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SUMMARY:Ellinomatheia
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URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/ellinomatheia/
LOCATION:Rolfe 2117\, 345 Portola Ave\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Diaspora,Hellenic,Heritage,Language
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SUMMARY:“Χριστουγεννιάτικες παραδόσεις και έθιμα στην Ελλάδα\,” lecture (in Greek) by Stavroula Pisimisi
DESCRIPTION:Χριστουγεννιάτικες παραδόσεις και έθιμα στην Ελλάδα\n(Christmas Traditions and Customs in Greece) \nΣταυρούλα Πισιμίση\, Λαογράφος και Διευθύντρια\nΜουσείο Λαϊκής Τέχνης και Παράδοσης “Αγγελική Χατζημιχάλη”\n(Stavroula Pisimisi\, Folklorist and Director\,\n“Angeliki Chatzimihali” Museum of Folk Art and Tradition) \nΧαιρετισμοί από\nΤην Αυτής Εξοχότητα Αικατερίνη Νασίκα\, Πρέσβειρα της Ελλάδας στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες\n(Opening remarks by Her Excellency Ekaterini Nassika\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States) \nΣάββατο\, 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2025\n10:00 π.μ. Λος Άντζελες / 8:00 μ.μ. Ελλάδα\nΜέσω Zoom \nSaturday\, December 13\, 2025\n10:00 a.m. Los Angeles / 8:00 p.m. Greece\nvia Zoom \nΗ διάλεξη θα γίνει στα Ελληνικά / The lecture will be held in Greek \nThis event has already taken place\, and RSVPs are no longer being accepted. Please view the recording here: \n \nΣτο ελληνικό παραδοσιακό εορτολόγιο η περίοδος από την παραμονή των Χριστουγέννων έως τα Θεοφάνια ονομάζεται Δωδεκαήμερο και περιβάλλεται από γιορτές\, όπου συμπορεύονται χριστιανικά και ειδωλολατρικά έθιμα. Πρόκειται για ένα μεταβατικό διάστημα που ο Χειμώνας φθάνει στην κορύφωσή του με το σκοτάδι να τον συνοδεύει και ο άνθρωπος ακολουθεί διάφορα έθιμα γιατί πρέπει να προαναγγείλει τον ερχομό της άνοιξης. Έτσι στολίζει κάθε γωνιά του σπιτιού του με καταπράσινα\, χλωρά κλαδιά\, τα παιδιά λένε τα κάλαντα με ευχές για τον νοικοκύρη και την οικογένεια\, το “χριστόξυλο” στο τζάκι καίει μέρα-νύχτα\, αποτρέποντας τους καλικάντζαρους\, οι γυναίκες στολίζουν συμβολικά το Χριστόψωμο και τη Βασιλοκουλούρα\, οι εκκλησίες χτυπούν χαρμόσυνα τις καμπάνες\, τα λαϊκά δρώμενα των μεταμφιεσμένων με μάσκες και κουδούνια αποβλέπουν στην καρποφορία της γης και οι σπιτικές συγκεντρώσεις ενισχύουν τους οικογενειακούς δεσμούς. \nIn the Greek traditional calendar\, the period from Christmas Eve to Epiphany\, called the Twelve Days\, is marked by festivities where Christian and pagan customs coexist. It is a transitional period when Winter reaches its peak with darkness accompanying it and people follow various customs because they must announce the arrival of spring. Thus\, they decorate every corner of the house with lush\, green branches\, the children sing carols with wishes for the head of the household and the family\, the “Christmas log” in the fireplace burns day and night warding off the mischievous creatures\, the women symbolically decorate the Christmas bread and the New Year’s bread\, the churches joyfully ring the bells\, the folk antics of those dressed up with masks and bells aim at the fruitfulness of the earth\, and the home gatherings strengthen family ties. \nBιογραφικό: \nΗ Σταυρούλα Πισιμίση γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα. Σπούδασε Δημοσιογραφία και Επικοινωνία στο Ελεύθερο Πανεπιστήμιο Βρυξελλών (U.L.B.)\, Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού στο Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο (Ε.Α.Π.) και κατέχει μεταπτυχιακό τίτλο σπουδών Λαογραφίας από τον τομέα Βυζαντινής Φιλολογίας και Λαογραφίας του τμήματος Φιλολογίας της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Εθνικού Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (Ε.Κ.Π.Α.)\, με θέμα: “Η ελληνική λαϊκή τέχνη στο συγγραφικό έργο της Αγγελικής Χατζημιχάλη και η λειτουργία της στο αρχοντικό και μετέπειτα Μουσείο Λαϊκής Τέχνης και Παράδοσης “Αγγελική Χατζημιχάλη”. Είναι υπεύθυνη του Μουσείου\, όπου υπηρετεί από το 2011 ως επιμελήτρια της μουσειακής συλλογής και των περιοδικών εκθέσεων λαογραφικού περιεχομένου\, που διοργανώνονται στον μουσειακό χώρο. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε λαογραφικά συνέδρια\, τηλεοπτικές και ραδιοφωνικές εκπομπές με θεματική τον Ελληνικό Λαϊκό Πολιτισμό. Έχει εργασθεί στην Δημοτική Πινακοθήκη του Δήμου Αθηναίων\, σε περιοδικά και εφημερίδες. Επίσης διατηρούσε ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή\, σχεδόν\, για δέκα χρόνια στη Δημοτική Ραδιοφωνία Πειραιά “Κανάλι Ένα”\, καθώς υπήρξε ιδρυτικό στέλεχος της Ελεύθερης Ραδιοφωνίας στην Ελλάδα. \nBiography: \nStavroula Pisimisi is Director of the Angeliki Hatzimichali Museum of Folk Art and Tradition in Athens\, where she has served since 2011 as curator of the collection and temporary folklore exhibitions. She has participated in folklore conferences\, television and radio shows on the topic of Greek Folk Culture. She has worked in the Municipal Art Gallery of the city of Athens\, in magazines and newspapers. She also maintained a radio show for almost ten years in the Municipal Radio of Piraeus “Channel One\,” as she was a founding member of Non-State Radio in Greece. \nΗ εκδήλωση παρουσιάζεται από τη Γέφυρα. Πραγματοποιείται υπό την αιγίδα της Πρεσβείας της Ελλάδας στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες και καθίσταται δυνατή χάρη στο Ίδρυμα Σταύρος Νιάρχος (ΙΣΝ). \nThis event is presented by Gefyra\, held under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece in the United States\, and made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nPresented by:\n \nUnder the auspices of:\n \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/stavroula_pisimisi/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: 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).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-14/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T120000
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SUMMARY:Evita Arapoglou\, "Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday - Catastrophe - Displacement - Rebirth"
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, part of the Hellenic Together 4.0 series held in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens\, exhibition curator Evita Arapoglou leads us through “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday – Catastrophe – Displacement – Rebirth.” \nThis program is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). \nAbout the Exhibit \nVisitors to the exhibition begin their journey in the ‘heyday’ of Asia Minor Hellenism in Ionia and the west coast. They proceed to Cappadocia and the southern provinces\, travel to Pontus\, continue towards the west and the environs of Istanbul\, and end up in Eastern Thrace. \nThe heyday is followed by the period of persecutions\, the conclusion of World War I and the ensuing Treaties\, the period of the Greek landing in Asia Minor and the ensuing Campaign\, the ‘Catastrophe’ of 1922\, as well as the ‘Exodus’ of refugees. \nThe third and final section of the exhibition focuses on the settlement and integration of refugees in Greece\, as well as their impact on many sectors of Greek society. Part of the epilogue of the exhibition is dedicated to the creation of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies in 1930 by Melpo and Octave Merlier. \nThe exhibition features works of art\, icons\, ecclesiastical\, war and personal heirlooms\, costume\, jewelry\, handicrafts\, maps\, photographs\, archival and cinematographic material\, newspapers\, letters\, postcards\, and many other items. Excerpts from personal testimonies complement the narrative\, bringing images and silent objects to life. \nThe exhibition runs from September 15\, 2022 until February 12\, 2023.\nThursday\, Sunday: 10:00-18:00\nFriday\, Saturday: 10:00-22:00
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/evita-arapoglou-asia-minor-hellenism-heyday-catastrophe-displacement-rebirth/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Hunters
DESCRIPTION:The Hunters (I Kynighi) Greece\, 1977 \nWhen a hunting party finds the body of a communist partisan perfectly preserved in the snow\, they carry it back to their lakeside lodge to open a formal inquest. Representatives of the  conservative elite—politicians\, military officers\, businessmen\, media figures—who have gathered to celebrate New Year’s Eve 1977\, they are suddenly confronted by the horrors that put them in power. Theo Angelopoulos once compared The Hunters to Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry and while an absurdist streak runs through the film it’s also one of the most pointed and damning political critiques of his career. \n35mm\, color\, in Greek with English subtitles\, 168 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriters: Theo Angelopoulos\, Stratis Karras. With: Vangelis Kazan\, Eva Kotamanidou\, Giorgos Danis. \nFor tickets (free of charge)\, click here. \nThis film is presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture with support from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and with the community partnership of the LAGFF. The retrospective is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/angelopoulos-retrospective-the-hunters/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T193000
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: Eternity and a Day
