Thomas Gallant, “From Orphan to Abolitionist: Photius Fisk and the Making of Greek America”
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Maureen Connors Santelli, Associate Professor of History, Northern Virginia Community College | “The Grassroots Mobilization of American Philhellenism”
by ZoomPopular 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....
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Mara Verykokou, “1821: The Collectors’ Choice.’ An Exhibition Commemorating the Greek War of Independence from an Original Viewpoint.”
by ZoomBenaki 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...
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Spyros Kizis, “PAPADOPOULOS 100: Exhibiting a Century of Greek Entrepreneurship and Taste.”
by Zoom2022 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...
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Dinos Kogias, “Souvenir of Kütahya: Imprints of History on Kütahya Pottery (late 19th-early 20th century)”
by ZoomThe 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...
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Takis Mavrotas, “Theofilos: ‘The Evzone of Painting'”
by ZoomThis lecture, co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece, will be introduced by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the United States The 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...
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Evangelia Balta, “Karamanlides: Rum Orthodox Turkish-Speaking Anatolians before and after the Population Exchange (1923)”
Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. This 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...
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Maria Pantelia, “Preserving Greek Literature from Homer to Solomos”
Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. For 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...
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Kathara Deftera Celebration
UCLA Janss Steps 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesBring your family to fly kites with us to celebrate Kathara Deftera! Everyone is welcome! Janns/Tongva Steps, UCLA. Lagana and tarama will be offered. RSVP: hellenicstudentsucla@gmail.com Closest 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...
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Roderick Beaton, “Asia Minor in the Life and Work of George Seferis”
by ZoomA Celebration of National Poetry Month In May 1944, at the height of a new crisis facing the Greek government in exile during World War II, which he served as...
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The Valerie Estes Memorial Lecture and Performance: “Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora,” by Panayotis (Paddy) League
Royce Hall, 314 10745 Dickson Ct., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIn 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...
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Smyrna, My Beloved
FeaturedJames Bridges Theater, UCLA 235 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesOPENING NIGHT OF THE LOS ANGELES GREEK FILM FESTIVAL!!! To purchase tickets, click here. Filio Baltatzi, an elderly Greek-American woman, goes to the island of Lesvos to help the refugees. She has a secret: almost a century earlier, her family lived on the island when they themselves were refugees, fleeing Smyrna after the destruction of...