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SUMMARY:Roderick Beaton\, "Asia Minor in the Life and Work of George Seferis"
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of National Poetry Month \nIn May 1944\, at the height of a new crisis facing the Greek government in exile during World War II\, which he served as a high-ranking diplomat\, George Seferis confided these thoughts to his Alexandrian Greek friend Timos Malanos: ‘It might surprise you if I tell you that the event that has affected me more than anything is the Asia Minor Catastrophe. . . . From the age of 13 I’ve never ceased to be a refugee.’ This talk describes Seferis’s early life in Smyrna and the seaside village of Skala tou Vourla\, and the ways in which he came to reflect on both\, in later essays and poems. Moving forward to the end of the 1940s\, the story resumes when the poet returned to his birthplace while serving in the Greek embassy in Ankara. During this period\, traveling widely in Asia Minor\, Seferis experienced what he termed a ‘wider Hellenism’\, one that encompassed the Hellenistic expansion in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great and continued throughout the millennium of the Byzantine Empire. From these later experiences\, and the poems\, essays\, and diaries that he wrote at the time\, it emerges that\, for Seferis\, Asia Minor had become not only his own ‘lost homeland’ and that of his family and more than a million of his contemporaries: it was also the ‘lost homeland’ of Hellenism itself\, whose heartland it had been for many centuries. \nRoderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at Cambridge\, before specializing in Modern Greek studies. For thirty years until his retirement\, he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History\, Language and Literature at King’s College London\, and is now Emeritus. Beaton is the author of several books of non-fiction\, one novel\, and several translations of fiction and poetry\, all of them connected to Greece and the Greek-speaking world. He is a four-time winner of the Runciman Award\, and his books have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Cundill History Prize. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)\, a Fellow of King’s College (FKC)\, and Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic. From 2019 to 2021 he served as a member of the Committee “GREECE 2021\,” charged by the Greek government with overseeing events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821\, and from September to December 2021 as A.G. Leventis Visiting Professor in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book\, The Greeks: A Global History\, is published by Basic Books (October 2021). \nThis event will be introduced by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. \nExclusive poetry reading by renowned Greek actor Stelios Mainas (Tetarti 04:45\, Mystikes Diadromes\, The island) \nRSVP here. \nDownload handout of readings.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/roderick-beaton-asia-minor-in-the-life-and-work-of-george-seferis/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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ORGANIZER;CN="Embassy of Greece in the United States":MAILTO:gremb.was@mfa.gr
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-7/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220409T100000
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Soloup\, Aϊβαλί
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-soloup-%ce%b1%cf%8a%ce%b2%ce%b1%ce%bb%ce%af/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T180000
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DTSTAMP:20220103T210645Z
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-6/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220326T190000
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SUMMARY:Makriyannis Unplugged - Adapted\, Directed and Performed by Yorgos Karamihos
DESCRIPTION:Celebrated director and actor Yorgos Karamihos pays tribute to General Yannis Makriyannis\, the hero of the 1821 Greek Revolution\, in a show that tells the story of a nation in revolt and an individual in the process of self-formation. Adapting selected passages of Makriyannis’ Memoirs\, a seminal work of Modern Greek letters\, Makriyannis Unplugged renders the Greek hero of the nineteenth century our contemporary\, a figure rooted in a local tradition but with a global significance. The work by Karamihos offers a raw theatrical experience that resonates with Makriyannis’ spirit\, challenging and enriching our understanding of freedom\, community\, duty\, and creativity. \n \nYorgos Karamihos is an acclaimed actor\, director\, and acting teacher\, born and raised in Northern Greece. He has graduated from the Ioanian University with a degree in Philosophy & History\,  as well as from The Greek National Theatre Academy. In 2012 he received a Fulbright Scholarship as an exceptional artist to attend the full-time program at the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles\, where he was immediately offered to teach his own acting technique applied on Ancient Greek drama and A. Chekhov as well as theatre history. His credits as an actor include over thirty theatre productions from ancient