portola Pl\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classics,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds
DESCRIPTION:(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds \nTuesday\, December 5 – Wednesday\, December 6 Royce 306 \nA Forum for exchanges on ancient studies at UCLA hosted by Global Antiquity  \nRegistration Requested \nFor more information and to register\, visit https://globalantiquity.ucla.edu/workshop/ \nSee the program here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/reenvisioning-ancient-worlds/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classics,Hellenic,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T170000
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SUMMARY:Emilio Capettini\, "'The Dolphin-Haunted Artifacts of Dimmed Atlantis:' Evocations of Graeco-Roman Antiquity during the HIV/AIDS Crisis"
DESCRIPTION:“The Dolphin-Haunted Artifacts of Dimmed Atlantis:” Evocations of Graeco-Roman Antiquity during the HIV/AIDS Crisis \nLecture by Emilio Capettini\, Assistant Professor\, UC Santa Barbara \nWednesday\, November 15\, 2023\n5:00 p.m.\n248 Dodd Hall\nReception to follow \nNo RSVP required \nReflections on memory and oblivion\, erasure and persistence\, and fragmentation and integrity pervade the rich output of queer artists and writers in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic\, and the oeuvres of the American writer Paul Monette and of the British “Renaissance man” Derek Jarman are no exception. This talk will examine how encounters\, whether real or imagined\, with the literary and material remnants of Graeco-Roman antiquity shaped Monette’s and Jarman’s ruminations over the dialectical oppositions just mentioned\, engendering philological and archaeological fantasies that played a key role in the articulation of their artistic practices. \nEmilio Capettini received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2016 with a dissertation entitled “An Improbable Symphony: Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Identity in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica.” In addition to the ancient novel\, he is keenly interested in Greek epic poetry\, Greek tragedy\, and classical reception studies. At the moment\, Emilio is completing a monograph that explores the dynamics of selfhood in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica. His next project\, provisionally titled “Greek Characters Erasing in the Weather:” Queer Returns to Antiquity during the AIDS Crisis\, will examine how\, since the early ’80s\, queer writers and artists active in North America and the UK (e.g.\, John Dugdale\, Derek Jarman\, Mark Merlis\, and Paul Monette) have turned to the literary and material traces of Greco-Roman antiquity as they have reacted to\, and reflected on\, the sudden and seemingly inexplicable onset of HIV/AIDS. \nThe event is the inaugural lecture in the Reception of Hellenic Culture Lecture Series\, co-organized by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the UCLA Department of Classics. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/emilio-capettini-the-dolphin-haunted-artifacts-of-dimmed-atlantis-evocations-of-graeco-roman-antiquity-during-the-hiv-aids-crisis/
LOCATION:UCLA\, Dodd 248
CATEGORIES:Classics,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Reception
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SUMMARY:Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine:  Ecology\, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: \nEcology\, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory\nlecture by\nIoanna Kakoulli\n(Department of Materials Science and Engineering\, UCLA) \nSaturday\, April 29\, 2023\n3:00 p.m.\n306 Royce Hall\nReception to follow \nAncient Greek paintings between the fourth century BC and the third century AD are characterized by a splendor of colors\, high artistic quality and rich pictorial effects such as shading\, translucency and transparency\, innovations that characterize and mark the art of Greek and later Roman painting traditions. Through the scientific analysis of surviving paintings—mainly wall paintings—this lecture explores the material ecology and intrinsic optical\, chemical and microstructural properties of pigments in Late Classical and Hellenistic painting. It further interrogates how these properties contributed to the paintings’ qualities\, aesthetics and function and their technological association with ancient makeup and therapeutic substances\, philosophy and early al(chemical) practices. Data is presented in the context of seminal texts of ancient writers such as Dioscorides\, Theophrastus\, Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder describing the chemical arts of color\, cosmetics and medicaments\, and alchemical recipes from two third-century AD Greek papyri\, which provide the earliest surviving direct evidence on ancient alchemical practices for the synthesis of colored compounds. \nIoanna Kakoulli\, who will serve as Acting Director of the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center in 2023-2024\, is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering with a joint appointment in the Archaeology Interdepartmental Degree Program and the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program\, in which she served as the inaugural ‘Lore and Gerald Cunard’ Program Term Chair from 2011 to 2017. Since 2018\, Professor Kakoulli has also held the honorary adjunct professor title at the University of Cyprus. Dr. Kakoulli has a M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London and a Ph.D. in Archaeological Science from the University of Oxford. \nParking Information \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.  Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance (available after April 1\, 2023): \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Campus Event\,” then “Kakoulli Lecture.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround near the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking:If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5)\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nThe event is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nImage caption: Detail of the Late Classical painted marble throne found in a Royal tomb in Vergina\, Greece attributed to Eurydice Sirra\, Macedonian queen and grandmother of Alexander the Great. The painted decoration of the throne shows the extensive use of a mercury-based pigment known as cinnabar; an important component in alchemy and perhaps the most celebrated pigment in Classical antiquity.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/pigments-in-ancient-greek-painting/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T100000
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SUMMARY:Themistoklis Aravossitas\, "Greek Language Education in North America: New Directions and Challenges" on International Greek Language Day"
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is offered on the occasion of International Greek Language Day. Her Excellency\, Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States\, will offer opening remarks. \nFebruary 11\, 2023\, 10:00 AM PST/1:00PM EST/8:00 PM Athens \nThe event takes place on Zoom. View a recording of this talk here. \nModern Greek is taught and learned across North America mainly as a heritage language\, through a complex education system that includes a variety of programs and learning materials\, as well as a diverse group of learners and teachers. This presentation discusses experiences\, community projects\, and studies from Toronto\, a representative anglophone multicultural city\, in order to examine the broader conditions of Greek language education in the diaspora. Asking how today’s schools and programs can serve the needs of future generations\, we examine some of the challenges faced by educators and community leaders: What is language shift and how it can be resisted? What’s the position of heritage languages in our society? What are the priorities for today’s parents and students and how can Greek language programs meet their needs? Has the pandemic affected the learning of Greek in the USA and in Canada? What types of opportunities emerge from information and communication technologies for our schools and communities? Proposing synergies between schools\, universities\, and community partners\, we argue that the future of Greek language education is ours to envision and plan. \nThemistoklis Aravossitas earned his BA in Education at the University of Athens. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Toronto\, with an MA and a PhD in Curriculum\, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He specializes in Heritage Languages\, Teacher Education\, and Knowledge Media Design. His doctoral work\, titled The Hidden Schools\, explored Greek language education in Canada. He is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Aegean. He teaches Modern Greek at the Centre for European Studies in the Munk School of Global Affairs\, and at the Department of Languages\, Literature and Linguistics of York University. His scholarly work includes the co-edited volumes: Language Diversity in Greece: Local Challenges with International Implications (Springer\, 2020); Interdisciplinary Research Approaches to Multilingual Education (Routledge\, 2019); Handbook of Research and Practice in Heritage Language Education (Springer\, 2018). \nThe event is cosponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the United States and the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. \nThis program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/lecture-by-dr-themistoklis-aravossitas-on-international-greek-language-day/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Byzantine Studies Conference
DESCRIPTION:We welcome the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) and participants to the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies conference at UCLA! \nMost conference activities will take place at the Luskin Conference Center and Hotel on the UCLA campus.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/byzantine-studies-conference/
LOCATION:Luskin
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Byzantine,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Symposium
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SUMMARY:Roger Michel\, "Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary"
DESCRIPTION:The Parthenon Marbles\, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles\, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin\, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by the sculptor Phidias\, they were eventually sold to the British government in 1817 and are housed in the British Museum. Public debate about repatriating the marbles is heated and ongoing. \nCan the creation of exact copies of the originals resolve the repatriation quandary? Roger Michel\, executive director of the Institute of Digital Archaeology\, at the University of Oxford\, believes the repatriation issue can be resolved with the help of 3-D machining. His research team has developed a robot with the ability to create faithful copies of large historical objects. Michel will explore humanity’s connection to culturally significant objects and the emphasis we place on physical possession. Is possession an inherently colonial concept? Are heritage assets particularly susceptible to being exploited for the purposes of historical revisionism? Under what