Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a bi-weekly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
The Byzantines had long dreaded the year 1492. According to their calculations based on the Scriptures, it would bring the end of the world. In an eerie stroke of irony, they were right in their fears. Even though they were slightly off in the timing of the fall of Constantinople into the hands of the...
In this talk, Professor Panayotis League explores the legacy of the “Great Catastrophe”—the death and expulsion from Turkey of 1.5 million Greek Christians following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922—through the music and dance practices of Greek refugees and their descendants over the last one hundred years. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted in Greece (on the island...
OPENING NIGHT OF THE LOS ANGELES GREEK FILM FESTIVAL!!! To purchase tickets, click here. Filio Baltatzi, an elderly Greek-American woman, goes to the island of Lesvos to help the refugees. She has a secret: almost a century earlier, her family lived on the island when they themselves were refugees, fleeing Smyrna after the destruction of...
Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a bi-weekly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
These exams will be offered in-person at UCLA. For details, please consult our website: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/ellinomatheia/
Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a bi-weekly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
On June 23 and 24, The UCLA SNF Hellenic Center staff will be attending the Nostos festival in Athens. SNF Nostos is an international, multidimensional festival bursting with avant-garde art, scintillating conversation, daring ideas, irresistible music, moving dance, delightful performances, participatory entertainment, and lively sports activities for visitors of all ages. SNF Nostos combines a...
From June 25-July 1, the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center staff and UCLA graduate students join colleagues from the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vamvakou, Lakonia, to work together with the team of Vamvakou Revival to organize future summer programs in Modern Greek language studies, bioagriculture, and cultural heritage management. Stay...
100th Anniversary Commemoration The Great Fire of Smyrna - The Genocide of Greeks in Asia Minor Remembered September 18, 1:00 pm (CDT) | Hosted by Illinois Holocaust Museum The Great Fire of Smyrna (Καταστροφή της Σμύρνης) started on September 13, 1922, after the Turkish armed forces entered Smyrna, a deliberate act by the Turkish government...
Join us for a true glendi with a fantastic musical performance, dancing, and delicious Greek food! Bring your family, friends and dancing shoes. Meet our new Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles, Ioannis Stamatekos, and learn more about the Center’s initiatives and programs. This is an outdoor event. Parking information The Rolfe Courtyard is...
