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SUMMARY:Anastassios Antonaras\, Head of Exhibitions\, Communication and Education Department\, Museum of Byzantine Culture\, Thessaloniki |  “Documenting Diversity in Thessaloniki and Its Hinterlands: Three Archaeological Stories”
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines the diverse population that lived in Byzantine Thessaloniki and the surrounding area through three case studies: a young girl with African religious beliefs who lived in the late 3rd century\, a Slavic lady of the late 8th century\, and a group of archers from the 14th – 15th century who were trained in the east. The first case study is a young girl who was buried in a simple pit tomb in the eastern necropolis of Thessaloniki. She wore two amulets: a wooden one\, probably of ebony\, in the shape of a male head with strong African features\, and an amber one in the shape of feline bust. A Slavic lady\, the second case study\, is identified by a special bead that was found during excavations in the castle of Rentina\, east of Thessaloniki. Such beads are characteristic of the Slavic tribes and similar examples have been found from the Volga region and Germany to Greece. A special type of men’s utilitarian jewelry\, the ring of an archer\, presents the third case study. This is a type of ring that initially had the sole purpose of protecting the thumb when the reflective bow’s string was released. These case studies demonstrate that among the population that lived in Byzantine Thessaloniki were a number of foreigners whose identity is only revealed through the careful examination of excavated objects.  \nDr. Anastassios C. Antonaras\, a specialist in the history of glass\, jewelry and textiles\, is an archaeologist and curator. He is Head of the Exhibitions\, Communication and Education Department at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki. His books include: Glassworking\, Ancient and Medieval: Terminology\, Technology and Typology (2008); Roman and Early Christian Glassworking: Vessels from Thessaloniki and Its Region (which received a prize from the Academy of Athens in 2010); Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (2012); Artisanal Production in Ancient and Byzantine Thessaloniki: Archaeological\, Literary and Epigraphic Evidence (2016; repr. 2019); Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: 1st Century BC – 6th Century AD (2017); and The Art of Glass. Works from the Collection of the Museum of Byzantine Culture (2019). He is currently researching different aspects of glass production and glassware in Byzantine and Ottoman Empire and publishing the rich and diverse\, ancient and Islamic glass collection of the Getty Villa Museum. \nThe event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\, 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/anastassios-antonaras-head-of-exhibitions-communication-and-education-department-museum-of-byzantine-culture-thessaloniki-documenting-diversity-in-thessaloniki-and-its-hinterlands-th/
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CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Byzantine,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Nikos Panou\, “Slaying the Dragon: Byzantine Survivals in the Greek War of Independence”
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will focus on an aspect of the Greek War of Independence that calls for answers to questions as basic as they are elusive. What role did the Byzantine heritage play in conceptualizing\, representing\, or animating the struggle against the Ottoman Empire? What strands of Byzantium were foregrounded and through which mechanisms did they find a place in the collective imaginary of the period? In what ways was that process of reception and signification manifested\, and to what extent? How can it be studied and properly understood today? \nThe event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center and Dumbarton Oaks\, Washington\, DC. Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States will provide opening remarks. \nNikos Panou is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Professor in Hellenic Studies in the Department of English at Stony Brook University. His current research focuses on articulations of power and authority in pre-modern moral and political discourse\, with emphasis on advice literature and related genres. He has written on topics ranging from Byzantine historiography to seventeenth-century satire\, and has co-edited a volume on conceptions of tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance with Oxford University Press. \nTo register\, please click the image above or here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/nikos-panou-assistant-professor-of-comparative-literature-and-peter-v-tsantes-endowed-professor-in-hellenic-studies-stony-brook-university-slaying-the-dragon-byzantine-survivals-in-the/
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CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Maria Schoina\, Associate Professor of English Literature\, Aristotle University\, Thessaloniki | "Byron's Romantic Philhellenism"
DESCRIPTION:Byron’s philhellenic verse and romantic involvement in the Greek Revolution inspired a host of poets and artists in Europe and across the Atlantic. His death in Missolonghi on April 19\, 1824 appears to have been an especially great force in raising sympathy for the Revolution and stimulating young philhellenes to join the Greek fighting. But the leading English Romantic poet of the time was often ambiguous about the subject of Greece. Recent biographies of Byron and modern interpretations of his venture have duly turned their attention to this debatable issue\, providing various frames of reference for reading Byron’s decision to join the Greek struggle. This lecture will discuss the changing aspects of Byron’s philhellenism as they were acted out in his lifetime and expressed through his poetic production: from the Romantic Hellenism of Childe Harold’s lines and the Eastern Tales\, to the grounded skepticism about Greece’s political future found in his prose and letters\, to his life-changing decision to translate his thoughts into actions\, “words” into “things\,” by joining the Greek uprising and committing himself to a people’s war of national liberation. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center; SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies\, Simon Fraser University; and the Embassy of Greece in USA. \nMaria Schoina is Associate Professor of English Literature in the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece. She holds a B.A.\, M.A. and Ph.D from Aristotle University. She is the author of Romantic “Anglo-Italians”: Configurations of Identity in Byron\, the Shelleys\, and the Pisan Circle (Ashgate 2009; Routledge 2016\, paperback 2019). Her essays have appeared in journals such as Romanticism\, The Byron Journal\, The Wordsworth Circle\, European Romantic Review\, Notes and Queries and in essay collections. Her most recent publications include an essay on Mary Shelley’s Greek studies in The Keats-Shelley Review (2019)\, a chapter on the Pisan Circle and the Cockney School in Byron in Context (Cambridge UP\, 2020) and a chapter on Byron’s reviewers for the Oxford Handbook of Byron (forthcoming\, 2022). She was the organiser of this year’s International Byron Conference (online\, Thessaloniki\, 28 June-2 July 2021). \nTo register\, please click the image above or here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/maria-schoina-associate-professor-of-english-literature-aristotle-university-thessaloniki-byrons-romantic-philhellenism/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with the Author: Chris Jaymes | "Sons of Chaos"