circumstances can copies provide satisfactory substitutes for original material? These questions will be examined against the backdrop of the IDA’s ongoing Elgin repatriation efforts. \nRoger Michel is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA). The IDA operates globally\, undertaking a huge variety of heritage projects\, many of which are aimed at advancing social justice goals. Its principal partners are the UN\, UNESCO\, and local and national governments. Mr. Michel has published and lectured frequently on various heritage conservation topics. He was a member of the faculty at BU Law School for 25 years\, is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College (Oxford)\, and is co-publisher of Arion Magazine. Mr. Michel is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities. \nThis event\, co-presented by the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage\, is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and with the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/roger-michel-phidias-unbound-how-robot-generated-replicas-could-solve-the-parthenon-marbles-quandary/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Johanna Hanink\, "Bones\, Stones\, Trees\, and Roots: On the Enduring Urgency of Karkavitsas' Archeologist (1904)"
DESCRIPTION:How does a novella written more than one hundred years ago help to illuminate pressing issues in Greece today? Karkavitsas’ Archeologist\, an allegory for the contestation of antiquity’s role in Greek modernity\, was published at a time when Greece’s ancient past was emerging as a modern national industry. Major excavations were tied to the establishment of foreign schools in Greece\, while the sheer quantity of new archeological inspired a boom in museum construction. This talk will explore some of the early critiques that the work offered of the early Greek antiquity industry\, and of the mentalities – both foreign and domestic – that drove it. In the spirit of National Translation Day\, this talk will also consider the work’s many reflections on the Greek language (and the “Language Question”)\, as well as the complications the work itself presents for translation on both linguistic and cultural levels.  \nJohanna Hanink is Professor of Classics at Brown University. She is the author of Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy (Cambridge 2014) and The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Age of Austerity (Harvard 2017). She is also a translator of Ancient and Modern Greek. \nThis lecture is offered on the occasion of International Translation Day\, in collaboration with the Embassy of Greece in Washington\, DC\, the UCLA Department of Classics\, and the Archaeological Institute of America\, Los Angeles Chapter. The discussion will be co-moderated by Professor Sarah Morris (Classics; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) and Dr. Simos Zenios (UCLA SNF Hellenic Center). \nView a recording of this talk here. \nFor further information about The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories\, visit the publisher’s site.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/johanna-hanink-lecture-on-the-occasion-of-international-translation-day/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Eleni Kefala\, "Strangers No More: Constantinople\, Tenochtitlan\, and the Trauma of the Conquest"
DESCRIPTION:The Byzantines had long dreaded the year 1492. According to their calculations based on the Scriptures\, it would bring the end of the world. In an eerie stroke of irony\, they were right in their fears. Even though they were slightly off in the timing of the fall of Constantinople into the hands of the Ottomans\, they anticipated with uncanny accuracy the end of the world as they knew it. Columbus’s crossing of the Atlantic paved the way for the European colonization of the Americas. But what is there in common between Byzantium and America beyond some bemusing serendipities? This paper approaches that question by rehistoricizing the fall of Byzantine Constantinople (1453) and Aztec Tenochtitlan (1521) while looking at three sorrowful poems composed by anonymous Greek and Aztec authors soon after the conquest of the Byzantine and Mexica empires.\nEleni Kefala is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. Her work explores modernity across different periods and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. She is the author of Peripheral (Post) Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of Borges\, Piglia\, Kalokyris\, and Kyriakidis (2007)\, The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity (2020)\, and Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity (2022)\, and editor of Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World: From Conquest to Globalisation (2011). \nEvent Co-Sponsored by the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies\, Simon Fraser University. \nTo register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/300210596977 \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/eleni-kefala-strangers-no-more-constantinople-tenochtitlan-and-the-trauma-of-conquest/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220416T100000
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SUMMARY:Roderick Beaton\, "Asia Minor in the Life and Work of George Seferis"
