BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T190000 DTSTAMP:20220126T212353Z CREATED:20220126T212353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T212353Z UID:10000123-1644426000-1644433200@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Maria Pantelia\, "Preserving Greek Literature from Homer to Solomos" DESCRIPTION:Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. \nFor almost three millennia Greek literature has been preserved in a variety of different media\, encompassing inscriptions on stone\, papyrus rolls\, medieval manuscripts\, and\, most recently\, digital formats. It is a checkered history. Natural disasters\, accidents\, wars\, political and religious upheavals have contributed to the loss of much precious material\, yet such losses have been counterbalanced by the efforts of libraries\, monasteries\, and individual collectors and scholars to preserve this important legacy. For the last 50 years\, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at UC Irvine has been collecting all the extant works of Greek literature from antiquity to the present\, with the goal of creating a permanent digital repository. What are the challenges and triumphs of this initiative? What remains to be done and how will scholars and members of a broader community leverage this resource? \nMaria Pantelia is Professor of Classics at the University of California\, Irvine. She is the Editor and Director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)\, a digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. \nThis lecture\, on the occasion of International Greek Language Day\, is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the United States\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, and the Hellenic Library of Southern California. \nTo attend\, please RSVP at this link. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/maria-pantelia-preserving-greek-literature-from-homer-to-solomos-2/ CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-1.15.19-PM-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T120000 DTSTAMP:20211216T182054Z CREATED:20211216T182054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T182054Z UID:10000103-1644055200-1644062400@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Evangelia Balta\, "Karamanlides: Rum Orthodox Turkish-Speaking Anatolians before and after the Population Exchange (1923)" DESCRIPTION:Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. \nThis lecture focuses on the language\, social history\, and culture of the Rum Orthodox population that lived in Asia Minor and the urban centers of the Ottoman Empire. Among these were Orthodox Christians who spoke Turkish as their native language. Like the Turkish-speaking Armenians\, the Greek-speaking Roman Catholics\, and the Ladino- or Turkish-speaking Jews\, the Karamanlides were an ethnic-religious group that formed part of the multi-cultural and multi-lingual Ottoman Empire while maintaining their own culture and tradition. Since the early 18th century\, books (both religious and secular)\, periodicals\, and newspapers in Turkish were printed with Greek letters\, leaving ample evidence for us to discuss this rich cultural heritage. Being Christians\, they were eventually exiled from their homeland\, in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). The majority of them settled in Greece\, while others settled in the United States and various European countries.  \nEvangelia Balta is Research Director at the Institute of Historical Research\, National Hellenic Research Foundation. Her interests focus on topics related to Economic and Social History during the Ottoman period and the culture of the Greek Orthodox population of Anatolia. Since 2008 she has organized three International Conferences on Karamanlidika Studies. In addition\, since 2011 she has conducted seminars on Karamanlidika Studies at the annual Intensive Summer School on Cunda Island organized by the Ottoman Studies Foundation at Harvard University. She was made an honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society (2013)\, and she was awarded the “Order of Merit (Liyakat Nişanı)” by the President of the Turkish Republic\, Abdullah Gül (2014). For more information on the speaker\, see: www.evangeliabalta.com.  \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the USA\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, the SNF Centre at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, and The Hellenic Society of Constantinople. It is part of a series of events —lectures\, theatrical and musical performances\, book discussions— that take the centenary of the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe in order to commemorate and reflect on Asia Minor Hellenism and its unique culture and history. \nTo attend the event by Zoom\, RSVP here. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/evangelia-balta-karamanlides-orthodox-turkish-speaking-anatolians-before-and-after-the-population-exchange-1923/ CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Kyriakideio-copy-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T120000 DTSTAMP:20211216T181132Z CREATED:20211216T181132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T181132Z UID:10000102-1643450400-1643457600@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/62.-Ερωτόκριτος-και-Αρετούσα-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220122T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220122T120000 DTSTAMP:20211216T175726Z CREATED:20211216T175726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T175726Z UID:10000101-1642845600-1642852800@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T120000 DTSTAMP:20211216T174947Z CREATED:20211216T174947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T174947Z UID:10000100-1642240800-1642248000@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-17-at-5.32.32-PM-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220108T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220108T115000 DTSTAMP:20211216T164757Z CREATED:20211216T164757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T164757Z UID:10000099-1641636000-1641642600@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211120T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211120T120000 DTSTAMP:20210618T224608Z CREATED:20210618T224608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210618T224608Z UID:10000092-1637402400-1637409600@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/thumbnail_Santelli-Figure-5_reduced-e1635203922473-1.