Greek dramas and Shakespeare to Anton Chekhov\, Tennessee Williams\, and other classical and modern plays. He has also appeared in more than thirty feature films and numerous TV series such as The Durrells in Corfu\, Bulletproof\, Genius (Picasso) among others. Karamihos has also directed multiple theatre plays in several major venues in Greece and the USA. In 2008 he received the national award as Best Stage Actor of Greece. He has translated plays and books from English\, French\, and Spanish into Greek and has published several theatre plays. \nPerformance Dates \nLos Angeles: March 26\, 2022 at 7:00 PM | Vancouver: April 3\, 2022 at 6:00 PM | Athens: April 14\, 2022 at 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM \nVancouver: April 3\, 2022 at 6:00 PM \nAthens: April 14\, 2022 at 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM \nLos Angeles Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/ycysp3dj ($25/$35; free for students at Los Angeles universities). Our Covid attendance policy is stated on the ticket site. \nThis performance is in English. Help us save paper by reading the program booklet here. \nPlease be aware that UCLA Covid protocols require all attending the performance to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test within 72 hours\, and to wear masks inside the theater. \nParking information for ticketholders: The Freud Playhouse is located in Macgowan Hall at UCLA. Please park in Parking Structure 3\, which is near the theater at the northeastern corner of the campus\, close to Hilgard Ave and Sunset Blvd. \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $14 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select UCLA Campus Event\, then Makriyannis Unplugged. With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 3. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit at Parking Structure 3\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area in the north building\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine.\nNo parking attendants will be on site at the parking structure\, so please allow extra time for parking and walking to the theater.\n\nWe welcome you to celebrate Greek Independence Day before the performance with a glass of wine. We thank the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles for their sponsorship of this reception. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/makriyannis-unplugged-adapted-directed-and-performed-by-yorgos-karamihos/
LOCATION:Freud Playhouse\, 245 Charles E Young Dr E.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T180000
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-5/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T170000
DTSTAMP:20220226T223604Z
CREATED:20220226T223604Z
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SUMMARY:Kathara Deftera Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Bring your family to fly kites with us to celebrate Kathara Deftera! Everyone is welcome! Janns/Tongva Steps\, UCLA. Lagana and tarama will be offered. \nRSVP: hellenicstudentsucla@gmail.com \nClosest Parking: Parking Structure 4 is located at 221 Westwood Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Enter UCLA campus from Sunset Blvd. at Westwood Plaza. Proceed straight to the underground Parking Structure 4. Turn left into the Pay-By-Space area of the structure.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kathara-deftera-celebration/
LOCATION:UCLA Janss Steps\, 220 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Conversation with the author: Δημοσθένης Παπαμάρκος\, Γκιακ
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URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-the-author-%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%bf%cf%83%ce%b8%ce%ad%ce%bd%ce%b7%cf%82-%cf%80%ce%b1%cf%80%ce%b1%ce%bc%ce%ac%cf%81%ce%ba%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%b3%ce%ba%ce%b9%ce%b1%ce%ba/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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CREATED:20220103T210159Z
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UID:10000116-1645725600-1645729200@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-4/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T190000
DTSTAMP:20220103T205724Z
CREATED:20220103T205724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220103T205724Z
UID:10000115-1644516000-1644519600@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-3/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T190000
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SUMMARY:Maria Pantelia\, "Preserving Greek Literature from Homer to Solomos"
