From Refugee to Icon Hunter
The Fowler Museum at UCLA 308 Charles E Young Drive North, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPerforming Walcott, Performing Homer: Omeros on Screen
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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...