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Embassy of Greece in the United States":MAILTO:gremb.was@mfa.gr END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211023T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211023T120000 DTSTAMP:20210617T210709Z CREATED:20210617T210709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T210709Z UID:10000089-1634983200-1634990400@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/DSC_0597-scaled-e1632265276351-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211017T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211017T120000 DTSTAMP:20210617T212017Z CREATED:20210617T212017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T212017Z UID:10000090-1634464800-1634472000@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Greek Book Club | Η νόσος του μικρού θεού\, της Ευτυχίας Γιαννάκη DESCRIPTION:For more information on the book and the author\, and to purchase the digital edition of the book\, visit the publisher’s webpage. \nFor more information regarding our Center’s Book Club\, and to participate in the event\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu) URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-%ce%b7-%ce%bd%cf%8c%cf%83%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%85-%ce%bc%ce%b9%ce%ba%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%8d-%ce%b8%ce%b5%ce%bf%cf%8d-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%b5%cf%85%cf%84%cf%85%cf%87%ce%af%ce%b1/ CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T120000 DTSTAMP:20210617T210528Z CREATED:20210617T210528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T210528Z UID:10000088-1634378400-1634385600@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Image-3-e1632264635224-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T120000 DTSTAMP:20210617T210138Z CREATED:20210617T210138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T210138Z UID:10000086-1633773600-1633780800@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/LA-Photo-for-blurb-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T120000 DTSTAMP:20201108T035731Z CREATED:20201108T035731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T035731Z UID:10000073-1618048800-1618056000@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Helen Angelomatis-Tsougarakis\, Professor Emerita of History\, Ionian University “Fighters and Victims: Women's Lives during the Greek Revolution” DESCRIPTION:The heroic events of the Greek Revolution of 1821 that eventually led to the liberation of part of Greece and the establishment of the modern Greek State had a tragic side for all Greeks. At the same time\, they sowed the seeds for the changes that would gradually introduce Greeks to the realities of the modern Western world. This lecture discusses the heroism and the tragedy\, as well as the transition into modernity\, by focusing on key aspects of the lives of Greek women during the Revolution. Examining factors that impacted their lives in diverse ways\, from geographical location to socioeconomic position\, we will see how Greek women assumed the roles of victims and fighters\, and how they and their children reacted to the extreme conditions they had to face. The discussion will also address noteworthy changes in the mores and customs of Greek society\, and the ways in which new legislation introduced by the Provisional Governments affected women’s lives. \nHelen (Eleni) Angelomatis-Tsougarakis is professor emerita of the Ionian University. She studied History and Archaeology at Athens University and she holds a DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford. She was a Research Director in the Research Centre for Medieval and Modern Greek Studies of the Academy of Athens\, and afterwards a professor at the Department of History of the Ionian University. She taught pre-modern and modern Greek History\, and for several years directed the M.A. Program: “Methodology on Criticism and Editing Historical Sources.” Through this program a considerable number of previously unpublished sources of various periods have been edited and commented on by students under her supervision. Several of these sources have subsequently been published. \nShe has published extensively on various aspects of Greek history from the 15th through to the 19th century. Her interests cover a wide spectrum of subjects: social history\, history of intellectual life and education\, church history\, landscape history\, and travel literature as a historical source. She has published seven books\, and edited seven more books and collective volumes. She has also published over seventy papers in academic journals and collective volumes. \nTo participate in this event\, RSVP here. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/helen-angelomatis-tsougarakis-professor-emerita-of-history-ionian-university-fighters-and-victims-womens-lives-during-the-greek-revolution/ CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T120000 DTSTAMP:20201108T035409Z CREATED:20201108T035409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T035409Z UID:10000072-1617444000-1617451200@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:David A. Bell\, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions; Professor of History\, Princeton University\, “The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolution" DESCRIPTION:  \nDavid A. Bell is a historian of early modern France\, with a particular interest in the political culture of the Old Regime and the French Revolution. He attended graduate school at Princeton\, where he worked with Robert Darnton\, and received his Ph.D. in 1991. From 1990 to 1996 he taught at Yale\, and from 1996 to 2010 at Johns Hopkins\, where he held the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities\, and served as Dean of Faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences. He joined the Princeton faculty in 2010. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. \nBell has written six books. Lawyers and Citizens (Oxford University Press\, 1994) examined the politicization of the French legal profession in the eighteenth century\, showing how spaces for radical criticism of the French monarchy first opened up within the structure of the French state itself. The Cult of the Nation in France (Harvard University Press\, 2001) argued that nationalism\, as opposed to national sentiment\, was a novelty of the French Revolutionary period\, and that it arose both out of\, and in reaction to\, Christianity. The First Total War (Houghton Mifflin\, 2007) is a general study of the political culture of war in Europe between 1750 and 1815. It showed how an aristocratic culture of limited warfare gave way to a world in which total war was possible—and in which\, between 1792 and 1815\, it actually took place. More recently\, Oxford University Press published two new books by Bell: Napoleon: A Concise Biography (2015)\, and an essay collection\, Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France\, Past and Present (2016). Finally\, in 2018\, W.W. Norton published a textbook co-authored by Bell and Anthony Grafton: The West: A New History. Bell has also co-edited two volumes: Raison universelle et culture nationale au siècle des lumières\, with Ludmila Pimenova and Stéphane Pujol (Honoré Champion\, 1999)\, and Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World\, with Yair Mintzker (Oxford University Press\, 2018). Bell’s new book\, Men on Horseback: Charisma and Power in the Age of Revolutions will be published in 2020 by Farrar\, Straus\, Giroux. \nIn addition to his research and teaching\, Bell writes frequently for a range of general-interest publications. He is committed to the proposition that serious history can be readable\, enjoyable\, and accessible to an interested general public. \nUCLA Professor Lynn Hunt introduces this lecture\, which is also sponsored by the Department of History and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies. \nTo participate in this event\, RSVP here. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/david-bell-sidney-and-ruth-lapidus-professor-in-the-era-of-north-atlantic-revolutions-professor-of-history-princeton-university-the-greek-revolution-in-the-age-of-revolution/ CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bell_lecture-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210313T120000 DTSTAMP:20201108T034848Z CREATED:20201108T034848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T034848Z UID:10000071-1615629600-1615636800@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Pavlos Demertzis-Bouboulis\, Director\, The Bouboulina Museum\, “An Introduction to a Heroine of the Greek Revolution and her Context: Views from the Bouboulina Museum” DESCRIPTION:To participate in this event\, RSVP here. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/pavlos-demertzis-bouboulis-director-the-bouboulina-museum-an-introduction-to-a-heroine-of-the-greek-revolution-and-her-context-views-from-the-bouboulina-museum-2/ CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T130000 DTSTAMP:20210223T141323Z CREATED:20210223T141323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T141323Z UID:10000081-1614423600-1614430800@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-18-at-10.23.16-PM-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T120000 DTSTAMP:20201108T034222Z CREATED:20201108T034222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T034222Z UID:10000069-1613210400-1613217600@hellenic.ucla.edu 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/ CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2021-01-22-at-8.33.24-PM-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T120000 DTSTAMP:20201215T015728Z CREATED:20201215T015728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201215T015728Z UID:10000080-1612346400-1612353600@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Rena Molho\, “Problems of Incorporating the Holocaust into the Greek Collective Memory” DESCRIPTION:Tolerance of antisemitism and neo-Nazism in Greece in recent years shows that the Holocaust has not yet been incorporated into the Greek national consciousness. This could be (partly) because Greece did not commemorate the Holocaust until it became a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2005. By reviewing the reactions of the Greek authorities and citizens in Thessaloniki\, the city with 56\,000 Jews which was first to face the Nazi threat in 1941\, Dr. Molho will try to explain the Greek state’s sixty years delay in commemorating the murder of 62\,500 Jews\, or 87% of the Greek Jewish population. \n \nRena Molho is a Greek historian who focuses on the different aspects of Ottoman and Greek Jewish history and culture and more specifically that of the Jews of Salonika.  Molho studied European history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, and received a Doctor of Philosophy with distinctions from the University of Strasbourg. She has taken part in many symposiums\, television and radio programs\, in Greece and abroad\, and has published her research in Greek and international scientific books\, encyclopedias\, and journals. Her research has been supported with grants by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in New York City and by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. In 1996\, she acted as senior interviewer and coordinator in Greece for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and has videotaped seventy Greek Holocaust survivors’ personal accounts. Molho has taught the history of the Jewish presence in Greece in seminars organized by the International Study Groups\, and since 1991 with a group of other historians\, she co-founded the Society for the Study of Greek Jewry. For eight years\, as of 1999\, she taught the history of Greek Jewry at Panteion University in Athens\, the first and only Greek academic institution to include the course of Jewish history in its curriculum in Greece until today. Her book The Jews of Thessaloniki\, 1856–1919: A Unique Community received the Athens Academy Award in December 2000 and in 2001 it was published in Greek by Themelion Publishing. After this\, it became a university handbook distributed to Greek students of Jewish history. From 2005 to 2007\, she was the Greek coordinator for Centropa\, a Vienna\, Austria-based Jewish historical institute which conducted a new series of audio interviews of Thessaloniki-born survivors who after 1945 returned and settled in Greece. She has published a great number of academic articles in all the major European languages as well as in Greek\, Hebrew\, and Turkish. In 2010\, she was decorated with the medal of the order of Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her contribution to the French academia. Among her latest books\, Salonica-Istanbul: Social\, Political and Cultural Aspects of Jewish Life (2005) comprises a collection of eighteen studies in English and French and was published by Isis Press. Her book Jewish Sites in Thessaloniki: Brief History and Guide (2009)\, published by Lycabettus Press in Athens\, became a best-seller\, and was also published in Greek (2010) and in German (2011). \nTo participate in this event\, please RSVP here. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/rena-molcho-problems-of-incorporating-the-holocaust-into-the-greek-collective-memory/ LOCATION:by Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Lecture,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-14-at-5.44.07-PM-e1610663486104-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T120000 DTSTAMP:20201215T013921Z CREATED:20201215T013921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201215T013921Z UID:10000079-1612173600-1612180800@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Leon Saltiel\, “Dehumanizing the Dead: The Destruction of Thessaloniki’s Jewish Cemetery during World War II” DESCRIPTION:This lecture will discuss the destruction of Thessaloniki’s ancient and vast Jewish cemetery which commenced in December 1942. The cemetery\, located close to the city center\, had long become the object of a dispute between the Christian and Jewish communities\, with the former wishing to expropriate it in favor of the city’s new University and the latter trying to preserve the sanctity and history of the place. In the end\, a few months before the living Jews of Thessaloniki were deported\, the cemetery of the dead Jews was destroyed. The destruction of the cemetery is often referred to as the harbinger of the Holocaust in Thessaloniki because it took place three months before the deportations commenced. However\, this unique event in occupied Europe is not directly related to the Nazi “Final Solution.” In no other city in Europe did the Nazis completely destroy Jewish cemeteries and all\, with very few exceptions\, continued to exist after the war\, even on German soil. Due to the time coincidence of the different anti-Jewish measures as well as the convergence of the same protagonists and victims\, the narration becomes linear and ignores a series of crucial factors. The independent study of the destruction of the cemetery can shed light on the unknown aspects of this story and offers a new narration to the events that followed. \nLeon Saltiel holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Greek History from the University of Macedonia\, in Thessaloniki\, Greece\, and has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva\, Switzerland\, and at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution\, 1942–1943 (Routledge 2020) and ‘Do Not Forget Me’: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Ghetto of Thessaloniki (Alexandria 2018). \nTo participate in this event\, please RSVP here. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/leon-saltiel-university-of-macedonia-dehumanizing-the-dead-the-destruction-of-thessalonikis-jewish-cemetery-during-world-war-ii/ LOCATION:by Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Lecture,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jewish_cemetery_web-thumb-large-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T120000 DTSTAMP:20201215T013330Z CREATED:20201215T013330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201215T013330Z UID:10000078-1611914400-1611921600@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos\, Museum Director\, Kehila Kedosha Janina\, “Meet Me on the Corner of Broome and Allen: A Visit to Kehila Kedosha Janina” DESCRIPTION:Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos gives us a virtual tour of Kehila Kedosha Janina\, the only Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. The congregation was founded in 1906 by Greek Jewish immigrants from Ioannina\, but the synagogue itself was not erected until 1927. The years from then until the Second World War were a time of prosperity for the Romaniote community in the Lower East Side: there were three rabbis in the synagogue\, and on the High Holidays\, there was often only standing room for synagogue services. After the Second World War\, many congregants moved to other boroughs and parts of Manhattan\, including Harlem\, the Bronx\, and Brooklyn\, though these communities are no longer active. Although the community has steadily dwindled since its pre-war heyday\, services are still held on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. A documentary film about the synagogue and community\, “the Last Greeks on Broome Street” was produced in the early 2000s. It is directed\, written and narrated by Ed Askinazi\, whose great-grandparents were among the congregation’s founders. \nKehila Kedosha Janina is somewhat unusual for a Romaniote synagogue in that it runs north-south with the Ehal on the north side (Romaniote synagogues typically run east to west)\, the bimah is in the center of the main sanctuary (most Romaniote synagogues place the bimah on the west wall)\, and the internal stairway for the women’s balcony. It is typical in the fact that men and women sit separately (a feature of all Orthodox synagogues). The second-floor women’s gallery contains a museum with artifacts\, exhibits\, and Judaica on Jewish life in Greece and the history of Greek Jews as well as a gift shop. Exhibited items are housed in cases along the walls on either side behind the seats\, as well as in the area immediately in front of the staircase. \n Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos is Museum Director of Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum in New York City. She is also President of the Association of Friends of Greek Jewry\, Former Director of Special Projects for Sephardic House\, a teacher of Judaic Studies from 1990-2010\, and a translator of Greek Jewish Holocaust memoirs. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Panepirotic Federation of America. \nTo participate in this event\, please RSVP here. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/marcia-haddad-ikonomopoulos-museum-director-kehila-kedosha-janina-meet-me-on-the-corner-of-broome-and-allen-a-visit-to-kehila-kedosha-janina/ LOCATION:by Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Lecture,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Kehila_Kedosha_Janina-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T120000 DTSTAMP:20201007T210038Z CREATED:20201007T210038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T210038Z UID:10000065-1607162400-1607169600@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Tassos Sakellaropoulos (Head of Historical Archives) and Maria Dimitriadou (Historical Archives)\, “1821\, Before and After: Narrating and Curating 100 Years of Greek History” DESCRIPTION:The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of the 1821 declaration of the Greek War of Independence. To celebrate this major anniversary\, the Benaki Museum\, together with the Bank of Greece\, the National Bank of Greece\, and ALPHABANK are mounting a major exhibition of works of art and historical testimonies under the title “1821\, Before and After.” The exhibition will cover over a century in the history of modern Hellenism\, from 1770 to 1880. Among other aspects\, the following will be presented through the rich collections of the Museum and the artworks housed in the three banking institutions: everyday life\, trade\, education among the Greeks\, the preparation for the War of Independence as well as the events as they unfolded\, the philhellenic movement\, the work of Ioannis Kapodistrias\, the creation of the new state of Greece\, the reign of King Otho\, the building of modern Athens and the early years of George I’s reign up until the opening of the Corinth Canal. \nDr. Tassos Sakellaropoulos is a historian and Head of the Benaki Museum Historical Archives. He studied History at the University of Siena in Italy. His main area of interest is the history of the Greek twentieth century\, in particular\, the political role of the Greek Army\, political events during the 1940s\, political persecutions in post-War Greece and the resistance to the 1967 dictatorship. Dr Sakellaropoulos has curated exhibitions and edited publications on the 19th and 20th centuries. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism (Mnimon review) and a board member of the Archives of Modern Social History. \nDr. Maria Dimitriadou was born in Athens\, Greece\, and studied Political Sciences and History at the Panteion University\, where she was awarded a PhD from the Department on German Studies. Since 1994 she is a curator at the Historical Archives of the Benaki Museum. Dr. Dimitriadou has written numerous scholarly studies on modern Greek society and history\, covering\, among others\, the history of Skopelos in the 19th century\, the Balkan Wars\, and the relations between Greece and Germany during the Interwar. She has edited the Archive of the Greek Revolution held at the Benaki Museum\, in two volumes (published in 2011 and 2013). \nRSVP here to receive the link. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/tassos-sakellaropoulos-head-of-historical-archives-and-maria-dimitriadou-historical-archives-1821-before-and-after-narrating-and-curating-100-years-of-greek-history/ LOCATION:by Zoom CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T120000 DTSTAMP:20201007T205648Z CREATED:20201007T205648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T205648Z UID:10000063-1605348000-1605355200@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-11-07-at-2.50.17-PM-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T120000 DTSTAMP:20201007T205321Z CREATED:20201007T205321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T205321Z UID:10000062-1604743200-1604750400@hellenic.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T170000 DTSTAMP:20200730T215650Z CREATED:20200730T215650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200730T215650Z UID:10000060-1603638000-1603645200@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Artemis Leontis\, "Going after Eva Palmer Sikelianos" DESCRIPTION:For more than a decade\, Artemis Leontis has carried out a recovery project researching and writing the life of Eva Palmer Sikelianos\, publishing her biography in 2019. Leontis knew Palmer as a shadowy figure in Greek cultural history\, known mostly as the wealthy American wife of the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos\, who spent all her money on his projects. Through intensive detective work\, she has uncovered a bigger\, more complicated story of a brilliant\, beautiful\, countercultural\, queer woman who may be the most influential philhellene after Lord Byron. In this talk\, she will speak of going “after” Eva Palmer Sikelianos in the double sense of pursuit and succession. She will recount some of her adventures pursuing the hidden archival resources of Palmer’s life\, then foreground the stakes of modern encounters with the ancient Greeks in the light of spectrums of meaning found in Palmer’ legacy. \nArtemis Leontis is C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Her field of specialization is Modern Greek Studies: the study of Greeks\, the Greek language\, migrations in and out of Greece by various ethnic groups\, and the idea of Greece cultivated in the West in the modern period. Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s by arguing historical descent from Greek antiquity. Henceforth the desire to align a corporeal\, living Greekness with the idea of Greece cultivated in the West became a driving force in the country’s cultural production. Her first book\, Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland\, compared Westerner’s projections of their collective fantasies on Greece and Greek literary modernism’s reterritorialization of those projections. It traced how Greeks inscribed the texts\, materials\, and geographical notions of Hellenism onto their national space: the forms of adaptation\, resistance\, and opposition to Western interventions they developed and deployed. Since the publication of that book\, her inquiry into competing figurations of Greekness has expanded in several new directions. Her other book projects include Greece: A Travelers’ Literary Companion (1997) published by Whereabouts Press in a series that introduces English language readers to countries through those countries’ own writers; and Culture and Customs of Greece\, written for a trade press to introduce students and general readers to countries of the world through a presentation of present-day cultural phenomena. Her