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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-17/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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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-16/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Polymnia
DESCRIPTION:Polymnia\nworld premiere \npresented by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture \nSaturday\, January 21\, 2023\n7:00 p.m.\nUCLA Little Theater\nReception to follow \nSunday\, January 22\, 2023 (2nd performance just added!)\n2:00 p.m. \nUCLA Little Theater \nRunning time: 85 minutes\, no intermission \nClick here to view the digital program. \nTheodosia Roussos\, composer/librettist\nMichiel Delanghe\, conductor\nDiana Wyenn\, director\nTanya Orellana\, scenic designer\nPablo Santiago\, lighting designer\nYee Eun Nam\, video designer\nWendell C. Carmichael\, costume designer\nPeter Kazaras and Diana Wyenn\, dramaturgy \nCast \nTheodosia Roussos\, Polymnia/Theodosia\nNatalie Buickians\, Paula\nMichele Patzakis\, Maria/Church Lady\nAnthony Moreno\, Nikolaos\nJoanna Lynn-Jacobs\, Anthie\nJon Lee Keenan\, Costa/Tax Collector/Turkish Soldier \nPolymnia\, described by Opera News as “haunting and beautiful\,” is a debut experimental chamber opera that tells the story of a woman who responds with resilience to war and trauma\, and relates how her experience echoes across generations and communities. Drawing from fragments of Sappho’s poetry\, Kassiane’s hymns\, as well as four generations of private family writings and oral history\, composer and performer Theodosia Roussos shares the story of her great-grandmother Polymnia Athanasiadis Pappas\, a young woman whose family was expelled from its village by the Ottoman Turks during the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Roussos draws influence from her Greek Cypriot American background and weaves elements of Byzantine and Greek folk music into the score. \nPresented in both Greek and English\, Polymnia reveals the very personal and also political experience of diaspora—what is lost\, what is retained\, and what cannot be forgotten. \nThis event is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nPolymnia is produced by Plain Wood Productions. \nFor inquiries\, please contact hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu. \nTickets \n$35-$60 \nSOLD OUT \n*If you have purchased a ticket and need accommodations (wheelchair\, walker\, etc.)\, please contact us at the email above. \nParking information \nParking information for ticketholders: The Little Theater is located in Macgowan Hall at UCLA. Please park in Parking Structure 3 North\, which is near the northeast corner of the campus\, close to Hilgard Ave and Sunset Blvd. \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $15 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select “UCLA Campus Event\,” then “Polymnia.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 3 EXCEPT in the Pay-by-Space section. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit upon your arrival at Parking Structure 3\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area in the North building\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine.\nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, so please allow extra time for parking and walking to the theater.\nAccessible parking: If you have special accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station kiosk to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view additional accessible parking areas on campus and related information. Guests can be dropped off in the Macgowan Turnaround\, east of the theater/building (see above map).\n\nCOVID-19 Protocol \nCurrent UCLA Covid protocols as of 1/18/23: We will NOT require proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for entry at the theater.  Wearing masks at this indoor event is OPTIONAL and encouraged.  Please check back for updates on protocols prior to the performance.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/polymnia/
LOCATION:Little Theater\, 1167 MacGowan Hall\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,Music
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230107T120000
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SUMMARY:Book Club | Conversation with the Author: Ersi Sotiropoulos\, Τι μένει από τη νύχτα (What's Left of the Night)
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nRSVP here. \nTo purchase a digital copy of the book\, please visit the publisher’s site and read the instructions provided by the publisher carefully. The book is also available in an English translation. \nFor more information about our Book Club and the Conversation with the Author series\, please contact Dr. Simos Zenios (szenios@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/book-club-conversation-with-the-author-ersi-sotiropoulos-%cf%84%ce%b9-%ce%bc%ce%ad%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%b9-%ce%b1%cf%80%cf%8c-%cf%84%ce%b7-%ce%bd%cf%8d%cf%87%cf%84%ce%b1-whats-left-of-the-night/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221218T220000
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Travelling Players