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of National Poetry Month \nIn May 1944\, at the height of a new crisis facing the Greek government in exile during World War II\, which he served as a high-ranking diplomat\, George Seferis confided these thoughts to his Alexandrian Greek friend Timos Malanos: ‘It might surprise you if I tell you that the event that has affected me more than anything is the Asia Minor Catastrophe. . . . From the age of 13 I’ve never ceased to be a refugee.’ This talk describes Seferis’s early life in Smyrna and the seaside village of Skala tou Vourla\, and the ways in which he came to reflect on both\, in later essays and poems. Moving forward to the end of the 1940s\, the story resumes when the poet returned to his birthplace while serving in the Greek embassy in Ankara. During this period\, traveling widely in Asia Minor\, Seferis experienced what he termed a ‘wider Hellenism’\, one that encompassed the Hellenistic expansion in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great and continued throughout the millennium of the Byzantine Empire. From these later experiences\, and the poems\, essays\, and diaries that he wrote at the time\, it emerges that\, for Seferis\, Asia Minor had become not only his own ‘lost homeland’ and that of his family and more than a million of his contemporaries: it was also the ‘lost homeland’ of Hellenism itself\, whose heartland it had been for many centuries. \nRoderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at Cambridge\, before specializing in Modern Greek studies. For thirty years until his retirement\, he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History\, Language and Literature at King’s College London\, and is now Emeritus. Beaton is the author of several books of non-fiction\, one novel\, and several translations of fiction and poetry\, all of them connected to Greece and the Greek-speaking world. He is a four-time winner of the Runciman Award\, and his books have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Cundill History Prize. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)\, a Fellow of King’s College (FKC)\, and Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic. From 2019 to 2021 he served as a member of the Committee “GREECE 2021\,” charged by the Greek government with overseeing events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821\, and from September to December 2021 as A.G. Leventis Visiting Professor in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book\, The Greeks: A Global History\, is published by Basic Books (October 2021). \nThis event will be introduced by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. \nExclusive poetry reading by renowned Greek actor Stelios Mainas (Tetarti 04:45\, Mystikes Diadromes\, The island) \nRSVP here. \nDownload handout of readings.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/roderick-beaton-asia-minor-in-the-life-and-work-of-george-seferis/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Maria Pantelia\, "Preserving Greek Literature from Homer to Solomos"
DESCRIPTION:Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. \nFor almost three millennia Greek literature has been preserved in a variety of different media\, encompassing inscriptions on stone\, papyrus rolls\, medieval manuscripts\, and\, most recently\, digital formats. It is a checkered history. Natural disasters\, accidents\, wars\, political and religious upheavals have contributed to the loss of much precious material\, yet such losses have been counterbalanced by the efforts of libraries\, monasteries\, and individual collectors and scholars to preserve this important legacy. For the last 50 years\, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at UC Irvine has been collecting all the extant works of Greek literature from antiquity to the present\, with the goal of creating a permanent digital repository. What are the challenges and triumphs of this initiative? What remains to be done and how will scholars and members of a broader community leverage this resource? \nMaria Pantelia is Professor of Classics at the University of California\, Irvine. She is the Editor and Director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)\, a digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. \nThis lecture\, on the occasion of International Greek Language Day\, is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the United States\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, and the Hellenic Library of Southern California. \nTo attend\, please RSVP at this link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/maria-pantelia-preserving-greek-literature-from-homer-to-solomos-2/
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211023T100000
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SUMMARY:Stavros Vlizos\, Associate Professor\, Ionian University\, and Vicky Vlachou\, École française d’Athènes | “New Evidence on a Spartan Religious Center: The Sanctuary of Apollo Amyklaios at Sparta and the Current Research Project”
DESCRIPTION:The Sanctuary of Apollon at Amyklai (Sparta) was inextricably associated in antiquity with the celebrated festival of the Hyakinthia. Ancient literary sources describe salient aspects of the festival and the cult that was centered around the tomb of the hero Hyakinthos and the altar of Apollo in two succeeding stages that never overlapped each other. Material evidence from the sanctuary area demonstrates the early beginnings of the cult and ritual\, already since the mid-10th century BC. By the late 8th to early 7th century BC\, the formal delimitation of the sanctuary area\, the quantity and quality of the material deposits support the importance of the sanctuary and its festival within the formal institutions of the Spartan polis. It can be argued that the importance of the sanctuary may be related with the seniority of the shrine and the continuity of the ritual activities in this area over the centuries. The lecture shall focus on shifts in use and function of material culture that are parallel to transformations and changes of the social\, political\, and religious landscape of Sparta. Furthermore\, the connection of the cult site to neighboring areas in proximity\, further away\, and parallel trajectory to the rest of the Spartan sanctuaries shall be discussed. \nThe event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, Archaeological Institute of America–Los Angeles County Society\, and Pan-Laconian Federation of United States and Canada. \nAfter completing his studies at the University of Ioannina and the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Dr.Phil.)