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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
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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
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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
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DTSTAMP: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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T120000
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T120000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200612T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200612T170000
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Kouvenda. For Zoom link\, materials\, and further information\, please contact Associate Director\, Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu). \n5-6 pm: virtual language table for students of Modern Greek and members of the community. Interested community members will take on a mentoring role and will participate in language learning at UCLA\, while the students will be able to benefit from regular conversations with native and advanced speakers of Greek. The language table is open to all Southern California college and university students studying Greek or with proficiency in the language. \n6-7 pm: open discussion for Greek speakers about Greek summer.  Both a season that is lived and one that we construct in our thought and imagination (a “state of mind”)\, the Greek summer invites cordial discussions and reflections on what makes Greece unique for its inhabitants and its visitors. We will discuss topics on an individual level (What does your Greek summer look like? How will you recreate it this year?) and on a broader one (How has the Greek state chosen to present Greece as a travel destination throughout the decades and in various media? How is the Greek summer presented in recent films?).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouventa-2/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T120000
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SUMMARY:Irini Papageorgiou\, "Rites of Passage: The Wedding Rituals in Classical Athens"
DESCRIPTION:Irini Papageorgiou is Curator of the Department of Prehistoric\, Ancient Greek\, and Roman Collections at the Benaki Museum \nTo receive a Zoom link for this lecture\, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/irini-papageorgiou-rites-of-passage-the-wedding-rituals-in-classical-athens/
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T120000
DTSTAMP:20200503T040029Z
CREATED:20200503T040029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200503T040029Z
UID:10000044-1591264800-1591272000@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:George Manginis\, "'For the Benefit of the Nation': A Collection of Chinese Art for Greece"
DESCRIPTION:George Aristides Eumorfopoulos (1863-1939)\, was a British collector of Chinese\, Korean and Near Eastern art. He was born at 43 Bedford Street South\, Mount Pleasant\, Merseyside\, the son of Aristides Georges Eumorfopoulos (1825–1897) and Mariora Eustratius Scaramanga (1840–1908). His grandparents had fled the Greek island of Chios during the massacre of its population by the Ottoman army in 1822. Eumorfopoulos worked for a London firm established in 1819 – Ralli Brothers\, of Greek origin\, a firm of private bankers who were also importers of rice\, cotton and hemp from India. By the time he retired in August 1934 he had risen to the position of Vice President of the firm. Since 1922 he lived at 7 Chelsea Embankment in London\, a townhouse he had converted into a museum. Eumorfopoulos was a respected collector of Asian art. In the early stages of his collecting activity he focused on European medieval and renaissance art and 18th century ceramics alongside Japanese art\, but he soon diversified into early Chinese art\, especially after 1906. He not only made use of the services of experts or agents\, but also relied on his own rapidly growing experience in acquiring objects. His collection of Oriental art grew to an enormous size\, obliging him to add a two-storey extension to the back of his Chelsea house. He founded the Oriental Ceramic Society and was its first president from 1921 until his death in 1939. He organised and funded the publication of eleven volumes illustrating and describing items from his collection during the 1920s and early 1930s. Free access to his collection and encouragement from him inspired his neighbors Nell and Charles Vyse to experiment with Oriental stoneware glazes. Eumorfopoulos had intended to bequeath his collection to the British nation\, but the Great Depression of the 1930s forced him to sell part of it\, in what was called ‘a princely gesture’\, to the Victoria and Albert and British Museums for £100 000 in 1934/5; he also sold some duplicates through Bluett’s\, the London art dealers\, and between 1927 and 1936 donated 800 pieces to the Benaki Museum\, Athens. This lecture looks at the fascinating life of this collector and at the important collection that the Benaki holds. \nGeorge Manginis is Academic Director of the Benaki Museum. \nTo receive a Zoom link for this lecture\, please email hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/george-manginis-for-the-benefit-of-the-nation-a-collection-of-chinese-art-for-greece/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T120000