DESCRIPTION:  \nTo register\, please click the image above or here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/chris-jaymes-sons-of-chaos/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Helen Angelomatis-Tsougarakis\, Professor Emerita of History\, Ionian University 		“Fighters and Victims: Women's Lives during the Greek Revolution”
DESCRIPTION:The heroic events of the Greek Revolution of 1821 that eventually led to the liberation of part of Greece and the establishment of the modern Greek State had a tragic side for all Greeks. At the same time\, they sowed the seeds for the changes that would gradually introduce Greeks to the realities of the modern Western world. This lecture discusses the heroism and the tragedy\, as well as the transition into modernity\, by focusing on key aspects of the lives of Greek women during the Revolution. Examining factors that impacted their lives in diverse ways\, from geographical location to socioeconomic position\, we will see how Greek women assumed the roles of victims and fighters\, and how they and their children reacted to the extreme conditions they had to face. The discussion will also address noteworthy changes in the mores and customs of Greek society\, and the ways in which new legislation introduced by the Provisional Governments affected women’s lives. \nHelen (Eleni) Angelomatis-Tsougarakis is professor emerita of the Ionian University. She studied History and Archaeology at Athens University and she holds a DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford. She was a Research Director in the Research Centre for Medieval and Modern Greek Studies of the Academy of Athens\, and afterwards a professor at the Department of History of the Ionian University. She taught pre-modern and modern Greek History\, and for several years directed the M.A. Program: “Methodology on Criticism and Editing Historical Sources.” Through this program a considerable number of previously unpublished sources of various periods have been edited and commented on by students under her supervision. Several of these sources have subsequently been published. \nShe has published extensively on various aspects of Greek history from the 15th through to the 19th century. Her interests cover a wide spectrum of subjects: social history\, history of intellectual life and education\, church history\, landscape history\, and travel literature as a historical source. She has published seven books\, and edited seven more books and collective volumes. She has also published over seventy papers in academic journals and collective volumes. \nTo participate in this event\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/helen-angelomatis-tsougarakis-professor-emerita-of-history-ionian-university-fighters-and-victims-womens-lives-during-the-greek-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:David A. Bell\, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions; Professor of  History\, Princeton University\, “The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolution"
DESCRIPTION:  \nDavid A. Bell is a historian of early modern France\, with a particular interest in the political culture of the Old Regime and the French Revolution. He attended graduate school at Princeton\, where he worked with Robert Darnton\, and received his Ph.D. in 1991. From 1990 to 1996 he taught at Yale\, and from 1996 to 2010 at Johns Hopkins\, where he held the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities\, and served as Dean of Faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences. He joined the Princeton faculty in 2010. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. \nBell has written six books. Lawyers and Citizens (Oxford University Press\, 1994) examined the politicization of the French legal profession in the eighteenth century\, showing how spaces for radical criticism of the French monarchy first opened up within the structure of the French state itself. The Cult of the Nation in France (Harvard University Press\, 2001) argued that nationalism\, as opposed to national sentiment\, was a novelty of the French Revolutionary period\, and that it arose both out of\, and in reaction to\, Christianity. The First Total War (Houghton Mifflin\, 2007) is a general study of the political culture of war in Europe between 1750 and 1815. It showed how an aristocratic culture of limited warfare gave way to a world in which total war was possible—and in which\, between 1792 and 1815\, it actually took place. More recently\, Oxford University Press published two new books by Bell: Napoleon: A Concise Biography (2015)\, and an essay collection\, Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France\, Past and Present (2016). Finally\, in 2018\, W.W. Norton published a textbook co-authored by Bell and Anthony Grafton: The West: A New History. Bell has also co-edited two volumes: Raison universelle et culture nationale au siècle des lumières\, with Ludmila Pimenova and Stéphane Pujol (Honoré Champion\, 1999)\, and Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World\, with Yair Mintzker (Oxford University Press\, 2018). Bell’s new book\, Men on Horseback: Charisma and Power in the Age of Revolutions will be published in 2020 by Farrar\, Straus\, Giroux. \nIn addition to his research and teaching\, Bell writes frequently for a range of general-interest publications. He is committed to the proposition that serious history can be readable\, enjoyable\, and accessible to an interested general public. \nUCLA Professor Lynn Hunt introduces this lecture\, which is also sponsored by the Department of History and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies. \nTo participate in this event\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/david-bell-sidney-and-ruth-lapidus-professor-in-the-era-of-north-atlantic-revolutions-professor-of-history-princeton-university-the-greek-revolution-in-the-age-of-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Γιώργος Κυριακόπουλος\, Η τρισεγγονή της Aραπίνας και άλλες ιστορίες
DESCRIPTION:  \n«Να μπω εγώ σε ξένη κάμαρη; Ποτέ»\, απάντησε η σπιτονοικοκυρά με την αρχοντιά γυναίκας με άμεμπτες αρχές. Όμως σαν πήγε τρεις και κάτι\, κάποιος της υπέβαλε την ιδέα πως μπορεί να μην είναι καλά\, να είναι μέσα και να χρειάζεται βοήθεια. Με κατεβασμένα τα μούτρα πήγε η Γεωργία στο σκρίνιο\, που φυλούσε το κουτί με τα κλειδιά. Ξύλινο\, με καλοσκαλισμένο το όνομα “Ηνωμένα Βουστάσια” στο λεπτό καπάκι. Και μέσα πάνω από τριάντα κλειδιά\, φύρδην μίγδην\, κάποια με ένα κομμάτι στραβοκομμένο γκρίζο χαρτόνι περασμένο με σπάγκο και με ένα νούμερο γραμμένο με κόκκινο μολύβι. Έβαλε κάτι γυαλιά του μακαρίτη και άρχισε να τα ανακατεύει με την παλάμη της μέχρι που τσίμπησε εκείνο με το “6”. Έβγαλε τα γυαλιά\, σηκώθηκε με ίσια την πλάτη. Ανέβηκε πρώτη τη σκάλα\, στην αρχή λίγο διστακτικά\, έπειτα πιο αποφασιστικά. Πίσω της η Ισμήνη κρατώντας ψηλά την λάμπα να βλέπουν και οι άλλοι. Και παραπίσω η ανιψιά του Τότη με το οινόπνευμα και η κόρη της Γεωργίας με μια λεκάνη. Τελευταίοι οι άντρες. Ξεκλείδωσαν το δωμάτιο.» \nΕικοσι μία ιστορίες\, κάποιες περισσότερο μυθοπλαστικές\, κάποιες με ψήγματα αυτοβιογραφίας\, κάποιες από τα παλιά ή και τα παλιότερα\, κάποιες προχθεσινές ή χθεσινές\, κάποιες σκληρές και κάποιες τρυφερές\, κάποιες ερωτικές και κάποιες φυλακισμένες σε μνήμες αστικές\, όλες όμως βγαλμένες σε ίσες δόσεις από τη σχολαστική παρατηρητικότητα και τη φαντασία. Ελλειπτική εξιστόρηση με ρόλο για τον αναγνώστη\, που πρέπει να ανατρέξει στη γεύση του ουρανίσκου του για να τις βιώσει. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου) \nTo participate\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios: szenios@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-%ce%b3%ce%b9%cf%8e%cf%81%ce%b3%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%ba%cf%85%cf%81%ce%b9%ce%b1%ce%ba%cf%8c%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%b7-%cf%84%cf%81%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%ad%ce%b3%ce%b3%ce%bf/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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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:Thomas Gallant\, "From Orphan to Abolitionist: Photius Fisk and the Making of Greek America"
