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SUMMARY:Neuroprotective Greek Herbs: Bridging Neuroscience and Cultural Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Neuroprotective Greek Herbs: Bridging Neuroscience and Cultural Heritage \na seminar organized by\nAnastasia Tsingotjidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) \nMarch 7\, 2026\n9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA \nThis event has already taken place. We are no longer accepting RSVPs.\nThis seminar brings together researchers from neuroscience\, pharmacology\, biology\, veterinary medicine\, nutrition\, and plant biodiversity to explore the neuroprotective potential of traditional Greek herbs. Through a combination of in-person and online presentations\, the program highlights translational research\, from animal models and isolated bioactive compounds to nutritional approaches and cultural heritage. The seminar concludes with a culinary demonstration using Cycladic herbs\, emphasizing the connection between Greek history\, daily life\, and brain health. \nView the full schedule here \nSpeakers: \n\nDr. Korina Atsopardi\, Department of Pharmacy\, School of Health Sciences\, University of Patras\nDimitra Efthymiopoulou\, Department of Nutrition & Dietetics and Department of Sports Nutrition\, Harokopio University (Zoom)\nIrene Giannakopoulos\, CEO\, Aegialis Hotel and Spa\, author of the culinary book\, My Amorgos!\nProfessor Marigoula Margariti\, Department of Biology\, School of Natural Sciences\, University of Patras (Zoom)\nMarita Papagianni\, Plant Taxonomist & Biodiversity Research Associate\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Zoom)\nProfessor Igor Spigelman\, Laboratory of Neuropharmacology\, Section of Biosystems and Function\, School of Dentistry\, UCLA\nProfessor Anastasia Tsingotjidou\, School of Veterinary Medicine\, Faculty of Health Sciences\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\nAssociate Professor Konstantinos Xanthopoulos\, School of Pharmacy\, Faculty of Health Sciences\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Zoom)\n\nThis seminar is hosted by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, with generous support from Lee and Lilian Polydor\, The Polydor Foundation\, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. \n \n \nParking Information:\n \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 4. \nParking Structure 4 is located at: 221 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Parking Structure 4 is accessible from Sunset Blvd. onto Westwood Plaza which leads directly to the underground parking structure. To view the walking map from Parking Structure 4 to Royce Hall\, click here. \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \nAdvance parking is available for Parking Structure 4. \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for Parking Structure 4 for $17 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Royce Hall\,” then “Neuroprotective Greek Herbs” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 4 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 4\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking: For individuals with accessibility needs\, parking lot 4 is ADA accessibility and has elevators on all floors. The elevators in Lot 4 provide access to Wilson Plaza\, with sidewalk access available. Upon reaching Janss Steps\, turn left towards the Anderson School of Business and Fowler Museum. Proceed past the Fowler Museum before you enter Anderson School of Business; take a right to access the elevator leading to Royce Hall. Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\nTo view the ADA map from Parking Structure 4 to Royce Hall\, click here.\n\nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/neuroprotective-greek-herbs/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Conference,Hellenic,Heritage,History,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece,Symposium
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SUMMARY:Cappella Romana
DESCRIPTION:Cappella Romana\nWorld première program\nIN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST. DEMETRIOS \nDirected by\nAlexander Lingas\nFounder and Director\, Cappella Romana \nA performance presented by\nthe UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\,\nthe UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music\nand Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral \nSunday\, October 27\, 2024\n5:00 PM\nRunning time: 75 minutes; no intermission\nReception following the performance \nSaint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral\n1324 S Normandie Ave\nLos Angeles\, CA 90006 \nTickets: $25 General Admission (including service fees)\nFree for children under 18 \nAll students age 18+ with valid ID:\nUCLA students can reserve free tickets online with UCLA logon ID\nNon-UCLA students: Free tickets can be obtained at UCLA Central Ticket Office in advance\, or at event \nBuy Tickets \nCappella Romana brings to life the vibrant soundscape of medieval Thessaloniki\, Byzantium’s second largest city. Hear ancient hymns honoring the city’s patron\, the ever-popular St. Demetrios\, sung on the weekend of his annual feast day. Experience ecstatic Byzantine chants for the saint adorning the Cathedral Rite of Constantinople\, sung by the women and men of Cappella Romana. \nThis program\, held under the auspices of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco and the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)\, the Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts\, and