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SUMMARY:Stavroula Tsiplakou\, "Present-day Cypriot Greek: Will the Dialect Survive?"
DESCRIPTION:Present-day Cypriot Greek: Will the Dialect Survive? \n  \nA lecture by\nStavroula Tsiplakou\nAssociate Professor of Linguistics; Dean of Arts\, Open University of Cyprus \non the occasion of International Greek Language Day\nFebruary 10\, 2024\n10 a.m. Los Angeles / 1 p.m. Washington\, D.C. / 8 p.m. Greece & Cyprus \nVia Zoom \nMessages by\nthe Honorable Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece\, Georgios Kotsiras\n&\nthe Honorable Secretary General for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy\,\nProf. John Chrysoulakis – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece \nOpening remarks by\nHer Excellency\, Ekaterini Nassika\,\nAmbassador of Greece to the United States\n&\nHis Excellency\, Evangelos Savva\,\nAmbassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States \nRecent research has shown that the contemporary Cypriot Greek variety is changing because of close contact with Standard Modern Greek: mixed\, hybrid structures are emerging which make the pancypriot\, koine variety more standard-like; moreover\, local subvarieties tend to disappear and be replaced by the koine variety as a result of demographic changes post 1974. However\, we are a long way away from full convergence to Standard Greek\, and the pancypriot variety displays linguistic vitality. In her talk\, Professor Tsiplakou examines some of the reasons why Cypriot Greek does not fully converge with Standard Greek and argues that this is due to both structural and social factors\, including the increased local prestige of the dialect. \nStavroula Tsiplakou is Associate Professor of Linguistics\, Dean of Arts\, and Academic Coordinator of the M.A. program in Greek Linguistics and Literature at the Open University of Cyprus. She holds a B.A. in Greek Literature from the University of Athens\, an M.Phil. in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge\, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of London. Her research areas include syntax\, pragmatics\, text linguistics\, sociolinguistics\, and educational linguistics. She has published in Lingua\, Linguistic Inquiry\, Pragmatics\, Journal of Pragmatics\, and Multilingua\, Linguistics and Education. She has co-authored national curricula for language in Cyprus and in Greece and she has produced digital platforms for teaching Greek as a second language. \nIn case you missed it\, please view the video of the presentation below: \n \nThe event is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece in the United States\, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in the United States\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, and the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Cyprus in Los Angeles. It is cosponsored by Thesaurus Linguae Graecae®. This program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/stavroula-tsiplakou-present-day-cypriot-greek-will-the-dialect-survive/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Cyprus,Hellenic,Language,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Greek Language Table
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Greek Language Table\, an innovative online language forum that transcends campus boundaries and promotes community-based learning. This unique initiative aims to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds\, fostering an inclusive space for learners of modern Greek at all levels. This dynamic language table invites UCLA students and Greek speakers from the community to engage in a collaborative learning environment. Whether one is a beginner navigating the intricacies of the Greek language or an advanced learner looking to refine their skills\, Kouvenda welcomes everyone. Going beyond the traditional classroom\, Kouvenda offers the opportunity to learners of Greek to enhance their language skills through real-world interactions and cultural exchange. We believe that Kouvenda will serve as a catalyst for language learning\, cultural exchange\, and community building. Join us in this exciting venture as we embark on a journey of shared knowledge and cross-cultural connections. \nFor more information or to express your interest in participating\, please contact Center Associate Director\, Dr. Simos Zenios\, at szenios@humnet.ucla.edu.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-greek-language-table/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Language,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Gefyra Conversation with the Author: Brandy Sour with Constantia Soteriou
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here. \nFor further information about the book and the author\, please visit the publisher’s website\, where you can also purchase a digital copy of the book. Please read the instructions carefully. \nFor further information about the Gefyra Conversation with the Author series and the Greek Book Club\, please contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu) or Dr. Eirini Kotsovili (dkotsovi@sfu.ca). \nThe Gefyra Conversation with the Author meetings are part of Gefyra (Bridge)\, a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the Simon Fraser University SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/gefyra-conversation-with-the-author-brandy-sour-with-constantia-soteriou/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Cyprus,Gefyra,Hellenic,Literature,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Gefyra Conversation with the Author: Δενδρίτες\, με την Κάλλια Παπαδάκη
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here. \nFor further information about the book and the author\, please visit the entry on BiblioNet. \nFor information on how to secure a copy of the book\, the Book Club\, and to join the mailing list\, please contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu) or Dr. Eirini Kotsovili (dkotsovi@sfu.ca). \nThe Gefyra Book Club meeting is part of Gefyra (Bridge)\, a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the Simon Fraser University SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/gefyra-conversation-with-the-author-%ce%b4%ce%b5%ce%bd%ce%b4%cf%81%ce%af%cf%84%ce%b5%cf%82-%ce%bc%ce%b5-%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bd-%ce%ba%ce%ac%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%b9%ce%b1-%cf%80%ce%b1%cf%80%ce%b1%ce%b4%ce%ac/
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SUMMARY:Reconsidering the Generation of the 1930s: The Roots and Breadth of Greek Modernism Conference
DESCRIPTION:Reconsidering the Generation of the 1930s: The Roots and Breadth of Greek Modernism Conference \nSaturday\, November 18\, 2023\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA\n10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. \nConference organized by Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) and Sofia Pitouli (UCLA) \nWelcome remarks by The Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos\, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles. \nSpeakers: \nAreti Adamopoulou\, Professor of Art History\, University of Ioannina\nAbstract title: The “Generation of the 1930s” in Art: Cold War Cultural Politics and Modern Painting in Greece \nGeorge Baker\, Professor of Art History\, UCLA\nAbstract title: Yannis Tsarouchis and Anachronic Modernism: Lateness\, Counter-Memory\, and the Redefinition of the Human \nNikos Daskalothanassis\, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History\, Athens School of Fine Arts\nAbstract title: Theophilos and the Generation of the ’30s (again) \nPolina Kosmadaki\, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art\, The Benaki Museum\nAbstract title: Concepts of Artistic “Greekness” in the Post-Junta Period: The Case of the Exhibition of Tsarouchis\, Ghika\, Kontoglou\, Theofilos in the Greek Month