Nostos
Stavros Niarchos Center Leof. Andrea Siggrou 364, Kallithea, GreeceOn June 23 and 24, The UCLA SNF Hellenic Center staff will be attending the Nostos festival in Athens. SNF Nostos is an international, multidimensional festival bursting with avant-garde art,...
Vamvakou!
From June 25-July 1, the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center staff and UCLA graduate students join colleagues from the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vamvakou, Lakonia,...
The Great Fire of Smyrna – The Genocide of Greeks in Asia Minor Remembered
by Zoom100th Anniversary Commemoration The Great Fire of Smyrna - The Genocide of Greeks in Asia Minor Remembered September 18, 1:00 pm (CDT) | Hosted by Illinois Holocaust Museum The Great...
Glendi! Beginning of the Year Celebration
Rolfe Courtyard 345 PORTOLA PLAZA, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesJoin us for a true glendi with a fantastic musical performance, dancing, and delicious Greek food! Bring your family, friends and dancing shoes. Meet our new Consul General of Greece...
Smyrna, My Beloved
Saint Sophia Cathedral 1324 S Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCommunity Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Burning of Smyrna Sunday, September 25, 2022 4 pm reception followed by the film screenings Free admission and mezedes (No RSVP required)...
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...