multi-media interests are especially apparent in her investigation of the life and work of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952). The Bryn Mawr-educated American visionary lived in Greece from 1907 to 1933 and was married to poet Angelos Sikelianos. She worked for a lifetime to animate the lost Greek life suggested by ancient ruins and living practices. Her writing of this book took her on a 10-year journey to recover the traces of her life\, from the “Eva Sikelianou Papers” in the Benaki Museum Historical Archives to letters and artifacts collected (and sometimes hidden) in unexpected places such as the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens. \nRSVP & Registration URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/artemis-leontis-going-after-eva-palmer-sikelianos/ LOCATION:by Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece,Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-2.48.52-PM-copy-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T120000 DTSTAMP:20200730T214603Z CREATED:20200730T214603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200730T214603Z UID:10000059-1602928800-1602936000@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Marisa E. Marthari\, The Early Cycladic Site at Skarkos on the Island of Ios DESCRIPTION:The site of Skarkos stands in an advantageous position on a hill in a coastal plain\, mid-way down the western side of Ios and in proximity to one of the largest sheltered harbors in the Cyclades. The excavations conducted by the author brought to light a multiperiod prehistoric site and\, most significantly\, a settlement of the Cycladic Early Bronze Age II (mid-3rd millennium BC\, Keros-Syros Culture) the remains of which predominate on the hill. More than one-third of this settlement has been excavated mainly in the last fifteen years. The walls of the buildings are preserved to a maximum height of 4 meters. This unique state of preservation helps to understand the layout\, architecture\, and structures of settlements in the Cyclades during the peak of the Early Cycladic world. The settlement has a well-organized plan\, with wide streets and squares\, two-story rectangular buildings and a complicated drainage system. In the area excavated so far\, 10 insulae and 55 buildings have been uncovered. Skarkos developed agricultural\, craft and trading activities. Craft specialization is particularly evident in the settlement. Various skilled craftsmen must have been active\, among them masons\, potters\, obsidian specialists (tool makers) and marble-carvers. Indeed\, the evidence demonstrates that Skarkos  was a considerable marble-working center. Luxury and/or prestige objects\, such as marble figurines and fine vessels\, were produced there and circulated in the Aegean exchange networks in which Skarkos participated. Two marble workshops were excavated. Furthermore\, the seals\, the large number of terracotta seal-impressed cubic objects\, and the seal-impressed pottery found at the site leave no doubt that seal-stamping was a common practice at Skarkos. It appears that\, in some circumstances\, a statement of ownership or personal identity was useful or necessary. \nDr. Marisa E. Marthari is Ephor of Antiquities (Emerita) at the Greek Archaeological Service and director of the excavations at Skarkos on Ios \, the largest known Early Cycladic II (Keros -Syros culture) settlement\, and Kastri on Syros\, a fortified Early Cycladic settlement\, the last under the aegis of the Archaeological Society at Athens. She also has a long standing academic association with the excavations at the prehistoric town of Akrotiri on Thera. Marthari was formerly Director of the Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities for the Cyclades and Samos\, regions where she conducted numerous excavations and directed projects on museum exhibitions and presentation of archaeological sites including that at Skarkos on Ios\, winner of the 2008 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Top Prize for Conservation (GRAND PRIZE). She was P.M. Warren Visiting Professor in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Bristol\, Institute of Greece\, Rome\, and the Classical Tradition (2012-2013) and visiting fellow at the University of London\, Institute of Classical Studies (1984-1988)\, and the Kommission für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Archäologie (CAVA) in Bonn (1988-1989). She served as member of the Committee of the European Bronze Age Campaign of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg (1993-1997). Marthari presented more than 80 papers and public lectures in Greece\, Europe (Britain\, Germany\, France\, Italy\, Switzerland and Austria)\, Cyprus\, Turkey\, the United States and Canada. She has published widely on Late Bronze Age Theran pottery\, Cycladic prehistory and archaeological heritage issues. Most recently she is co-editor of Early Cycladic Culture in Context (London 2017) and Beyond the Cyclades: Early Cycladic Culture in Context from Mainland Greece\, the North and East Aegean (London 2019). \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/marisa-e-marthari-the-early-cycladic-site-at-skarkos-on-the-island-of-ios/ LOCATION:by Zoom CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Hellenic,Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-2.44.12-PM-copy-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T120000 DTSTAMP:20200703T203650Z CREATED:20200703T203650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200703T203650Z UID:10000056-1601719200-1601726400@hellenic.ucla.edu 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/ CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-03-at-1.23.51-PM-copy-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200926T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200926T120000 DTSTAMP:20200804T171745Z CREATED:20200804T171745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T171745Z UID:10000061-1601114400-1601121600@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Gelina Harlaftis\, "Creating Global Shipping: From the Vagliano Brothers to Aristotle Onassis” DESCRIPTION:The lecture is based on the author’s recent book\, Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis\, the Vagliano Brothers and the Business of Shipping\, c.1820-1970 (Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2019). It explores the evolution of the European