DTSTAMP:20200503T035706Z
CREATED:20200503T035706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200503T035706Z
UID:10000043-1590660000-1590667200@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mina Moraitou\, "'Mr. Byzantoine et ses amis': Antonis Benakis and the Art Scene of Alexandria"
DESCRIPTION:Antonis Benakis was born in Egypt into a Greek family with a strong sense of duty towards society. He maintained close ties with the homeland and had\, as all Greeks did\, a strong sense of Greek identity although he was born and raised abroad. In a time of irredentist ideas\, he contributed to Greece’s struggle to expand its borders by supporting operations or participating along with other family members. As he was growing up in Alexandria\, Benakis became a passionate art collector. His had a wide range of interests and gradually he managed to form remarkable collections.This paper will focus on the artistic scene of Alexandria during the years before the move to Athens\, the contribution of the Greek community and especially the role of Antonis Benakis. Furthermore\, it will highlight the eclectic taste of the collector and the way in which it was reflected in the creation of the Benaki Museum in Athens.  \nMina Moraitou is Curator of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art \nTo register for the Zoom lecture\, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/mina-moraitou-mr-byzantoine-et-ses-amis-antonis-benakis-and-the-art-scene-of-alexandria/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T120000
DTSTAMP:20200503T034644Z
CREATED:20200503T034644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200503T034644Z
UID:10000042-1590055200-1590062400@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Aliki Tsigialou\, "Nelly's: Reflections on the Life and Work of the Female Photographer Elli Seraidari-Sougioultzoglou (1899-1998)
DESCRIPTION:A native of Aydin in Asia Minor\, Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari–better known by her professional name of Nelly’s–was first influenced by German trends in photography. The two main characteristics of her work\, and indeed of her life\, were freedom and movement. She owed her pictorial technique and her classical sense of aesthetics to the influence of her German teachers\, Hugo Erfurth and Franz Fiedler. However\, in 1924\, after establishing herself in Athens and opening a photography studio in Ermou Street\, she adopted a more Greek-centered and conservative approach to her work. An early interest in portraiture\, maintained throughout her professional career in Greece and the USA\, provides us with rare pictures of interwar Athenian society\, as well as an important source of information on America’s Greek immigrants. From 1927 until the outbreak of World War II\, Nelly’s traveled throughout Greece\, documenting the entire panorama of Greek life. As a Diaspora Greek\, Nelly’s view of Greece tended to be somewhat “idealized”. Her photographs appeared in official tourist publications that were circulated abroad\, and contributed to creating the earliest visual symbols of Greece’s “philosophy regarding tourism.” She systematically depicted the ancient monuments and archaeological sites of Greece. Her experiments with natural light and her photographs of ancient temples\, demonstrating their interrelationship\, are true masterpieces\, bringing to mind the work of Erfurth’s German student\, Walter Hege. Nelly’s photographs of dancers in Germany and\, above all\, on the Acropolis (1923-29) demonstrate exceptional thematic cohesion and identify her as one of the leading dance photographers of the interwar period. Having gone into self-imposed exile in the USA following the outbreak of World War II in 1939\, she added advertising photography\, color photography and photo reporting (New York streets & Easter Parade) to her range of skills\, although she was not overly influenced by the trends of contemporary American photography. Nelly’s died in Athens\, after a lifetime of passionate dedication to her art. She left a body of work\, which remains exemplary from both an artistic and a technical standpoint; it represents a valuable legacy to the photographers of today. \nFor a Zoom link for this lecture\, please RSVP: hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/aliki-tsigialou-nellys-reflections-on-the-life-and-work-of-the-female-photographer-elli-seraidari-sougioultzoglou-1899-1998/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T120000
DTSTAMP:20200503T033912Z
CREATED:20200503T033912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200503T033912Z