DESCRIPTION:To participate in this event\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/thomas-gallant-from-orphan-to-abolitionist-photius-fisk-and-the-making-of-greek-america/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:James Barron\, The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate
DESCRIPTION:The event will be offered on Zoom.\nRSVP to shorturl.at/dhjAU to receive the link.\nDownload the Zoom app prior to the lecture to participate. \n\n\n\n\n  \nHe was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century political history. Yet today\, Elias Demetracopoulos is strangely overlooked–even though his life reads like an epic adventure story. \nAs a precocious twelve-year-old in occupied Athens\, he engaged in heroic resistance efforts against the Nazis\, for which he was imprisoned and tortured. After his life was miraculously spared\, he became an investigative journalist\, covering Greece’s tumultuous politics and America’s increasing influence in the region. A clever and scoop-hungry reporter\, Elias soon gained access to powerful figures in both governments . . . and attracted many enemies. When the Greek military dictatorship took power in 1967\, he narrowly escaped to Washington DC\, where he would lead the fight to restore democracy in his homeland–while running afoul of the American government\, too. \nNow\, after a decade of research and original reporting\, James H. Barron uncovers the story of a man whose tireless pursuit of uncomfortable truths would put him at odds with not only his own government\, but that of the Truman\, Eisenhower\, Kennedy\, Johnson\, Nixon\, Ford\, Carter and Reagan administrations\, making him a target of CIA\, FBI\, and State Department surveillance and harassment–and Greek kidnapping and assassination plots American authorities may have purposefully overlooked. \nJames H. Barron is a journalist\, attorney\, and founding advisory board member of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. A creator of the award-winning International Boston Initiative and Atlantic Rim Network\, he has taught courses at MIT and lectured at universities in Paris and Tokyo.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/james-barron-the-greek-connection-the-life-of-elias-demetracopoulos-and-the-untold-story-of-watergate/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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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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SUMMARY:Rena Molho\, “Problems of Incorporating the Holocaust into the Greek Collective Memory”
DESCRIPTION: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 did not commemorate the Holocaust until it became a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2005. By reviewing the reactions of the Greek authorities and citizens in Thessaloniki\, the city with 56\,000 Jews which was first to face the Nazi threat in 1941\, Dr. Molho will try to explain the Greek state’s sixty years delay in commemorating the murder of 62\,500 Jews\, or 87% of the Greek Jewish population. \n \nRena Molho is a Greek historian who focuses on the different aspects of Ottoman and Greek Jewish history and culture and more specifically that of the Jews of Salonika.  Molho studied European history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, and received a Doctor of Philosophy with distinctions from the University of Strasbourg. She has taken part in many symposiums\, television and radio programs\, in Greece and abroad\, and has published her research in Greek and international scientific books\, encyclopedias\, and journals. Her research has been supported with grants by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in New York City and by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. In 1996\, she acted as senior interviewer and coordinator in Greece for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and has videotaped seventy Greek Holocaust survivors’ personal accounts. Molho has taught the history of the Jewish presence in Greece in seminars organized by the International Study Groups\, and since 1991 with a group of other historians\, she co-founded the Society for the Study of Greek Jewry. For eight years\, as of 1999\, she taught the history of Greek Jewry at Panteion University in Athens\, the first and only Greek academic institution to include the course of Jewish history in its curriculum in Greece until today. Her book The Jews of Thessaloniki\, 1856–1919: A Unique Community received the Athens Academy Award in December 2000 and in 2001 it was published in Greek by Themelion Publishing. After this\, it became a university handbook distributed to Greek students of Jewish history. From 2005 to 2007\, she was the Greek coordinator for Centropa\, a Vienna\, Austria-based Jewish historical institute which conducted a new series of audio interviews of Thessaloniki-born survivors who after 1945 returned and settled in Greece. She has published a great number of academic articles in all the major European languages as well as in Greek\, Hebrew\, and Turkish. In 2010\, she was decorated with the medal of the order of Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her contribution to the French academia. Among her latest books\, Salonica-Istanbul: Social\, Political and Cultural Aspects of Jewish Life (2005) comprises a collection of eighteen studies in English and French and was published by Isis Press. Her book Jewish Sites in Thessaloniki: Brief History and Guide (2009)\, published by Lycabettus Press in Athens\, became a best-seller\, and was also published in Greek (2010) and in German (2011). \nTo participate in this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/rena-molcho-problems-of-incorporating-the-holocaust-into-the-greek-collective-memory/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T120000
DTSTAMP:20201215T013921Z
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SUMMARY:Leon Saltiel\, “Dehumanizing the Dead: The Destruction of Thessaloniki’s Jewish Cemetery during World War II”
