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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Embassy of Greece in the United States":MAILTO:gremb.was@mfa.gr
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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
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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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Modern Greece
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ORGANIZER;CN="Embassy of Greece in the United States":MAILTO:gremb.was@mfa.gr
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210918T120000
DTSTAMP:20210802T202524Z
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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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210612T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210612T120000
DTSTAMP:20210507T234046Z
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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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T120000
DTSTAMP:20201108T035409Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T120000
DTSTAMP:20201007T211717Z
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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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210313T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210313T120000
DTSTAMP:20201108T034848Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T130000
DTSTAMP:20210223T141323Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T141323Z
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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/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,HUC@UCLA,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210116T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210116T120000
DTSTAMP:20201108T033441Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation with the Mayor: The Honorable Petros Doukas\, Mayor of Sparta
DESCRIPTION:  \nWith a new museum and hospital underway\, and with plans for a new airport\, the city of Sparta is undergoing dramatic changes. In this wide-ranging conversation\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center Director Sharon Gerstel and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris\, Associate Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning\, chat with Mayor Petros Doukas about his city—its strong roots in a proud ancient past and its exciting plans for the future. This conversation will touch on the challenges of governance\, large infrastructure plans\, partnerships with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation\, managing traffic\, and the 2\,500-year anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae. \nDr. Petros Doukas\, Mayor of Sparta\, holds an MBA from Columbia University and a PhD in Economics from New York University. He is the author of Modern Economic and Management Theories and Classical Greek Thought and has published numerous collections of poetry. He has vast experience in finance and has served as a Citibank executive in New York\, a Vice President\, Country Head & Treasurer of Citibank Greece\, and Chairman of Board of Directors of Heracles\, Ericsson Greece\, Pepsico Greece\, and Nova PayTV Group. He is also President of Capital Partners SA\, Mergers & Acquisitions Advisors. From 2004-2009 he represented the Attica Region as an elected Member of Parliament and also served as Deputy Minister of Finance and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2019 he was elected Mayor of Sparta. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Pan-Laconian Federation of the United States and Canada. \nFor a Zoom link\, RSVP here. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-the-mayor-the-honorable-petros-doukas-mayor-of-sparta/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T120000
DTSTAMP:20200704T231030Z
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Κάτι θα γίνει\, θα δεις του Χρήστου Οικονόμου
DESCRIPTION:Δεκάξι ιστορίες από τα Καμίνια\, τη Νίκαια\, τη Δραπετσώνα. Από τον ντόκο των Κρητικών\, από το ουζερί “Υπάρχω”\, από το φουγάρο της ΔΕΗ στο Κερατσίνι. Ιστορίες για τράπεζες που παίρνουν σπίτια\, για σπίτια που παίρνουν φωτιά\, για όνειρα που γίνονται στάχτη. Για το σκοτάδι που ζει στη διπλανή πόρτα. Κάτι θα γίνει όμως\, θα δεις. Γιατί εκεί όπου μεγαλώνει ο φόβος μεγαλώνει κι εκείνο που σώζει από τον φόβο. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου) \n“Φτώχεια\, ανεργία\, ανασφάλεια απέναντι στους μετανάστες\, βία\, χαμένα όρια\, αλλά και έξω καρδιά κι αλληλεγγύη. Όχι\, δεν πρόκειται περί λούμπεν. Στο επίκεντρο της αφήγησης του Οικονόμου στέκει ο σύγχρονος προλετάριος\, γηγενής ή μετανάστης\, με ή χωρίς ταξική συνείδηση. Νικαιώτης και ο ίδιος\, ο συγγραφέας δεν τον παραμορφώνει μέσα από το φακό μιας προσποιητής συμπάθειας\, δεν επιχειρεί να τον εξιδανικεύει. Προσπαθεί απλώς να τον δείξει όπως είναι.\nΑνοίγοντας μια μεγαλύτερη συζήτηση για τη σύγχρονη ελληνική λογοτεχνία\, νομίζω ότι είναι ευχάριστο το γεγονός ότι\, ύστερα από μια αρκετά μεγάλη περίοδο ομφαλοσκόπησης\, πληθαίνουν ξανά τα κείμενα που ασχολούνται με την πολιτική και ιδίως αυτά που κοιτούν κατάφατσα τη σημερινή κοινωνία. Ιδιαίτερα όταν πρόκειται για συγγραφείς της νεότερης γενιάς\, όπως καλή ώρα ο 40χρονος Οικονόμου.\nΗ θεματική του είναι σαφώς ρεαλιστική\, ίσως ακόμη και νατουραλιστική\, όμως η τεχνική του φέρνει πιο κοντά στο μοντερνισμό: εναλλαγές σε πρωτοπρόσωπη\, δευτεροπρόσωπη και τριτοπρόσωπη αφήγηση\, φράσεις που κόβονται στη λέξη\, κοντινά πλάνα αλλά και αποστασιοποιημένες ματιές\, χαρακτήρες που μεταφέρονται από τη μια ιστορία στην άλλη.\nΟ Οικονόμου γνωρίζει τα τερτίπια της δύσκολης και απαιτητικής μικρής φόρμας. Ο λόγος του είναι κοφτός και συμπυκνωμένος. Ξέρει πρώτα από όλα να πλάθει καλοσχηματισμένους χαρακτήρες στα στενά όρια που του επιβάλλει αυτή η φόρμα.\nΔιηγήματα όπως το “Πλακάτ με σκουπόξυλο”\, όπου μιλάει για τα εργατικά ατυχήματα που συμβαίνουν καθημερινά εξαιτίας της πλεονεξίας της εργοδοσίας\, ή το ελεγειακό “Μάο” (“σε γαμάω”)\, σκληρό σχόλιο πάνω στην τυφλή βία που ευδοκιμεί στις υπανάπτυκτες συνοικίες\, είναι για αναγνώστες με υψηλό κριτήριο αλλά και με γερό στομάχι”. (ΘΑΝΑΣΗΣ ΜΗΝΑΣ\, ATHENS VOICE\, 9/6/2010) \nTo participate\, email Dr. Simos Zenios: szenios@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T100000
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SUMMARY:Marisa E. Marthari\, The Early Cycladic Site at Skarkos on the Island of Ios
DESCRIPTION:The site of Skarkos stands in an advantageous position on a hill in a coastal plain\, mid-way down the western side of Ios and in proximity to one of the largest sheltered harbors in the Cyclades. The excavations conducted by the author brought to light a multiperiod prehistoric site and\, most significantly\, a settlement of the Cycladic Early Bronze Age II (mid-3rd millennium BC\, Keros-Syros Culture) the remains of which predominate on the hill. More than one-third of this settlement has been excavated mainly in the last fifteen years. The walls of the buildings are preserved to a maximum height of 4 meters. This unique state of preservation helps to understand the layout\, architecture\, and structures of settlements in the Cyclades during the peak of the Early Cycladic world. The settlement has a well-organized plan\, with wide streets and squares\, two-story rectangular buildings and a complicated drainage system. In the area excavated so far\, 10 insulae and 55 buildings have been uncovered. Skarkos developed agricultural\, craft and trading activities. Craft specialization is particularly evident in the settlement. Various skilled craftsmen must have been active\, among them masons\, potters\, obsidian specialists (tool makers) and marble-carvers. Indeed\, the evidence demonstrates that Skarkos  was a considerable marble-working center. Luxury and/or prestige objects\, such as marble figurines and fine vessels\, were produced there and circulated in the Aegean exchange networks in which Skarkos participated. Two marble workshops were excavated. Furthermore\, the seals\, the large number of terracotta seal-impressed cubic objects\, and the seal-impressed pottery found at the site leave no doubt that seal-stamping was a common practice at Skarkos. It appears that\, in some circumstances\, a statement of ownership or personal identity was useful or necessary. \nDr. Marisa E. Marthari is Ephor of Antiquities (Emerita) at the Greek Archaeological Service and director of the excavations at Skarkos on Ios \, the largest known Early Cycladic II (Keros -Syros culture) settlement\, and Kastri on Syros\, a fortified Early Cycladic settlement\, the last under the aegis of the Archaeological Society at Athens. She also has a long standing academic association with the excavations at the prehistoric town of Akrotiri on Thera. Marthari was formerly Director of the Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities for the Cyclades and Samos\, regions where she conducted numerous excavations and directed projects on museum exhibitions and presentation of archaeological sites including that at Skarkos on Ios\, winner of the 2008 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Top Prize for Conservation (GRAND PRIZE). She was P.M. Warren Visiting Professor in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Bristol\, Institute of Greece\, Rome\, and the Classical Tradition (2012-2013) and visiting fellow at the University of London\, Institute of Classical Studies (1984-1988)\, and the Kommission für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Archäologie (CAVA) in Bonn (1988-1989). She served as member of the Committee of the European Bronze Age Campaign of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg (1993-1997). Marthari presented more than 80 papers and public lectures in Greece\, Europe (Britain\, Germany\, France\, Italy\, Switzerland and Austria)\, Cyprus\, Turkey\, the United States and Canada. She has published widely on Late Bronze Age Theran pottery\, Cycladic prehistory and archaeological heritage issues. Most recently she is co-editor of Early Cycladic Culture in Context (London 2017) and Beyond the Cyclades: Early Cycladic Culture in Context from Mainland Greece\, the North and East Aegean (London 2019). \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/marisa-e-marthari-the-early-cycladic-site-at-skarkos-on-the-island-of-ios/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Hellenic,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Konstantinos Zachos\, "Excavations at the Victory Monument of Octavian Augustus at Nikopolis\, Epiros: A Monument that Marks the Turning Point in the History of the Ancient World"