\, Stavros Vlizos first worked as a contract archaeologist at the Ministry of Culture (1997-2001) and then as a researcher and scientific associate at the Benaki Museum (2002-2013). As an Associate Professor\, he teaches a wide range of courses in Museology and Archaeology in the Department of Archives\, Library Studies and Museology at Ionian University. He is director of the Amykles Research Project\, associate of the Athens Archaeological Society\, corresponding member of the German Archaeological  Institute\, and co-founder  of  the  Athens  “Roman Seminar.”  His research interests and publications refer to issues of promotion and management of cultural heritage and archaeological goods\, as well as topics highlighting the material culture of Ancient and Roman Greece and the importance of ancient sanctuaries diachronically. \nVicky Vlachou studied History\, Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Athens. She is currently a scientific member (Belgian) at the École française d’Athènes (EfA\, membre). She is a scholar of the Early Iron Age Aegean (ca. 1000-600 BC). Her doctoral thesis (2010) was awarded the G.P. Oikonomos prize of the Class of Letters and Fine Arts of the Academy of Athens. She is a member of fieldwork and publication projects at Xobourgo on Tenos (Cyclades)\, Amykles (Sparta)\, Itanos\, and Anavlochos (Eastern Crete). She is the editor of the collective volume Pots\, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society: Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece (Études d’archéologie 8\, Brussels 2015). \nTo register\, please click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/stavros-vlizos-associate-professor-ionian-university-and-vicky-vlachou-universite-libre-de-bruxelles-brussels-ulb-new-evidence-on-a-spartan-religious-center-the-sanctuary-of-apollo/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Vassilis Lambrinoudakis\, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Athens | “The Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidauros: New Finds Rewrite the Function and History of the Most Important Sanatorium in Antiquity”
DESCRIPTION:The unexpected finds during recent excavations in the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidauros shed new light on the origins\, cult\, and function of Asclepius\, the main Divine Healer of the Graeco-Roman world. An amazing ground-floor building that features α peristyle and basement hewn into the rock was excavated at the Tholos\, the famous classical circular building with underground\, meander-like passages. It defines the highly debated and mysterious function of the Tholos as the cult place of chthonic Asclepius\, and explains his presence in Epidauros in the 7th century BC. A small portico\, found under the later Abaton\, preceded the latter as a primitive dormitory hall. It provides evidence for healing through incubation already in early archaic times. An ash altar and accommodations for ritual meals around it explains the parallel magic cure through the consumption of sacred food from the very beginning of the cult. The new finds enrich our knowledge of the sanctuary’s history and general healthcare in antiquity. \nHer Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States\, will provide introductory remarks. \nVassilis Lambrinoudakis is professor emeritus of the University of Athens; corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres\, Paris; and the Akademie der Wissenschaften\, Vienna. He studied History and Archaeology at the Universities of Athens\, Munich and Bonn. He is member of the German Archeological Institute and the Austrian Archaeological Institute. He excavates mainly in Epidauros/Argolid and the island of Naxos in the Aegean See. He also conducted excavations on the island of Chios\, in Marathon/Attica and in Palaiomanina/Acarnania.  He  directs  projects  of  enhancement  of  archaeological sites in Naxos and Epidauros. In 2003\, he earned the first prize of Europa Nostra for the excavation and the enhancement of the sites Yria and Sangri/Naxos. He has published 14 books and monographs\, as well as 186 papers on ancient Greek architecture and art\, ancient topography\, ancient Greek religion\, epigraphy\, theory of Archaeology\, and management of monuments. He was co-editor of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC I-VIII) and of the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA I-VIII). In 2003\, he was honored by the President of the Hellenic Republic “for promoting the Archaeology and the History of Greece throughout the world.” \nThe event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\, Embassy of Greece in USA\, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, and the Archaeological Institute of America–Los Angeles County Society.  \nTo register\, please click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/vasilis-lambrinoudakis-professor-emeritus-of-classical-archaeology-at-the-university-of-athens-the-sanctuary-of-asclepius-at-epidauros-new-finds-rewrite-the-function-and-history-of-the-mo/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T120000
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SUMMARY:Josiah Ober\, Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics\, Stanford University “Bargain/Revolution/Bargain. An Ancient Athenian Recipe for Democracy.”
