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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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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
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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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SUMMARY:Vamvakou!
DESCRIPTION:From June 25-July 1\, the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center staff and UCLA graduate students join colleagues from the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vamvakou\, Lakonia\, to work together with the team of Vamvakou Revival to organize future summer programs in Modern Greek language studies\, bioagriculture\, and cultural heritage management. Stay tuned for updates from Vamvakou! This visit is part of a three-year pilot project funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation\, which will create new opportunities for collaboration across institutions on the west coast and in Greece.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/vamvakou/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Conversation with the author: Φωτεινή Τσαλίκογλου\, 8 ώρες και 35 λεπτά
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URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-the-author-%cf%86%cf%89%cf%84%ce%b5%ce%b9%ce%bd%ce%ae-%cf%84%cf%83%ce%bb%ce%af%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%b3%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%85-8-%cf%8e%cf%81%ce%b5%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9-35-%ce%bb%ce%b5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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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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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:20220429T100000
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SUMMARY:Eleni Kefala\, "Strangers No More: Constantinople\, Tenochtitlan\, and the Trauma of the Conquest"
DESCRIPTION:The Byzantines had long dreaded the year 1492. According to their calculations based on the Scriptures\, it would bring the end of the world. In an eerie stroke of irony\, they were right in their fears. Even though they were slightly off in the timing of the fall of Constantinople into the hands of the Ottomans\, they anticipated with uncanny accuracy the end of the world as they knew it. Columbus’s crossing of the Atlantic paved the way for the European colonization of the Americas. But what is there in common between Byzantium and America beyond some bemusing serendipities? This paper approaches that question by rehistoricizing the fall of Byzantine Constantinople (1453) and Aztec Tenochtitlan (1521) while looking at three sorrowful poems composed by anonymous Greek and Aztec authors soon after the conquest of the Byzantine and Mexica empires.\nEleni Kefala is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. Her work explores modernity across different periods and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. She is the author of Peripheral (Post) Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of Borges\, Piglia\, Kalokyris\, and Kyriakidis (2007)\, The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity (2020)\, and Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity (2022)\, and editor of Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World: From Conquest to Globalisation (2011). \nEvent Co-Sponsored by the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies\, Simon Fraser University. \nTo register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/300210596977 \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/eleni-kefala-strangers-no-more-constantinople-tenochtitlan-and-the-trauma-of-conquest/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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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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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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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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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
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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:20220115T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T120000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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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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
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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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T120000
DTSTAMP:20201108T034222Z
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SUMMARY:James Barron\, The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate
DESCRIPTION:The event will be offered on Zoom.\nRSVP to shorturl.at/dhjAU to receive the link.\nDownload the Zoom app prior to the lecture to participate. \n\n\n\n\n  \nHe was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century political history. Yet today\, Elias Demetracopoulos is strangely overlooked–even though his life reads like an epic adventure story. \nAs a precocious twelve-year-old in occupied Athens\, he engaged in heroic resistance efforts against the Nazis\, for which he was imprisoned and tortured. After his life was miraculously spared\, he became an investigative journalist\, covering Greece’s tumultuous politics and America’s increasing influence in the region. A clever and scoop-hungry reporter\, Elias soon gained access to powerful figures in both governments . . . and attracted many enemies. When the Greek military dictatorship took power in 1967\, he narrowly escaped to Washington DC\, where he would lead the fight to restore democracy in his homeland–while running afoul of the American government\, too. \nNow\, after a decade of research and original reporting\, James H. Barron uncovers the story of a man whose tireless pursuit of uncomfortable truths would put him at odds with not only his own government\, but that of the Truman\, Eisenhower\, Kennedy\, Johnson\, Nixon\, Ford\, Carter and Reagan administrations\, making him a target of CIA\, FBI\, and State Department surveillance and harassment–and Greek kidnapping and assassination plots American authorities may have purposefully overlooked. \nJames H. Barron is a journalist\, attorney\, and founding advisory board member of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. A creator of the award-winning International Boston Initiative and Atlantic Rim Network\, he has taught courses at MIT and lectured at universities in Paris and Tokyo.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/james-barron-the-greek-connection-the-life-of-elias-demetracopoulos-and-the-untold-story-of-watergate/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210207T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210207T170000