in London\, 1975 \nSofia Pitouli\, Ph.D. Candidate in Byzantine Art\, UCLA\nAbstract title: Toward Greekness: Dimitris Pikionis’ Architectural Fantasies of Japan \nPoppy Sfakianaki\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH\nAbstract title: Greek Modern Art in Interwar Paris: Networks Rather Than a Generation \nConference Description:\nThis conference challenges the attribution of the term “Generation of the 1930s” (Γενιά του ’30) to artists and writers active during the 1930s and the following decades. The term initially addressed a group of writers and poets bound by similar experiences and socio-historical backgrounds. However\, between 1948-50\, artists were also clustered under the term\, which\nliterati employed regularly––and still do––in scholarship. These artists were credited with the creation of modernism in Greece\, which was inspired by Western European movements but was also deeply rooted in history\, particularly in Orthodox Byzantium. The conference explores the various poles of artistic inventiveness during the 1930s but also examines the work of these artists and writers throughout the twentieth century\, prompting us to conceive their work diachronically rather than within the confines of a single decade. Given the socio-political circumstances of the nineteenth century in Greece (the traumatic changes resulting from the Greco-Turkish war\, the ensuing population exchange\, the collapse of the Megali Idea\, the dramatic upheavals of interwar Greece\, the Metaxas dictatorship\, and the Junta regime)\, the conference examines transnational and cosmopolitan orientations within Greek modernism and the ways in which these intertwined with narratives of nationality and folklore. \nGreek Modernism Conference Schedule \nAttendance is free and open to the public. Lunch is not included.  \nThis conference will not be recorded or livestreamed. \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. \nGefyra (Bridge) is a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Gefyra’s mission is to connect students\, faculty\, and communities along the West Coast of North America with Greek scholars\, artists\, and other creators\, so that they can together explore expansive and imaginative approaches to Greek culture and knowledge production. The program additionally supports academic conferences and cultural projects that bridge the West Coast and Greece. \nThank you to our co-sponsors!\n \n \n \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 302 Charles E Young Dr N\, Westwood\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave. (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\n\n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Royce Hall\,” then “1930s Conference” with the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\n\n\n\n\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\n\n\n\n\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\n\n\n\n\nAccessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\n\n\nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu or 310-825-5323.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/1930sconference/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art History,Byzantine,Gefyra,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece,Symposium
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SUMMARY:Envisioning the Greek Landscape: From Thera to Climate Change Conference
DESCRIPTION:Envisioning the Greek Landscape: From Thera to Climate Change Conference \nOrganized by Professor Katerina Lagos\, California State University\, Sacramento and Professor James Horncastle\, Simon Fraser University \nOctober 19\, 2023 – October 21\, 2023\nAthens\, Greece\nKostis Palamas building (University of Athens)\, and Cotsen Hall (Gennadius Library) \nSince ancient times\, people residing in the Mediterranean have encountered and confronted climatic challenges\, including volcanic eruptions\, tsunamis\, fires\, and drought. Over the millennia\, the Greek people have dealt with the health\, demographic\, and economic consequences of environmental change\, offering a variety of solutions. \nToday\, governments around the world are developing new technologies and policies to mitigate the environmental impact of contemporary society. Drawing lessons from the long Greek experience\, this conference will explore the following: \n\nClimate challenges and resilience: fires\, drought\, poor agricultural production\, and how people faced these challenges since antiquity\nStewards or exploiters of the land: in what way has the environment been perceived by various societies\, institutions\, and rulers.\nLand use and external influences: modernized technology versus traditional forms of domestic usage.\n\nThe Envisioning the Greek Landscape conference is breaking new ground by exploring the Greek environment through an interdisciplinary and diachronic lens. Academics from different scholarly disciplines and historical periods will address the themes outlined above\, examining how the peoples inhabiting Greece\, broadly conceived\, have responded to these issues. Additionally\, the conference will conclude with a policy roundtable so that both academics and policymakers can discuss some of the important issues raised in the scholarly panels. In this manner\, the scholars will be extending their influence beyond academic circles. The conference organizers strongly believe that understanding past environmental challenges and experiences can influence or shape contemporary policymaking. Often\, earlier historical solutions to environmental challenges can inspire for more ecologically friendly solutions in the present. \nThe panels will examine topics such as disease\, drought\, forest fires\, earthquakes\, and balancing human existence to the surrounding environment. The panels will begin with the ancient period\, and then progress to Byzantium\, the Ottoman era\, the modern Greek state\, and then conclude with recent developments. Additionally\, institutions such the Orthodox Church\, political and economic elites\, both domestic and foreign\, will be analyzed vis-à-vis their perceived role toward the environment. \nFinally\, one of the fundamental goals of the conference is to stimulate a new exchange of ideas regarding the Greek environment. With that in mind\, the organizers of the conference intend to publish a selection of the presentation papers as an edited volume. This will disseminate the ideas of the conference to a wider audience – both popular and academic – and help foster greater interest in the environment: past\, present\, and future. \nAthens Environment Conference Program \n This event is open to the public to learn more\, click here: www.hellenicoutreach.org \nWatch the policy panel livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/sINBNuwBNcg?si=utBql4HjZ2OlJ9yb \nSpeakers:  \n\nIosif Botetzagias (University of the Aegean)\nJohn Chryssavgis (Ecumenical Patriarchate)\nJim Crow (University of Edinburgh\, UK)\nAndreas Doulfis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\nÖnder Eren Akgül (Kadir Has University\, Turkey)\nKaterina Gardikas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\nSharon Gerstel (UCLA\, USA)\nCharis Gerosideris (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University\, Saudi Arabia)\nAthanassios Grammenos (University of Piraeus)\nChris Gratien (University of Virginia\, USA)\nJames Horncastle (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)\nStefania Kalogeraki (University of Crete)\nAndreas Kakridis (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences\, Athens)\nStefania Kalogeraki (University of Crete)\nAnastasia Karakasidou (Wellesley University\, USA)\nThanasis Kizos (University of the Aegean)\nStathis Klonaris (Agricultural University of Athens)\nMaria Kousis (University of Crete)\nNikos Lazaridis (Sacramento State University\, USA)\nKaterina Lagos (Sacramento State University\, USA)\nGeorgios Liakopoulos (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology\, Germany)\nAngelos Loukakis (National Centre of Social Research\, Athens)\nFaidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou (University of Crete)\nAndreas Papandreou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\nMaria Paschou (University of Crete)\nSocrates Petmezas (University of Crete)\nRuben Post (University of St. Andrews\, UK)\nNiki Tsironi (National Hellenic Research Foundation\, Athens)\nNikos Tsivikis (Institute of Mediterranean Studies\, Crete)\nGeorge L. Vlachos (EIE\, National Institute of Research\, Athens)\nCristiano Vignola (Sapienza University\, Italy)\nJustine Walter (International University of Applied Sciences\, Germany)\nSam White (University of Helsinki\, Finland)\nBonna Westcoat (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)\n\nThis event is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/environmentconference/