DESCRIPTION:On September 2\, 31 BC\, Octavian’s forces defeat those of Mark Antony and the queen of Egypt Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece. The battle is known as the Battle of Actium\, after the name of the peninsula at the entrance of the Ambracian Gulf\, where an ancient sanctuary to Apollo existed. Few episodes of ancient history have been commented on more and more often as the Battle of Actium. Admittedly\, it was the beginning of a new world and\, above all\, the beginning of Octavian’s “monarchy\,” while historians since antiquity have been attributing to the battle the dimensions of a symbol. \nAfter the victory\, Octavian\, who is known in history as Augustus\, undertook a series of actions aimed at the economic and social reorganization of northwestern Greece\, while incorporating elements of political and religious propaganda. Specifically\, he founded a city which he named Nikopolis\, i.e. Victory City\, renovated the sanctuary of Apollo at Actium\, and on a hill sacred to Apollo at the outskirts of the new city\, where he had encamped\, erected a Victory Monument. Excavations at this imposing\, extravagant monument over the past few decades\, have revealed a wealth of finds\, some of astonishing artistic rendering\, which represent the victor’s earliest surviving statement regarding the Actian War. \nKonstantinos Zachos is an archaeologist interested in various aspects of Aegean Prehistory and Roman archaeology\, as well as of the archaeology of Epiros. He holds a B.A. from the University of Thessaloniki and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University. During his graduate studies in Boston\, he attended seminars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. After his graduate studies\, he entered the Greek Archaeological Service\, worked in several Ephorates of Antiquities and was promoted to Ephor of Antiquities.  He conducted post graduate research as a Privat “Dozent” at the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte of the University of Heidelberg. \nHe has excavated widely in Epiros\, Peloponnesos\, the Cyclades\, and in Albania. He was the director of the systematic excavation at the Zas Cave in Naxos\, which contributed significantly to the prehistory of Cyclades. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. \nThis lecture will be offered by ZOOM.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/konstantinos-zachos-excavations-at-the-victory-monument-of-octavian-augustus-at-nikopolis-epiros-a-monument-that-marks-the-turning-point-in-the-history-of-the-ancient-world/
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classics,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200926T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200926T120000
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SUMMARY:Gelina Harlaftis\, "Creating Global Shipping: From the Vagliano Brothers to Aristotle Onassis”
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is based on the author’s recent book\, Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis\, the Vagliano Brothers and the Business of Shipping\, c.1820-1970 (Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2019). It explores the evolution of the European shipping firm through the study of two Greek shipping firms\, which provide a prime example of the regional European maritime businesses that evolved to serve Europe’s international trade and eventually the global economy. The study of the Vagliano Brothers indicates how Greek shipping underwent transformation from local shipping and trading to international shipping and ship management. The Onassis case indicates  how international shipping was transformed to global shipping business. \nShipping has been a leading sector in European economic growth for centuries. By the end of the twentieth century Greeks owned more ships than any other nationality in the world\, and the shipowners played a fundamental role in global connectivity and economic growth. The author’s study contributes to the understanding of the shipping business during the two globalization waves. The Vaglianos developed during the first massive wave of globalization which started in the second half of the nineteenth century to shrink during the interwar period\, and the Onassis business depicts the explosion of the second globalization wave in the second half of the twentieth century. These two firms contributed to the process of global economic integration by inventing and re-inventing Greek and ultimately European southern and northern maritime tradition. Because this is not only the story of the Greeks. It can also be read as the history of the evolution of the European maritime tradition involved in tramp/bulk shipping. \nGelina Harlaftis is Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) since 2017. She has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). She started her academic career at the University of Piraeus (1990-2002)\, continued at the Ionian University (2003-2018)\, and is presently Professor of Maritime History in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete. She was President of the International Maritime Economic History Αssociation (2004-2008). In 2009 she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College\, Oxford University\, and in 2008 an Alfred D. Chandler\, Jr.\, International Visiting Scholar in the Business History Program\, Harvard Business School. She has published 26 books in English\, Canadian and Greek publishing houses and over 60 articles in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals. Her last book is Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis\, the Vagliano Brothers and the Business of Shipping\, c.1820-1970\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2019.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/gelina-harlaftis-creating-global-shipping-from-the-vagliano-brothers-to-aristotle-onassis/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T120000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Hellenic Authors: Linda Reid and Deborah Shlian
