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  • January 2021

  • Fri 29
    Image of Kehila Kedosha Janina

    Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos, Museum Director, Kehila Kedosha Janina, “Meet Me on the Corner of Broome and Allen: A Visit to Kehila Kedosha Janina”

    Featured January 29, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    by Zoom

    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...

  • February 2021

  • Mon 1
    Web image of a Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki

    Leon Saltiel, “Dehumanizing the Dead: The Destruction of Thessaloniki’s Jewish Cemetery during World War II”

    Featured February 1, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    by Zoom

    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...

  • Wed 3
    Image of soldiers from Rena Molho's talk, “Problems of Incorporating the Holocaust into the Greek Collective Memory”

    Rena Molho, “Problems of Incorporating the Holocaust into the Greek Collective Memory”

    Featured February 3, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    by Zoom

    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...

  • Sun 7

    A Celebration of Greek Language Day: Professor Kathryn Morgan, “Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom.”

    February 7, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Professor Kathryn Morgan, UCLA Department of Classics “Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom” The Sages of Ancient Greece were renowned for their pithy formulations of proverbial wisdom....

  • Sat 13

    James Barron, The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate

    February 13, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

    The event will be offered on Zoom. RSVP to shorturl.at/dhjAU to receive the link. Download the Zoom app prior to the lecture to participate.   He was one of the...

  • Sat 27

    Thomas Gallant, “From Orphan to Abolitionist: Photius Fisk and the Making of Greek America”

    Featured February 27, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    by Zoom

    To participate in this event, RSVP here.

  • March 2021

  • Sat 6

    Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University “Bargain/Revolution/Bargain. An Ancient Athenian Recipe for Democracy.”

    March 6, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

    To participate in this event, RSVP here.

  • Sat 27

    Greek Book Club: Γιώργος Κυριακόπουλος, Η τρισεγγονή της Aραπίνας και άλλες ιστορίες

    Featured March 27, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    by Zoom

      «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...

  • April 2021

  • Sat 3

    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”

    April 3, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

      David 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...

  • Sat 10

    Helen Angelomatis-Tsougarakis, Professor Emerita of History, Ionian University “Fighters and Victims: Women’s Lives during the Greek Revolution”

    April 10, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

    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...

  • September 2021

  • Sat 18

    A Conversation with the Author: Chris Jaymes | “Sons of Chaos”

    September 18, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    by Zoom

      To register, please click the image above or here.

  • Sat 25
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    Maria Schoina, Associate Professor of English Literature, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki | “Byron’s Romantic Philhellenism”

    September 25, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    by Zoom

    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,...

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