LOCATION:University of Athens
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Modern Greece,Symposium
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SUMMARY:Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art and Graffiti in Athens\, 2013-2023
DESCRIPTION:Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art and Graffiti in Athens\, 2013-2023 \nLecture by Julia Tulke\, Assistant Professor\, Emory University \nSaturday\, October 14\, 2023\n3:00 p.m.\n314 Royce Hall\nReception to follow \nThis talk recapitulates the first ten years of Aesthetics of Crisis\, a longitudinal research project that has documented and examined political street art and graffiti in Athens since 2013\, generating an archive of nearly 7000 photographs. Initially probing the walls of the city as an artifact of and site of performative response to the Greek debt crisis\, the project has since adopted the notion of political street art as a “barometer” and method capable of rendering visible shifting currents of crisis and contestation. Over the course of a decade\, the project has traced and contextualized street-level responses to the 2015 austerity referendum\, the growing visibility of feminist and queer protest and expression since the mid-2010s\, the emergence anti-Airbnb and anti-gentrification graffiti since 2019\, reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and first lockdowns of 2020 and\, most recently\, the turn to graffiti removal as an aspirational performance of post-crisis. By weaving together ethnographic and documentary sensibilities attuned to the complex material and affective realities of everyday life\, Aesthetics of Crisis offers a polyphonic counterpoint to the narrow and often fetishizing representation of the “crisis city” Athens through uncritical celebrations of “crisis creativity” and the attendant assertion that “Athens is the new Berlin.” \nJulia Tulke is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She earned her Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Located at the intersections of urban studies\, visual culture\, and anthropology\, Tulke’s research centers on the visual and spatial politics of crisis\, with a particular focus on the material and symbolic terrain of the “crisis city\,” for which Athens has served as her central case study. Her work in and on the city through the past decade includes research and writing on political street art and graffiti\, artist-run spaces\, queer and feminist protest\, and the poetics of ruination. This work has appeared in the journals City: analysis of urban trends\, culture\, theory\, policy\, action and Forum Kritische Archäologie\, as well as the edited volumes The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication and Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity\, among other places. Julia’s longitudinal research project Aesthetics of Crisis won the 2022 Prosser Award for Visual Methodologies from the International Visual Sociology Association. https://juliatulke.com/ \nThis program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nIn case you missed the lecture\, the recording is available below:\n \nGefyra (Bridge) is a collaborative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Gefyra’s mission is to connect students\, faculty\, and communities along the West Coast of North America with Greek scholars\, artists\, and other creators\, so that they can together explore expansive and imaginative approaches to Greek culture and knowledge production. The program additionally supports academic conferences and cultural projects that bridge the West Coast and Greece. \nParking Information: \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 302 Charles E Young Dr N\, Westwood\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave. (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\n\n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Royce Hall\,” then “Julia Tulke Lecture” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\n\n\n\n\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\n\n\n\n\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\n\n\n\n\nAccessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/aestheticsofcrisis/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Gefyra,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Los Angeles Greek Film Festival Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:17th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival Opening Night \nHosted by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\nand Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) \nSaturday\, June 3\, 2023\nat UCLA’s James Bridges Theater \n5:00 p.m. Pre-reception\n7:00 p.m. Film Screening & Tribute Award to George Pelecanos \nAdvanced ticket purchase required.Photo by Alexa King. \nJoin us in kicking off the 17th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival! We are proud to co-host with the LAGFF the festival’s opening night\, featuring a screening of Black Stone and honoring the novelist\, screenwriter\, film\, and television producer George Pelecanos with the 2023 Honorary Orpheus Award. Pelecanos’ longtime collaborator\, director\, producer\, and former HBO Executive\, Kary Antholis\, will present the Award. \n\nOur feature film: \nBLACK STONE \nWhile filming absent civil servants\, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula\, a desperate\, overprotective Greek mother searching for her son. But when her son is accused of fraud\, Haroula sets out with her other disabled son and a Greek-African taxi driver to bring him back home where he belongs\, even if it means discovering who her son really is. \nWe are joined in discussion by the film’s director\, Spiros Jacovides\, actor and musician Kevin Zans Ansong\, and members of the creative team. \nSpiros Jacovides was born in London and studied Directing at Stavrakou College after completing his Film Studies degree from the London College of Printing. In 1998 he became a guest student of the acclaimed German University of Berlin\, DFFB. Since 2000\, Spiros worked as A.D. in various TV Commercials. Currently\, he writes\, produces\, and directs TVCs\, Web Ads\, Short Docs\, Corporate videos\, and Video Clips. So far\, he has written and directed three short films. “Black Stone” is his first feature film. \n\nBorn in the economically depressed Athenian district of Ambelokipi and growing up in and around the neglected Kipseli neighborhood\, Kevin Zans Ansong (Black Morris) made his first tentative steps in the world of Greek rap next to the legendary MC ‘Taki Tsan’ and has since gone on to flesh out his unique and intuitive voice amongst the new breed in his hometown. He has resonated with those in the know up North as The Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival chose “Black Morris” as their Best New Artist of the Year in 2014. \n\nThe event is produced by writer/director Fay Efrosini Lellios\, a longtime collaborator of George Pelecanos and a friend of LAGFF. \nTickets \n$60 – General Admission \nTo purchase\, visit https://www.lagff.org/event/lagff-2023-opening-night/ \nFor more information about the festival\, visit www.lagff.org \nParking Information \nThe James Bridges Theater is located in Melnitz Hall on the UCLA campus\, near the intersection of Sunset Blvd and Hilgard Ave.  