DESCRIPTION: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 object of a dispute between the Christian and Jewish communities\, with the former wishing to expropriate it in favor of the city’s new University and the latter trying to preserve the sanctity and history of the place. In the end\, a few months before the living Jews of Thessaloniki were deported\, the cemetery of the dead Jews was destroyed. The destruction of the cemetery is often referred to as the harbinger of the Holocaust in Thessaloniki because it took place three months before the deportations commenced. However\, this unique event in occupied Europe is not directly related to the Nazi “Final Solution.” In no other city in Europe did the Nazis completely destroy Jewish cemeteries and all\, with very few exceptions\, continued to exist after the war\, even on German soil. Due to the time coincidence of the different anti-Jewish measures as well as the convergence of the same protagonists and victims\, the narration becomes linear and ignores a series of crucial factors. The independent study of the destruction of the cemetery can shed light on the unknown aspects of this story and offers a new narration to the events that followed. \nLeon Saltiel holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Greek History from the University of Macedonia\, in Thessaloniki\, Greece\, and has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva\, Switzerland\, and at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution\, 1942–1943 (Routledge 2020) and ‘Do Not Forget Me’: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Ghetto of Thessaloniki (Alexandria 2018). \nTo participate in this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/leon-saltiel-university-of-macedonia-dehumanizing-the-dead-the-destruction-of-thessalonikis-jewish-cemetery-during-world-war-ii/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T120000
DTSTAMP:20201215T013330Z
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SUMMARY:Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos\, Museum Director\, Kehila Kedosha Janina\, “Meet Me on the Corner of Broome and Allen: A Visit to Kehila Kedosha Janina”
DESCRIPTION: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 from Ioannina\, but the synagogue itself was not erected until 1927. The years from then until the Second World War were a time of prosperity for the Romaniote community in the Lower East Side: there were three rabbis in the synagogue\, and on the High Holidays\, there was often only standing room for synagogue services. After the Second World War\, many congregants moved to other boroughs and parts of Manhattan\, including Harlem\, the Bronx\, and Brooklyn\, though these communities are no longer active. Although the community has steadily dwindled since its pre-war heyday\, services are still held on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. A documentary film about the synagogue and community\, “the Last Greeks on Broome Street” was produced in the early 2000s. It is directed\, written and narrated by Ed Askinazi\, whose great-grandparents were among the congregation’s founders. \nKehila Kedosha Janina is somewhat unusual for a Romaniote synagogue in that it runs north-south with the Ehal on the north side (Romaniote synagogues typically run east to west)\, the bimah is in the center of the main sanctuary (most Romaniote synagogues place the bimah on the west wall)\, and the internal stairway for the women’s balcony. It is typical in the fact that men and women sit separately (a feature of all Orthodox synagogues). The second-floor women’s gallery contains a museum with artifacts\, exhibits\, and Judaica on Jewish life in Greece and the history of Greek Jews as well as a gift shop. Exhibited items are housed in cases along the walls on either side behind the seats\, as well as in the area immediately in front of the staircase. \n Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos is Museum Director of Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum in New York City. She is also President of the Association of Friends of Greek Jewry\, Former Director of Special Projects for Sephardic House\, a teacher of Judaic Studies from 1990-2010\, and a translator of Greek Jewish Holocaust memoirs. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Panepirotic Federation of America. \nTo participate in this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/marcia-haddad-ikonomopoulos-museum-director-kehila-kedosha-janina-meet-me-on-the-corner-of-broome-and-allen-a-visit-to-kehila-kedosha-janina/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210116T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210116T120000
DTSTAMP:20201108T033441Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation with the Mayor: The Honorable Petros Doukas\, Mayor of Sparta
DESCRIPTION:  \nWith 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 Center Director Sharon Gerstel and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris\, Associate Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning\, chat with Mayor Petros Doukas about his city—its strong roots in a proud ancient past and its exciting plans for the future. This conversation will touch on the challenges of governance\, large infrastructure plans\, partnerships with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation\, managing traffic\, and the 2\,500-year anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae. \nDr. Petros Doukas\, Mayor of Sparta\, holds an MBA from Columbia University and a PhD in Economics from New York University. He is the author of Modern Economic and Management Theories and Classical Greek Thought and has published numerous collections of poetry. He has vast experience in finance and has served as a Citibank executive in New York\, a Vice President\, Country Head & Treasurer of Citibank Greece\, and Chairman of Board of Directors of Heracles\, Ericsson Greece\, Pepsico Greece\, and Nova PayTV Group. He is also President of Capital Partners SA\, Mergers & Acquisitions Advisors. From 2004-2009 he represented the Attica Region as an elected Member of Parliament and also served as Deputy Minister of Finance and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2019 he was elected Mayor of Sparta. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Pan-Laconian Federation of the United States and Canada. \nFor a Zoom link\, RSVP here. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-the-mayor-the-honorable-petros-doukas-mayor-of-sparta/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T120000
DTSTAMP:20201215T011144Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201215T011144Z
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Tour of the Museum of Cycladic Art with Greek Prehistoric Archaeologist Metaxia Routsi
DESCRIPTION: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 figurines\, vases\, tools\, weapons\, and pottery from all phases of the distinctive Cycladic island culture that flourished in the central Aegean during the Early Bronze Age (third millennium BC). \nMetaxia Routsi was born in 1973 in Munich. She graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Ioannina. She has participated in many systematic excavations\, such as the Mycenaean cemetery in Kallithea in Patra\, the Minoan Palace of Archanes in Crete\, etc. From 1999 to 2004 she worked as an archaeologist at the Ministry of Culture\, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. She has worked in many excavations of prehistoric sites\, such as the\nEarly Cycladic cemetery in Chalandriani of Syros\, the Neolithic settlement in Strofilas of Andros\, the Mesolithic settlement in Maroulas of Kithnos\, etc. She has undertaken the study and publication of material culture of an Archaic cemetery\, excavated by Y. Kourayos in Paros. In January 2019\, she began working as a guide at the Museum of Cycladic Art. \nTo attend this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/a-virtual-tour-of-the-museum-of-cycladic-art-with-greek-prehistoric-archaeologist-metaxia-routsi/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201212T173000