DESCRIPTION:Authors Linda Reid & Deborah Shlian discuss their most recent book\, Deep Waters. \nFor centuries\, an ancient shipwreck in azure Greek waters has concealed  an astonishing truth. The drowning of an underwater cameraman\, then the  murder of a highly respected academic – seemingly isolated tragedies?  When radio talk show host Sammy Greene and ex-cop Gus Pappajohn  investigate\, they uncover an ancient and modern mystery – conflicts  between pagans and saints\, archeologists and treasure hunters. From the  marble steps of the Parthenon to the peaks of the hidden monasteries of Mount Athos\, the two risk their lives in a desperate race to find the  lost chapter of human history. \nTo purchase the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NBTZMTB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 \nLinda Reid is an award-winning author of mystery-thrillers and feature articles\, a physician\, and the parent of three wonderful young adults. She has written for the Washington Post\, Baltimore Sun\, Los Angeles Times\, Tribune International\, American Film\, Woman’s Day\, Salon\, and the HuffPost. As Y S Pascal\, she wrote her sci-fi/fantasy The Zygan Emprise Trilogy; the first book\, Renegades—Where Angels Fear to Tread\,won a Mensa Sharp Writ Books Award.  Her mystery thrillers\, Dead Air and Devil Wind\, co-written with Deborah Shlian as Linda Reid\, won the Royal Palm Literary Awards for Best Suspense/Thriller.  She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America\, Sisters in Crime\, and the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society. \nDeborah Shlian is a physician\, healthcare consultant and author of numerous nonfiction articles and books as well as six award winning medical mystery/thrillers\, three co-authored with her husband\, Joel. \nRSVP: hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-hellenic-authors-linda-reid-and-deborah-shlian/
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T120000
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SUMMARY:Irini Papageorgiou\, "Rites of Passage: The Wedding Rituals in Classical Athens"
DESCRIPTION:Irini Papageorgiou is Curator of the Department of Prehistoric\, Ancient Greek\, and Roman Collections at the Benaki Museum \nTo receive a Zoom link for this lecture\, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/irini-papageorgiou-rites-of-passage-the-wedding-rituals-in-classical-athens/
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T120000
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SUMMARY:George Manginis\, "'For the Benefit of the Nation': A Collection of Chinese Art for Greece"
DESCRIPTION:George Aristides Eumorfopoulos (1863-1939)\, was a British collector of Chinese\, Korean and Near Eastern art. He was born at 43 Bedford Street South\, Mount Pleasant\, Merseyside\, the son of Aristides Georges Eumorfopoulos (1825–1897) and Mariora Eustratius Scaramanga (1840–1908). His grandparents had fled the Greek island of Chios during the massacre of its population by the Ottoman army in 1822. Eumorfopoulos worked for a London firm established in 1819 – Ralli Brothers\, of Greek origin\, a firm of private bankers who were also importers of rice\, cotton and hemp from India. By the time he retired in August 1934 he had risen to the position of Vice President of the firm. Since 1922 he lived at 7 Chelsea Embankment in London\, a townhouse he had converted into a museum. Eumorfopoulos was a respected collector of Asian art. In the early stages of his collecting activity he focused on European medieval and renaissance art and 18th century ceramics alongside Japanese art\, but he soon diversified into early Chinese art\, especially after 1906. He not only made use of the services of experts or agents\, but also relied on his own rapidly growing experience in acquiring objects. His collection of Oriental art grew to an enormous size\, obliging him to add a two-storey extension to the back of his Chelsea house. He founded the Oriental Ceramic Society and was its first president from 1921 until his death in 1939. He organised and funded the publication of eleven volumes illustrating and describing items from his collection during the 1920s and early 1930s. Free access to his collection and encouragement from him inspired his neighbors Nell and Charles Vyse to experiment with Oriental stoneware glazes. Eumorfopoulos had intended to bequeath his collection to the British nation\, but the Great Depression of the 1930s forced him to sell part of it\, in what was called ‘a princely gesture’\, to the Victoria and Albert and British Museums for £100 000 in 1934/5; he also sold some duplicates through Bluett’s\, the London art dealers\, and between 1927 and 1936 donated 800 pieces to the Benaki Museum\, Athens. This lecture looks at the fascinating life of this collector and at the important collection that the Benaki holds. \nGeorge Manginis is Academic Director of the Benaki Museum. \nTo receive a Zoom link for this lecture\, please email hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/george-manginis-for-the-benefit-of-the-nation-a-collection-of-chinese-art-for-greece/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T120000