shipping firm through the study of two Greek shipping firms\, which provide a prime example of the regional European maritime businesses that evolved to serve Europe’s international trade and eventually the global economy. The study of the Vagliano Brothers indicates how Greek shipping underwent transformation from local shipping and trading to international shipping and ship management. The Onassis case indicates  how international shipping was transformed to global shipping business. \nShipping has been a leading sector in European economic growth for centuries. By the end of the twentieth century Greeks owned more ships than any other nationality in the world\, and the shipowners played a fundamental role in global connectivity and economic growth. The author’s study contributes to the understanding of the shipping business during the two globalization waves. The Vaglianos developed during the first massive wave of globalization which started in the second half of the nineteenth century to shrink during the interwar period\, and the Onassis business depicts the explosion of the second globalization wave in the second half of the twentieth century. These two firms contributed to the process of global economic integration by inventing and re-inventing Greek and ultimately European southern and northern maritime tradition. Because this is not only the story of the Greeks. It can also be read as the history of the evolution of the European maritime tradition involved in tramp/bulk shipping. \nGelina Harlaftis is Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) since 2017. She has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). She started her academic career at the University of Piraeus (1990-2002)\, continued at the Ionian University (2003-2018)\, and is presently Professor of Maritime History in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete. She was President of the International Maritime Economic History Αssociation (2004-2008). In 2009 she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College\, Oxford University\, and in 2008 an Alfred D. Chandler\, Jr.\, International Visiting Scholar in the Business History Program\, Harvard Business School. She has published 26 books in English\, Canadian and Greek publishing houses and over 60 articles in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals. Her last book is Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis\, the Vagliano Brothers and the Business of Shipping\, c.1820-1970\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2019. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/gelina-harlaftis-creating-global-shipping-from-the-vagliano-brothers-to-aristotle-onassis/ LOCATION:by Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-8.28.08-AM-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T120000 DTSTAMP:20200703T201518Z CREATED:20200703T201518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200703T201518Z UID:10000054-1595671200-1595678400@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating Hellenic Authors: Constance M. Constant DESCRIPTION:Constance (Connie) Constant discusses her book\, American Kid: Nazi Occupied Greece through a Child’s Eyes \nMany books written about WWII come to us primarily from generals\, prime ministers\, diplomats\, and revered historians who never personally lived through occupation. Yet\, childhood war experiences add a dimension to history different from other points of view. American Kid shares the authentic and universal story of fear and frustration faced by all innocent civilians trapped in wartime occupied countries. This book is a memoir of an American child’s growing-up in viciously occupied\, Nazi-dominated Greece. John\, his mother\, and two older siblings are trapped in 1940 Greece when family plans for a shorter visit are altered by unexpected circumstances. John’s unforgettable recollections reveal a true story of his mother’s courage\, their family’s sparse village survival on Lakonia’s Mt. Parnon\, and years of fear-filled interaction with Nazi soldiers. Michael Dukakis writes\, “This book is an eye opener on the kind of brutality that the German army imposed on the people of Greece.” \nConstance (Connie) M. Constant\, a graduate of Chicago’s De Paul University and retired elementary school teacher\, has always been fascinated by history. Her books reflect both her vocation and her avocation. Austin Lunch\, her first book\, colorfully relates how two children witnessed their hardworking Greek immigrant parents’ integrity and resolve in encountering the hardships of being early 20th-century newcomers to the U.S. and then surviving the Great Depression of the 1930s. In American Kid\, Constant reveals a child’s-eye-view of his courageous mother’s agony and strength of mind in struggling to ensure her American children’s survival during World War II in Nazi-occupied Greece. \nTo purchase the book: https://www.amazon.com/American-Kid-Constance-M-Constant/dp/1942430264/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=American+Kid+Constant&qid=1592959521&sr=8-1 URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-hellenic-authors-constance-m-constant/ CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1050172369-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T120000 DTSTAMP:20200703T200801Z CREATED:20200703T200801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200703T200801Z UID:10000052-1594461600-1594468800@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating Hellenic Authors: Linda Reid and Deborah Shlian DESCRIPTION:Authors Linda Reid & Deborah Shlian discuss their most recent book\, Deep Waters. \nFor centuries\, an ancient shipwreck in azure Greek waters has concealed  an astonishing truth. The drowning of an underwater cameraman\, then the  murder of a highly respected academic – seemingly isolated tragedies?  When radio talk show host Sammy Greene and ex-cop Gus Pappajohn  investigate\, they uncover an ancient and modern mystery – conflicts  between pagans and saints\, archeologists and treasure hunters. From the  marble steps of the Parthenon to the peaks of the hidden monasteries of Mount Athos\, the two risk their lives in a desperate race to find the  lost chapter of human history. \nTo purchase the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NBTZMTB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 \nLinda Reid is an award-winning author of mystery-thrillers and feature articles\, a physician\, and the parent of three wonderful young adults. She has written for the Washington Post\, Baltimore Sun\, Los Angeles Times\, Tribune International\, American Film\, Woman’s Day\, Salon\, and the HuffPost. As Y S Pascal\, she wrote her sci-fi/fantasy The Zygan Emprise Trilogy; the first book\, Renegades—Where Angels Fear to Tread\,won a Mensa Sharp Writ Books Award.  