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SUMMARY:Stavroula Tsiplakou\, "Present-day Cypriot Greek: Will the Dialect Survive?"
DESCRIPTION:Present-day Cypriot Greek: Will the Dialect Survive? \n  \nA lecture by\nStavroula Tsiplakou\nAssociate Professor of Linguistics; Dean of Arts\, Open University of Cyprus \non the occasion of International Greek Language Day\nFebruary 10\, 2024\n10 a.m. Los Angeles / 1 p.m. Washington\, D.C. / 8 p.m. Greece & Cyprus \nVia Zoom \nMessages by\nthe Honorable Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece\, Georgios Kotsiras\n&\nthe Honorable Secretary General for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy\,\nProf. John Chrysoulakis – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece \nOpening remarks by\nHer Excellency\, Ekaterini Nassika\,\nAmbassador of Greece to the United States\n&\nHis Excellency\, Evangelos Savva\,\nAmbassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States \nRecent research has shown that the contemporary Cypriot Greek variety is changing because of close contact with Standard Modern Greek: mixed\, hybrid structures are emerging which make the pancypriot\, koine variety more standard-like; moreover\, local subvarieties tend to disappear and be replaced by the koine variety as a result of demographic changes post 1974. However\, we are a long way away from full convergence to Standard Greek\, and the pancypriot variety displays linguistic vitality. In her talk\, Professor Tsiplakou examines some of the reasons why Cypriot Greek does not fully converge with Standard Greek and argues that this is due to both structural and social factors\, including the increased local prestige of the dialect. \nStavroula Tsiplakou is Associate Professor of Linguistics\, Dean of Arts\, and Academic Coordinator of the M.A. program in Greek Linguistics and Literature at the Open University of Cyprus. She holds a B.A. in Greek Literature from the University of Athens\, an M.Phil. in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge\, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of London. Her research areas include syntax\, pragmatics\, text linguistics\, sociolinguistics\, and educational linguistics. She has published in Lingua\, Linguistic Inquiry\, Pragmatics\, Journal of Pragmatics\, and Multilingua\, Linguistics and Education. She has co-authored national curricula for language in Cyprus and in Greece and she has produced digital platforms for teaching Greek as a second language. \nIn case you missed it\, please view the video of the presentation below: \n \nThe event is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece in the United States\, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in the United States\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, and the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Cyprus in Los Angeles. It is cosponsored by Thesaurus Linguae Graecae®. This program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/stavroula-tsiplakou-present-day-cypriot-greek-will-the-dialect-survive/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Cyprus,Hellenic,Language,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:John Kittmer\, "'From the Tip of My Little Finger a River Flows:' Yannis Ritsos's Response to Dictatorship (1967-1970)"
DESCRIPTION:‘From the Tip of My Little Finger a River Flows:’\nYannis Ritsos’s Response to Dictatorship (1967-1970) \nA lecture by\nDr. John Kittmer\, former British ambassador to Greece\nin celebration of National Poetry Month. \nApril 22\, 2023\n10:00 AM Los Angeles/8:00 PM Athens\nVia Zoom \nOpening remarks by Her Excellency\nAlexandra Papadopoulou\,\nAmbassador of Greece to the United States \nExclusive poetry reading by renowned Greek actor \nStelios Mainas (Tetarti 04:45\, Mystikes Diadromes\, The Island) \nIn the first days of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967-1974\, Yannis Ritsos was imprisoned without trial: he was held initially in internment camps on the islands of Gyaros and Leros\, and then under house arrest at the family home in Karlovasi on Samos. The period of his confinement was lifted only in November 1970. During much of this period\, he was not only confined and harassed by the authorities\, but he was also very unwell. Despite this\, he managed to write and to maintain\, for the most part\, an astonishing rate of productivity\, producing nine collections of short poems and several long poems in different forms. In this talk\, we will look at Ritsos’ life and work during these years of confinement\, examining his poetic response – in short and long poems alike – to the conditions in which he was held\, the psychological pressures under which he was placed\, and the wider abuses of the military dictatorship. We shall consider the extent to which poetry offered Ritsos some sort of solution to the challenges he faced. \nJohn Kittmer is a former British ambassador to Greece and is the chair of The Anglo-Hellenic League. He has degrees in classics and modern Greek\, and wrote a prize-winning Ph.D. thesis on Yannis Ritsos. He is working on several publication projects in connection with Ritsos. His recent collaboration with the poet David Harsent on the poetry Ritsos wrote in the early years of the Colonels’ dictatorship will be published at the end of March (David Harsent\, A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yannis Ritsos\, introduction by John Kittmer [Hexham: Bloodaxe Books\, 2023]). \nIn case you missed it\, please view the video of the presentation below: \n \nThe event is cosponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the United States. \nThis program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/john-kittmer-from-the-tip-of-my-little-finger-a-river-flows-yannis-ritsos-response-to-dictatorship-1967-1970/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Roderick Beaton\, "Asia Minor in the Life and Work of George Seferis"