DTSTAMP:20201007T210243Z
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Λος Άντζελες· Οδηγώντας στη Νότια Καλιφόρνια της Σώτης Τριανταφύλλου
DESCRIPTION:“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 ένας άνθρωπος ασυνήθιστα συνηθισμένος. \nΗθελα να σου φωνάξω πως όταν σε βρήκα ήσουν ήδη χαμένος\, όμως\, δεν σου είπα τίποτα· έμεινα να σε κοιτάζω με την πλάτη ακουμπισμένη στον τοίχο. \nΕπειτα\, πέρασε το καλοκαίρι και ήρθε ένας μακρύς και βαρύς χειμώνας: Οι σκιές σκούραιναν και οι άνεμοι βρυχώνταν – αστραφτερές βροχές χτυπούσαν τις γέφυρες. Πήρα το δρόμο για την Καλιφόρνια: οδηγώντας σκεφτόμουν πως η ταχύτητα στον δρόμο δείχνει την ταχύτητα της ανθρώπινης προσδοκίας. \nΚάνε αυτό που ξέρεις να κάνεις καλύτερα. Οδήγα”. \nΕκδόσεις: ΜΕΛΑΝΙ \nTo participate\, email Dr. Simos Zenios: szenios@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%ac%ce%bd%cf%84%ce%b6%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%b5%cf%82%c2%b7-%ce%bf%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%b3%cf%8e%ce%bd%cf%84%ce%b1%cf%82-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7-%ce%bd%cf%8c%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%b1/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T120000
DTSTAMP:20201007T210038Z
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SUMMARY:Tassos Sakellaropoulos (Head of Historical Archives) and Maria Dimitriadou (Historical Archives)\, “1821\, Before and After: Narrating and Curating 100 Years of Greek History”
DESCRIPTION: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\, the National Bank of Greece\, and ALPHABANK are mounting a major exhibition of works of art and historical testimonies under the title “1821\, Before and After.” The exhibition will cover over a century in the history of modern Hellenism\, from 1770 to 1880. Among other aspects\, the following will be presented through the rich collections of the Museum and the artworks housed in the three banking institutions: everyday life\, trade\, education among the Greeks\, the preparation for the War of Independence as well as the events as they unfolded\, the philhellenic movement\, the work of Ioannis Kapodistrias\, the creation of the new state of Greece\, the reign of King Otho\, the building of modern Athens and the early years of George I’s reign up until the opening of the Corinth Canal. \nDr. Tassos Sakellaropoulos is a historian and Head of the Benaki Museum Historical Archives. He studied History at the University of Siena in Italy. His main area of interest is the history of the Greek twentieth century\, in particular\, the political role of the Greek Army\, political events during the 1940s\, political persecutions in post-War Greece and the resistance to the 1967 dictatorship. Dr Sakellaropoulos has curated exhibitions and edited publications on the 19th and 20th centuries. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism (Mnimon review) and a board member of the Archives of Modern Social History. \nDr. Maria Dimitriadou was born in Athens\, Greece\, and studied Political Sciences and History at the Panteion University\, where she was awarded a PhD from the Department on German Studies. Since 1994 she is a curator at the Historical Archives of the Benaki Museum. Dr. Dimitriadou has written numerous scholarly studies on modern Greek society and history\, covering\, among others\, the history of Skopelos in the 19th century\, the Balkan Wars\, and the relations between Greece and Germany during the Interwar. She has edited the Archive of the Greek Revolution held at the Benaki Museum\, in two volumes (published in 2011 and 2013). \nRSVP here to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/tassos-sakellaropoulos-head-of-historical-archives-and-maria-dimitriadou-historical-archives-1821-before-and-after-narrating-and-curating-100-years-of-greek-history/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201121T120000
DTSTAMP:20201007T205820Z
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SUMMARY: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”
DESCRIPTION: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 published until 1960. It was one of the longest-lived modernist journals\, which numbered 97 issues. As early as the first issue\, Cahiers d’Αrt had focused on promoting modern art and on the dialogue between works of different origins and different historical periods. Zervos is also known as the publisher of the iconic catalogue of Pablo Picasso’s paintings from 1932 on\, known today as “le Zervos\,” as well as his archaeological publications on prehistoric civilisations\, for example those of Neolithic or Minoan Crete and the Cyclades. His contribution was particularly significant in the dissemination of ancient–especially prehistoric–Greek art as well as the redefinition of ancient civilisations and archaic forms in the context of modernism. In this lecture\, I will try to expose the key aspects of Christian Zervos’ methodology in Cahiers d’art and in editions focusing on the creation of meaningful relationships between Mediterranean and earlier civilizations and the art of his time. I will speak about both his position and his practice in regard to the redefinition and reappraisal of various archaisms during the interwar period\, and make a case for his innovative approach of fusing modernism and antiquity within a liquid conception of time. \nPolina Kosmadaki is an art historian living and working in Athens. She holds a Ph.D in Art History from the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne. She is currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Head of the Department of Paintings of the Benaki Museum\, Athens and a Lecturer of Art History in the European Studies program of the Hellenic Open University. Since 2008 she is an associate researcher of the French School at Athens’ Modern Section\, currently the Head Researcher of a project on the editor and art critic Christian Zervos and his journal Cahiers d’art. She has edited the volumes: Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’art\, the archaic turn\, 2019; Paris-Athènes 1919-1939 Le double voyage\, École Francaise d’Athènes\, 2018 (with Lucile Farnoux); Greece: Traces of today\, Imago Mundi\, Fabrica\, Luciano Benetton Foundation\, 2015; Institution critique-critical institutions\, AICA HELLAS\, September 2013 (with Elpida Karampa). She has curated numerous exhibitions both for the Benaki Museum and as an independent curator\, for example: Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’art\, Benaki Museum\, Musée Zervos Vézelay\, École Francaise d‘Athènes 2019\, Jannis Varelas\, Anima I\, 2019\, Liquid Antiquity\, DESTE & Benaki Museum 2017\, Ametria\, Deste & Benaki Museum\, 2015\, George Lappas\, Happy Birthday\, Deste & Benaki Museum 2016\, Cabinets of Miracles with Christoforos Marinos for ZONE D\, 2010. Since 2011 she is running the commissions program «Artists in dialogue with the Benaki Museum» (Andy Holden\, Adam Chodzko\, Ciara Philips\, Zafos Xagoraris\, Antonis Pittas)\, in collaboration with the British Council\, Greece. \nRSVP\, click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/hellenic-together-polina-kosmadaki/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T120000
DTSTAMP:20201007T205648Z
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SUMMARY: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”
DESCRIPTION: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 practice of decorating church façades with brightly decorated vessels is older than the 16th century and the Ottoman period in Greece\, and is related to the phenomenon of bacini\, or plates\, immured in the façades of Italian religious buildings from the 11th to the 15th centuries. The spread of the practice appears to have followed sea routes and commercial networks opened up by Italian maritime cities. In Greece\, the practice is particularly apparent after 1204 in areas ruled over by Franks or Venetians. Glazed ceramic plates of various origins\, whether local Byzantine or imported from Islamic or Christian Mediterranean countries\, appeared on the exterior walls of late Byzantine churches and this practice continued after the Ottoman conquest with local\, Ottoman\, Italian and other Western European ceramics until the 19th century. This lecture will focus on a group of 16th- to 17th-century churches in Euboea\, Thessaly and the Peloponnese. Ottoman immured vessels from Iznik and possibly from Kütahya are the novel factor\, the outcome of a new political reality and change of taste\, but they co-exist with Italian maiolica vessels which continued to be traded along the same routes. Dating these ceramics helps provide a chronology for newly built or renovated churches and\, when possible\, unfolds the mechanism of patronage and the status of the donors. Eventually\, the study of early churches and their immured vessels will expand our knowledge about the Greek elites of the early Tourkokratia. \nAnna Ballian is curator emerita of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Αrt. She began working at the Benaki as a curator of the post-Byzantine collection of church silver and embroideries and has worked on the presentation and opening of the Benaki | Greek Culture and Benaki | Islamic Art. She completed her BA in History and Archaeology at the University of Athens\, her MA in Islamic Art from SOAS\, London\, and her PhD at the University of Birmingham\, Centre for Byzantine\, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies with a thesis on the art and patronage of the Christian communities in Asia Minor during the Ottoman period. She has contributed and curated several exhibitions and published on Byzantine and Islamic art and culture\, and on post-Byzantine\, Armenian and Ottoman art and culture\, especially silverwork\, textiles and ceramics. \nRSVP here to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T120000
DTSTAMP:20201007T205321Z
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SUMMARY:Xenia Politou (Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture\, Benaki Museum)\, “The Costume of Women in Greece: Styles and References”
DESCRIPTION: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 will help the careful observer to identify from among these varieties the basic styles and main influences that contributed to their creation. The vicissitudes of history\, the different rulers—mainly Ottomans and Venetians—who left their mark on a pre-existing Byzantine sartorial system\, and the absence of a unified Greek territory before the 1830s explain the great diversity and variety of Greek women’s costumes. Even after the creation of the Greek state in 1832\, the local style of garments still received another invasion: the invasion of a late industrial revolution and European fashion which brought new patterns and styles. Finally\, the abandonment of local costumes has been progressive—obviously slower in isolated villages—throughout the 19th century until around the 1950s. This lecture attempts to present an analysis of the basic elements common to all costumes and to their classification according to their main styles\, as they had been fashioned during a long period of foreign occupations. \nXenia Politou is Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture\, Benaki Museum. She was born in Athens and studied French and Comparative Literature in Athens and Paris. From 1993 through 2001 she worked at the Museum of the History of the Greek Costume in Athens. At the same time\, she also participated in the National Archive of the Greek Traditional Costume\, a research program on clothing subsided by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Between 2002 and 2005\, she worked for the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation on the organization of the “Ptychoseis = Folds + Pleats: Drapery from Ancient Greek Dress to 21st Century Fashion” exhibition\, the first international fashion exhibition in Greece. Since March 2005\, she has been working at the Benaki Museum\, first in the Exhibition Department\, and since September 2010 she has been Curator of its Modern Greek Culture Department. Her research interests include the study of Greek local costumes and Greek embroideries. She is a member of the ICOM Costume Committee and founding member and Chair of the Hellenic Costume Society. \nTo RSVP\, click here. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/xenia-politou-aegeas-amke-curator-of-modern-greek-culture-benaki-museum-the-costume-of-women-in-greece-styles-and-references/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T170000
DTSTAMP:20200730T215650Z
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SUMMARY:Artemis Leontis\, "Going after Eva Palmer Sikelianos"
DESCRIPTION: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 as a shadowy figure in Greek cultural history\, known mostly as the wealthy American wife of the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos\, who spent all her money on his projects. Through intensive detective work\, she has uncovered a bigger\, more complicated story of a brilliant\, beautiful\, countercultural\, queer woman who may be the most influential philhellene after Lord Byron. In this talk\, she will speak of going “after” Eva Palmer Sikelianos in the double sense of pursuit and succession. She will recount some of her adventures pursuing the hidden archival resources of Palmer’s life\, then foreground the stakes of modern encounters with the ancient Greeks in the light of spectrums of meaning found in Palmer’ legacy. \nArtemis Leontis is C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Her field of specialization is Modern Greek Studies: the study of Greeks\, the Greek language\, migrations in and out of Greece by various ethnic groups\, and the idea of Greece cultivated in the West in the modern period. Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s by arguing historical descent from Greek antiquity. Henceforth the desire to align a corporeal\, living Greekness with the idea of Greece cultivated in the West became a driving force in the country’s cultural production. Her first book\, Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland\, compared Westerner’s projections of their collective fantasies on Greece and Greek literary modernism’s reterritorialization of those projections. It traced how Greeks inscribed the texts\, materials\, and geographical notions of Hellenism onto their national space: the forms of adaptation\, resistance\, and opposition to Western interventions they developed and deployed. Since the publication of that book\, her inquiry into competing figurations of Greekness has expanded in several new directions. Her other book projects include Greece: A Travelers’ Literary Companion (1997) published by Whereabouts Press in a series that introduces English language readers to countries through those countries’ own writers; and Culture and Customs of Greece\, written for a trade press to introduce students and general readers to countries of the world through a presentation of present-day cultural phenomena. Her multi-media interests are especially apparent in her investigation of the life and work of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952). The Bryn Mawr-educated American visionary lived in Greece from 1907 to 1933 and was married to poet Angelos Sikelianos. She worked for a lifetime to animate the lost Greek life suggested by ancient ruins and living practices. Her writing of this book took her on a 10-year journey to recover the traces of her life\, from the “Eva Sikelianou Papers” in the Benaki Museum Historical Archives to letters and artifacts collected (and sometimes hidden) in unexpected places such as the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens. \nRSVP & Registration
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/artemis-leontis-going-after-eva-palmer-sikelianos/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece,Theater
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Κάτι θα γίνει\, θα δεις του Χρήστου Οικονόμου
DESCRIPTION:Δεκάξι ιστορίες από τα Καμίνια\, τη Νίκαια\, τη Δραπετσώνα. Από τον ντόκο των Κρητικών\, από το ουζερί “Υπάρχω”\, από το φουγάρο της ΔΕΗ στο Κερατσίνι. Ιστορίες για τράπεζες που παίρνουν σπίτια\, για σπίτια που παίρνουν φωτιά\, για όνειρα που γίνονται στάχτη. Για το σκοτάδι που ζει στη διπλανή πόρτα. Κάτι θα γίνει όμως\, θα δεις. Γιατί εκεί όπου μεγαλώνει ο φόβος μεγαλώνει κι εκείνο που σώζει από τον φόβο. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου) \n“Φτώχεια\, ανεργία\, ανασφάλεια απέναντι στους μετανάστες\, βία\, χαμένα όρια\, αλλά και έξω καρδιά κι αλληλεγγύη. Όχι\, δεν πρόκειται περί λούμπεν. Στο επίκεντρο της αφήγησης του Οικονόμου στέκει ο σύγχρονος προλετάριος\, γηγενής ή μετανάστης\, με ή χωρίς ταξική συνείδηση. Νικαιώτης και ο ίδιος\, ο συγγραφέας δεν τον παραμορφώνει μέσα από το φακό μιας προσποιητής συμπάθειας\, δεν επιχειρεί να τον εξιδανικεύει. Προσπαθεί απλώς να τον δείξει όπως είναι.\nΑνοίγοντας μια μεγαλύτερη συζήτηση για τη σύγχρονη ελληνική λογοτεχνία\, νομίζω ότι είναι ευχάριστο το γεγονός ότι\, ύστερα από μια αρκετά μεγάλη περίοδο ομφαλοσκόπησης\, πληθαίνουν ξανά τα κείμενα που ασχολούνται με την πολιτική και ιδίως αυτά που κοιτούν κατάφατσα τη σημερινή κοινωνία. Ιδιαίτερα όταν πρόκειται για συγγραφείς της νεότερης γενιάς\, όπως καλή ώρα ο 40χρονος Οικονόμου.\nΗ θεματική του είναι σαφώς ρεαλιστική\, ίσως ακόμη και νατουραλιστική\, όμως η τεχνική του φέρνει πιο κοντά στο μοντερνισμό: εναλλαγές σε πρωτοπρόσωπη\, δευτεροπρόσωπη και τριτοπρόσωπη αφήγηση\, φράσεις που κόβονται στη λέξη\, κοντινά πλάνα αλλά και αποστασιοποιημένες ματιές\, χαρακτήρες που μεταφέρονται από τη μια ιστορία στην άλλη.\nΟ Οικονόμου γνωρίζει τα τερτίπια της δύσκολης και απαιτητικής μικρής φόρμας. Ο λόγος του είναι κοφτός και συμπυκνωμένος. Ξέρει πρώτα από όλα να πλάθει καλοσχηματισμένους χαρακτήρες στα στενά όρια που του επιβάλλει αυτή η φόρμα.\nΔιηγήματα όπως το “Πλακάτ με σκουπόξυλο”\, όπου μιλάει για τα εργατικά ατυχήματα που συμβαίνουν καθημερινά εξαιτίας της πλεονεξίας της εργοδοσίας\, ή το ελεγειακό “Μάο” (“σε γαμάω”)\, σκληρό σχόλιο πάνω στην τυφλή βία που ευδοκιμεί στις υπανάπτυκτες συνοικίες\, είναι για αναγνώστες με υψηλό κριτήριο αλλά και με γερό στομάχι”. (ΘΑΝΑΣΗΣ ΜΗΝΑΣ\, ATHENS VOICE\, 9/6/2010) \nTo participate\, email Dr. Simos Zenios: szenios@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T100000
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:20200926T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200926T120000
DTSTAMP:20200804T171745Z
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SUMMARY:Gelina Harlaftis\, "Creating Global Shipping: From the Vagliano Brothers to Aristotle Onassis”
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is based on the author’s recent book\, Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis\, the Vagliano Brothers and the Business of Shipping\, c.1820-1970 (Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2019). It explores the evolution of the European shipping firm through the study of two Greek shipping firms\, which provide a prime example of the regional European maritime businesses that evolved to serve Europe’s international trade and eventually the global economy. The study of the Vagliano Brothers indicates how Greek shipping underwent transformation from local shipping and trading to international shipping and ship management. The Onassis case indicates  how international shipping was transformed to global shipping business. \nShipping has been a leading sector in European economic growth for centuries. By the end of the twentieth century Greeks owned more ships than any other nationality in the world\, and the shipowners played a fundamental role in global connectivity and economic growth. The author’s study contributes to the understanding of the shipping business during the two globalization waves. The Vaglianos developed during the first massive wave of globalization which started in the second half of the nineteenth century to shrink during the interwar period\, and the Onassis business depicts the explosion of the second globalization wave in the second half of the twentieth century. These two firms contributed to the process of global economic integration by inventing and re-inventing Greek and ultimately European southern and northern maritime tradition. Because this is not only the story of the Greeks. It can also be read as the history of the evolution of the European maritime tradition involved in tramp/bulk shipping. \nGelina Harlaftis is Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) since 2017. She has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). She started her academic career at the University of Piraeus (1990-2002)\, continued at the Ionian University (2003-2018)\, and is presently Professor of Maritime History in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete. She was President of the International Maritime Economic History Αssociation (2004-2008). In 2009 she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College\, Oxford University\, and in 2008 an Alfred D. Chandler\, Jr.\, International Visiting Scholar in the Business History Program\, Harvard Business School. She has published 26 books in English\, Canadian and Greek publishing houses and over 60 articles in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals. Her last book is Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis\, the Vagliano Brothers and the Business of Shipping\, c.1820-1970\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2019.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/gelina-harlaftis-creating-global-shipping-from-the-vagliano-brothers-to-aristotle-onassis/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200801T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200801T120000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Hellenic Authors: Jim Birakos