DTSTAMP:20201108T035939Z
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Greek Language Day: Professor Kathryn Morgan\, “Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom.”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kathryn Morgan\, UCLA Department of Classics \n“Know Thyself: Ancient Proverbs and the Road to Wisdom” \nThe Sages of Ancient Greece were renowned for their pithy formulations of proverbial wisdom. Perhaps the most famous of these was the saying inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi: “Know thyself!” (γνῶθι σεαυτόν)\, a command that had a long influence on Greek wisdom traditions\, including the thought of Socrates. This talk will examine how popular wisdom traditions were exploited and explored by thinkers who capitalized upon the density of expression characteristic both of proverbs and of ancient Greek. Brief and “laconic” formulations are like modern “soundbites\,” memorable but problematic: What are their advantages? What are their limits? \nKathryn Morgan is Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at UCLA.  Her interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. She regularly teaches graduate seminars in Attic tragedy\, Pindar and Greek lyric\, and Plato\, and her research oscillates between projects connected with Plato and with Pindar. The former is represented by her book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato\, and by her ongoing involvement in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative (published by Brill)\, where she is responsible for the chapters covering Plato. Pindar is the subject of her most recent book\, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (2015)\, where she examines Pindar’s victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse and the program of tyrannical self-representation to which they contributed.  Ongoing research includes book projects on Plato’s conception of history and on historical narrative in the Persians of Aeschylus. She has served on the Program Committee and the Board of Directors of the Society for Classical Studies\, and is currently a member of the Nominating Committee. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the General Secretariat for Public Diplomacy & Greeks Abroad (Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Hellenic Republic) and by the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be offered on Zoom.\nRSVP to shorturl.at/uHLTW to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/a-celebration-of-greek-language-day/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210130T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210130T120000
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Ρίκα Μπενβενίστε\, Λούνα
DESCRIPTION:Στο βιβλίο αυτό\, η βιογραφία της Λούνας ανοίγει ένα μονοπάτι για να ξανασκεφτούμε τους Εβραίους της Θεσσαλονίκης στην πόλη τους\, τη Shoah\, τη φτώχεια και τα ανάποδα μεταπολεμικά χρόνια. Επειδή ήταν φτωχή\, αγράμματη και γυναίκα\, τα ίχνη της εύκολα χάνονται ανάμεσα στους αφανείς της ιστορίας. Αρχειακά τεκμήρια\, καταγεγραμμένες μαρτυρίες\, φωτογραφίες και προσωπικές αναμνήσεις συναρμόζονται ως ισότιμες «πηγές» που καλούν σε ίση κριτική διάθεση. Εισβάλλουμε στον κόσμο και στη σιωπή των αφανών με λέξεις που δεν είναι δικές τους\, γιατί τα λόγια τους δεν ακούστηκαν\, πάρα πολλές φορές αγνοήθηκαν ή λησμονήθηκαν. Ακολουθούμε τα ίχνη ενός βίου που δέθηκε με τις περιπέτειες του 20ού αιώνα\, διατρέχοντας τους τόπους απ’ όπου πέρασε η Λούνα\, εκείνους που κατοίκησε. Τα ίχνη της αναζητούνται σε κτίρια\, οικοδομές\, τοπία της πόλης. Οι ιστορίες που λέγονται είναι ιστορίες που δέθηκαν με αυτούς τους τόπους\, με την κατοίκησή τους από τη Λούνα και από τους δικούς της. (Ρ.Μπ.\, από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-%cf%81%ce%af%ce%ba%ce%b1-%ce%bc%cf%80%ce%b5%ce%bd%ce%b2%ce%b5%ce%bd%ce%af%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b5-%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%8d%ce%bd%ce%b1-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Humanities,Jewish Greece,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T120000
DTSTAMP:20201007T205648Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Ballian (Curator Emerita\, Benaki Museum)\, “Bacini or Immured Vessels on Post- Byzantine Churches\, 16th-17th Century: The Case of Iznik\, Italian and Local Ware”
DESCRIPTION:The image of a small church with immured ceramic vessels on its walls is interwoven with representations of the Greek landscape\, whether on the islands or on the mainland. The practice of decorating church façades with brightly decorated vessels is older than the 16th century and the Ottoman period in Greece\, and is related to the phenomenon of bacini\, or plates\, immured in the façades of Italian religious buildings from the 11th to the 15th centuries. The spread of the practice appears to have followed sea routes and commercial networks opened up by Italian maritime cities. In Greece\, the practice is particularly apparent after 1204 in areas ruled over by Franks or Venetians. Glazed ceramic plates of various origins\, whether local Byzantine or imported from Islamic or Christian Mediterranean countries\, appeared on the exterior walls of late Byzantine churches and this practice continued after the Ottoman conquest with local\, Ottoman\, Italian and other Western European ceramics until the 19th century. This lecture will focus on a group of 16th- to 17th-century churches in Euboea\, Thessaly and the Peloponnese. Ottoman immured vessels from Iznik and possibly from Kütahya are the novel factor\, the outcome of a new political reality and change of taste\, but they co-exist with Italian maiolica vessels which continued to be traded along the same routes. Dating these ceramics helps provide a chronology for newly built or renovated churches and\, when possible\, unfolds the mechanism of patronage and the status of the donors. Eventually\, the study of early churches and their immured vessels will expand our knowledge about the Greek elites of the early Tourkokratia. \nAnna Ballian is curator emerita of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Αrt. She began working at the Benaki as a curator of the post-Byzantine collection of church silver and embroideries and has worked on the presentation and opening of the Benaki | Greek Culture and Benaki | Islamic Art. She completed her BA in History and Archaeology at the University of Athens\, her MA in Islamic Art from SOAS\, London\, and her PhD at the University of Birmingham\, Centre for Byzantine\, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies with a thesis on the art and patronage of the Christian communities in Asia Minor during the Ottoman period. She has contributed and curated several exhibitions and published on Byzantine and Islamic art and culture\, and on post-Byzantine\, Armenian and Ottoman art and culture\, especially silverwork\, textiles and ceramics. \nRSVP here to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/anna-ballian-curator-emerita-benaki-museum-bacini-or-immured-vessels-on-post-byzantine-churches-16th-17th-century-the-case-of-iznik-italian-and-local-ware/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T120000