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of National Poetry Month \nIn 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 event that has affected me more than anything is the Asia Minor Catastrophe. . . . From the age of 13 I’ve never ceased to be a refugee.’ This talk describes Seferis’s early life in Smyrna and the seaside village of Skala tou Vourla\, and the ways in which he came to reflect on both\, in later essays and poems. Moving forward to the end of the 1940s\, the story resumes when the poet returned to his birthplace while serving in the Greek embassy in Ankara. During this period\, traveling widely in Asia Minor\, Seferis experienced what he termed a ‘wider Hellenism’\, one that encompassed the Hellenistic expansion in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great and continued throughout the millennium of the Byzantine Empire. From these later experiences\, and the poems\, essays\, and diaries that he wrote at the time\, it emerges that\, for Seferis\, Asia Minor had become not only his own ‘lost homeland’ and that of his family and more than a million of his contemporaries: it was also the ‘lost homeland’ of Hellenism itself\, whose heartland it had been for many centuries. \nRoderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at Cambridge\, before specializing in Modern Greek studies. For thirty years until his retirement\, he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History\, Language and Literature at King’s College London\, and is now Emeritus. Beaton is the author of several books of non-fiction\, one novel\, and several translations of fiction and poetry\, all of them connected to Greece and the Greek-speaking world. He is a four-time winner of the Runciman Award\, and his books have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Cundill History Prize. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)\, a Fellow of King’s College (FKC)\, and Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic. From 2019 to 2021 he served as a member of the Committee “GREECE 2021\,” charged by the Greek government with overseeing events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821\, and from September to December 2021 as A.G. Leventis Visiting Professor in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book\, The Greeks: A Global History\, is published by Basic Books (October 2021). \nThis event will be introduced by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. \nExclusive poetry reading by renowned Greek actor Stelios Mainas (Tetarti 04:45\, Mystikes Diadromes\, The island) \nRSVP here. \nDownload handout of readings.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/roderick-beaton-asia-minor-in-the-life-and-work-of-george-seferis/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Maria Pantelia\, "Preserving Greek Literature from Homer to Solomos"
DESCRIPTION:Opening remarks by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States. \nFor 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 have contributed to the loss of much precious material\, yet such losses have been counterbalanced by the efforts of libraries\, monasteries\, and individual collectors and scholars to preserve this important legacy. For the last 50 years\, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at UC Irvine has been collecting all the extant works of Greek literature from antiquity to the present\, with the goal of creating a permanent digital repository. What are the challenges and triumphs of this initiative? What remains to be done and how will scholars and members of a broader community leverage this resource? \nMaria Pantelia is Professor of Classics at the University of California\, Irvine. She is the Editor and Director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)\, a digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. \nThis lecture\, on the occasion of International Greek Language Day\, is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the United States\, the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles\, and the Hellenic Library of Southern California. \nTo attend\, please RSVP at this link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/maria-pantelia-preserving-greek-literature-from-homer-to-solomos-2/
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Maureen Connors Santelli\, Associate Professor of History\, Northern Virginia Community College | "The Grassroots Mobilization of American Philhellenism"
DESCRIPTION:Popular 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. American philhellenes believed the Greek Revolution would be successful if the Greeks followed  the United States’ example  regarding the course  of  the revolution and the type of government they should eventually establish. Although they were not interested in nation-building in the modern sense\, American philhellenes did imagine they were engaging in a civic duty by aiding the Greeks to create a free nation in the image of the United States. At a time when politics and slavery had begun to pull the North and South apart\, support for the Greek Revolution brought Americans from all classes and regions together in one of the first humanitarian efforts in the early United States. \nThe HUC@UCLA lecture is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece in USA. Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States\, will provide opening remarks. \nMaureen Santelli attended the University of Montana in Missoula\, where she earned undergraduate degrees in History and Classics. Santelli’s combined interests in ancient Greece\, Rome\, and early American history inspired her research as a graduate student at George Mason University\, where she completed her Master’s and Ph.D. Santelli has completed fellowships at George Washington’s Mount Vernon\, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania\, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. Currently\, she is an associate professor at Northern Virginia Community College where she teaches United States\, western civilization\, and world history courses. She has published an article with Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal\, “Depart from that Retired Circle:” Women’s Support of the Greek War for Independence and Antebellum Reform. Her recent book\, The Greek Fire: American-Ottoman Relations and Democratic Fervor in the Age of Revolutions\, examines the rise of philhellenism in the United States and how the movement influenced both foreign and domestic policies during the early American republic. \nTo register\, please click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/maureen-connors-santelli-associate-professor-of-history-northern-virginia-community-college-american-support-for-the-greek-revolution/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Nikos Panou\, “Slaying the Dragon: Byzantine Survivals in the Greek War of Independence”
DESCRIPTION:The 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 find a place in the collective imaginary of the period? In what ways was that process of reception and signification manifested\, and to what extent? How can it be studied and properly understood today? \nThe event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center and Dumbarton Oaks\, Washington\, DC. Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States will provide opening remarks. \nNikos Panou is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Professor in Hellenic Studies in the Department of English at Stony Brook University. His current research focuses on articulations of power and authority in pre-modern moral and political discourse\, with emphasis on advice literature and related genres. He has written on topics ranging from Byzantine historiography to seventeenth-century satire\, and has co-edited a volume on conceptions of tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance with Oxford University Press. \nTo register\, please click the image above or here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/nikos-panou-assistant-professor-of-comparative-literature-and-peter-v-tsantes-endowed-professor-in-hellenic-studies-stony-brook-university-slaying-the-dragon-byzantine-survivals-in-the/
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CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Maria Schoina\, Associate Professor of English Literature\, Aristotle University\, Thessaloniki | "Byron's Romantic Philhellenism"
DESCRIPTION:Byron’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 the leading English Romantic poet of the time was often ambiguous about the subject of Greece. Recent biographies of Byron and modern interpretations of his venture have duly turned their attention to this debatable issue\, providing various frames of reference for reading Byron’s decision to join the Greek struggle. This lecture will discuss the changing aspects of Byron’s philhellenism as they were acted out in his lifetime and expressed through his poetic production: from the Romantic Hellenism of Childe Harold’s lines and the Eastern Tales\, to the grounded skepticism about Greece’s political future found in his prose and letters\, to his life-changing decision to translate his thoughts into actions\, “words” into “things\,” by joining the Greek uprising and committing himself to a people’s war of national liberation. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center; SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies\, Simon Fraser University; and the Embassy of Greece in USA. \nMaria Schoina is Associate Professor of English Literature in the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece. She holds a B.A.\, M.A. and Ph.D from Aristotle University. She is the author of Romantic “Anglo-Italians”: Configurations of Identity in Byron\, the Shelleys\, and the Pisan Circle (Ashgate 2009; Routledge 2016\, paperback 2019). Her essays have appeared in journals such as Romanticism\, The Byron Journal\, The Wordsworth Circle\, European Romantic Review\, Notes and Queries and in essay collections. Her most recent publications include an essay on Mary Shelley’s Greek studies in The Keats-Shelley Review (2019)\, a chapter on the Pisan Circle and the Cockney School in Byron in Context (Cambridge UP\, 2020) and a chapter on Byron’s reviewers for the Oxford Handbook of Byron (forthcoming\, 2022). She was the organiser of this year’s International Byron Conference (online\, Thessaloniki\, 28 June-2 July 2021). \nTo register\, please click the image above or here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/maria-schoina-associate-professor-of-english-literature-aristotle-university-thessaloniki-byrons-romantic-philhellenism/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Thomas Gallant\, "From Orphan to Abolitionist: Photius Fisk and the Making of Greek America"
DESCRIPTION:To participate in this event\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/thomas-gallant-from-orphan-to-abolitionist-photius-fisk-and-the-making-of-greek-america/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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