Address: 235 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095  + Google Map \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectValue.aspx.  Select “UCLA Campus Event\,” then “L.A. Greek Film Festival.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 3 (South building) EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section in the North building. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here (only 1 permit allowed per email account).\nTo purchase a permit upon your arrival\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area in Parking Structure 3 North\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay with exact cash amount or by credit card. Rates are $3 (for one hour) – $15 (all day).\nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, so please allow extra time for parking and walking to the theater.\nAccessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area of Parking Structure 3 North\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station kiosk to pay.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map for additional parking options and related information.\nDrop off – Guests can be dropped off in the Macgowan Hall Turnaround\, located east of the theater/building on Charles E. Young Dr E (see above map).\nFor more information about Visitor Parking at UCLA\, please visit this site\n\nThis event is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \n \n \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/los-angeles-greek-film-festival-opening-night/
LOCATION:James Bridges Theater\, UCLA\, 235 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T190000
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a monthly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-19/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T120000
DTSTAMP:20221216T004950Z
CREATED:20221216T004950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T004950Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation with the author: Αντώνης Μπαλασόπουλος\, Ο κύβος και άλλες ιστορίες
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here. \nTo purchase a digital copy of the book\, please visit the publisher’s site. \nFor more information about our Book Club and the Conversation with the Author series\, please contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-the-author-%ce%b1%ce%bd%cf%84%cf%8e%ce%bd%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%bc%cf%80%ce%b1%ce%bb%ce%b1%cf%83%cf%8c%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%bf-%ce%ba%cf%8d%ce%b2%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%ba/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T190000
DTSTAMP:20230401T234554Z
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UID:10000170-1683223200-1683226800@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a monthly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-18/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T120000
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SUMMARY:John Kittmer\, "'From the Tip of My Little Finger a River Flows:' Yannis Ritsos's Response to Dictatorship (1967-1970)"
DESCRIPTION:‘From the Tip of My Little Finger a River Flows:’\nYannis Ritsos’s Response to Dictatorship (1967-1970) \nA lecture by\nDr. John Kittmer\, former British ambassador to Greece\nin celebration of National Poetry Month. \nApril 22\, 2023\n10:00 AM Los Angeles/8:00 PM Athens\nVia Zoom \nOpening remarks by Her Excellency\nAlexandra Papadopoulou\,\nAmbassador of Greece to the United States \nExclusive poetry reading by renowned Greek actor \nStelios Mainas (Tetarti 04:45\, Mystikes Diadromes\, The Island) \nIn the first days of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967-1974\, Yannis Ritsos was imprisoned without trial: he was held initially in internment camps on the islands of Gyaros and Leros\, and then under house arrest at the family home in Karlovasi on Samos. The period of his confinement was lifted only in November 1970. During much of this period\, he was not only confined and harassed by the authorities\, but he was also very unwell. Despite this\, he managed to write and to maintain\, for the most part\, an astonishing rate of productivity\, producing nine collections of short poems and several long poems in different forms. In this talk\, we will look at Ritsos’ life and work during these years of confinement\, examining his poetic response – in short and long poems alike – to the conditions in which he was held\, the psychological pressures under which he was placed\, and the wider abuses of the military dictatorship. We shall consider the extent to which poetry offered Ritsos some sort of solution to the challenges he faced. \nJohn Kittmer is a former British ambassador to Greece and is the chair of The Anglo-Hellenic League. He has degrees in classics and modern Greek\, and wrote a prize-winning Ph.D. thesis on Yannis Ritsos. He is working on several publication projects in connection with Ritsos. His recent collaboration with the poet David Harsent on the poetry Ritsos wrote in the early years of the Colonels’ dictatorship will be published at the end of March (David Harsent\, A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yannis Ritsos\, introduction by John Kittmer [Hexham: Bloodaxe Books\, 2023]). \nIn case you missed it\, please view the video of the presentation below: \n \nThe event is cosponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the United States. \nThis program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/john-kittmer-from-the-tip-of-my-little-finger-a-river-flows-yannis-ritsos-response-to-dictatorship-1967-1970/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T180000
DTSTAMP:20230208T155227Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T155227Z
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SUMMARY:“Memory\, Conflict and Democratization in Post-Junta Greece"\, lecture by Professor Kostis Kornetis (Autonomous University of Madrid)
DESCRIPTION:Date: April 11\, 2023\nTime: 4:00 PM\nLocation: Royce Hall 306 \nIntroductory remarks\, by The Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos\, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles \nQ&A moderated by Simos Zenios\, Associate Director\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center \nReception to follow \nIn this talk\, Professor Kostis Kornetis will examine how distinct political generations experienced and remember the transition from authoritarianism to democracy in Greece\, known as Metapolitefsi\, since 1974. Its central claim is that the 2008-2012 economic and social crisis triggered a radical re-evaluation of democratisation by turning the conflicting generational recollections of these events into pivotal components of current political contestation. To demonstrate this\, Dr. Kornetis tells the oral (hi)stories of transition and its legacy across time\, beyond institutional achievements and setbacks\, which was the standard trope of narrating this story until all too recently. The study draws on in-depth interviews and a close analysis of a selection of memoryscapes (texts\, images\, and music) of the 1970s to make sense of the different generational ways in which the past is being remembered and contested at present\, arguing that “small” and “private” histories matter. As such\, it introduces to the literature and public debate the crucial role of generational memory in shaping the political\, social and cultural developments of the entire post-authoritarian period in Greece and beyond. \nProfessor Kornetis teaches contemporary history at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). He has taught at Brown University\, New York University\, and the University of Sheffield\, and was a CONEX-Marie Curie Experienced Fellow at Carlos III\, Madrid\, and Santander Fellow in Iberian Studies at St Antony’s College\, Oxford. He is the author of Children of the Dictatorship. Student Resistance\, Cultural Politics and the ‘long 1960s’ in Greece (Berghahn Books\, 2013 – recipient of the Edmund Keeley book award of the MGSA) and co-editor of Metapolitefsi (Themelio\, 2015)\, Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the “Long 1960s” (Bloomsbury\, 2016) and Rethinking Democratisation in Spain\, Greece and Portugal (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2019). His second book on the generational memory of the transitions to democracy in Southern Europe is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. \nIn case you missed the lecture\, the recording is available below: \n \n  \nParking Information: \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.  Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Royce Hall\,” then “Dr. Kostis Kornetis Lecture.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5\, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nThis event is the second in a series of events held in collaboration with the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for this pilot program\, which seeks to create networks across the West Coast of North America and between the West Coast and Greece. For more information about this collaboration\, please visit https://hellenic.ucla.edu/ucla-sfu-pilot-program/
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kostis-kornetis/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,UCLA SFU Pilot Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230406T190000
DTSTAMP:20230401T234413Z
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a monthly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-17/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230318T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230318T120000
DTSTAMP:20221212T011832Z
CREATED:20221212T011832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T011832Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation with the Author: Μαριαλένα Σεμιτέκολου\, Ακουαρέλα
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here. \nTo purchase a digital copy of the book\, please visit the publisher’s site and read the instructions provided by the publisher carefully. The publisher has also made the book available via Apple Books and Google Play. \nFor more information about our Book Club and the Conversation with the Author series\, please contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-the-author-%ce%bc%ce%b1%cf%81%ce%b9%ce%b1%ce%bb%ce%ad%ce%bd%ce%b1-%cf%83%ce%b5%ce%bc%ce%b9%cf%84%ce%ad%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%85/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece,UCLA SFU Pilot Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T190000
DTSTAMP:20221215T022516Z
CREATED:20221215T022516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221215T022516Z
UID:10000162-1677780000-1677783600@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a monthly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-16/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T120000
DTSTAMP:20220924T224304Z
CREATED:20220924T224304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220924T224304Z
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SUMMARY:Themistoklis Aravossitas\, "Greek Language Education in North America: New Directions and Challenges" on International Greek Language Day"
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is offered on the occasion of International Greek Language Day. Her Excellency\, Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States\, will offer opening remarks. \nFebruary 11\, 2023\, 10:00 AM PST/1:00PM EST/8:00 PM Athens \nThe event takes place on Zoom. View a recording of this talk here. \nModern Greek is taught and learned across North America mainly as a heritage language\, through a complex education system that includes a variety of programs and learning materials\, as well as a diverse group of learners and teachers. This presentation discusses experiences\, community projects\, and studies from Toronto\, a representative anglophone multicultural city\, in order to examine the broader conditions of Greek language education in the diaspora. Asking how today’s schools and programs can serve the needs of future generations\, we examine some of the challenges faced by educators and community leaders: What is language shift and how it can be resisted? What’s the position of heritage languages in our society? What are the priorities for today’s parents and students and how can Greek language programs meet their needs? Has the pandemic affected the learning of Greek in the USA and in Canada? What types of opportunities emerge from information and communication technologies for our schools and communities? Proposing synergies between schools\, universities\, and community partners\, we argue that the future of Greek language education is ours to envision and plan. \nThemistoklis Aravossitas earned his BA in Education at the University of Athens. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Toronto\, with an MA and a PhD in Curriculum\, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He specializes in Heritage Languages\, Teacher Education\, and Knowledge Media Design. His doctoral work\, titled The Hidden Schools\, explored Greek language education in Canada. He is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Aegean. He teaches Modern Greek at the Centre for European Studies in the Munk School of Global Affairs\, and at the Department of Languages\, Literature and Linguistics of York University. His scholarly work includes the co-edited volumes: Language Diversity in Greece: Local Challenges with International Implications (Springer\, 2020); Interdisciplinary Research Approaches to Multilingual Education (Routledge\, 2019); Handbook of Research and Practice in Heritage Language Education (Springer\, 2018). \nThe event is cosponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the United States and the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. \nThis program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/lecture-by-dr-themistoklis-aravossitas-on-international-greek-language-day/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T190000
DTSTAMP:20221215T022235Z
CREATED:20221215T022235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221215T022235Z
UID:10000161-1675360800-1675364400@hellenic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a monthly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-15/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T160000
DTSTAMP:20230104T001325Z
CREATED:20230104T001325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T001325Z
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SUMMARY:Polymnia