DESCRIPTION:Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. \nFor almost three millennia Greek literature has been preserved in a variety of different media\, encompassing inscriptions on stone\, papyrus rolls\, medieval manuscripts\, and\, most recently\, digital formats. It is a checkered history. Natural disasters\, accidents\, wars\, political and religious upheavals have contributed to the loss of much precious material\, yet such losses have been counterbalanced by the efforts of libraries\, monasteries\, and individual collectors and scholars to preserve this important legacy. For the last 50 years\, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at UC Irvine has been collecting all the extant works of Greek literature from antiquity to the present\, with the goal of creating a permanent digital repository. What are the challenges and triumphs of this initiative? What remains to be done and how will scholars and members of a broader community leverage this resource? \nMaria Pantelia is Professor of Classics at the University of California\, Irvine. She is the Editor and Director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)\, a digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. \nThis lecture\, on the occasion of International Greek Language Day\, is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the United States\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, and the Hellenic Library of Southern California. \nTo attend\, please RSVP at this link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/maria-pantelia-preserving-greek-literature-from-homer-to-solomos-2/
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T120000
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SUMMARY:Evangelia Balta\, "Karamanlides: Rum Orthodox Turkish-Speaking Anatolians before and after the Population Exchange (1923)"
DESCRIPTION:Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. \nThis lecture focuses on the language\, social history\, and culture of the Rum Orthodox population that lived in Asia Minor and the urban centers of the Ottoman Empire. Among these were Orthodox Christians who spoke Turkish as their native language. Like the Turkish-speaking Armenians\, the Greek-speaking Roman Catholics\, and the Ladino- or Turkish-speaking Jews\, the Karamanlides were an ethnic-religious group that formed part of the multi-cultural and multi-lingual Ottoman Empire while maintaining their own culture and tradition. Since the early 18th century\, books (both religious and secular)\, periodicals\, and newspapers in Turkish were printed with Greek letters\, leaving ample evidence for us to discuss this rich cultural heritage. Being Christians\, they were eventually exiled from their homeland\, in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). The majority of them settled in Greece\, while others settled in the United States and various European countries.  \nEvangelia Balta is Research Director at the Institute of Historical Research\, National Hellenic Research Foundation. Her interests focus on topics related to Economic and Social History during the Ottoman period and the culture of the Greek Orthodox population of Anatolia. Since 2008 she has organized three International Conferences on Karamanlidika Studies. In addition\, since 2011 she has conducted seminars on Karamanlidika Studies at the annual Intensive Summer School on Cunda Island organized by the Ottoman Studies Foundation at Harvard University. She was made an honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society (2013)\, and she was awarded the “Order of Merit (Liyakat Nişanı)” by the President of the Turkish Republic\, Abdullah Gül (2014). For more information on the speaker\, see: www.evangeliabalta.com.  \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the USA\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, the SNF Centre at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, and The Hellenic Society of Constantinople. It is part of a series of events —lectures\, theatrical and musical performances\, book discussions— that take the centenary of the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe in order to commemorate and reflect on Asia Minor Hellenism and its unique culture and history. \nTo attend the event by Zoom\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/evangelia-balta-karamanlides-orthodox-turkish-speaking-anatolians-before-and-after-the-population-exchange-1923/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T120000
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SUMMARY:Takis Mavrotas\, "Theofilos: 'The Evzone of Painting'"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece\, will be introduced by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States \nThe acclaimed folk artist Theophilos represents the tradition of Greece and its people. Born in ca. 1870 in a village close to Mytilene\, his father was a cobbler while his mother\, Penelope Hatzimihail\, was the daughter of an icon painter. In 1897\, he settled in the town of Volos on the Greek mainland\, and worked as a freelance painter\, creating murals in inns\, houses\, and shops in various villages in the area. His paintings fall into two categories: those inspired by life and those inspired by Greek mythology\, history\, and religion. His work was fundamental to the Generation of the 1930s\, whose artists viewed his paintings as the essence of Greekness. This year\, the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation in Athens has organized a large retrospective\, including loans from the Municipality of Mytilene and the Theophilos Museum. The ninety-four exhibited works manifest the artist’s spirit and soul\, his inner truth that always served and respected the nation’s needs – a nation that has lived both glorious as well as tragic moments. Our event begins with greetings from the Foundation’s General Manager\, Dr. Fotis