HUC@UCLA

Name: Smyrna, My Beloved
Start: 2022-09-25T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2022-09-25T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Saint Sophia Cathedral

January 2022
Mara Verykokou, “1821: The Collectors’ Choice.’ An Exhibition Commemorating the Greek War of Independence from an Original Viewpoint.”

January 8, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 11:50 am

by Zoom

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...
Spyros Kizis, “PAPADOPOULOS 100: Exhibiting a Century of Greek Entrepreneurship and Taste.”

January 15, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

by Zoom

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...
Dinos Kogias, “Souvenir of Kütahya: Imprints of History on Kütahya Pottery (late 19th-early 20th century)”

January 22, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

by Zoom

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...
Takis Mavrotas, “Theofilos: ‘The Evzone of Painting'”

January 29, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

by Zoom

This 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...
February 2022
Evangelia Balta, “Karamanlides: Rum Orthodox Turkish-Speaking Anatolians before and after the Population Exchange (1923)”

February 5, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

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...
Maria Pantelia, “Preserving Greek Literature from Homer to Solomos”

February 9, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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...
March 2022
Kathara Deftera Celebration

March 6, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

UCLA Janss Steps 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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. 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...
April 2022
Roderick Beaton, “Asia Minor in the Life and Work of George Seferis”

April 16, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

by Zoom

A 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 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...
May 2022
The Valerie Estes Memorial Lecture and Performance: “Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora,” by Panayotis (Paddy) League

May 7, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Royce Hall, 314 10745 Dickson Ct., Los Angeles, CA, United States

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...
Smyrna, My Beloved

Featured May 9, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm

James Bridges Theater, UCLA 235 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

OPENING NIGHT OF THE LOS ANGELES GREEK FILM FESTIVAL!!! To purchase tickets, click here. Filio Baltatzi, an elderly Greek-American woman, goes to the island of Lesvos to help the refugees. She has a secret: almost a century earlier, her family lived on the island when they themselves were refugees, fleeing Smyrna after the destruction of...
September 2022
Glendi! Beginning of the Year Celebration

September 24, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Rolfe Courtyard 345 PORTOLA PLAZA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us for a true glendi with a fantastic musical performance, dancing, and delicious Greek food! Bring your family, friends and dancing shoes. Meet our new Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles, Ioannis Stamatekos, and learn more about the Center’s initiatives and programs. This is an outdoor event. Parking information The Rolfe Courtyard is...
Smyrna, My Beloved

September 25, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Saint Sophia Cathedral 1324 S Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Community Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Burning of Smyrna Sunday, September 25, 2022 4 pm reception followed by the film screenings Free admission and mezedes (No RSVP required) Jim Gianopulos Family Theater, St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral 1324 S. Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006 This moving historical saga, Smyrna, My Beloved, follows...

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HUC@UCLA

January 2022

Mara Verykokou, “1821: The Collectors’ Choice.’ An Exhibition Commemorating the Greek War of Independence from an Original Viewpoint.”

Spyros Kizis, “PAPADOPOULOS 100: Exhibiting a Century of Greek Entrepreneurship and Taste.”

Dinos Kogias, “Souvenir of Kütahya: Imprints of History on Kütahya Pottery (late 19th-early 20th century)”

Takis Mavrotas, “Theofilos: ‘The Evzone of Painting'”

February 2022

Evangelia Balta, “Karamanlides: Rum Orthodox Turkish-Speaking Anatolians before and after the Population Exchange (1923)”

Maria Pantelia, “Preserving Greek Literature from Homer to Solomos”

March 2022

Kathara Deftera Celebration

April 2022

Roderick Beaton, “Asia Minor in the Life and Work of George Seferis”

May 2022

The Valerie Estes Memorial Lecture and Performance: “Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora,” by Panayotis (Paddy) League

Smyrna, My Beloved

September 2022

Glendi! Beginning of the Year Celebration

Smyrna, My Beloved