DESCRIPTION:Polymnia\nworld premiere \npresented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nSaturday\, January 21\, 2023\n7:00 p.m.\nUCLA Little Theater \nSunday\, January 22\, 2023 \n2:00 p.m.\nUCLA Little Theater \nRunning time: 85 minutes\, no intermission \nClick here to view the digital program. \nTheodosia Roussos\, composer/librettist\nMichiel Delanghe\, conductor\nDiana Wyenn\, director\nTanya Orellana\, scenic designer\nPablo Santiago\, lighting designer\nYee Eun Nam\, video designer\nWendell C. Carmichael\, costume designer\nPeter Kazaras and Diana Wyenn\, dramaturgy \nCast \nTheodosia Roussos\, Polymnia/Theodosia\nNatalie Buickians\, Paula\nMichele Patzakis\, Maria/Church Lady\nAnthony Moreno\, Nikolaos\nJoanna Lynn-Jacobs\, Anthie\nJon Lee Keenan\, Costa/Tax Collector/Turkish Soldier \nPolymnia\, described by Opera News as “haunting and beautiful\,” is a debut experimental chamber opera that tells the story of a woman who responds with resilience to war and trauma\, and relates how her experience echoes across generations and communities. Drawing from fragments of Sappho’s poetry\, Kassiane’s hymns\, as well as four generations of private family writings and oral history\, composer and performer Theodosia Roussos shares the story of her great-grandmother Polymnia Athanasiadis Pappas\, a young woman whose family was expelled from its village by the Ottoman Turks during the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Roussos draws influence from her Greek Cypriot American background and weaves elements of Byzantine and Greek folk music into the score. \nPresented in both Greek and English\, Polymnia reveals the very personal and also political experience of diaspora—what is lost\, what is retained\, and what cannot be forgotten. \nThis event is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nPolymnia is produced by Plain Wood Productions. \nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu. \nTickets \n$35-$60 \nSOLD OUT \n*If you have purchased a ticket and need accommodations (wheelchair\, walker\, etc.)\, please contact us at the email above. \nParking information \nParking information for ticketholders: The Little Theater is located in Macgowan Hall at UCLA. Please park in Parking Structure 3 North\, which is near the northeast corner of the campus\, close to Hilgard Ave and Sunset Blvd. \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Campus Event\,” then “Polymnia.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 3 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit upon your arrival at Parking Structure 3\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area in the North building\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine.\nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, so please allow extra time for parking and walking to the theater.\nAccessible parking: If you have special accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station kiosk to pay by credit card. Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view additional accessible parking areas on campus and related information. Guests can be dropped off in the Macgowan Turnaround\, east of the theater/building (see above map).\n\nCOVID-19 Protocol \nCurrent UCLA Covid protocols as of 1/18/23: We will NOT require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for entry at the theater.  Wearing masks at this indoor event is OPTIONAL and encouraged.  Please check back for updates on protocols prior to the performance.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/polymnia-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230121T210000
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SUMMARY:Polymnia
DESCRIPTION:Polymnia\nworld premiere \npresented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nSaturday\, January 21\, 2023\n7:00 p.m.\nUCLA Little Theater\nReception to follow \nSunday\, January 22\, 2023 (2nd performance just added!)\n2:00 p.m. \nUCLA Little Theater \nRunning time: 85 minutes\, no intermission \nClick here to view the digital program. \nTheodosia Roussos\, composer/librettist\nMichiel Delanghe\, conductor\nDiana Wyenn\, director\nTanya Orellana\, scenic designer\nPablo Santiago\, lighting designer\nYee Eun Nam\, video designer\nWendell C. Carmichael\, costume designer\nPeter Kazaras and Diana Wyenn\, dramaturgy \nCast \nTheodosia Roussos\, Polymnia/Theodosia\nNatalie Buickians\, Paula\nMichele Patzakis\, Maria/Church Lady\nAnthony Moreno\, Nikolaos\nJoanna Lynn-Jacobs\, Anthie\nJon Lee Keenan\, Costa/Tax Collector/Turkish Soldier \nPolymnia\, described by Opera News as “haunting and beautiful\,” is a debut experimental chamber opera that tells the story of a woman who responds with resilience to war and trauma\, and relates how her experience echoes across generations and communities. Drawing from fragments of Sappho’s poetry\, Kassiane’s hymns\, as well as four generations of private family writings and oral history\, composer and performer Theodosia Roussos shares the story of her great-grandmother Polymnia Athanasiadis Pappas\, a young woman whose family was expelled from its village by the Ottoman Turks during the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Roussos draws influence from her Greek Cypriot American background and weaves elements of Byzantine and Greek folk music into the score. \nPresented in both Greek and English\, Polymnia reveals the very personal and also political experience of diaspora—what is lost\, what is retained\, and what cannot be forgotten. \nThis event is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nPolymnia is produced by Plain Wood Productions. \nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu. \nTickets \n$35-$60 \nSOLD OUT \n*If you have purchased a ticket and need accommodations (wheelchair\, walker\, etc.)\, please contact us at the email above. \nParking information \nParking information for ticketholders: The Little Theater is located in Macgowan Hall at UCLA. Please park in Parking Structure 3 North\, which is near the northeast corner of the campus\, close to Hilgard Ave and Sunset Blvd. \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Campus Event\,” then “Polymnia.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 3 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit upon your arrival at Parking Structure 3\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area in the North building\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine.\nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, so please allow extra time for parking and walking to the theater.\nAccessible parking: If you have special accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station kiosk to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view additional accessible parking areas on campus and related information. Guests can be dropped off in the Macgowan Turnaround\, east of the theater/building (see above map).\n\nCOVID-19 Protocol \nCurrent UCLA Covid protocols as of 1/18/23: We will NOT require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for entry at the theater.  Wearing masks at this indoor event is OPTIONAL and encouraged.  Please check back for updates on protocols prior to the performance.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/polymnia/
LOCATION:Little Theater\, 1167 MacGowan Hall\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,Music
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230107T120000
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SUMMARY:Book Club | Conversation with the Author: Ersi Sotiropoulos\, Τι μένει από τη νύχτα (What's Left of the Night)
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nRSVP here. \nTo purchase a digital copy of the book\, please visit the publisher’s site and read the instructions provided by the publisher carefully. The book is also available in an English translation. \nFor more information about our Book Club and the Conversation with the Author series\, please contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/book-club-conversation-with-the-author-ersi-sotiropoulos-%cf%84%ce%b9-%ce%bc%ce%ad%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%b9-%ce%b1%cf%80%cf%8c-%cf%84%ce%b7-%ce%bd%cf%8d%cf%87%cf%84%ce%b1-whats-left-of-the-night/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230105T190000
DTSTAMP:20221215T022021Z
CREATED:20221215T022021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221215T022021Z
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a monthly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-14/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221218T220000
DTSTAMP:20220819T235334Z
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Travelling Players