Papathanasiou\, and its Board Advisor and Contemporary Curator Marina Miliou Theocharakis\, who will both make a short presentation about the Foundation. Exhibition curator Takis Mavrotas will lecture about the painter and his work. Finally\, Evangelia Efthimiadou (Exhibitions Project Manager) and Irene Alexandrakis (Education Manager) will take us on a virtual tour of this important exhibition. \nTakis Mavrotas is Director of Visual Arts at the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation. He has curated numerous individual and group exhibitions\, including: “Views of Magna Grecia” by Enzo Crea (National Bank of Greece Educational Foundation\, Athens\, 1987); “Takis-Chryssa” (European Cultural Centre of Delphi\, 2000); “Pillars and Columns” (European Cultural Centre of Delphi\, 2005); “The Cyclades through the Lens of 20 Contemporary Artists” (Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art\, Athens\, 2005); “Giorgio de Chirico and Greece: A Journey through Memory” (Athinais Cultural Center\, Athens/Onassis Foundation\, New York\, 2007); “A Forest of Sculptures—The Simon Spierer Collection from the Darmstadt State Museum” (Athinais Cultural Center\, Athens\, 2008); “35 visual artists stand for Democracy” (Zappeion\, Athens\, 2009); “Leonardo Cremonini” (Athinais Cultural Center\, Athens\, 2010); “C. P. Cavafy: Pictured. 40 Contemporary Greek Artists” (Theocharakis Foundation\, Athens\, 2013); “Dimitris Mytaras: Painting” (European Parliament\, Brussels\, 2014); “Picasso-Cocteau: Pioneers of Modernism (Theocharakis Foundation Athens\, 2015); “Odysseas Elytis: Poetry and Painting” (Telogleion Arts Foundation\, Thessaloniki\, 2016); and “George Seferis: When the light dances\, I speak fairly” (Telogleion Arts Foundation\, Thessaloniki\, 2019). He has published books\, catalogues\, and has written numerous articles and reviews on the visual arts. \nThis lecture is also co-sponsored by the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. \nTo sign up for the lecture\, click here. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/takis-mavrotas-theofilos-the-tsolias-of-painting/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T190000
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-2/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220122T120000
DTSTAMP:20211216T175726Z
CREATED:20211216T175726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T175726Z
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SUMMARY:Dinos Kogias\, "Souvenir of Kütahya: Imprints of History on Kütahya Pottery (late 19th-early 20th century)"
DESCRIPTION:The decorative repertoire of the pottery produced in Kütahya\, a town in western Turkey and a major ceramic center in Ottoman times\, has been influenced by events of modern history\, such as the Balkan Wars\, the Ottoman Constitution of 1908\, and the Greek-Turkish War (1919-1922). Τhe purpose of this lecture is to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of Kütahya pottery from the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth while presenting certain little-known aspects of this production\, particularly during the fifteen-month period of the town’s occupation by the Greek armed forces from July 1921 to August 1922. During this period\, the production of pottery\, which had been interrupted because of the war\, resumed and a large number of items ended up in Greece\, mainly brought back by Greek soldiers. Many of these ceramics bear Greek commemorative inscriptions\, as ‘souvenirs of Kütahya\,’ with the initials or even full names of their first owners\, and accordingly serve as important historical evidence of specific social and cultural referents. \nDinos Kogias was born in 1964 in Karlovasi\, Samos. He lives and works as a lawyer in Athens. He collects\, researches and writes about modern Greek\, Ottoman and Balkan ceramics. He is a founding member of DIKTIO\, a Southeast European ceramics research group\, and regularly participates in related international symposia. He has published two books on his home island of Samos [Samos 1862- 1920: Photos and Postcards and The tram at Karlovasi\, Samos (1905-1939)] and one on the pottery of Kütahya\, published by the Benaki Museum: SOUVENIR OF KÜTAHYA: Imprints of History on Kütahya’s Pottery (late 19th – early 20th century). Another study of Samian pottery of the 19th and 20th centuries is forthcoming. \nRSVP here. \n  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/dinos-kogias-souvenir-of-kutahya-imprints-of-history-om-kutahya-pottery-late-19th-early-20th-century/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T140000
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Αλέξης Πανσέληνος\, Ελαφρά ελληνικά τραγούδια
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-%ce%b1%ce%bb%ce%ad%ce%be%ce%b7%cf%82-%cf%80%ce%b1%ce%bd%cf%83%ce%ad%ce%bb%ce%b7%ce%bd%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%b1%cf%86%cf%81%ce%ac-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%b7%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%ba/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T120000
DTSTAMP:20211216T174947Z
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SUMMARY:Spyros Kizis\, "PAPADOPOULOS 100: Exhibiting a Century of Greek Entrepreneurship and Taste."
DESCRIPTION:2022 marks one hundred full years in operation for the biscuit and food manufacturing company E.J. PAPADOPOULOS S.A. Through the items of the Historical Archive of the PAPADOPOULOU Company—one of the most complete and best-organized archives of a Greek company—the Benaki Museum presents for the first time all the important aspects of the hundred-year history and action of one of the largest Greek companies in the field of nutrition. This lecture highlights the ingredients in this hundred-years success: the history of the company\, how its products are made\, and the importance of its brand. This is the story of the Papadopoulos family\, who for a century has been holding the reins of this Greek industry. The exhibition was curated by Erato Koutsoudaki\, architect-museologist\, and Spyros Kizis\, product and interior designer. \nSpyros Kizis was born in Athens in 1986. He earned his diploma in Product and Systems Design Engineering from the University of the Aegean – DPSD in 2011. He holds an MA in Product Design from the University of Edinburgh – Edinburgh College of Art. He has been awarded the Andrew Grand award from the University of Edinburgh\, nominated for the Materials Innovation fellowship from The Arts Foundation\, Red Dot Award 2014\, Pentawards Silver 2014\, and Dromeas 2013 3rd prize. His work has been exhibited in Edinburgh\, London\, Milan\, Ekaterinburg\, Athens\, and Thessaloniki. He is the director and co-founder of Kizi Design Studio in Athens. \nTo attend the event by Zoom\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/spyros-kizis-papadopoulos-100-exhibiting-a-century-of-greek-entrepreneurship-and-taste/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T190000
DTSTAMP:20220103T205226Z
CREATED:20220103T205226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220103T205226Z
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220108T115000
DTSTAMP:20211216T164757Z
CREATED:20211216T164757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T164757Z
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SUMMARY:Mara Verykokou\, "1821: The Collectors' Choice.' An Exhibition Commemorating the Greek War of Independence from an Original Viewpoint."
DESCRIPTION:Benaki Museum curator Mara Verykokou guides us through an exhibition that includes more than 300 objects related to the Revolution of 1821 and the movement of Philhellenism in Europe and America from four important private collections: Nikitas Stavrinakis and Evangelias Stavrinaki\, Petros Vergos\, Apostolos Argyriadis and Stéphan Adler. We shall be asked to decide whether the illustration of the Revolution in the daily life of the West was simply a fashion of the time or something deeper\, which expressed the support for the struggle of the Greeks for freedom. \nMara Verykokou joined the Benaki Museum in 2003 as assistant curator of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Collection and she is currently its acting head. She obtained her MA in History of Art from the University of Aberdeen and her MA in Museum Studies from University College London. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens\, School of History and Archaeology\, with the thesis subject ‘Exhibition policy and communication in the Benaki Museum from the 1970s to the present (1970-2015) in the context of periodic exhibitions.’ Verykokou has been involved as a member of the research team in various exhibition projects\, including “Heaven and Earth; Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections” (National Gallery of Washington 2013-14\, J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles 2014\, Art Institute of Chicago 2014-15) and participated in the coordination of “Russian Religious Art from Russia to Greece” (Benaki Museum 2017-18). Her current research focuses on the Benaki Museum’s collection of late antique and medieval medical instruments. \nTo attend the event by Zoom\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/mara-verykokou-1821-the-collectors-choice-an-exhibition-commemorating-the-greek-war-of-independence-from-an-original-viewpoint/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211211T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211211T120000
DTSTAMP:20210617T212526Z
CREATED:20210617T212526Z
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club - A Conversation with the Author | Πώς φιλιούνται οι αχινοί\, της Αλεξάνδρας Κατσαρού
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-a-conversation-with-the-author-%cf%80%cf%8e%cf%82-%cf%86%ce%b9%ce%bb%ce%b9%ce%bf%cf%8d%ce%bd%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%b9-%ce%bf%ce%b9-%ce%b1%cf%87%ce%b9%ce%bd%ce%bf%ce%af-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211120T120000
DTSTAMP:20210618T224608Z
CREATED:20210618T224608Z
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SUMMARY:Maureen Connors Santelli\, Associate Professor of History\, Northern Virginia Community College | "The Grassroots Mobilization of American Philhellenism"
