Johanna Hanink, “Bones, Stones, Trees, and Roots: On the Enduring Urgency of Karkavitsas’ Archeologist (1904)”
by ZoomHow does a novella written more than one hundred years ago help to illuminate pressing issues in Greece today? Karkavitsas’ Archeologist, an allegory for the contestation of antiquity’s role in...
Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
by ZoomKouvenda: 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).
Roger Michel, “Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary”
by ZoomThe Parthenon Marbles, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Landscape in the Mist
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesLandscape in the Mist (Topio stin Omichli) Greece/France/Italy, 1988 A young girl and her brother run away to find the father they’ve never met in Germany. Ducking train conductors and...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Eternity and a Day
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesEternity and a Day (Mia Aioniotita kai mia Mera). France/Italy/Greece/Germany 1998 Bruno Ganz plays a famed Greek author with a growing list of uncompleted projects after becoming despondent following the...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Days of ’36
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDays of ’36 (Meres tou ’36) Greece, 1972 A political assassination kicks off Theo Angelopoulos’ portrait of one Greek dictatorship made under the shadow of another. This opening act of...
Film Screening: Last Voyage
Cinemark Downey 8840 Apollo Way, Downey, CA, United StatesA documentary based on the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis' travels in the Far East. The film's director Aris Chatzistefanou will join us for Q & A following the screening. Co-sponsored...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Voyage to Cythera
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesVoyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kithira) Greece, 1984 After years living in exile in the Soviet Union, a communist resistance fighter, Spyros (Manos Katrakis), returns home to the dismay of...
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Suspended Step of the Stork & The Beekeeper
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Suspended Step of the Stork (To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou) Greece, 1991 The plight of refugees in the Balkans and internationally dominated much of Theo Angelopoulos’ attention in the...
Byzantine Studies Conference
LuskinWe welcome the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) and participants to the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies conference at UCLA! Most conference activities will take place at the Luskin...
Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
by ZoomKouvenda: 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).
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Alexander the Great
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAlexander the Great (O Megalexandros) Greece, 1980 Theo Angelopoulos insisted that Alexander the Great was his “most simple film” to date for its linear structure, beginning on New Year’s Eve...