DESCRIPTION:Eternity and a Day (Mia Aioniotita kai mia Mera). France/Italy/Greece/Germany 1998 \nBruno Ganz plays a famed Greek author with a growing list of uncompleted projects after becoming despondent following the death of his wife and his own recent terminal diagnosis. Lost in reveries of a brighter past\, he’s snapped back to life when\, on impulse\, he helps an Albanian refugee boy escape a police roundup. As their unexpected friendship grows\, Eternity and Day offers a profound meditation on the boundaries\, real and imagined\, between nations\, between past and present\, between life and death. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival\, this is the final film in Theo Angelopoulos’ “Trilogy of Borders.” \n35mm\, color\, 137 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriters: Tonino Guerra\, Theo Angelopoulos\, Petros Markaris\, Giorgio Silvagni. With: Bruno Ganz\, Isabelle Renauld\, Fabrizio Bentivoglio. \nFor tickets (free of charge)\, click here. \nThis film is presented by The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture with support from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and with the community partnership of the LAGFF. The retrospective is held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/angelopoulos-retrospective-eternity-and-a-day/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T190000
DTSTAMP:20220916T231545Z
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: 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).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/kouvenda-hellenic-conversations-11/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220416T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220416T120000
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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:James Barron\, The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate
DESCRIPTION:The event will be offered on Zoom.\nRSVP to shorturl.at/dhjAU to receive the link.\nDownload the Zoom app prior to the lecture to participate. \n\n\n\n\n  \nHe was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century political history. Yet today\, Elias Demetracopoulos is strangely overlooked–even though his life reads like an epic adventure story. \nAs a precocious twelve-year-old in occupied Athens\, he engaged in heroic resistance efforts against the Nazis\, for which he was imprisoned and tortured. After his life was miraculously spared\, he became an investigative journalist\, covering Greece’s tumultuous politics and America’s increasing influence in the region. A clever and scoop-hungry reporter\, Elias soon gained access to powerful figures in both governments . . . and attracted many enemies. When the Greek military dictatorship took power in 1967\, he narrowly escaped to Washington DC\, where he would lead the fight to restore democracy in his homeland–while running afoul of the American government\, too. \nNow\, after a decade of research and original reporting\, James H. Barron uncovers the story of a man whose tireless pursuit of uncomfortable truths would put him at odds with not only his own government\, but that of the Truman\, Eisenhower\, Kennedy\, Johnson\, Nixon\, Ford\, Carter and Reagan administrations\, making him a target of CIA\, FBI\, and State Department surveillance and harassment–and Greek kidnapping and assassination plots American authorities may have purposefully overlooked. \nJames H. Barron is a journalist\, attorney\, and founding advisory board member of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. A creator of the award-winning International Boston Initiative and Atlantic Rim Network\, he has taught courses at MIT and lectured at universities in Paris and Tokyo.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/james-barron-the-greek-connection-the-life-of-elias-demetracopoulos-and-the-untold-story-of-watergate/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T120000
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SUMMARY:Tassos Sakellaropoulos (Head of Historical Archives) and Maria Dimitriadou (Historical Archives)\, “1821\, Before and After: Narrating and Curating 100 Years of Greek History”
DESCRIPTION:The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of the 1821 declaration of the Greek War of Independence. To celebrate this major anniversary\, the Benaki Museum\, together with the Bank of Greece\, the National Bank of Greece\, and ALPHABANK are mounting a major exhibition of works of art and historical testimonies under the title “1821\, Before and After.” The exhibition will cover over a century in the history of modern Hellenism\, from 1770 to 1880. Among other aspects\, the following will be presented through the rich collections of the Museum and the artworks housed in the three banking institutions: everyday life\, trade\, education among the Greeks\, the preparation for the War of Independence as well as the events as they unfolded\, the philhellenic movement\, the work of Ioannis Kapodistrias\, the creation of the new state of Greece\, the reign of King Otho\, the building of modern Athens and the early years of George I’s reign up until the opening of the Corinth Canal. \nDr. Tassos Sakellaropoulos is a historian and Head of the Benaki Museum Historical Archives. He studied History at the University of Siena in Italy. His main area of interest is the history of the Greek twentieth century\, in particular\, the political role of the Greek Army\, political events during the 1940s\, political persecutions in post-War Greece and the resistance to the 1967 dictatorship. Dr Sakellaropoulos has curated exhibitions and edited publications on the 19th and 20th centuries. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism (Mnimon review) and a board member of the Archives of Modern Social History. \nDr. Maria Dimitriadou was born in Athens\, Greece\, and studied Political Sciences and History at the Panteion University\, where she was awarded a PhD from the Department on German Studies. Since 1994 she is a curator at the Historical Archives of the Benaki Museum. Dr. Dimitriadou has written numerous scholarly studies on modern Greek society and history\, covering\, among others\, the history of Skopelos in the 19th century\, the Balkan Wars\, and the relations between Greece and Germany during the Interwar. She has edited the Archive of the Greek Revolution held at the Benaki Museum\, in two volumes (published in 2011 and 2013). \nRSVP here to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/tassos-sakellaropoulos-head-of-historical-archives-and-maria-dimitriadou-historical-archives-1821-before-and-after-narrating-and-curating-100-years-of-greek-history/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Polina Kosmadaki (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art\, Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints\, Benaki Museum)\, “Charting Mediterranean Archaisms in a Modern Framework: Christian Zervos and the Cahiers d’art Method”
DESCRIPTION:Christos or Christian Zervos (Argostoli 1889–Paris 1970) played a definitive role in shaping the cultural climate in interwar Paris through his journal Cahiers d’Αrt\, which he founded in 1926 and published until 1960. It was one of the longest-lived modernist journals\, which numbered 97 issues. As early as the first issue\, Cahiers d’Αrt had focused on promoting modern art and on the dialogue between works of different origins and different historical periods. Zervos is also known as the publisher of the iconic catalogue of Pablo Picasso’s paintings from 1932 on\, known today as “le Zervos\,” as well as his archaeological publications on prehistoric civilisations\, for example those of Neolithic or Minoan Crete and the Cyclades. His contribution was particularly significant in the dissemination of ancient–especially prehistoric–Greek art as well as the redefinition of ancient civilisations and archaic forms in the context of modernism. In this lecture\, I will try to expose the key aspects of Christian Zervos’ methodology in Cahiers d’art and in editions focusing on the creation of meaningful relationships between Mediterranean and earlier civilizations and the art of his time. I will speak about both his position and his practice in regard to the redefinition and reappraisal of various archaisms during the interwar period\, and make a case for his innovative approach of fusing modernism and antiquity within a liquid conception of time. \nPolina Kosmadaki is an art historian living and working in Athens. She holds a Ph.D in Art History from the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne. She is currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Head of the Department of Paintings of the Benaki Museum\, Athens and a Lecturer of Art History in the European Studies program of the Hellenic Open University. Since 2008 she is an associate researcher of the French School at Athens’ Modern Section\, currently the Head Researcher of a project on the editor and art critic Christian Zervos and his journal Cahiers d’art. She has edited the volumes: Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’art\, the archaic turn\, 2019; Paris-Athènes 1919-1939 Le double voyage\, École Francaise d’Athènes\, 2018 (with Lucile Farnoux); Greece: Traces of today\, Imago Mundi\, Fabrica\, Luciano Benetton Foundation\, 2015; Institution critique-critical institutions\, AICA HELLAS\, September 2013 (with Elpida Karampa). She has curated numerous exhibitions both for the Benaki Museum and as an independent curator\, for example: Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’art\, Benaki Museum\, Musée Zervos Vézelay\, École Francaise d‘Athènes 2019\, Jannis Varelas\, Anima I\, 2019\, Liquid Antiquity\, DESTE & Benaki Museum 2017\, Ametria\, Deste & Benaki Museum\, 2015\, George Lappas\, Happy Birthday\, Deste & Benaki Museum 2016\, Cabinets of Miracles with Christoforos Marinos for ZONE D\, 2010. Since 2011 she is running the commissions program «Artists in dialogue with the Benaki Museum» (Andy Holden\, Adam Chodzko\, Ciara Philips\, Zafos Xagoraris\, Antonis Pittas)\, in collaboration with the British Council\, Greece. \nRSVP\, click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/hellenic-together-polina-kosmadaki/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Xenia Politou (Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture\, Benaki Museum)\, “The Costume of Women in Greece: Styles and References”
