Architecture for the Ages
Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCopresented with the UCLA Hammer Museum. The Acropolis Museum of Athens is a dazzling combination of modernist architecture and archaeological treasures, designed with the intent to reclaim the so-called Elgin Marbles, taken from Greece by a British lord in the 1800s. Museum President Dimitrios Pandermalis discusses the museum’s transformation as well as hotly debated issues of artifact...
Opening Night UCLA: Screening of Tassos Boulmetis’ 1968
James Bridges Theater, UCLA 235 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIn collaboration with the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, UCLA honors its alumnus, Tassos Boulmetis, with the West Coast premiere and celebration of 1968, the story of how A.E.K., the well-known Greek basketball team founded in 1924 by refugees from Constantinople, after 44 years, beat SLAVIA of Prague to win the European Cup. The screening...
The Paradox of Pontic-Greek Identity: Cultural Intimacy in a Globalized World
Saint George Greek Orthodox Church 10830 Downey Avenue,, Downey, CA, United StatesLecture by Dr. Nikos Michailidis, Lecturer in Anthropology and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University The lecture will cover various aspects of the culture and history of the Pontic-Greek communities and their global outreach. It will describe their multiple transformations in historic Pontos, in Greece and in the diaspora and will explore their potential and meaning for...
Καλή αρχή|Beginning of the academic year party for faculty and students
Dodd 221B, the Faculty LoungeJoin us for lunch and conversation. Welcome to Professor Simos Zenios and new Hellenic students.
Η Επικαιρότητα του Νίκου Καζαντζάκη
Saint George Greek Orthodox Church 10830 Downey Avenue,, Downey, CA, United StatesΟμιλητής ο κ. Γεώργιος Στασσινάκης, Πρόεδρος της Διεθνούς Εταιρείας με έδρα τη Γενεύη, Ελβετία
HUC @ UCLA: Welcome to Consul General of Greece Eugenia Beniatoglou and Professor Simos Zenios
Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Court, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United StatesPlease meet the new Consul General of Greece, Eugenia Beniatoglou. Professor of Modern Greek, Simos Zenios, will speak on the topic of "Greek (and its) people: Making Communities in and through Modern Greek Studies." Join us for an afternoon of introductions, conversation, and catching up with friends. Reception following on the beautiful balcony. Parking...
Memorial Service for Aris Anagnos
Schoenberg Hall 445 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Rebetika: Birth of the Greek Blues
Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Hall 445 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe acclaimed Rebetiko Trio continues their concert series. In this performance, the story of Greek Blues is told through the lives of the great rebetika pioneers, the legendary Piraeus Quartet (or Piraeus Four), Giovan Tsaous, Giannis Papaioannou, Vasilis Tsitsanis, Manolis Chiotis and others.
Rebetika: Birth of the Greek Blues
Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Hall 445 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe acclaimed Rebetiko Trio continues their concert series. In this performance, the story of Greek Blues is told through the lives of the great rebetika pioneers, the legendary Piraeus Quartet (or Piraeus Four), Giovan Tsaous, Giannis Papaioannou, Vasilis Tsitsanis, Manolis Chiotis and others.
The Great Tamer
Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Court, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United StatesCAP UCLA in association with the Music Center presents Dimitris Papaioannou's The Great Tamer “Dimitris Papaioannou’s The Great Tamer a piece of theatre that grabs the attention and largely doesn’t let go. It’s part dream, part nightmare, part riddle, with a lot of room left for the audience to make their own associations and meaning;...
Antony Eastmond, Art and Cultural Resistance between Islam and Christianity
Royce Hall, 314 UCLAThe eastern frontier between Islam and Christianity in the thirteenth century was extremely porous: artists, merchants and pilgrims carried ideas and goods across it with ease. The results of this movement are visible in the churches and mosques, monasteries and madrasas that survive in modern territories of Armenia, Georgia and eastern Turkey. These buildings are...