the Mary Calfas Janos Program Fund. This program is co-sponsored by Gefyra (Bridge)\, the UCLA College Humanities Division\, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion\, and the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nGefyra (Bridge) is a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Gefyra’s mission is to connect students\, faculty\, and communities along the West Coast of North America with Greek scholars\, artists\, and other creators\, so that they can together explore expansive and imaginative approaches to Greek culture and knowledge production. The program additionally supports academic conferences and cultural projects that bridge the West Coast and Greece. \nClick Here for Digital Program \nParking Information: \nFree parking is available at Saint Sophia’s main parking lot and small lot across the street.  Please enter either lot from Normandie Avenue. Please consider carpooling or using rideshare services as parking fills up quickly. Metered parking is available on surrounding streets.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/cappella-romana/
LOCATION:Saint Sophia Cathedral\, 1324 S Normandie Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Community,Cultural Heritage,Gefyra,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Music,Reception
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SUMMARY:Gefyra Greek Book Club: Ο Δύτης\, του Μίνου Ευσταθιάδη
DESCRIPTION:Gefyra Greek Book Club \nΟ Δύτης\, του Μίνου Ευσταθιάδη \nSeptember 30\, 2023\n10:00 a.m. PDT / 8:00 p.m. Greece\nVia Zoom \nRSVP here. \nFor further information about the book and the author\, please visit the publisher’s site. \nYou can purchase a digital copy of the book at the publisher’s site\, Apple Books\, and Google Play. \nFor more information about the Book Club and to join its mailing list\, please contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu) or Dr. Eirini Kotsovili (dkotsovi@sfu.ca). \nThe Gefyra Book Club meeting is part of Gefyra (Bridge)\, a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the Simon Fraser University SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/gefyra-greek-book-club-thediver/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Gefyra,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T160000
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SUMMARY:“Memory\, Conflict and Democratization in Post-Junta Greece"\, lecture by Professor Kostis Kornetis (Autonomous University of Madrid)
DESCRIPTION:Date: April 11\, 2023\nTime: 4:00 PM\nLocation: Royce Hall 306 \nIntroductory remarks\, by The Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos\, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles \nQ&A moderated by Simos Zenios\, Associate Director\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center \nReception to follow \nIn this talk\, Professor Kostis Kornetis will examine how distinct political generations experienced and remember the transition from authoritarianism to democracy in Greece\, known as Metapolitefsi\, since 1974. Its central claim is that the 2008-2012 economic and social crisis triggered a radical re-evaluation of democratisation by turning the conflicting generational recollections of these events into pivotal components of current political contestation. To demonstrate this\, Dr. Kornetis tells the oral (hi)stories of transition and its legacy across time\, beyond institutional achievements and setbacks\, which was the standard trope of narrating this story until all too recently. The study draws on in-depth interviews and a close analysis of a selection of memoryscapes (texts\, images\, and music) of the 1970s to make sense of the different generational ways in which the past is being remembered and contested at present\, arguing that “small” and “private” histories matter. As such\, it introduces to the literature and public debate the crucial role of generational memory in shaping the political\, social and cultural developments of the entire post-authoritarian period in Greece and beyond. \nProfessor Kornetis teaches contemporary history at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). He has taught at Brown University\, New York University\, and the University of Sheffield\, and was a CONEX-Marie Curie Experienced Fellow at Carlos III\, Madrid\, and Santander Fellow in Iberian Studies at St Antony’s College\, Oxford. He is the author of Children of the Dictatorship. Student Resistance\, Cultural Politics and the ‘long 1960s’ in Greece (Berghahn Books\, 2013 – recipient of the Edmund Keeley book award of the MGSA) and co-editor of Metapolitefsi (Themelio\, 2015)\, Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the “Long 1960s” (Bloomsbury\, 2016) and Rethinking Democratisation in Spain\, Greece and Portugal (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2019). His second book on the generational memory of the transitions to democracy in Southern Europe is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. \nIn case you missed the lecture\, the recording is available below: \n \n  \nParking Information: \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.  Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Royce Hall\,” then “Dr. Kostis Kornetis Lecture.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nThis event is the second in a series of events held in collaboration with the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for this pilot program\, which seeks to create networks across the West Coast of North America and between the West Coast and Greece. For more information about this collaboration\, please visit https://hellenic.ucla.edu/ucla-sfu-pilot-program/