DESCRIPTION:To participate in this event\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/josiah-ober-mitsotakis-professor-of-political-science-and-classics-stanford-university-bargain-revolution-bargain-an-ancient-athenian-recipe-for-democracy/
CATEGORIES:Classics,Community,Hellenic
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Greek Language Day: Professor Kathryn Morgan\, “Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom.”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kathryn Morgan\, UCLA Department of Classics \n“Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom” \nThe Sages of Ancient Greece were renowned for their pithy formulations of proverbial wisdom. Perhaps the most famous of these was the saying inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi: “Know thyself!” (γνῶθι σεαυτόν)\, a command that had a long influence on Greek wisdom traditions\, including the thought of Socrates. This talk will examine how popular wisdom traditions were exploited and explored by thinkers who capitalized upon the density of expression characteristic both of proverbs and of ancient Greek. Brief and “laconic” formulations are like modern “soundbites\,” memorable but problematic: What are their advantages? What are their limits? \nKathryn Morgan is Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at UCLA.  Her interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. She regularly teaches graduate seminars in Attic tragedy\, Pindar and Greek lyric\, and Plato\, and her research oscillates between projects connected with Plato and with Pindar. The former is represented by her book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato\, and by her ongoing involvement in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative (published by Brill)\, where she is responsible for the chapters covering Plato. Pindar is the subject of her most recent book\, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (2015)\, where she examines Pindar’s victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse and the program of tyrannical self-representation to which they contributed.  Ongoing research includes book projects on Plato’s conception of history and on historical narrative in the Persians of Aeschylus. She has served on the Program Committee and the Board of Directors of the Society for Classical Studies\, and is currently a member of the Nominating Committee. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the General Secretariat for Public Diplomacy & Greeks Abroad (Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Hellenic Republic) and by the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be offered on Zoom.\nRSVP to shorturl.at/uHLTW to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/a-celebration-of-greek-language-day/
CATEGORIES:Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T120000
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SUMMARY:Konstantinos Zachos\, "Excavations at the Victory Monument of Octavian Augustus at Nikopolis\, Epiros: A Monument that Marks the Turning Point in the History of the Ancient World"
DESCRIPTION:On September 2\, 31 BC\, Octavian’s forces defeat those of Mark Antony and the queen of Egypt Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece. The battle is known as the Battle of Actium\, after the name of the peninsula at the entrance of the Ambracian Gulf\, where an ancient sanctuary to Apollo existed. Few episodes of ancient history have been commented on more and more often as the Battle of Actium. Admittedly\, it was the beginning of a new world and\, above all\, the beginning of Octavian’s “monarchy\,” while historians since antiquity have been attributing to the battle the dimensions of a symbol. \nAfter the victory\, Octavian\, who is known in history as Augustus\, undertook a series of actions aimed at the economic and social reorganization of northwestern Greece\, while incorporating elements of political and religious propaganda. Specifically\, he founded a city which he named Nikopolis\, i.e. Victory City\, renovated the sanctuary of Apollo at Actium\, and on a hill sacred to Apollo at the outskirts of the new city\, where he had encamped\, erected a Victory Monument. Excavations at this imposing\, extravagant monument over the past few decades\, have revealed a wealth of finds\, some of astonishing artistic rendering\, which represent the victor’s earliest surviving statement regarding the Actian War. \nKonstantinos Zachos is an archaeologist interested in various aspects of Aegean Prehistory and Roman archaeology\, as well as of the archaeology of Epiros. He holds a B.A. from the University of Thessaloniki and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University. During his graduate studies in Boston\, he attended seminars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. After his graduate studies\, he entered the Greek Archaeological Service\, worked in several Ephorates of Antiquities and was promoted to Ephor of Antiquities.  He conducted post graduate research as a Privat “Dozent” at the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte of the University of Heidelberg. \nHe has excavated widely in Epiros\, Peloponnesos\, the Cyclades\, and in Albania. He was the director of the systematic excavation at the Zas Cave in Naxos\, which contributed significantly to the prehistory of Cyclades. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. \nThis lecture will be offered by ZOOM.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/konstantinos-zachos-excavations-at-the-victory-monument-of-octavian-augustus-at-nikopolis-epiros-a-monument-that-marks-the-turning-point-in-the-history-of-the-ancient-world/
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T120000
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SUMMARY:Mary E. Voyatzis\, "Exploring Sacred Landscapes in the Mountains of Arcadia"
DESCRIPTION:The mountainous region of Arcadia\, situated in the heart of the Peloponnese\, has attracted considerable interest and attention since antiquity. Many ancient authors described Arcadia in detail\, discussing its rich mythology\, many sites\, unusual gods\, numerous sanctuaries\, engaging history\, diverse geography\, and the important fact that its inhabitants were indigenous\, living there even before the moon (Proselenoi)\, and the original inhabitants of Greece (Pelasgoi). During the Renaissance\, Arcadia was depicted in art as a beautiful\, pristine\, and magical place with unspoiled wilderness. By the 19th c. European travelers were exploring the region\, and later in the century archaeologists began excavating its various sites. For over 140 years Arcadia has been investigated by archaeologists from Greece and many other countries in Europe and North America. In this illustrated lecture\, Professor Mary Voyatzis considers some of the sites recently excavated in Arcadia\, and focuses on two where she has been involved\, the Sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea\, and the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion. We shall see how archaeological discoveries have contributed significantly to our understanding of the history of Arcadia and enhanced our appreciation of this enchanting mountainous region. \nMary E. Voyatzis is Professor in the School of Anthropology and the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her research areas involve Ancient Greek ritual and religion\, sanctuaries and their development over time\, and ancient Greek pottery. Dr. Voyatzis was a Principal Investigator in the excavations at the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea\, 1990-1994\, and she is currently a co-director of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey project (since 2004). \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Additional co-sponsors include the Hellenic Cultural Foundation of Tucson and the Panarcadian Federation of America\, Nea Mantineia Chapter #102. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/mary-e-voyatzis-exploring-sacred-landscapes-in-the-mountains-of-arcadia/
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Finding Atlantis
DESCRIPTION:This talk by Professor Kathryn Morgan\, Chair of the UCLA Department of Classics\, explores the origins and some of the development of the myth of the lost island of Atlantis\, from Plato to contemporary video games. This legend has fascinated its audiences since it first appeared in the works of the philosopher Plato\, and like all good myths it reflects the concerns of the society that created it. It is a story about the kind of society that want to live in\, about the effect upon civilizations of imperial ambition\, about how we deal with the sea as a medium for economic and cultural exchange. In the hands of modern geographers\, explorers\, and other scholars\, the myth has become something different: a symbol of the mysterious past that we can never quite control. \nYou must RSPV at hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu to be included in this event. We welcome attendance by students\, community members\, and your family members outside of Los Angeles.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/lecture-finding-atlantis/
CATEGORIES:Classics,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200209T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200209T190000
DTSTAMP:20200111T042353Z
CREATED:20200111T042353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200111T042353Z
UID:10000032-1581256800-1581274800@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Symposium: A Celebration of International Greek Language Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/symposium-a-celebration-of-international-greek-language-day/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Classics,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece,Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T190000
DTSTAMP:20191106T175654Z
CREATED:20191106T175654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T175654Z
UID:10000026-1574271000-1574276400@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tassos Boulmetis' A Touch of Spice
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/tassos-boulmetis-a-touch-of-spice/
LOCATION:James Bridges Theater\, UCLA\, 235 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classics,Film,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191117T170000