DESCRIPTION:The Travelling Players (O Thiassos) Greece\, 1975 \nA powerful vision of postwar Greek history as experienced by a troupe of actors on perennial tour\, The Travelling Players swept the awards at the 1975 Thessaloniki Film Festival and announced Theo Angelopoulos as a major international auteur. A multi-generational ensemble\, the players drag themselves and their trunks from one train station and theater to the next\, seemingly inured to the sweep of politics and war around them until they each\, inevitably\, become enmeshed with the tumult of their times. The myth of Atrides informs the personal dynamics among the players as they move through time with historical periods often shifting within a single\, long tracking shot. \n35mm\, color\, in Greek\, German\, and English with English subtitles\, 230 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos. With: Eva Kotamanidou\, Aliki Georgouli\, Vangelis Kazan. \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-travelling-players/
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:20221216T193000
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: Ulysses' Gaze
DESCRIPTION:Ulysses’ Gaze (To Vlemma tou Odissea) Greece\, 1995 \nTheo Angelopoulos once confessed to an interviewer\, “I would like to believe the world will be saved by the cinema.” Ulysses’ Gaze gives this hope form as a Greek filmmaker known as A (Harvey Keitel) becomes obsessed with finding lost reels of film shot by the Manaki Brothers\, Yanaki and Milton\, real-life film pioneers who made the first movies in the Balkans. Relentlessly pursuing their whereabouts across the war-shattered region\, he comes to believe that this “first gaze” from the beginning of the century might reveal some meaning to those struggling at its end. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes\, Ulysses’ Gaze is the second film in Angelopoulos “Trilogy of Borders.” \n35mm\, color and b&w\, in Greek and English with English subtitles\, 176 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos\, Tonino Guerra\, Petros Markaris\, Giorgio Silvagni\, Kain Tsitseli. With: Harvey Keitel\, Maia Morgenstern\, Erland Josephson. \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-ulysses-gaze/
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:20221210T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221210T170000
DTSTAMP:20220924T225649Z
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SUMMARY:My Rembetika Blues
DESCRIPTION:Film screening and discussion with filmmaker Mary Zournazi. \nMy Rembetika Blues is a film about the power of music and what makes us human. Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music of the streets and a music of refugees. The film explores the heart and soul of Rembetika music through peoples’ stories of love\, loss and belonging. \nRembetika developed its roots from migrant experience. Mary Zournazi’s grandmother was one of the 1.2 million refugees who fled the Smyrna disaster in Turkey in 1922 and arrived at the Port of Piraeus in Greece. She\, like many\, became part of a movement of people\, and of tradition\, which saw the birth Rembetika. \nThrough its rawness and unique style\, Rembetika provides one of the world’s foremost musical accounts of migrant experience. Through Mary Zournazi’s grandmother’s story\, Zournazi narrates a personal account of the depth of longing and belonging that is part of the migrant life. By weaving together different stories and interviews\, the film looks at the legacies of history and migration\, and how music can connect people in times of struggle and in times of need. \nDrawing on the parallels of the migrant and economic crisis in Greece\, the film explores the revival of Rembetika today\, and how it continues to convey everyday life and struggle through the fusion of street music\, hip-hop\, and other influences such as Byzantine music and the Blues. \nThe film documents peoples’ memory and experiences that are often left out of the chronicles of history. It is a universal story about love\, life and music. \nConversation following the film with musician Alexis Cohen. Reception following the screening [film length is 83 minutes]. \nFilm Trailer: https://vimeo.com/536176096 \nSocial Media: https://www.facebook.com/rembetikablues/ \nView a recording of this talk here. \nParking information \nParking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Please park in Parking Structure 5\, which is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave (in the northeast section of the campus). \nNo parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure\, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot\, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance: \n\nYou may purchase your parking permit for $14 using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectValue.aspx. Select UCLA Royce Hall\, then “My Rembetika Blues Screening.” With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 5. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit at Parking Structure 5\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.\nGuest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095.\nAccessible parking: If you have special accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.\n\nThis event is the first in a series of events held in collaboration with the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for this pilot program\, which seeks to create networks across the West Coast of North America and between the West Coast and Greece. \nThis event is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/my-rembetika-blues/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Modern Greece,Music
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SUMMARY:Lethal Nationalism: Genocide of the Greeks\, 1913-1923
DESCRIPTION:Under the fog of war during World War 1\, the genocide of the Greeks was carried out at the hands of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks. This Genocide became the model for all Genocides to follow\, Nearly a million Greeks were killed\, and millions more were uprooted as part of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks’ campaign of ethnic cleansing. Lethal Nationalism explores this dark chapter of history. \nBill Kurtis\, legendary television news anchorman\, narrates this powerful documentary. “This production is one of the most important projects that I’ve ever been associated with and it provides a sobering lesson as to why we should never forget the suffering that is caused by genocide.” – Bill Kurtis \nThe screening will be followed by Q & A with the film’s director and co-producer Peter Lambrinatos\, co-producer Spiro Lambrinatos\, and George Mavropoulos\, President of the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center. Opening remarks will be offered by the Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles\, the Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos. \nA $10 suggested contribution will benefit the work of the Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/lethal-nationalism-lethal-nationalism-genocide-of-the-greeks-1913-1923/
LOCATION:Saint Sophia Cathedral\, 1324 S Normandie Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Film,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T190000
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a bi-weekly 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-13/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221120T220000
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Dust of Time
DESCRIPTION:The Dust of Time Greece/Italy/Germany/Russia\, 2008 \nIn a direct reference to Ulysses’ Gaze\, The Dust of Time follows a filmmaker named A (here played by Willem Dafoe) on a journey to make a film about his parents. Moving between past and present\, memory and history\, fiction and reality\, the film spans the second half of the 20th century as A traces his parents’ émigré story from Russia and the death of Stalin to the U.S.\, Canada\, and then Germany while grappling with the disappearance of his own daughter. The second film in a planned trilogy that began with The Weeping Meadow (2004)\, The Dust of Time is Theo Angelopoulos’ final completed feature.\n35mm\, color\, 133 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos. With: Willem Dafoe\, Irène Jacob\, Bruno Ganz. \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-dust-of-time/
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:20221113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221113T220000
DTSTAMP:20220819T232302Z
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Weeping Meadow
DESCRIPTION:The Weeping Meadow (To Livadi pou Dakryzei) Greece\, 2004 \nA family history told in wide shot\, The Weeping Meadow spans the turbulent decades between 1919 and the end of the Greek Civil War in 1949 as they buffet the lives of Eleni (Alexandra Aidini) and her adoptive brother and lover Alexis (Nikos Poursanidis). Taken in by Alexis’ family\, Eleni and Alexis fall in love and flee his oppressive father with the help of itinerant musicians touring the country as it descends into war and chaos. Intended as the first installment in a trilogy of Greek history and with its clear echoes of The Traveling Players (1975)\, The Weeping Meadow feels like a summing up by a director who thought of his films as chapters in one continuous story. \n35mm\, color\, 163 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriters: Theo Angelopoulos\, Tonino Guerra\, Petros Markaris\, Giorgio Silvagni. With: Alexandra Aidini\, Nikos Poursanidis\, Giorgos Armenis. \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-weeping-meadow/
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:20221104T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221104T223000
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: Alexander the Great
DESCRIPTION:Alexander the Great (O Megalexandros) Greece\, 1980 \nTheo Angelopoulos insisted that Alexander the Great was his “most simple film” to date for its linear structure\, beginning on New Year’s Eve 1900 and proceeding from there. The film’s straightforward chronology\, however\, belies the complex interplay of Greek Orthodox and Byzantine liturgy\, music\, and ritual that Angelopoulos weaves into this newly urgent politically-charged fable of a would-be liberator who devolves into despotism. A bandit leader\, Megalexandros\, sparks an international incident when he kidnaps a group of English tourists but when he and his men return to their village to hold up\, they find the revolution may have already passed them by. \n35mm\, color\, in Greek and English with English subtitles\, 199 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriters: Theo Angelopoulos\, Petros Markaris. With: Omero Antonutti\, Eva Kotamanidou\, Mihalis Giannatos. \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-alexander-the-great/
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:20221103T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T190000
DTSTAMP:20220916T231718Z
CREATED:20220916T231718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220916T231718Z
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SUMMARY:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Kouvenda: Hellenic Conversations is a bi-weekly 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-12/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221107
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SUMMARY:Byzantine Studies Conference
DESCRIPTION:We welcome the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) and participants to the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies conference at UCLA! \nMost conference activities will take place at the Luskin Conference Center and Hotel on the UCLA campus.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/byzantine-studies-conference/
LOCATION:Luskin
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Byzantine,Classics,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221030T220000
DTSTAMP:20220819T230940Z
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Suspended Step of the Stork & The Beekeeper
DESCRIPTION:The Suspended Step of the Stork (To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou) Greece\, 1991 \nThe plight of refugees in the Balkans and internationally dominated much of Theo Angelopoulos’ attention in the 1990s\, leading to two of his most acclaimed films\, Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) and Eternity and a Day (1998). The Suspended Step of the Stork\, which inaugurates this “Trilogy of Borders\,” however\, may be his sharpest assault on the moral and political failures of the West leading to the crisis. When a TV journalist believes he’s found a missing Greek politician living in a refugee camp\, a routine story becomes a potential blockbuster. A world-weary Marcello Mastroianni plays the mysterious refugee with Jeanne Moreau as the politician’s embittered wife who may hold the key to his identity. \n35mm\, color\, in Greek with English subtitles\, 136 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theodoros Angelopoulos\, Tonino Guerra\, Petros Markaris\, Dimitris Nollas\, Thanassis Valtinos. With: Marcello Mastroianni\, Jeanne Moreau\, Gregory Patrikareas. \n& \nThe Beekeeper (O Melissokomos) Greece\, 1986 \nEvery year\, Spyros (Marcello Mastroianni) takes up the family tradition of transporting its colony of bees across the rugged northern Greek countryside. This season\, however\, he’s joined by a young woman (Nadia Mourouzi) he picks up hitchhiking. Mastroianni delivers a quiet\, reserved performance that confounded some critics who felt Theo Angelopoulos had miscast the international star. But Mastroianni’s soulful silence\, however\, draws us deep into the existential crisis at the heart of the film about a generation that felt consumed by history and another in the process of forgetting it. \n35mm\, color\, in Greek with English subtitles\, 122 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriter: Theo Angelopoulos\, Tonino Guerra\, Dimitris Nollas. With: Marcello Mastroianni\, Nadia Mourouzi\, Jenny Roussea. \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-suspended-step-of-the-stork-the-beekeeper/
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:20221021T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221021T193000
DTSTAMP:20220819T230054Z
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: Days of '36
DESCRIPTION:Days of ’36 (Meres tou ’36) Greece\, 1972 \nA political assassination kicks off Theo Angelopoulos’ portrait of one Greek dictatorship made under the shadow of another. This opening act of violence triggers a series of more ambiguous but equally ominous machinations—a prison escape\, a hostage crisis\, foreign powers conspiring over cocktails—with Angelopoulos emphasizing the atmosphere and anxiety of political repression over specific historical events. Wide shots and 360-degree camera pans suggest a panoramic vision but actually underscore what’s hidden from view. There is very little dialogue and even less explication but the cumulative effect is deeply unnerving. \n35mm\, color\, in Greek and English with English subtitles\, 105 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriters: Theo Angelopoulos\, Petros Markaris\, Stratis Karras\, Thanassis Valtinos. With: Vangelis Kazan\, Kostas Pavlou\, Thanos Grammenos. \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-days-of-36/
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:20221014T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T223000
DTSTAMP:20220819T225242Z
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SUMMARY:Angelopoulos Retrospective: Landscape in the Mist
DESCRIPTION:Landscape in the Mist (Topio stin Omichli) Greece/France/Italy\, 1988 \nA young girl and her brother run away to find the father they’ve never met in Germany. Ducking train conductors and hitching rides\, they’re befriended by Orestes\, a young man working with a troupe of traveling actors before his compulsory military service. Theo Angelopoulos conceived the children’s journey as a modern fairytale\, albeit one marked as much by darkness as wonder. As they seek a father displaced by economics\, their encounters reveal a whole generation set adrift\, waiting in limbo. The final installment in Angelopoulos’ “Trilogy of Silence\,” this was his eighth feature and the first to find theatrical distribution in the United States. \n35mm\, color\, 127 min. Director: Theo Angelopoulos. Screenwriters: Theo Angelopoulos\, Tonino Guerra\, Thanassis Valtinos. With: Michalis Zeke\, Tania Palaiologou\, Stratos Tzortzoglou. \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-landscape-in-the-mist/
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:20221001T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221001T120000
DTSTAMP:20220810T162306Z
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SUMMARY:Johanna Hanink\, "Bones\, Stones\, Trees\, and Roots: On the Enduring Urgency of Karkavitsas' Archeologist (1904)"
DESCRIPTION:How does a novella written more than one hundred years ago help to illuminate pressing issues in Greece today? Karkavitsas’ Archeologist\, an allegory for the contestation of antiquity’s role in Greek modernity\, was published at a time when Greece’s ancient past was emerging as a modern national industry. Major excavations were tied to the establishment of foreign schools in Greece\, while the sheer quantity of new archeological inspired a boom in museum construction. This talk will explore some of the early critiques that the work offered of the early Greek antiquity industry\, and of the mentalities – both foreign and domestic – that drove it. In the spirit of National Translation Day\, this talk will also consider the work’s many reflections on the Greek language (and the “Language Question”)\, as well as the complications the work itself presents for translation on both linguistic and cultural levels.  \nJohanna Hanink is Professor of Classics at Brown University. She is the author of Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy (Cambridge 2014) and The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Age of Austerity (Harvard 2017). She is also a translator of Ancient and Modern Greek. \nThis lecture is offered on the occasion of International Translation Day\, in collaboration with the Embassy of Greece in Washington\, DC\, the UCLA Department of Classics\, and the Archaeological Institute of America\, Los Angeles Chapter. The discussion will be co-moderated by Professor Sarah Morris (Classics; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) and Dr. Simos Zenios (UCLA SNF Hellenic Center). \nView a recording of this talk here. \nFor further information about The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories\, visit the publisher’s site.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/johanna-hanink-lecture-on-the-occasion-of-international-translation-day/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220326T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220326T203000
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SUMMARY:Makriyannis Unplugged - Adapted\, Directed and Performed by Yorgos Karamihos
DESCRIPTION:Celebrated director and actor Yorgos Karamihos pays tribute to General Yannis Makriyannis\, the hero of the 1821 Greek Revolution\, in a show that tells the story of a nation in revolt and an individual in the process of self-formation. Adapting selected passages of Makriyannis’ Memoirs\, a seminal work of Modern Greek letters\, Makriyannis Unplugged renders the Greek hero of the nineteenth century our contemporary\, a figure rooted in a local tradition but with a global significance. The work by Karamihos offers a raw theatrical experience that resonates with Makriyannis’ spirit\, challenging and enriching our understanding of freedom\, community\, duty\, and creativity. \n \nYorgos Karamihos is an acclaimed actor\, director\, and acting teacher\, born and raised in Northern Greece. He has graduated from the Ioanian University with a degree in Philosophy & History\,  as well as from The Greek National Theatre Academy. In 2012 he received a Fulbright Scholarship as an exceptional artist to attend the full-time program at the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles\, where he was immediately offered to teach his own acting technique applied on Ancient Greek drama and A. Chekhov as well as theatre history. His credits as an actor include over thirty theatre productions from ancient Greek dramas and Shakespeare to Anton Chekhov\, Tennessee Williams\, and other classical and modern plays. He has also appeared in more than thirty feature films and numerous TV series such as The Durrells in Corfu\, Bulletproof\, Genius (Picasso) among others. Karamihos has also directed multiple theatre plays in several major venues in Greece and the USA. In 2008 he received the national award as Best Stage Actor of Greece. He has translated plays and books from English\, French\, and Spanish into Greek and has published several theatre plays. \nPerformance Dates \nLos Angeles: March 26\, 2022 at 7:00 PM | Vancouver: April 3\, 2022 at 6:00 PM | Athens: April 14\, 2022 at 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM \nVancouver: April 3\, 2022 at 6:00 PM \nAthens: April 14\, 2022 at 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM \nLos Angeles Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/ycysp3dj ($25/$35; free for students at Los Angeles universities). Our Covid attendance policy is stated on the ticket site. \nThis performance is in English. Help us save paper by reading the program booklet here. \nPlease be aware that UCLA Covid protocols require all attending the performance to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test within 72 hours\, and to wear masks inside the theater. \nParking information for ticketholders: The Freud Playhouse is located in Macgowan Hall at UCLA. Please park in Parking Structure 3\, which is near the theater at the northeastern corner of the campus\, close to Hilgard Ave and Sunset Blvd. \n\nTo save time\, you may purchase your parking permit for $14 in advance using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectevent.aspx. Select UCLA Campus Event\, then Makriyannis Unplugged. With the advanced parking permit\, you can park anywhere in Parking Structure 3. For instructions on how to use this portal\, please click here.\nTo purchase a permit at Parking Structure 3\, please park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area in the north building\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine.\nNo parking attendants will be on site at the parking structure\, so please allow extra time for parking and walking to the theater.\n\nWe welcome you to celebrate Greek Independence Day before the performance with a glass of wine. We thank the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles for their sponsorship of this reception. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/makriyannis-unplugged-adapted-directed-and-performed-by-yorgos-karamihos/
LOCATION:Freud Playhouse\, 245 Charles E Young Dr E.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220129T120000
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SUMMARY:Takis Mavrotas\, "Theofilos: 'The Evzone of Painting'"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece\, will be introduced by Her Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greece to the United States \nThe acclaimed folk artist Theophilos represents the tradition of Greece and its people. Born in ca. 1870 in a village close to Mytilene\, his father was a cobbler while his mother\, Penelope Hatzimihail\, was the daughter of an icon painter. In 1897\, he settled in the town of Volos on the Greek mainland\, and worked as a freelance painter\, creating murals in inns\, houses\, and shops in various villages in the area. His paintings fall into two categories: those inspired by life and those inspired by Greek mythology\, history\, and religion. His work was fundamental to the Generation of the 1930s\, whose artists viewed his paintings as the essence of Greekness. This year\, the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation in Athens has organized a large retrospective\, including loans from the Municipality of Mytilene and the Theophilos Museum. The ninety-four exhibited works manifest the artist’s spirit and soul\, his inner truth that always served and respected the nation’s needs – a nation that has lived both glorious as well as tragic moments. Our event begins with greetings from the Foundation’s General Manager\, Dr. Fotis Papathanasiou\, and its Board Advisor and Contemporary Curator Marina Miliou Theocharakis\, who will both make a short presentation about the Foundation. Exhibition curator Takis Mavrotas will lecture about the painter and his work. Finally\, Evangelia Efthimiadou (Exhibitions Project Manager) and Irene Alexandrakis (Education Manager) will take us on a virtual tour of this important exhibition. \nTakis Mavrotas is Director of Visual Arts at the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation. He has curated numerous individual and group exhibitions\, including: “Views of Magna Grecia” by Enzo Crea (National Bank of Greece Educational Foundation\, Athens\, 1987); “Takis-Chryssa” (European Cultural Centre of Delphi\, 2000); “Pillars and Columns” (European Cultural Centre of Delphi\, 2005); “The Cyclades through the Lens of 20 Contemporary Artists” (Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art\, Athens\, 2005); “Giorgio de Chirico and Greece: A Journey through Memory” (Athinais Cultural Center\, Athens/Onassis Foundation\, New York\, 2007); “A Forest of Sculptures—The Simon Spierer Collection from the Darmstadt State Museum” (Athinais Cultural Center\, Athens\, 2008); “35 visual artists stand for Democracy” (Zappeion\, Athens\, 2009); “Leonardo Cremonini” (Athinais Cultural Center\, Athens\, 2010); “C. P. Cavafy: Pictured. 40 Contemporary Greek Artists” (Theocharakis Foundation\, Athens\, 2013); “Dimitris Mytaras: Painting” (European Parliament\, Brussels\, 2014); “Picasso-Cocteau: Pioneers of Modernism (Theocharakis Foundation Athens\, 2015); “Odysseas Elytis: Poetry and Painting” (Telogleion Arts Foundation\, Thessaloniki\, 2016); and “George Seferis: When the light dances\, I speak fairly” (Telogleion Arts Foundation\, Thessaloniki\, 2019). He has published books\, catalogues\, and has written numerous articles and reviews on the visual arts. \nThis lecture is also co-sponsored by the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. \nTo sign up for the lecture\, click here. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/takis-mavrotas-theofilos-the-tsolias-of-painting/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T120000
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SUMMARY:Spyros Kizis\, "PAPADOPOULOS 100: Exhibiting a Century of Greek Entrepreneurship and Taste."
DESCRIPTION:2022 marks one hundred full years in operation for the biscuit and food manufacturing company E.J. PAPADOPOULOS S.A. Through the items of the Historical Archive of the PAPADOPOULOU Company—one of the most complete and best-organized archives of a Greek company—the Benaki Museum presents for the first time all the important aspects of the hundred-year history and action of one of the largest Greek companies in the field of nutrition. This lecture highlights the ingredients in this hundred-years success: the history of the company\, how its products are made\, and the importance of its brand. This is the story of the Papadopoulos family\, who for a century has been holding the reins of this Greek industry. The exhibition was curated by Erato Koutsoudaki\, architect-museologist\, and Spyros Kizis\, product and interior designer. \nSpyros Kizis was born in Athens in 1986. He earned his diploma in Product and Systems Design Engineering from the University of the Aegean – DPSD in 2011. He holds an MA in Product Design from the University of Edinburgh – Edinburgh College of Art. He has been awarded the Andrew Grand award from the University of Edinburgh\, nominated for the Materials Innovation fellowship from The Arts Foundation\, Red Dot Award 2014\, Pentawards Silver 2014\, and Dromeas 2013 3rd prize. His work has been exhibited in Edinburgh\, London\, Milan\, Ekaterinburg\, Athens\, and Thessaloniki. He is the director and co-founder of Kizi Design Studio in Athens. \nTo attend the event by Zoom\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/spyros-kizis-papadopoulos-100-exhibiting-a-century-of-greek-entrepreneurship-and-taste/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220108T115000
DTSTAMP:20211216T164757Z
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SUMMARY:Mara Verykokou\, "1821: The Collectors' Choice.' An Exhibition Commemorating the Greek War of Independence from an Original Viewpoint."
DESCRIPTION:Benaki Museum curator Mara Verykokou guides us through an exhibition that includes more than 300 objects related to the Revolution of 1821 and the movement of Philhellenism in Europe and America from four important private collections: Nikitas Stavrinakis and Evangelias Stavrinaki\, Petros Vergos\, Apostolos Argyriadis and Stéphan Adler. We shall be asked to decide whether the illustration of the Revolution in the daily life of the West was simply a fashion of the time or something deeper\, which expressed the support for the struggle of the Greeks for freedom. \nMara Verykokou joined the Benaki Museum in 2003 as assistant curator of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Collection and she is currently its acting head. She obtained her MA in History of Art from the University of Aberdeen and her MA in Museum Studies from University College London. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens\, School of History and Archaeology\, with the thesis subject ‘Exhibition policy and communication in the Benaki Museum from the 1970s to the present (1970-2015) in the context of periodic exhibitions.’ Verykokou has been involved as a member of the research team in various exhibition projects\, including “Heaven and Earth; Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections” (National Gallery of Washington 2013-14\, J. Paul Getty Museum\, Los Angeles 2014\, Art Institute of Chicago 2014-15) and participated in the coordination of “Russian Religious Art from Russia to Greece” (Benaki Museum 2017-18). Her current research focuses on the Benaki Museum’s collection of late antique and medieval medical instruments. \nTo attend the event by Zoom\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/mara-verykokou-1821-the-collectors-choice-an-exhibition-commemorating-the-greek-war-of-independence-from-an-original-viewpoint/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211120T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211120T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211002T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211002T120000
DTSTAMP:20210617T205933Z
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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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Byzantine,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210925T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210925T120000
DTSTAMP:20210617T205614Z
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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:A Conversation with the Author: Chris Jaymes | "Sons of Chaos"
DESCRIPTION:  \nTo register\, please click the image above or here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/chris-jaymes-sons-of-chaos/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Let Me Explain You\, by Annie Liontas
DESCRIPTION:Stavros Stavros Mavrakis\, Greek immigrant and proud owner of the Gala Diner\, believes he has just ten days to live. As he prepares for his final hours\, he sends a scathing email to his ex-wife and three grown daughters\, outlining his wishes for how they each might better live their lives. With varying degrees of laughter and scorn\, his family and friends dismiss his behavior as nothing more than a plea for attention\, but when Stavros disappears\, those closest to him are forced to confront the possibility of his death. \nA vibrant tour de force that races to a surprising conclusion\, Let Me Explain You is told from multiple perspectives: Stavros Stavros\, brimming with pride and cursing in broken English; his eldest daughter Stavroula\, a talented chef in love with her boss’s daughter; her sister\, the wounded but resilient Litza; and many other voices who compose a veritable Greek chorus. \nBy turns hilarious and deeply moving\, this multigenerational novel delivers a heartfelt meditation on the power of storytelling and family\, the relationship between fathers and daughters\, and the complex bond of sisterhood. Liontas explores our origins and family myths\, hunger and what feeds us\, reinvention and forgiveness. \nPublisher’s website with purchase links \nTo participate\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios: szenios@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-let-me-explain-you-by-annie-liontas/
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SUMMARY:David A. Bell\, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions; Professor of  History\, Princeton University\, “The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolution"