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kostis-kornetis/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,UCLA SFU Pilot Program
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SUMMARY:Polymnia\, a conversation
DESCRIPTION:Polymnia\, a conversation \nFebruary 25\, 2023\n10:00 – 11:00 a.m.\nvia Zoom \nTo RSVP\, visit https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcOiqrzIoGd1cPmL-9eZcPtHDIShg-gpG \nAs a follow up to the world premiere of POLYMNIA\, a chamber opera by Theodosia Roussos\, join us for a Zoom conversation with the composer and several of the artists who created this wonderful production. They’ll share stories and insights from the unique process behind bringing Theodosia’s family history to the stage and answer your questions. \nHosted by Sharon Gerstel\, Director\, UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nPanelists/Artists: \nTheodosia Roussos\, Composer/Librettist/Oboist/Performer\nDiana Wyenn\, Director/Dramaturg/Producer\nNatalie Buickians\, Performer\nPeter Kazaras\, Dramaturg\nMichele Patzakis\, Performer \nAbout POLYMNIA\nPOLYMNIA\, described by Opera News as “haunting and beautiful\,” is a debut experimental chamber opera by Theodosia Roussos which tells the story of a woman who responds with resilience and self-invention to the disruption of her life caused by war and trauma\, and how her experience echoes through time. \nDrawing from Sappho fragments of Sappho’s poetry as well as four generations of private family writings and oral history\, composer and performer Theodosia Roussos shares the story of her great-grandmother Polymnia Athanasiadis Pappas\, a young woman whose family was expelled from its Thracian village by the Ottoman Turks during the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Roussos draws influence from her Greek Cypriot American background and weaves elements of Byzantine and Greek folk music into the score. \nPresented on January 21-22\, 2023 at UCLA’s Little Theater in both Greek and English\, Polymnia reveals the very personal and also political experience of diaspora—what is lost\, what is retained\, and what cannot be forgotten. \nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/polymniaconversation/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Themistoklis Aravossitas\, "Greek Language Education in North America: New Directions and Challenges" on International Greek Language Day"
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is offered on the occasion of International Greek Language Day. Her Excellency\, Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States\, will offer opening remarks. \nFebruary 11\, 2023\, 10:00 AM PST/1:00PM EST/8:00 PM Athens \nThe event takes place on Zoom. View a recording of this talk here. \nModern Greek is taught and learned across North America mainly as a heritage language\, through a complex education system that includes a variety of programs and learning materials\, as well as a diverse group of learners and teachers. This presentation discusses experiences\, community projects\, and studies from Toronto\, a representative anglophone multicultural city\, in order to examine the broader conditions of Greek language education in the diaspora. Asking how today’s schools and programs can serve the needs of future generations\, we examine some of the challenges faced by educators and community leaders: What is language shift and how it can be resisted? What’s the position of heritage languages in our society? What are the priorities for today’s parents and students and how can Greek language programs meet their needs? Has the pandemic affected the learning of Greek in the USA and in Canada? What types of opportunities emerge from information and communication technologies for our schools and communities? Proposing synergies between schools\, universities\, and community partners\, we argue that the future of Greek language education is ours to envision and plan. \nThemistoklis Aravossitas earned his BA in Education at the University of Athens. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Toronto\, with an MA and a PhD in Curriculum\, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He specializes in Heritage Languages\, Teacher Education\, and Knowledge Media Design. His doctoral work\, titled The Hidden Schools\, explored Greek language education in Canada. He is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Aegean. He teaches Modern Greek at the Centre for European Studies in the Munk School of Global Affairs\, and at the Department of Languages\, Literature and Linguistics of York University. His scholarly work includes the co-edited volumes: Language Diversity in Greece: Local Challenges with International Implications (Springer\, 2020); Interdisciplinary Research Approaches to Multilingual Education (Routledge\, 2019); Handbook of Research and Practice in Heritage Language Education (Springer\, 2018). \nThe event is cosponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the United States and the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. \nThis program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/lecture-by-dr-themistoklis-aravossitas-on-international-greek-language-day/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T160000
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SUMMARY:Polymnia