DESCRIPTION:Local Greek women’s costumes are impressive because of their wide variety and large number of local variations. A more methodical analysis can bring to the surface certain common characteristics and will help the careful observer to identify from among these varieties the basic styles and main influences that contributed to their creation. The vicissitudes of history\, the different rulers—mainly Ottomans and Venetians—who left their mark on a pre-existing Byzantine sartorial system\, and the absence of a unified Greek territory before the 1830s explain the great diversity and variety of Greek women’s costumes. Even after the creation of the Greek state in 1832\, the local style of garments still received another invasion: the invasion of a late industrial revolution and European fashion which brought new patterns and styles. Finally\, the abandonment of local costumes has been progressive—obviously slower in isolated villages—throughout the 19th century until around the 1950s. This lecture attempts to present an analysis of the basic elements common to all costumes and to their classification according to their main styles\, as they had been fashioned during a long period of foreign occupations. \nXenia Politou is Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture\, Benaki Museum. She was born in Athens and studied French and Comparative Literature in Athens and Paris. From 1993 through 2001 she worked at the Museum of the History of the Greek Costume in Athens. At the same time\, she also participated in the National Archive of the Greek Traditional Costume\, a research program on clothing subsided by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Between 2002 and 2005\, she worked for the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation on the organization of the “Ptychoseis = Folds + Pleats: Drapery from Ancient Greek Dress to 21st Century Fashion” exhibition\, the first international fashion exhibition in Greece. Since March 2005\, she has been working at the Benaki Museum\, first in the Exhibition Department\, and since September 2010 she has been Curator of its Modern Greek Culture Department. Her research interests include the study of Greek local costumes and Greek embroideries. She is a member of the ICOM Costume Committee and founding member and Chair of the Hellenic Costume Society. \nTo RSVP\, click here. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/xenia-politou-aegeas-amke-curator-of-modern-greek-culture-benaki-museum-the-costume-of-women-in-greece-styles-and-references/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190603T210000
DTSTAMP:20180909T205818Z
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SUMMARY:Opening Night LAGFF @ UCLA
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/opening-night-lagff-ucla/
LOCATION:James Bridges Theater\, UCLA\, 235 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190407T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190407T170000
DTSTAMP:20180916T223020Z
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SUMMARY:Classical debt 'after' the crisis: Greek antiquity in the era of Grecovery
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her latest book\, The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity\, Johanna Hanink\, Professor at Brown University\, shows that our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes our view of the modern country and its recent crises. \nFor nearly a decade\, Greece has been notorious for its monetary\, sovereign debt. Yet for more than two centuries\, claims have been made for another type of “Greek debt\,” namely the symbolic debt that Europe—or even “Western civilization”—allegedly owes to Greece for bequeathing the world with its traditions of democracy\, philosophy\, mathematics\, fine art\, etc. This lecture will depart from this premise\, but will focus on how accounting of that debt-balance has recently shifted\, especially since August 20\, 2018\, when Greece “exited” from its official bailout programs and embarked on a new era hailed as one of “Grecovery.” That day\, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras triumphantly pronounced\, at a press conference carefully staged on the island of Ithaca\, “We reached our destination.” What role might antiquity play in this next chapter for Greece? \n  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/classical-debt-after-the-crisis-greek-antiquity-in-the-era-of-grecovery/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classics,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181103T183000
DTSTAMP:20180909T201617Z
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SUMMARY:Rebetika: Birth of the Greek Blues
DESCRIPTION:The 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.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/rebetika-birth-of-the-greek-blues/
LOCATION:Jan Popper Theater\, Schoenberg Hall\, 445 Charles E. Young Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Music
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