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SUMMARY:Mina Moraitou\, "'Mr. Byzantoine et ses amis': Antonis Benakis and the Art Scene of Alexandria"
DESCRIPTION:Antonis Benakis was born in Egypt into a Greek family with a strong sense of duty towards society. He maintained close ties with the homeland and had\, as all Greeks did\, a strong sense of Greek identity although he was born and raised abroad. In a time of irredentist ideas\, he contributed to Greece’s struggle to expand its borders by supporting operations or participating along with other family members. As he was growing up in Alexandria\, Benakis became a passionate art collector. His had a wide range of interests and gradually he managed to form remarkable collections.This paper will focus on the artistic scene of Alexandria during the years before the move to Athens\, the contribution of the Greek community and especially the role of Antonis Benakis. Furthermore\, it will highlight the eclectic taste of the collector and the way in which it was reflected in the creation of the Benaki Museum in Athens.  \nMina Moraitou is Curator of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art \nTo register for the Zoom lecture\, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/mina-moraitou-mr-byzantoine-et-ses-amis-antonis-benakis-and-the-art-scene-of-alexandria/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T120000
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SUMMARY:Aliki Tsigialou\, "Nelly's: Reflections on the Life and Work of the Female Photographer Elli Seraidari-Sougioultzoglou (1899-1998)
DESCRIPTION:A native of Aydin in Asia Minor\, Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari–better known by her professional name of Nelly’s–was first influenced by German trends in photography. The two main characteristics of her work\, and indeed of her life\, were freedom and movement. She owed her pictorial technique and her classical sense of aesthetics to the influence of her German teachers\, Hugo Erfurth and Franz Fiedler. However\, in 1924\, after establishing herself in Athens and opening a photography studio in Ermou Street\, she adopted a more Greek-centered and conservative approach to her work. An early interest in portraiture\, maintained throughout her professional career in Greece and the USA\, provides us with rare pictures of interwar Athenian society\, as well as an important source of information on America’s Greek immigrants. From 1927 until the outbreak of World War II\, Nelly’s traveled throughout Greece\, documenting the entire panorama of Greek life. As a Diaspora Greek\, Nelly’s view of Greece tended to be somewhat “idealized”. Her photographs appeared in official tourist publications that were circulated abroad\, and contributed to creating the earliest visual symbols of Greece’s “philosophy regarding tourism.” She systematically depicted the ancient monuments and archaeological sites of Greece. Her experiments with natural light and her photographs of ancient temples\, demonstrating their interrelationship\, are true masterpieces\, bringing to mind the work of Erfurth’s German student\, Walter Hege. Nelly’s photographs of dancers in Germany and\, above all\, on the Acropolis (1923-29) demonstrate exceptional thematic cohesion and identify her as one of the leading dance photographers of the interwar period. Having gone into self-imposed exile in the USA following the outbreak of World War II in 1939\, she added advertising photography\, color photography and photo reporting (New York streets & Easter Parade) to her range of skills\, although she was not overly influenced by the trends of contemporary American photography. Nelly’s died in Athens\, after a lifetime of passionate dedication to her art. She left a body of work\, which remains exemplary from both an artistic and a technical standpoint; it represents a valuable legacy to the photographers of today. \nFor a Zoom link for this lecture\, please RSVP: hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/aliki-tsigialou-nellys-reflections-on-the-life-and-work-of-the-female-photographer-elli-seraidari-sougioultzoglou-1899-1998/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T120000
DTSTAMP:20200503T033912Z
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SUMMARY:Evita Arapoglou\, "Niko Ghika\, John Craxton\, Patrick Leigh Fermor: Charmed Lives in Greece"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture\, by author and art historian Evita Arapoglou\, will present the life and work of Greek painter Niko Ghika (Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika)\, British painter John Craxton\, and the British writer Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor\, who all made homes in Greece. Meeting at the end of World War II\, the three men formed a friendship that would endure to the end of their lives. They shared an interest and passion for Hellenistic culture and contributed to what is now understood to be “a golden age of Anglo-Greek artistic and literary collaboration.” \nPlease RSVP hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu for a Zoom link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/evita-arapoglou-niko-ghika-john-craxton-patrick-leigh-fermor-charmed-lives-in-greece/
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic
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