DESCRIPTION:The Travelling Players (O Thiassos) Greece\, 1975 \nA powerful vision of postwar Greek history as experienced by a troupe of actors on perennial tour\, The Travelling Players swept the awards at the 1975 Thessaloniki Film Festival and announced Theo Angelopoulos as a major international auteur. A multi-generational ensemble\, the players drag themselves and their trunks from one train station and theater to the next\, seemingly inured to the sweep of politics and war around them until they each\, inevitably\, become enmeshed with the tumult of their times. The myth of Atrides informs the personal dynamics among the players as they move through time with historical periods often shifting within a single\, long tracking shot. \n35mm\, color\, in Greek\, German\, and English with English subtitles\, 230 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos. With: Eva Kotamanidou\, Aliki Georgouli\, Vangelis Kazan. \nFor tickets (free of charge)\, click here. \nThis film is presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture with support from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and with the community partnership of the LAGFF. The retrospective is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/angelopoulos-retrospective-the-travelling-players/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221216T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221216T220000
DTSTAMP:20220819T234741Z
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: Ulysses' Gaze
DESCRIPTION:Ulysses’ Gaze (To Vlemma tou Odissea) Greece\, 1995 \nTheo Angelopoulos once confessed to an interviewer\, “I would like to believe the world will be saved by the cinema.” Ulysses’ Gaze gives this hope form as a Greek filmmaker known as A (Harvey Keitel) becomes obsessed with finding lost reels of film shot by the Manaki Brothers\, Yanaki and Milton\, real-life film pioneers who made the first movies in the Balkans. Relentlessly pursuing their whereabouts across the war-shattered region\, he comes to believe that this “first gaze” from the beginning of the century might reveal some meaning to those struggling at its end. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes\, Ulysses’ Gaze is the second film in Angelopoulos “Trilogy of Borders.” \n35mm\, color and b&w\, in Greek and English with English subtitles\, 176 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos\, Tonino Guerra\, Petros Markaris\, Giorgio Silvagni\, Kain Tsitseli. With: Harvey Keitel\, Maia Morgenstern\, Erland Josephson. \nFor tickets (free of charge)\, click here. \nThis film is presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture with support from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and with the community partnership of the LAGFF. The retrospective is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/angelopoulos-retrospective-ulysses-gaze/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221210T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221210T170000
DTSTAMP:20220924T225649Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220924T225649Z
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SUMMARY:My Rembetika Blues
DESCRIPTION:Film screening and discussion with filmmaker Mary Zournazi. \nMy Rembetika Blues is a film about the power of music and what makes us human. Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music of the streets and a music of refugees. The film explores the heart and soul of Rembetika music through peoples’ stories of love\, loss and belonging. \nRembetika developed its roots from migrant experience. Mary Zournazi’s grandmother was one of the 1.2 million refugees who fled the Smyrna disaster in Turkey in 1922 and arrived at the Port of Piraeus in Greece. She\, like many\, became part of a movement of people\, and of tradition\, which saw the birth Rembetika. \nThrough its rawness and unique style\, Rembetika provides one of the world’s foremost musical accounts of migrant experience. Through Mary Zournazi’s grandmother’s story\, Zournazi narrates a personal account of the depth of longing and belonging that is part of the migrant life. By weaving together different stories and interviews\, the film looks at the legacies of history and migration\, and how music can connect people in times of struggle and in times of need. \nDrawing on the parallels of the migrant and economic crisis in Greece\, the film explores the revival of Rembetika today\, and how it continues to convey everyday life and struggle through the fusion of street music\, hip-hop\, and other influences such as Byzantine music and the Blues. \nThe film documents peoples’ memory and experiences that are often left out of the chronicles of history. It is a universal story about love\, life and music. \nConversation following the film with musician Alexis Cohen. Reception following the screening [film length is 83 minutes]. \nFilm Trailer: https://vimeo.com/536176096 \nSocial Media: https://www.facebook.com/rembetikablues/ \nView a recording of this talk here. \nParking information \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Please park in Parking Structure 5\, which is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\nYou may purchase your parking permit for $14 using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectValue.aspx. Select UCLA Royce Hall\, then “My Rembetika Blues Screening.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit at Parking Structure 5\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking: If you have special accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nThis event is the first in a series of events held in collaboration with the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for this pilot program\, which seeks to create networks across the West Coast of North America and between the West Coast and Greece. \nThis event is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/my-rembetika-blues/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T213000
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SUMMARY:Lethal Nationalism: Genocide of the Greeks\, 1913-1923
DESCRIPTION:Under the fog of war during World War 1\, the genocide of the Greeks was carried out at the hands of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks. This Genocide became the model for all Genocides to follow\, Nearly a million Greeks were killed\, and millions more were uprooted as part of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks’ campaign of ethnic cleansing. Lethal Nationalism explores this dark chapter of history. \nBill Kurtis\, legendary television news anchorman\, narrates this powerful documentary. “This production is one of the most important projects that I’ve ever been associated with and it provides a sobering lesson as to why we should never forget the suffering that is caused by genocide.” – Bill Kurtis \nThe screening will be followed by Q & A with the film’s director and co-producer Peter Lambrinatos\, co-producer Spiro Lambrinatos\, and George Mavropoulos\, President of the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center. Opening remarks will be offered by the Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles\, the Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos. \nA $10 suggested contribution will benefit the work of the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/lethal-nationalism-lethal-nationalism-genocide-of-the-greeks-1913-1923/
LOCATION:Saint Sophia Cathedral\, 1324 S Normandie Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T220000
DTSTAMP:20220819T234453Z