DESCRIPTION:Polymnia\nworld premiere \npresented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nSaturday\, January 21\, 2023\n7:00 p.m.\nUCLA Little Theater \nSunday\, January 22\, 2023 \n2:00 p.m.\nUCLA Little Theater \nRunning time: 85 minutes\, no intermission \nClick here to view the digital program. \nTheodosia Roussos\, composer/librettist\nMichiel Delanghe\, conductor\nDiana Wyenn\, director\nTanya Orellana\, scenic designer\nPablo Santiago\, lighting designer\nYee Eun Nam\, video designer\nWendell C. Carmichael\, costume designer\nPeter Kazaras and Diana Wyenn\, dramaturgy \nCast \nTheodosia Roussos\, Polymnia/Theodosia\nNatalie Buickians\, Paula\nMichele Patzakis\, Maria/Church Lady\nAnthony Moreno\, Nikolaos\nJoanna Lynn-Jacobs\, Anthie\nJon Lee Keenan\, Costa/Tax Collector/Turkish Soldier \nPolymnia\, described by Opera News as “haunting and beautiful\,” is a debut experimental chamber opera that tells the story of a woman who responds with resilience to war and trauma\, and relates how her experience echoes across generations and communities. Drawing from fragments of Sappho’s poetry\, Kassiane’s hymns\, as well as four generations of private family writings and oral history\, composer and performer Theodosia Roussos shares the story of her great-grandmother Polymnia Athanasiadis Pappas\, a young woman whose family was expelled from its village by the Ottoman Turks during the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Roussos draws influence from her Greek Cypriot American background and weaves elements of Byzantine and Greek folk music into the score. \nPresented in both Greek and English\, Polymnia reveals the very personal and also political experience of diaspora—what is lost\, what is retained\, and what cannot be forgotten. \nThis event is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nPolymnia is produced by Plain Wood Productions. \nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu. \nTickets \n$35-$60 \nSOLD OUT \n*If you have purchased a ticket and need accommodations (wheelchair\, walker\, etc.)\, please contact us at the email above. \nParking information \nParking information for ticketholders: The Little Theater is located in Macgowan Hall at UCLA. Please park in Parking Structure 3 North\, which is near the northeast corner of the campus\, close to Hilgard Ave and Sunset Blvd. \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Campus Event\,” then “Polymnia.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 3 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit upon your arrival 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.\nAccessible parking: If you have special accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station kiosk to pay by credit card. Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view additional accessible parking areas on campus and related information. Guests can be dropped off in the Macgowan Turnaround\, east of the theater/building (see above map).\n\nCOVID-19 Protocol \nCurrent UCLA Covid protocols as of 1/18/23: We will NOT require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for entry at the theater.  Wearing masks at this indoor event is OPTIONAL and encouraged.  Please check back for updates on protocols prior to the performance.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/polymnia-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230121T190000
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SUMMARY:Polymnia
DESCRIPTION:Polymnia\nworld premiere \npresented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nSaturday\, January 21\, 2023\n7:00 p.m.\nUCLA Little Theater\nReception to follow \nSunday\, January 22\, 2023 (2nd performance just added!)\n2:00 p.m. \nUCLA Little Theater \nRunning time: 85 minutes\, no intermission \nClick here to view the digital program. \nTheodosia Roussos\, composer/librettist\nMichiel Delanghe\, conductor\nDiana Wyenn\, director\nTanya Orellana\, scenic designer\nPablo Santiago\, lighting designer\nYee Eun Nam\, video designer\nWendell C. Carmichael\, costume designer\nPeter Kazaras and Diana Wyenn\, dramaturgy \nCast \nTheodosia Roussos\, Polymnia/Theodosia\nNatalie Buickians\, Paula\nMichele Patzakis\, Maria/Church Lady\nAnthony Moreno\, Nikolaos\nJoanna Lynn-Jacobs\, Anthie\nJon Lee Keenan\, Costa/Tax Collector/Turkish Soldier \nPolymnia\, described by Opera News as “haunting and beautiful\,” is a debut experimental chamber opera that tells the story of a woman who responds with resilience to war and trauma\, and relates how her experience echoes across generations and communities. Drawing from fragments of Sappho’s poetry\, Kassiane’s hymns\, as well as four generations of private family writings and oral history\, composer and performer Theodosia Roussos shares the story of her great-grandmother Polymnia Athanasiadis Pappas\, a young woman whose family was expelled from its village by the Ottoman Turks during the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Roussos draws influence from her Greek Cypriot American background and weaves elements of Byzantine and Greek folk music into the score. \nPresented in both Greek and English\, Polymnia reveals the very personal and also political experience of diaspora—what is lost\, what is retained\, and what cannot be forgotten. \nThis event is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nPolymnia is produced by Plain Wood Productions. \nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu. \nTickets \n$35-$60 \nSOLD OUT \n*If you have purchased a ticket and need accommodations (wheelchair\, walker\, etc.)\, please contact us at the email above. \nParking information \nParking information for ticketholders: The Little Theater is located in Macgowan Hall at UCLA. Please park in Parking Structure 3 North\, which is near the northeast corner of the campus\, close to Hilgard Ave and Sunset Blvd. \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Campus Event\,” then “Polymnia.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 3 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit upon your arrival 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.\nAccessible parking: If you have special accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station kiosk to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view additional accessible parking areas on campus and related information. Guests can be dropped off in the Macgowan Turnaround\, east of the theater/building (see above map).\n\nCOVID-19 Protocol \nCurrent UCLA Covid protocols as of 1/18/23: We will NOT require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for entry at the theater.  Wearing masks at this indoor event is OPTIONAL and encouraged.  Please check back for updates on protocols prior to the performance.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/polymnia/
LOCATION:Little Theater\, 1167 MacGowan Hall\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221210T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221210T170000
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SUMMARY:My Rembetika Blues
DESCRIPTION:Film screening and discussion with filmmaker Mary Zournazi. \nMy Rembetika Blues is a film about the power of music and what makes us human. Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music of the streets and a music of refugees. The film explores the heart and soul of Rembetika music through peoples’ stories of love\, loss and belonging. \nRembetika developed its roots from migrant experience. Mary Zournazi’s grandmother was one of the 1.2 million refugees who fled the Smyrna disaster in Turkey in 1922 and arrived at the Port of Piraeus in Greece. She\, like many\, became part of a movement of people\, and of tradition\, which saw the birth Rembetika. \nThrough its rawness and unique style\, Rembetika provides one of the world’s foremost musical accounts of migrant experience. Through Mary Zournazi’s grandmother’s story\, Zournazi narrates a personal account of the depth of longing and belonging that is part of the migrant life. By weaving together different stories and interviews\, the film looks at the legacies of history and migration\, and how music can connect people in times of struggle and in times of need. \nDrawing on the parallels of the migrant and economic crisis in Greece\, the film explores the revival of Rembetika today\, and how it continues to convey everyday life and struggle through the fusion of street music\, hip-hop\, and other influences such as Byzantine music and the Blues. \nThe film documents peoples’ memory and experiences that are often left out of the chronicles of history. It is a universal story about love\, life and music. \nConversation following the film with musician Alexis Cohen. Reception following the screening [film length is 83 minutes]. \nFilm Trailer: https://vimeo.com/536176096 \nSocial Media: https://www.facebook.com/rembetikablues/ \nView a recording of this talk here. \nParking information \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Please park in Parking Structure 5\, which is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\nYou may purchase your parking permit for $14 using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectValue.aspx. Select UCLA Royce Hall\, then “My Rembetika Blues Screening.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit at Parking Structure 5\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking: If you have special accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nThis event is the first in a series of events held in collaboration with the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for this pilot program\, which seeks to create networks across the West Coast of North America and between the West Coast and Greece. \nThis event is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/my-rembetika-blues/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T120000
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SUMMARY:Evita Arapoglou\, "Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday - Catastrophe - Displacement - Rebirth"
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, part of the Hellenic Together 4.0 series held in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens\, exhibition curator Evita Arapoglou leads us through “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday – Catastrophe – Displacement – Rebirth.” \nThis program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nAbout the Exhibit \nVisitors to the exhibition begin their journey in the ‘heyday’ of Asia Minor Hellenism in Ionia and the west coast. They proceed to Cappadocia and the southern provinces\, travel to Pontus\, continue towards the west and the environs of Istanbul\, and end up in Eastern Thrace. \nThe heyday is followed by the period of persecutions\, the conclusion of World War I and the ensuing Treaties\, the period of the Greek landing in Asia Minor and the ensuing Campaign\, the ‘Catastrophe’ of 1922\, as well as the ‘Exodus’ of refugees. \nThe third and final section of the exhibition focuses on the settlement and integration of refugees in Greece\, as well as their impact on many sectors of Greek society. Part of the epilogue of the exhibition is dedicated to the creation of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies in 1930 by Melpo and Octave Merlier. \nThe exhibition features works of art\, icons\, ecclesiastical\, war and personal heirlooms\, costume\, jewelry\, handicrafts\, maps\, photographs\, archival and cinematographic material\, newspapers\, letters\, postcards\, and many other items. Excerpts from personal testimonies complement the narrative\, bringing images and silent objects to life. \nThe exhibition runs from September 15\, 2022 until February 12\, 2023.\nThursday\, Sunday: 10:00-18:00\nFriday\, Saturday: 10:00-22:00
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/evita-arapoglou-asia-minor-hellenism-heyday-catastrophe-displacement-rebirth/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T130000
DTSTAMP:20220907T020132Z
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SUMMARY:Roger Michel\, "Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary"
DESCRIPTION:The Parthenon Marbles\, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles\, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin\, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by the sculptor Phidias\, they were eventually sold to the British government in 1817 and are housed in the British Museum. Public debate about repatriating the marbles is heated and ongoing. \nCan the creation of exact copies of the originals resolve the repatriation quandary? Roger Michel\, executive director of the Institute of Digital Archaeology\, at the University of Oxford\, believes the repatriation issue can be resolved with the help of 3-D machining. His research team has developed a robot with the ability to create faithful copies of large historical objects. Michel will explore humanity’s connection to culturally significant objects and the emphasis we place on physical possession. Is possession an inherently colonial concept? Are heritage assets particularly susceptible to being exploited for the purposes of historical revisionism? Under what circumstances can copies provide satisfactory substitutes for original material? These questions will be examined against the backdrop of the IDA’s ongoing Elgin repatriation efforts. \nRoger Michel is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA). The IDA operates globally\, undertaking a huge variety of heritage projects\, many of which are aimed at advancing social justice goals. Its principal partners are the UN\, UNESCO\, and local and national governments. Mr. Michel has published and lectured frequently on various heritage conservation topics. He was a member of the faculty at BU Law School for 25 years\, is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College (Oxford)\, and is co-publisher of Arion Magazine. Mr. Michel is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities. \nThis event\, co-presented by the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage\, is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and with the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/roger-michel-phidias-unbound-how-robot-generated-replicas-could-solve-the-parthenon-marbles-quandary/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221001T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221001T120000
DTSTAMP:20220810T162306Z
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SUMMARY:Johanna Hanink\, "Bones\, Stones\, Trees\, and Roots: On the Enduring Urgency of Karkavitsas' Archeologist (1904)"
DESCRIPTION:How does a novella written more than one hundred years ago help to illuminate pressing issues in Greece today? Karkavitsas’ Archeologist\, an allegory for the contestation of antiquity’s role in Greek modernity\, was published at a time when Greece’s ancient past was emerging as a modern national industry. Major excavations were tied to the establishment of foreign schools in Greece\, while the sheer quantity of new archeological inspired a boom in museum construction. This talk will explore some of the early critiques that the work offered of the early Greek antiquity industry\, and of the mentalities – both foreign and domestic – that drove it. In the spirit of National Translation Day\, this talk will also consider the work’s many reflections on the Greek language (and the “Language Question”)\, as well as the complications the work itself presents for translation on both linguistic and cultural levels.  \nJohanna Hanink is Professor of Classics at Brown University. She is the author of Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy (Cambridge 2014) and The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Age of Austerity (Harvard 2017). She is also a translator of Ancient and Modern Greek. \nThis lecture is offered on the occasion of International Translation Day\, in collaboration with the Embassy of Greece in Washington\, DC\, the UCLA Department of Classics\, and the Archaeological Institute of America\, Los Angeles Chapter. The discussion will be co-moderated by Professor Sarah Morris (Classics; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) and Dr. Simos Zenios (UCLA SNF Hellenic Center). \nView a recording of this talk here. \nFor further information about The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories\, visit the publisher’s site.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/johanna-hanink-lecture-on-the-occasion-of-international-translation-day/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220925T190000
DTSTAMP:20220902T224355Z
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SUMMARY:Smyrna\, My Beloved
DESCRIPTION:Community Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Burning of Smyrna \nSunday\, September 25\, 2022\n4 pm reception followed by the film screenings\nFree admission and mezedes (No RSVP required)\nJim Gianopulos Family Theater\, St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral\n1324 S. Normandie Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA 90006 \nThis moving historical saga\, Smyrna\, My Beloved\, follows a prominent Greek family forced to endure the burning of the vibrant cosmopolitan city of Smyrna in 1922 by the Turks and the killing of its Greek and Armenian populations. In the present\, a young Greek-American woman\, visiting Greece with her grandmother to support the Syrian refugees\, discovers that the Smyrna tragedy destroyed her own family 100 years earlier. \nDirected by Grigoris Karantinakis\, the film features Mimi Denissi\, Leonidas Kakouris\, Burak Hakki\, Katerina Geronikolou\, Jane Lapotaire\, Susan Hampshire\, Rupert Graves\, Christos Stergioglou\, and Daphne Alexander. In English\, Greek\, Turkish\, and French with English subtitles.\nNote: This film contains scenes that may be too intense for young viewers. \nIn addition\, the event will include the short documentary\, The Full Catastrophe\, which was written and produced by Linda Reid Chassiakos. This film is based on the true story of the writer’s mother’s family in 1922; her family members were slaughtered by the Turkish soldiers as the survivors tried to make a heroic escape from Smyrna amidst the devastation and genocide. \nBefore the screenings\, the Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos\, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles\, the Honorable Andreas Kyprianides\, Honorary Consul General of Cyprus in Los Angeles\, and Dr. James F. Dimitriou\, President & Chairman of the American Hellenic Council will address the community on the 100th anniversary of the burning of Smyrna. \nThis event\, presented by the American Hellenic Council of California\, the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, and the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival\, is further supported by St. Sophia Cathedral and the Hellenic Society of Constantinople. Further support has been provided by AHEPA. \nThe event is held under the auspices of the Consulates General of Greece and Cyprus in Los Angeles.  \nSuggested donation: $10
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/smyrna-my-beloved-2/
LOCATION:Saint Sophia Cathedral\, 1324 S Normandie Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220924T210000
DTSTAMP:20220811T185350Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220811T185350Z
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SUMMARY:Glendi! Beginning of the Year Celebration
DESCRIPTION: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. \nParking information \nThe Rolfe Courtyard is located in the Center of Rolfe Hall at UCLA. Please park in Parking Structure 5\, which is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\nYou may purchase your parking permit for $14 using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select UCLA Campus Event\, then “Glendi: Beginning of the Year Celebration.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit at Parking Structure 5\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.\nAccessible parking: If you have special accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nCurrent UCLA Covid protocols: We will NOT require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test\, and wearing masks at this outdoor event is OPTIONAL. \nWe thank the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles for supporting in this event. Our programming is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/glendi/
LOCATION:Rolfe Courtyard\, 345 PORTOLA PLAZA\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Dance,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Modern Greece,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220509T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220509T220000
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SUMMARY:Smyrna\, My Beloved
DESCRIPTION:OPENING NIGHT OF THE LOS ANGELES GREEK FILM FESTIVAL!!! \nTo purchase tickets\, click here. \nFilio 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 the city. Filio’s grandmother’s diary tells the story of the family’s turbulent history\, shaped by tragic international developments. Filio is accompanied to Lesvos by her reluctant granddaughter\, and different generations of women in the same family come together in space and time\, through the threads of history\, as past and present become one. \nStarring Mimi Denissi\, Leonidas Kakouris\, Burak Hakki\, Katerina Geronikolou\, Jane Lapotaire\, Susan Hampshire\, Rupert Graves\, Christos Stergioglou\, and Daphne Alexander. In English\, Greek\, Turkish\, and French with English subtitles. \nParking: \nPlease park in Parking Structure 3\, which is near the theater at the northeastern corner of the campus\, close to the intersection of Hilgard Ave and Sunset Blvd. \n·   To 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 L.A. Greek Film Festival. With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 3. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here. \n·   To purchase a permit at Parking Structure 3\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area in the north annex building\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine. \n·   No parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, so please allow extra time for parking and walking to the theater. \nCovid guidelines: \nUCLA Faculty\, Students and Staff must complete the Daily Symptom Monitoring Survey in advance of coming to campus. \nMasks are highly recommended\, but not required\, for all guests attending indoor events. Those attending events on campus (and who are not third-party contractors or specifically invited guests) are required to wear masks at all times at indoor events if they are not up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations (including boosters).  This is subject to change\, so please check the event website for the most up-to-date information. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/smyrna-my-beloved/
LOCATION:James Bridges Theater\, UCLA\, 235 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220507T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220507T180000
DTSTAMP:20211216T184706Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T184706Z
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SUMMARY:The Valerie Estes Memorial Lecture and Performance: "Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora\," by Panayotis (Paddy) League
DESCRIPTION: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 of Lesvos in particular) and in the Greater Boston area\, Dr. League will analyze handwritten music manuscripts\, homemade audio recordings\, and contemporary live performances\, tracing the routes of repertoire and style over generations and back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean and investigating ways that the particular musical traditions of the Anatolian Greek community have contributed to their understanding of their place in the global Greek diaspora and the wider post-Ottoman world. \nThe lecture will be followed by a concert drawing on Dr. League‘s lifelong immersion in Greek traditions\, exploring intertextual relationships between songs from the Greek Aegean islands and associated poetry\, performed on laouto (steel-string lute)\, guitar\, and tsambouna (goatskin bagpipe). \nPanayotis (Paddy) League (Professor of Musicology & Director of the Center for Music of the Americas\, Florida State University) is a musicologist\, author\, performer\, and composer specializing in the traditional music\, dance\, and oral poetry of the Greek islands\, Brazil\, and Ireland – as well as the electric guitar music of the American South. His research has been published in several leading academic journals and his first monograph\, Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora\, which focuses on the legacy of Late Ottoman intercommunality in the music and dance practices of Greek refugees and their descendants\, was published in 2021 by University of Michigan Press. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.\n\n\nRSVP: https://bit.ly/3uRcijT\n\nInformation for attendees: \nUCLA Faculty\, Students and Staff must complete the Daily Symptom Monitoring Survey in advance of coming to campus. \nMasks are highly recommended\, but not required\, for all guests attending indoor events. Those attending events on campus (and who are not third-party contractors or specifically invited guests) are required to wear masks at all times at indoor events if they are not up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations (including boosters). \nParking:Guests may park in self-service pay station areas in parking structure 2\, located near the corner of Hilgard and Westholme Avenues on the east side of campus.  For additional information about accessible parking\, additional structures\, and a campus map\, visit https://ucla.app.box.com/s/n49sussjcbo6e9s1ljs9j9icc053mqaq \nFor questions\, please contact us by email at hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/panayotis-paddy-league-echoes-of-the-great-catastrophe-re-sounding-anatolian-greekness-in-diaspora/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220416T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220416T120000
DTSTAMP:20211216T183924Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220306T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T190000
DTSTAMP:20220126T212353Z
CREATED:20220126T212353Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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
DTSTAMP:20211216T182054Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T182054Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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
DTSTAMP:20211216T181132Z
CREATED:20211216T181132Z
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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:20220122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220122T120000
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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: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:20220108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220108T115000
DTSTAMP: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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211120T120000
DTSTAMP: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:20210227T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T130000
DTSTAMP:20210223T141323Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Gallant\, "From Orphan to Abolitionist: Photius Fisk and the Making of Greek America"
DESCRIPTION:To participate in this event\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/thomas-gallant-from-orphan-to-abolitionist-photius-fisk-and-the-making-of-greek-america/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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