UID:10000041-1589450400-1589457600@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Evita Arapoglou\, "Niko Ghika\, John Craxton\, Patrick Leigh Fermor: Charmed Lives in Greece"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, by author and art historian Evita Arapoglou\, will present the life and work of Greek painter Niko Ghika (Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika)\, British painter John Craxton\, and the British writer Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor\, who all made homes in Greece. Meeting at the end of World War II\, the three men formed a friendship that would endure to the end of their lives. They shared an interest and passion for Hellenistic culture and contributed to what is now understood to be “a golden age of Anglo-Greek artistic and literary collaboration.” \nPlease RSVP hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu for a Zoom link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/evita-arapoglou-niko-ghika-john-craxton-patrick-leigh-fermor-charmed-lives-in-greece/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T120000
DTSTAMP:20200501T004759Z
CREATED:20200501T004759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T004759Z
UID:10000040-1588845600-1588852800@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Celebrating Faith in Late Byzantium: The Valadoros Epitaphios at the Benaki Museum
DESCRIPTION:This talk\, delivered by Professor Anastasia Drandaki\, presents the story of the exciting discovery of the Valadoros Epitaphios\, a rare\, gold-embroidered fourteenth- century epitaphios and a true masterpiece of Byzantine art. The epitaphios is part of the bequest of the siblings Anastasios and Maria Valadoros\, which includes more than 300 icons and a large number of ancient and ecclesiastical artifacts\, rare editions and incunabula. The Valadoros collection is representative of the taste as well as the finances of a particularly cultivated representative of a flourishing middle class\, which maintained contact with scholars\, dealers\, and collectors both from Greece and abroad. However\, the content of the collection is eminently Hellenocentric. In the person of Tasos Valadoros\, profound knowledge of ancient philosophy and the patristic texts was combined with his deep familiarity with the texture of silk fabrics. At the same time\, his profession as a merchant of luxury ecclesiastical textiles brought him into contact and relations of mutual respect with prelates from the entire Orthodox world. \nThe lecture will be offered on Zoom. Please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu to receive the link. You must download the Zoom app prior to the lecture in order to participate.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-faith-in-late-byzantium-the-valadoros-epitaphios-at-the-benaki-museum/
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T170000
DTSTAMP:20200503T042202Z
CREATED:20200503T042202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200503T042202Z
UID:10000046-1588406400-1588438800@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Greek Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for conversation in Greek about Η γραμμή του ορίζοντος. \nThe register for the book club\, please contact the Center’s Associate Director Simos Zenios: szenios@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200425T120000
DTSTAMP:20200407T202828Z
CREATED:20200407T202828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200407T202828Z
UID:10000038-1587808800-1587816000@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Το έβδομο ρούχο\, της Ευγενίας Φακίνου
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Zoom discussion of this wonderful book. In order to take part\, you must register at: hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-%cf%84%ce%bf-%ce%ad%ce%b2%ce%b4%ce%bf%ce%bc%ce%bf-%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%8d%cf%87%ce%bf-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%b5%cf%85%ce%b3%ce%b5%ce%bd%ce%af%ce%b1%cf%82-%cf%86%ce%b1%ce%ba%ce%af%ce%bd/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200531T170000
DTSTAMP:20200314T191603Z
CREATED:20200314T191603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T191603Z
UID:10000037-1584172800-1590944400@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:We Stay Home
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/we-stay-home/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200308T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200308T200000
DTSTAMP:20200212T032630Z
CREATED:20200212T032630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T032630Z
UID:10000034-1583686800-1583697600@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Apollo Dukakis: An Iliad
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a concert reading with Apollo Dukakis\nAn Iliad\nby Lisa Peterson and Denis O’ Hare\nbased on Homer’s Iliad\ntranslated by Robert Fagles
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/apollo-dukakis-an-iliad/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T233000
DTSTAMP:20200212T034107Z
CREATED:20200212T034107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T034107Z
UID:10000036-1582396200-1582414200@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Cretans Omonoia of Orange County: Apokriatiko Glendi
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/cretans-omonoia-of-orange-county-apokriatiko-glendi/
LOCATION:St. John Greek Orthodox Church\, 405 N. Dale Ave.\, Anaheim\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Dance
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