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Broadcast; Athens\, Return to Acropolis; Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:The Broadcast (Ekpompi) Greece\, 1968 \nIn the manner of Jean Rouch’s Chronique d’un été (1961)\, the producers of a pop music television show hit the streets to ask women what makes the ideal man. A sharp satire on consumerism and escapism after the military junta known as the Regime of the Colonels seized power the year before. \n35mm\, b&w\, in Greek and English with English subtitles\, 22 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos. With: Theodoros Katsadramis\, Lina Triantafillou\, Yannis Kostoglou. \nAthens\, Return to the Acropolis (Athina\, epistrofi stin Akropoli) Greece\, 1983 \nCommissioned as an episode for a television series on the cultural capitals of Europe\, Theo Angelopoulos structured Athens\, Return to the Acropolis as a personal journey through the city where he was born and raised. Incorporating references to his artistic inspirations—the poetry of George Seferis\, the music of Manos Hadjidakis\, and the paintings of Tsarouchis—Angelopoulos searches for the places he lived as a child amid modern developments that are changing the face of the city. \nDCP\, color\, in Greek and English with English subtitles\, 55 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos. With: Kostas Meleounis\, Giorgos Alexiou\, Petros Fyssoun. \nReconstruction (Anaparastassi) Greece\, 1970 \nAfter years of working abroad in Germany\, a husband returns to his small rural village only to be murdered by his wife and her lover. Police and media descend on the town to discover the truth of the crime\, but in his first feature\, Theo Angelopoulos takes a wider view of the investigation. Based on an actual case\, the film’s story is only a pretext for Angelopoulos to explore the devastating impact of economic deprivation and changing emigration patterns on an entire region. \n35mm\, b&w\, in Greek with English subtitles\, 97 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos\, Stratis Karras\, Thanassis Valtinos. With: Toula Stathopoulou\, Yannis Totsikas\, Thanos Grammenos. \nTotal runtime: 174 min. \nFor tickets (free of charge)\, click here. \nThis film is presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture with support from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and with the community partnership of the LAGFF. The retrospective is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/angelopoulos-retrospective-the-broadcast-athens-return-to-acropolis-reconstruction/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T190000
DTSTAMP:20220916T231853Z
CREATED:20220916T231853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220916T231853Z
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a bi-weekly discussion forum where members of our community discuss in Greek topics of Hellenic interest. For further information\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-13/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T220000
DTSTAMP:20220819T232648Z
CREATED:20220819T232648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220819T232648Z
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Dust of Time
DESCRIPTION:The Dust of Time Greece/Italy/Germany/Russia\, 2008 \nIn a direct reference to Ulysses’ Gaze\, The Dust of Time follows a filmmaker named A (here played by Willem Dafoe) on a journey to make a film about his parents. Moving between past and present\, memory and history\, fiction and reality\, the film spans the second half of the 20th century as A traces his parents’ émigré story from Russia and the death of Stalin to the U.S.\, Canada\, and then Germany while grappling with the disappearance of his own daughter. The second film in a planned trilogy that began with The Weeping Meadow (2004)\, The Dust of Time is Theo Angelopoulos’ final completed feature.\n35mm\, color\, 133 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos. With: Willem Dafoe\, Irène Jacob\, Bruno Ganz. \nFor tickets (free of charge)\, click here. \nThis film is presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture with support from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and with the community partnership of the LAGFF. The retrospective is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/angelopoulos-retrospective-the-dust-of-time/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T120000
DTSTAMP:20220927T170804Z
CREATED:20220927T170804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T170804Z
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SUMMARY:Theo Angelopoulos: A Retrospective for the Present (Online panel discussion)
DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together distinguished scholars of Greek cinema to discuss the Greek director’s enduring contributions to a global cinema of time\, history\, and social crisis. Our speakers will discuss various aspects of Angelopoulos’s contemporaneity\, from the global impact of his distinctive filmic style and the philosophical dimensions of his visual language to the cinematic representation of issues that deeply challenge us today\, including migration\, social identity and displacement. The panel showcases Angelopoulos as an artist and thinker vital to our own grasp of our present and future. \nPanelists: \n\nVangelis Calotychos is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University and Executive Director of the Modern Greek Studies Association). He is the author of Modern Greece\, a Cultural Poetics (2004) and The Balkan Prospect: Identity\, Culture\, and Politics in Greece after 1989 (2013)\, and editor of Manolis Anagnostakis: Poetry and Politics\, Silence and Agency in Post-War Greece (2012).\nVrasidas Karalis holds the Chair of Sir Nicholas Laurantos in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney. He has translated Patrick White’s Voss and The Vivisector. He is the editor of Modern Greek Studies (Australian and New Zealand). His main publications in English include\, A History of Greek Cinema (Continuum 2012)\, Realism in Greek Cinema (I.B. Tauris\, 2017)\, Recollections of Mr Manoly Lascaris (Brandl & Sclesinger\, 2007)\, The Demons of Athens (Brandl & Schlesinger\, 2013)\, Reflections on Presence (re. Press\, 2016)\, The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos (Berhghan Press\, 2021) and the forthcoming Theo Angelopoulos Philosopher and Filmmaker (Palgrave 2023). He has also edited the collections Cornelios Castoriadis and the Project of Radical Democracy (2013)\, Martin Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Being (2008)\, Power\, Justice and Judgement in Hannah Arendt (2012). He is currently working on the Australian film-maker George Miller.\nLydia Papadimitriou is Reader (Associate Professor) in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published extensively on different aspects of Greek and Balkan cinema\, including financing and co-productions\, (digital) distribution\, film festivals\, politics and documentary. She is the author of The Greek Film Musical (2006)\, co-editor of Greek Cinema: Texts\, Forms and Identities (2011)\, and principal editor of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture. Her co-edited (with Ana Grgic) volume Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2020.\n\nThe presentations and discussion will be followed by a Q & A with the audience\, moderated by Professor Laurie Kain Hart (Anthropology; Director of the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies) and Dr. Simos Zenios (Associate Director of the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center; Stavros Niarchos Foundation & Ioannis P. and Eirini Caloyeras Lecturer in Modern Greek Language and Culture). \nRSVP here. \nThe panel is part of the Landscapes of Time: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos retrospective\, which is presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture with support from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and with the community partnership of the LAGFF. The retrospective is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/the-films-of-theo-angelopoulos-an-international-academic-discussion/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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