DESCRIPTION:  \nDavid A. Bell is a historian of early modern France\, with a particular interest in the political culture of the Old Regime and the French Revolution. He attended graduate school at Princeton\, where he worked with Robert Darnton\, and received his Ph.D. in 1991. From 1990 to 1996 he taught at Yale\, and from 1996 to 2010 at Johns Hopkins\, where he held the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities\, and served as Dean of Faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences. He joined the Princeton faculty in 2010. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. \nBell has written six books. Lawyers and Citizens (Oxford University Press\, 1994) examined the politicization of the French legal profession in the eighteenth century\, showing how spaces for radical criticism of the French monarchy first opened up within the structure of the French state itself. The Cult of the Nation in France (Harvard University Press\, 2001) argued that nationalism\, as opposed to national sentiment\, was a novelty of the French Revolutionary period\, and that it arose both out of\, and in reaction to\, Christianity. The First Total War (Houghton Mifflin\, 2007) is a general study of the political culture of war in Europe between 1750 and 1815. It showed how an aristocratic culture of limited warfare gave way to a world in which total war was possible—and in which\, between 1792 and 1815\, it actually took place. More recently\, Oxford University Press published two new books by Bell: Napoleon: A Concise Biography (2015)\, and an essay collection\, Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France\, Past and Present (2016). Finally\, in 2018\, W.W. Norton published a textbook co-authored by Bell and Anthony Grafton: The West: A New History. Bell has also co-edited two volumes: Raison universelle et culture nationale au siècle des lumières\, with Ludmila Pimenova and Stéphane Pujol (Honoré Champion\, 1999)\, and Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World\, with Yair Mintzker (Oxford University Press\, 2018). Bell’s new book\, Men on Horseback: Charisma and Power in the Age of Revolutions will be published in 2020 by Farrar\, Straus\, Giroux. \nIn addition to his research and teaching\, Bell writes frequently for a range of general-interest publications. He is committed to the proposition that serious history can be readable\, enjoyable\, and accessible to an interested general public. \nUCLA Professor Lynn Hunt introduces this lecture\, which is also sponsored by the Department of History and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies. \nTo participate in this event\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/david-bell-sidney-and-ruth-lapidus-professor-in-the-era-of-north-atlantic-revolutions-professor-of-history-princeton-university-the-greek-revolution-in-the-age-of-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Γιώργος Κυριακόπουλος\, Η τρισεγγονή της Aραπίνας και άλλες ιστορίες
DESCRIPTION:  \n«Να μπω εγώ σε ξένη κάμαρη; Ποτέ»\, απάντησε η σπιτονοικοκυρά με την αρχοντιά γυναίκας με άμεμπτες αρχές. Όμως σαν πήγε τρεις και κάτι\, κάποιος της υπέβαλε την ιδέα πως μπορεί να μην είναι καλά\, να είναι μέσα και να χρειάζεται βοήθεια. Με κατεβασμένα τα μούτρα πήγε η Γεωργία στο σκρίνιο\, που φυλούσε το κουτί με τα κλειδιά. Ξύλινο\, με καλοσκαλισμένο το όνομα “Ηνωμένα Βουστάσια” στο λεπτό καπάκι. Και μέσα πάνω από τριάντα κλειδιά\, φύρδην μίγδην\, κάποια με ένα κομμάτι στραβοκομμένο γκρίζο χαρτόνι περασμένο με σπάγκο και με ένα νούμερο γραμμένο με κόκκινο μολύβι. Έβαλε κάτι γυαλιά του μακαρίτη και άρχισε να τα ανακατεύει με την παλάμη της μέχρι που τσίμπησε εκείνο με το “6”. Έβγαλε τα γυαλιά\, σηκώθηκε με ίσια την πλάτη. Ανέβηκε πρώτη τη σκάλα\, στην αρχή λίγο διστακτικά\, έπειτα πιο αποφασιστικά. Πίσω της η Ισμήνη κρατώντας ψηλά την λάμπα να βλέπουν και οι άλλοι. Και παραπίσω η ανιψιά του Τότη με το οινόπνευμα και η κόρη της Γεωργίας με μια λεκάνη. Τελευταίοι οι άντρες. Ξεκλείδωσαν το δωμάτιο.» \nΕικοσι μία ιστορίες\, κάποιες περισσότερο μυθοπλαστικές\, κάποιες με ψήγματα αυτοβιογραφίας\, κάποιες από τα παλιά ή και τα παλιότερα\, κάποιες προχθεσινές ή χθεσινές\, κάποιες σκληρές και κάποιες τρυφερές\, κάποιες ερωτικές και κάποιες φυλακισμένες σε μνήμες αστικές\, όλες όμως βγαλμένες σε ίσες δόσεις από τη σχολαστική παρατηρητικότητα και τη φαντασία. Ελλειπτική εξιστόρηση με ρόλο για τον αναγνώστη\, που πρέπει να ανατρέξει στη γεύση του ουρανίσκου του για να τις βιώσει. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου) \nTo participate\, contact Dr. Simos Zenios: szenios@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-%ce%b3%ce%b9%cf%8e%cf%81%ce%b3%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%ba%cf%85%cf%81%ce%b9%ce%b1%ce%ba%cf%8c%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%b7-%cf%84%cf%81%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%ad%ce%b3%ce%b3%ce%bf/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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SUMMARY:Pavlos Demertzis-Bouboulis\, Director\, The Bouboulina Museum\, “An Introduction to a Heroine of the  Greek Revolution and her Context: Views from the Bouboulina Museum”
DESCRIPTION:To participate in this event\, RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/pavlos-demertzis-bouboulis-director-the-bouboulina-museum-an-introduction-to-a-heroine-of-the-greek-revolution-and-her-context-views-from-the-bouboulina-museum-2/
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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