Artemis Leontis, “Going after Eva Palmer Sikelianos”
For more than a decade, Artemis Leontis has carried out a recovery project researching and writing the life of Eva Palmer Sikelianos, publishing her biography in 2019. Leontis knew Palmer...
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Xenia Politou (Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture, Benaki Museum), “The Costume of Women in Greece: Styles and References”
by ZoomLocal Greek women’s costumes are impressive because of their wide variety and large number of local variations. A more methodical analysis can bring to the surface certain common characteristics and...
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Anna Ballian (Curator Emerita, Benaki Museum), “Bacini or Immured Vessels on Post- Byzantine Churches, 16th-17th Century: The Case of Iznik, Italian and Local Ware”
by ZoomThe image of a small church with immured ceramic vessels on its walls is interwoven with representations of the Greek landscape, whether on the islands or on the mainland. The...
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Polina Kosmadaki (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints, Benaki Museum), “Charting Mediterranean Archaisms in a Modern Framework: Christian Zervos and the Cahiers d’art Method”
Featuredby ZoomChristos or Christian Zervos (Argostoli 1889–Paris 1970) played a definitive role in shaping the cultural climate in interwar Paris through his journal Cahiers d’Αrt, which he founded in 1926 and...
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Tassos Sakellaropoulos (Head of Historical Archives) and Maria Dimitriadou (Historical Archives), “1821, Before and After: Narrating and Curating 100 Years of Greek History”
by ZoomThe year 2021 marks the bicentenary of the 1821 declaration of the Greek War of Independence. To celebrate this major anniversary, the Benaki Museum, together with the Bank of Greece,...
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Greek Book Club: Λος Άντζελες· Οδηγώντας στη Νότια Καλιφόρνια της Σώτης Τριανταφύλλου
“Ενα πρωί βρήκα τα υπολείμματα των ημερών σου, είδα τις πατημασιές σου στην ερπετώδη γη, άκουσα πάλι την αναπνοή σου: στα ρημαγμένα τοπία, στη μακάβρια αταξία, σε είδα να γίνεσαι...
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A Virtual Tour of the Museum of Cycladic Art with Greek Prehistoric Archaeologist Metaxia Routsi
by ZoomJoin the UCLA SNF Center and the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, for an inside look into the Museum’s unparalleled collection of Cycladic art. Go behind the scenes to view...
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Conversation with the Mayor: The Honorable Petros Doukas, Mayor of Sparta
FeaturedWith a new museum and hospital underway, and with plans for a new airport, the city of Sparta is undergoing dramatic changes. In this wide-ranging conversation, UCLA SNF Hellenic...
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Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos, Museum Director, Kehila Kedosha Janina, “Meet Me on the Corner of Broome and Allen: A Visit to Kehila Kedosha Janina”
Featuredby ZoomMarcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos gives us a virtual tour of Kehila Kedosha Janina, the only Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. The congregation was founded in 1906 by Greek Jewish immigrants...
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Leon Saltiel, “Dehumanizing the Dead: The Destruction of Thessaloniki’s Jewish Cemetery during World War II”
Featuredby ZoomThis lecture will discuss the destruction of Thessaloniki’s ancient and vast Jewish cemetery which commenced in December 1942. The cemetery, located close to the city center, had long become the...
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Rena Molho, “Problems of Incorporating the Holocaust into the Greek Collective Memory”
Featuredby ZoomTolerance of antisemitism and neo-Nazism in Greece in recent years shows that the Holocaust has not yet been incorporated into the Greek national consciousness. This could be (partly) because Greece...
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A Celebration of Greek Language Day: Professor Kathryn Morgan, “Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom.”
Professor Kathryn Morgan, UCLA Department of Classics “Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom” The Sages of Ancient Greece were renowned for their pithy formulations of proverbial wisdom....