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SUMMARY:Xenia Politou (Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture\, Benaki Museum)\, “The Costume of Women in Greece: Styles and References”
DESCRIPTION:Local Greek women’s costumes are impressive because of their wide variety and large number of local variations. A more methodical analysis can bring to the surface certain common characteristics and will help the careful observer to identify from among these varieties the basic styles and main influences that contributed to their creation. The vicissitudes of history\, the different rulers—mainly Ottomans and Venetians—who left their mark on a pre-existing Byzantine sartorial system\, and the absence of a unified Greek territory before the 1830s explain the great diversity and variety of Greek women’s costumes. Even after the creation of the Greek state in 1832\, the local style of garments still received another invasion: the invasion of a late industrial revolution and European fashion which brought new patterns and styles. Finally\, the abandonment of local costumes has been progressive—obviously slower in isolated villages—throughout the 19th century until around the 1950s. This lecture attempts to present an analysis of the basic elements common to all costumes and to their classification according to their main styles\, as they had been fashioned during a long period of foreign occupations. \nXenia Politou is Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture\, Benaki Museum. She was born in Athens and studied French and Comparative Literature in Athens and Paris. From 1993 through 2001 she worked at the Museum of the History of the Greek Costume in Athens. At the same time\, she also participated in the National Archive of the Greek Traditional Costume\, a research program on clothing subsided by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Between 2002 and 2005\, she worked for the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation on the organization of the “Ptychoseis = Folds + Pleats: Drapery from Ancient Greek Dress to 21st Century Fashion” exhibition\, the first international fashion exhibition in Greece. Since March 2005\, she has been working at the Benaki Museum\, first in the Exhibition Department\, and since September 2010 she has been Curator of its Modern Greek Culture Department. Her research interests include the study of Greek local costumes and Greek embroideries. She is a member of the ICOM Costume Committee and founding member and Chair of the Hellenic Costume Society. \nTo RSVP\, click here. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/xenia-politou-aegeas-amke-curator-of-modern-greek-culture-benaki-museum-the-costume-of-women-in-greece-styles-and-references/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T120000
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SUMMARY:Mary E. Voyatzis\, "Exploring Sacred Landscapes in the Mountains of Arcadia"
DESCRIPTION:The mountainous region of Arcadia\, situated in the heart of the Peloponnese\, has attracted considerable interest and attention since antiquity. Many ancient authors described Arcadia in detail\, discussing its rich mythology\, many sites\, unusual gods\, numerous sanctuaries\, engaging history\, diverse geography\, and the important fact that its inhabitants were indigenous\, living there even before the moon (Proselenoi)\, and the original inhabitants of Greece (Pelasgoi). During the Renaissance\, Arcadia was depicted in art as a beautiful\, pristine\, and magical place with unspoiled wilderness. By the 19th c. European travelers were exploring the region\, and later in the century archaeologists began excavating its various sites. For over 140 years Arcadia has been investigated by archaeologists from Greece and many other countries in Europe and North America. In this illustrated lecture\, Professor Mary Voyatzis considers some of the sites recently excavated in Arcadia\, and focuses on two where she has been involved\, the Sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea\, and the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion. We shall see how archaeological discoveries have contributed significantly to our understanding of the history of Arcadia and enhanced our appreciation of this enchanting mountainous region. \nMary E. Voyatzis is Professor in the School of Anthropology and the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her research areas involve Ancient Greek ritual and religion\, sanctuaries and their development over time\, and ancient Greek pottery. Dr. Voyatzis was a Principal Investigator in the excavations at the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea\, 1990-1994\, and she is currently a co-director of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey project (since 2004). \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Additional co-sponsors include the Hellenic Cultural Foundation of Tucson and the Panarcadian Federation of America\, Nea Mantineia Chapter #102. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/mary-e-voyatzis-exploring-sacred-landscapes-in-the-mountains-of-arcadia/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200209T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200209T190000
DTSTAMP:20200111T042353Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium: A Celebration of International Greek Language Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/symposium-a-celebration-of-international-greek-language-day/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Classics,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece,Symposium
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