DESCRIPTION:Popular support for the Greek Revolution in the United States garnered national attention at a level unparalleled to any other international event in the early 19th century. Early Americans supported the Greek cause because they felt a strong\, sympathetic tie with the ancient Greeks and because they had a long-standing distrust for the Muslim World. American philhellenes believed the Greek Revolution would be successful if the Greeks followed  the United States’ example  regarding the course  of  the revolution and the type of government they should eventually establish. Although they were not interested in nation-building in the modern sense\, American philhellenes did imagine they were engaging in a civic duty by aiding the Greeks to create a free nation in the image of the United States. At a time when politics and slavery had begun to pull the North and South apart\, support for the Greek Revolution brought Americans from all classes and regions together in one of the first humanitarian efforts in the early United States. \nThe HUC@UCLA lecture is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece in USA. Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States\, will provide opening remarks. \nMaureen Santelli attended the University of Montana in Missoula\, where she earned undergraduate degrees in History and Classics. Santelli’s combined interests in ancient Greece\, Rome\, and early American history inspired her research as a graduate student at George Mason University\, where she completed her Master’s and Ph.D. Santelli has completed fellowships at George Washington’s Mount Vernon\, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania\, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. Currently\, she is an associate professor at Northern Virginia Community College where she teaches United States\, western civilization\, and world history courses. She has published an article with Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal\, “Depart from that Retired Circle:” Women’s Support of the Greek War for Independence and Antebellum Reform. Her recent book\, The Greek Fire: American-Ottoman Relations and Democratic Fervor in the Age of Revolutions\, examines the rise of philhellenism in the United States and how the movement influenced both foreign and domestic policies during the early American republic. \nTo register\, please click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/maureen-connors-santelli-associate-professor-of-history-northern-virginia-community-college-american-support-for-the-greek-revolution/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211023T120000
DTSTAMP:20210617T210709Z
CREATED:20210617T210709Z
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SUMMARY:Stavros Vlizos\, Associate Professor\, Ionian University\, and Vicky Vlachou\, École française d’Athènes | “New Evidence on a Spartan Religious Center: The Sanctuary of Apollo Amyklaios at Sparta and the Current Research Project”
DESCRIPTION:The Sanctuary of Apollon at Amyklai (Sparta) was inextricably associated in antiquity with the celebrated festival of the Hyakinthia. Ancient literary sources describe salient aspects of the festival and the cult that was centered around the tomb of the hero Hyakinthos and the altar of Apollo in two succeeding stages that never overlapped each other. Material evidence from the sanctuary area demonstrates the early beginnings of the cult and ritual\, already since the mid-10th century BC. By the late 8th to early 7th century BC\, the formal delimitation of the sanctuary area\, the quantity and quality of the material deposits support the importance of the sanctuary and its festival within the formal institutions of the Spartan polis. It can be argued that the importance of the sanctuary may be related with the seniority of the shrine and the continuity of the ritual activities in this area over the centuries. The lecture shall focus on shifts in use and function of material culture that are parallel to transformations and changes of the social\, political\, and religious landscape of Sparta. Furthermore\, the connection of the cult site to neighboring areas in proximity\, further away\, and parallel trajectory to the rest of the Spartan sanctuaries shall be discussed. \nThe event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, Archaeological Institute of America–Los Angeles County Society\, and Pan-Laconian Federation of United States and Canada. \nAfter completing his studies at the University of Ioannina and the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Dr.Phil.)\, Stavros Vlizos first worked as a contract archaeologist at the Ministry of Culture (1997-2001) and then as a researcher and scientific associate at the Benaki Museum (2002-2013). As an Associate Professor\, he teaches a wide range of courses in Museology and Archaeology in the Department of Archives\, Library Studies and Museology at Ionian University. He is director of the Amykles Research Project\, associate of the Athens Archaeological Society\, corresponding member of the German Archaeological  Institute\, and co-founder  of  the  Athens  “Roman Seminar.”  His research interests and publications refer to issues of promotion and management of cultural heritage and archaeological goods\, as well as topics highlighting the material culture of Ancient and Roman Greece and the importance of ancient sanctuaries diachronically. \nVicky Vlachou studied History\, Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Athens. She is currently a scientific member (Belgian) at the École française d’Athènes (EfA\, membre). She is a scholar of the Early Iron Age Aegean (ca. 1000-600 BC). Her doctoral thesis (2010) was awarded the G.P. Oikonomos prize of the Class of Letters and Fine Arts of the Academy of Athens. She is a member of fieldwork and publication projects at Xobourgo on Tenos (Cyclades)\, Amykles (Sparta)\, Itanos\, and Anavlochos (Eastern Crete). She is the editor of the collective volume Pots\, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society: Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece (Études d’archéologie 8\, Brussels 2015). \nTo register\, please click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/stavros-vlizos-associate-professor-ionian-university-and-vicky-vlachou-universite-libre-de-bruxelles-brussels-ulb-new-evidence-on-a-spartan-religious-center-the-sanctuary-of-apollo/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211017T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211017T120000