DESCRIPTION:Jim Birakos discusses his recent book\, Unlucky Tuesday: Will Civilization Die on a Tuesday? \nOn a tragic Tuesday\, Al-Qaeda terrorists plowed into the Twin Towers. On a shameful Tuesday\, Ottoman hordes defiled God’s majestic cathedral\, Hagia Sophia\, and massacred the Byzantine faithful. But Tuesday in Greek means “three.” And a thrice-occurring tragedy is believed inevitable. As Ottoman cannons devastated Constantinople\, the Western world believed civilization had died. But an inspired bishop\, the Keeper of the True Cross\, was determined to recreate civilization by following God’s example: he built a small Ark to be discovered in better times. It carried a precious holy relic to sustain the faith\, classical books and maps to safeguard values that shaped modern thought\, and history’s best kept military secret to protect it all—Greek Fire\, the amazing napalm bomb of the Middle Ages. A Los Angeles professor\, after years of combing libraries and monasteries\, finally located the new Ark entombed in the wall of a cave in Mani\, Greece’s southernmost tip. Terrorists who had silently tracked the search\, usurped the formula. Greek Fire\, with its ferocious\, unquenchable sticky flames\, infuriated by water\, could now turn a large metropolis into an irrepressible fireball. Plotting a vicious attack on an unwary American city had begun. More attacks would follow. Will civilization expire on an ominous Tuesday? \nPublished author of books\, articles\, and short stories\, this is Jim Birakos’ first book-length novel. A leading figure on the environment\, the Los Angeles Times wrote about him\, “When you speak of smog in Los Angeles the operative name is Birakos.” With a doctoral degree in Environmental Science\, Jim Birakos has advised almost thirty nations and has taught in U.S. and international universities. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-hellenic-authors-jim-birakos/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T120000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Hellenic Authors: Constance M. Constant
DESCRIPTION:Constance (Connie) Constant discusses her book\, American Kid: Nazi Occupied Greece through a Child’s Eyes \nMany books written about WWII come to us primarily from generals\, prime ministers\, diplomats\, and revered historians who never personally lived through occupation. Yet\, childhood war experiences add a dimension to history different from other points of view. American Kid shares the authentic and universal story of fear and frustration faced by all innocent civilians trapped in wartime occupied countries. This book is a memoir of an American child’s growing-up in viciously occupied\, Nazi-dominated Greece. John\, his mother\, and two older siblings are trapped in 1940 Greece when family plans for a shorter visit are altered by unexpected circumstances. John’s unforgettable recollections reveal a true story of his mother’s courage\, their family’s sparse village survival on Lakonia’s Mt. Parnon\, and years of fear-filled interaction with Nazi soldiers. Michael Dukakis writes\, “This book is an eye opener on the kind of brutality that the German army imposed on the people of Greece.” \nConstance (Connie) M. Constant\, a graduate of Chicago’s De Paul University and retired elementary school teacher\, has always been fascinated by history. Her books reflect both her vocation and her avocation. Austin Lunch\, her first book\, colorfully relates how two children witnessed their hardworking Greek immigrant parents’ integrity and resolve in encountering the hardships of being early 20th-century newcomers to the U.S. and then surviving the Great Depression of the 1930s. In American Kid\, Constant reveals a child’s-eye-view of his courageous mother’s agony and strength of mind in struggling to ensure her American children’s survival during World War II in Nazi-occupied Greece. \nTo purchase the book: https://www.amazon.com/American-Kid-Constance-M-Constant/dp/1942430264/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=American+Kid+Constant&qid=1592959521&sr=8-1
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-hellenic-authors-constance-m-constant/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Hellenic Authors: Louis Anastas
DESCRIPTION:Louis Anastas discusses his recent book\, Zeus Rising. \nZeus is living anonymously in the hills of Los Angeles when he gets an unexpected marriage proposal\, which triggers a mid-life crisis. He fights to find renewed purpose and even considers coming out of the shadows and reclaiming his power. Living forever has its problems\, like losing everyone you love and carrying around baggage from thousands of lifetimes\, but things gets much worse when an ancient\, vengeful force closes in on him and his loved ones. \nIn this memoir\, Zeus also recounts memories of the Big Bang\, the development of humankind\, the Battle of Marathon\, and the rise of America—he has seen it all. And\, he’s met everyone from Socrates to Jesus to Washington. Zeus has evolved and has great empathy for our plight—life and certain death—and our fight to be free of tyranny. This is the tale of Zeus\, his loves\, his children\, and our collective history. \nLouis Anastas is a writer and creative director who’s created campaigns and hundreds of videos for brands like Boeing\, GE\, and L3Harris\, among others. He has also written a dozen screenplays\, a few pilots\, and directed a feature film\, “A Day in the Country\,” after earning his MFA from Columbia College Chicago where he also taught. Louis currently runs The Blue Agency in Los Angeles where he lives with his wife Nicole and their two daughters. Louis’ parents immigrated from Greece to the U.S. in the mid-20th century. Learn more about Louis and his first novel at louisanastas.com. \nSigned copies of the book  can be ordered for $22. Please email: louis@the-blue-agency.com. \n  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-hellenic-authors-louis-anastas/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Hellenic Authors: Linda Reid and Deborah Shlian
DESCRIPTION:Authors Linda Reid & Deborah Shlian discuss their most recent book\, Deep Waters. \nFor centuries\, an ancient shipwreck in azure Greek waters has concealed  an astonishing truth. The drowning of an underwater cameraman\, then the  murder of a highly respected academic – seemingly isolated tragedies?  When radio talk show host Sammy Greene and ex-cop Gus Pappajohn  investigate\, they uncover an ancient and modern mystery – conflicts  between pagans and saints\, archeologists and treasure hunters. From the  marble steps of the Parthenon to the peaks of the hidden monasteries of Mount Athos\, the two risk their lives in a desperate race to find the  lost chapter of human history. \nTo purchase the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NBTZMTB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 \nLinda Reid is an award-winning author of mystery-thrillers and feature articles\, a physician\, and the parent of three wonderful young adults. She has written for the Washington Post\, Baltimore Sun\, Los Angeles Times\, Tribune International\, American Film\, Woman’s Day\, Salon\, and the HuffPost. As Y S Pascal\, she wrote her sci-fi/fantasy The Zygan Emprise Trilogy; the first book\, Renegades—Where Angels Fear to Tread\,won a Mensa Sharp Writ Books Award.  Her mystery thrillers\, Dead Air and Devil Wind\, co-written with Deborah Shlian as Linda Reid\, won the Royal Palm Literary Awards for Best Suspense/Thriller.  She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America\, Sisters in Crime\, and the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society. \nDeborah Shlian is a physician\, healthcare consultant and author of numerous nonfiction articles and books as well as six award winning medical mystery/thrillers\, three co-authored with her husband\, Joel. \nRSVP: hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-hellenic-authors-linda-reid-and-deborah-shlian/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture
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