Her mystery thrillers\, Dead Air and Devil Wind\, co-written with Deborah Shlian as Linda Reid\, won the Royal Palm Literary Awards for Best Suspense/Thriller.  She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America\, Sisters in Crime\, and the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society. \nDeborah Shlian is a physician\, healthcare consultant and author of numerous nonfiction articles and books as well as six award winning medical mystery/thrillers\, three co-authored with her husband\, Joel. \nRSVP: hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-hellenic-authors-linda-reid-and-deborah-shlian/ CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-06-28-at-1.06.54-PM-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T120000 DTSTAMP:20200609T191106Z CREATED:20200609T191106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200609T191106Z UID:10000051-1592474400-1592481600@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Erγastirio: Conversations on Greek America DESCRIPTION:Delighted to announce a new initiative! \nErγastirio: Conversations on Greek America\nA Collaborative Public Forum \nThis online forum initiates a series of conversations among academics\, authors and cultural producers with the aim of promoting the practice of writing and teaching Greek America in the context of U.S. multiculturalism\, the Greek diaspora\, and European Americans. We envision a discussion contributing toward a greater understanding of what it means to produce and disseminate knowledge about this subject. We will be reflecting on a variety of topics\, including: fostering a critical community; exploring new research directions\, including collaborations; placing our research within the academy as well as community publications; understanding ethnic communities from their own perspectives and ways to engage with these points of view in the classroom and public fora. We will be incorporating the interests and questions that the participants will be bringing in the forum. \nThe initiative is the product of institutional collaboration between the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, and the Modern Greek Program at The Ohio State University. It will be co-hosted by Yiorgos Anagnostou and Simos Zenios. The meetings will be biannual. \nThis is a broadly inclusive initiative though the online platform imposes limitations regarding the number of participants. In order to facilitate discussion via Zoom\, the number of participants is capped at 30. \nSession One: Greek Americans and African Americans\nLanguage: English\nDate and Time: June 18 (10:00–12:00 a.m. Pacific Time) \nWe will commence the series with a conversation about the encounters between African Americans and Greek Americans. This under-researched topic is directing us toward a fascinating prospect in Greek American studies\, the exploration of Greek America in connection with other ethnic and racial groups. \nOur departure point for the conversation will be two sources: \na) The recent mini documentary\, “Between Black and White: Greek-Americans in the 20th century” (https://www.youtube.com/watch…); \nLamprini Thoma\, the researcher for this mini-documentary will be joining us in the discussion. \nb) The book chapter\, “Black Metropolis” by Dan Georgakas (available upon request). \nParticipants are asked to watch the documentary and do the reading prior to joining. \nThe session will consist of two parts \nPart One (50 minutes): Discussion of the mini-documentary “Between Black and White: Greek-Americans in the 20th century.” Participants are encouraged to reflect on the documentary’s representation of the topic (i.e. its representational strategies\, and the meanings it produces). What kind of political work does the documentary’s narrative angle perform? Does the narrative contribute to the anti-racist movement? How? Is it vulnerable to be co-opted against that movement? How so? \nWe will start with a Q&A with Lamprini Thoma and invite a comparison: what do we gain once we read Georgakas’ chapter in relation to the mini-documentary? In what ways does the former nuance the latter? Also\, reflect about the ways that “whiteness” and critical race scholarship could contribute to this discussion. \nPart Two (50 minutes): Two researchers who work on Greek American topics in relation to “whiteness” will briefly introduce their respective projects and their significance. \nParticipants are encouraged to reflect on the following questions: what are the challenges and prospects associated with writing about Greek America in this historic moment\, which calls for engagement with anti-racist practices? \nHave we done enough as a collective (Greek American authors and scholars) in the last twenty years to engage with questions of racial hierarchies and whiteness? If not\, why? If yes\, how can we continue this work\, and expand? \nHope you will be able to join us! To RSVP please write to Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu) and Yiorgos Anagnostou (anagnostou.1@osu.edu) by Friday\, June 12. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/er%ce%b3astirio-conversations-on-greek-america/ CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-09-at-12.00.08-PM-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T173000 DTSTAMP:20200212T032956Z CREATED:20200212T032956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T032956Z UID:10000035-1582387200-1582392600@hellenic.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Alexander Kitroeff\, "The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt" DESCRIPTION:Book presentation and signing. URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/alexander-kitroeff-the-greeks-and-the-making-of-modern-egypt/ LOCATION:Huffington Center\, St. Sophia Cathedral\, 1324 Normandie Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90006\, United States CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-02-11-at-7.28.44-PM-1.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR