Local 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...
The 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...
Christos 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...
The 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,...
“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...
Join 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...
With 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...
Marcia 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...
This 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...
Tolerance 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...
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....
The event will be offered on Zoom. RSVP to shorturl.at/dhjAU to receive the link. Download the Zoom app prior to the lecture to participate. He was one of the...