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Maria Schoina, Associate Professor of English Literature, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki | “Byron’s Romantic Philhellenism”
by ZoomByron’s philhellenic verse and romantic involvement in the Greek Revolution inspired a host of poets and artists in Europe and across the Atlantic. His death in Missolonghi on April 19, 1824 appears to have been an especially great force in raising sympathy for the Revolution and stimulating young philhellenes to join the Greek fighting. But...
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Nikos Panou, “Slaying the Dragon: Byzantine Survivals in the Greek War of Independence”
by ZoomThe lecture will focus on an aspect of the Greek War of Independence that calls for answers to questions as basic as they are elusive. What role did the Byzantine heritage play in conceptualizing, representing, or animating the struggle against the Ottoman Empire? What strands of Byzantium were foregrounded and through which mechanisms did they...
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Maureen Connors Santelli, Associate Professor of History, Northern Virginia Community College | “The Grassroots Mobilization of American Philhellenism”
by ZoomPopular support for the Greek Revolution in the United States garnered national attention at a level unparalleled to any other international event in the early 19th century. Early Americans supported the Greek cause because they felt a strong, sympathetic tie with the ancient Greeks and because they had a long-standing distrust for the Muslim World....
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Maria Pantelia, “Preserving Greek Literature from Homer to Solomos”
Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. For almost three millennia Greek literature has been preserved in a variety of different media, encompassing inscriptions on stone, papyrus rolls, medieval manuscripts, and, most recently, digital formats. It is a checkered history. Natural disasters, accidents, wars, political and religious upheavals...
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Roderick Beaton, “Asia Minor in the Life and Work of George Seferis”
by ZoomA Celebration of National Poetry Month In May 1944, at the height of a new crisis facing the Greek government in exile during World War II, which he served as a high-ranking diplomat, George Seferis confided these thoughts to his Alexandrian Greek friend Timos Malanos: ‘It might surprise you if I tell you that the...
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John Kittmer, “‘From the Tip of My Little Finger a River Flows:’ Yannis Ritsos’s Response to Dictatorship (1967-1970)”
by Zoom‘From the Tip of My Little Finger a River Flows:’ Yannis Ritsos’s Response to Dictatorship (1967-1970) A lecture by Dr. John Kittmer, former British ambassador to Greece in celebration of National Poetry Month. April 22, 2023 10:00 AM Los Angeles/8:00 PM Athens Via Zoom Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou, Ambassador of Greece to...
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Stavroula Tsiplakou, “Present-day Cypriot Greek: Will the Dialect Survive?”
by ZoomPresent-day Cypriot Greek: Will the Dialect Survive? A lecture by Stavroula Tsiplakou Associate Professor of Linguistics; Dean of Arts, Open University of Cyprus on the occasion of International Greek Language Day February 10, 2024 10 a.m. Los Angeles / 1 p.m. Washington, D.C. / 8 p.m. Greece & Cyprus Via Zoom Messages by the...