DTSTAMP:20191031T011233Z
CREATED:20191031T011233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191031T011233Z
UID:10000025-1574002800-1574010000@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Polyxeni Adam-Veleni\, "Thessaloniki: A Metro-Polis through the Centuries"
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the course of excavations during the construction of the Metropolitan Railway in modern Thessaloniki\, important finds were brought to light at seven stations: an unknown Roman cemetery of a wealthy settlement\, and many burials and funerary structures in the eastern and western necropoleis of the ancient city. The excavations of two central stations at the heart of the ancient and the modern city revealed important new archaeological evidence about the city’s plan and its population: the central marble-paved avenue (the Roman decumanus maximus) and perpendicular streets (the cardines)\, two large oval plazas\, many shops\, luxurious urban residences and public buildings. Viewed together\, these exciting discoveries paint a magnificent picture of the ancient city and give new information about its urban planning\, demonstrating that both in late antiquity\, but especially during the acme of the Byzantine Empire\, Thessaloniki was not only a second capital to Constantinople\, but was also one of Europe’s most important and populated cities. \nDr. Polyxeni Adam-Veleni is Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage\, Hellenic Ministry of Culture \n  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/polyxeni-adam-veleni-thessaloniki-a-metro-polis-through-the-centuries/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Hellenic,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T190000
DTSTAMP:20190514T174421Z
CREATED:20190514T174421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190514T174421Z
UID:10000020-1558023300-1558033200@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Angelos Chaniotis\, "The Polis as a Stage: Theatricality and Illusion in the Long Hellenistic Age"
DESCRIPTION:Parking Information: Enter UCLA campus Lot 4 from Sunset Blvd at Westwood Plaza  and turn left into the Play-By-Plate area of the lot. The address of Lot 4 is 398 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. \nAutomated pay stations in Pay-By-Play accept $1 and $5 bills and credit cards.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/angelos-chaniotis-the-polis-as-a-stage-theatricality-and-illusion-in-the-long-hellenistic-age/
LOCATION:Lenart Auditorium\, Fowler Auditorium\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Classics,Hellenic,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190407T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190407T170000
DTSTAMP:20180916T223020Z
CREATED:20180916T223020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180916T223020Z
UID:10000016-1554649200-1554656400@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Classical debt 'after' the crisis: Greek antiquity in the era of Grecovery
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her latest book\, The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity\, Johanna Hanink\, Professor at Brown University\, shows that our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes our view of the modern country and its recent crises. \nFor nearly a decade\, Greece has been notorious for its monetary\, sovereign debt. Yet for more than two centuries\, claims have been made for another type of “Greek debt\,” namely the symbolic debt that Europe—or even “Western civilization”—allegedly owes to Greece for bequeathing the world with its traditions of democracy\, philosophy\, mathematics\, fine art\, etc. This lecture will depart from this premise\, but will focus on how accounting of that debt-balance has recently shifted\, especially since August 20\, 2018\, when Greece “exited” from its official bailout programs and embarked on a new era hailed as one of “Grecovery.” That day\, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras triumphantly pronounced\, at a press conference carefully staged on the island of Ithaca\, “We reached our destination.” What role might antiquity play in this next chapter for Greece? \n  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/classical-debt-after-the-crisis-greek-antiquity-in-the-era-of-grecovery/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classics,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180507T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180507T173000
DTSTAMP:20180426T042914Z
CREATED:20180426T042914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180426T042914Z
UID:10000004-1525708800-1525714200@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Professor Andromache Karanika\, UC Irvine\, "Tangible Time: Looms\, Weaving and Perceptions of Continuity and Rupture in Female Temporality in Early Greek Literature"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/tangible-time-looms-weaving-and-perceptions-of-continuity-and-rupture-in-female-temporality-in-early-greek-literature/
LOCATION:UCLA\, Dodd 248
CATEGORIES:Classics,Hellenic
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