DTSTAMP:20210617T212017Z
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club |  Η νόσος του μικρού θεού\, της Ευτυχίας Γιαννάκη
DESCRIPTION:For more information on the book and the author\, and to purchase the digital edition of the book\, visit the publisher’s webpage. \nFor more information regarding our Center’s Book Club\, and to participate in the event\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu)
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-%ce%b7-%ce%bd%cf%8c%cf%83%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%85-%ce%bc%ce%b9%ce%ba%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%8d-%ce%b8%ce%b5%ce%bf%cf%8d-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%b5%cf%85%cf%84%cf%85%cf%87%ce%af%ce%b1/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T120000
DTSTAMP:20210617T210528Z
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SUMMARY:Vassilis Lambrinoudakis\, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Athens | “The Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidauros: New Finds Rewrite the Function and History of the Most Important Sanatorium in Antiquity”
DESCRIPTION:The unexpected finds during recent excavations in the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidauros shed new light on the origins\, cult\, and function of Asclepius\, the main Divine Healer of the Graeco-Roman world. An amazing ground-floor building that features α peristyle and basement hewn into the rock was excavated at the Tholos\, the famous classical circular building with underground\, meander-like passages. It defines the highly debated and mysterious function of the Tholos as the cult place of chthonic Asclepius\, and explains his presence in Epidauros in the 7th century BC. A small portico\, found under the later Abaton\, preceded the latter as a primitive dormitory hall. It provides evidence for healing through incubation already in early archaic times. An ash altar and accommodations for ritual meals around it explains the parallel magic cure through the consumption of sacred food from the very beginning of the cult. The new finds enrich our knowledge of the sanctuary’s history and general healthcare in antiquity. \nHer Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States\, will provide introductory remarks. \nVassilis Lambrinoudakis is professor emeritus of the University of Athens; corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres\, Paris; and the Akademie der Wissenschaften\, Vienna. He studied History and Archaeology at the Universities of Athens\, Munich and Bonn. He is member of the German Archeological Institute and the Austrian Archaeological Institute. He excavates mainly in Epidauros/Argolid and the island of Naxos in the Aegean See. He also conducted excavations on the island of Chios\, in Marathon/Attica and in Palaiomanina/Acarnania.  He  directs  projects  of  enhancement  of  archaeological sites in Naxos and Epidauros. In 2003\, he earned the first prize of Europa Nostra for the excavation and the enhancement of the sites Yria and Sangri/Naxos. He has published 14 books and monographs\, as well as 186 papers on ancient Greek architecture and art\, ancient topography\, ancient Greek religion\, epigraphy\, theory of Archaeology\, and management of monuments. He was co-editor of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC I-VIII) and of the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA I-VIII). In 2003\, he was honored by the President of the Hellenic Republic “for promoting the Archaeology and the History of Greece throughout the world.” \nThe event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\, Embassy of Greece in USA\, 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/vasilis-lambrinoudakis-professor-emeritus-of-classical-archaeology-at-the-university-of-athens-the-sanctuary-of-asclepius-at-epidauros-new-finds-rewrite-the-function-and-history-of-the-mo/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T120000
DTSTAMP:20210617T210138Z
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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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Byzantine,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211002T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211002T120000
DTSTAMP:20210617T205933Z
CREATED:20210617T205933Z
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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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210925T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210925T120000
DTSTAMP:20210617T205614Z
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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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