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SUMMARY:A Conversation with the Mayor: The Honorable Moses Elisaf\, Mayor of Ioannina
DESCRIPTION:Moses Elisaf was born in Ioannina in 1954 and graduated from the University of Athens in 1979. His parents were Holocaust survivors who managed to escape the roundup during which most of Ioannina’s Jews were deported to Auschwitz; only 9% of the community survived. Elisaf is a pathologist\, a professor of internal medicine at Ioannina Medical School\, and director of the Lipids\, Atherosclerosis\, Obesity and Diabetes Department. Between 1993 and 1994\, he worked at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He has been the president of the Romaniote Jewish community of Ioannina for more than a decade\, and previously served as the president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece. Elisaf has also served on the city council and as the president of a cultural center. Running as an independent politician\, he obtained 50.33% of the vote on the second round of the elections for mayor of Ioannina in June 2019. Elisaf says that he is a centrist and aims to build consensus around policies for the city’s development\, such as improving infrastructure and public services. Elisaf is the first Jewish mayor in the history of Greece. \nHer Excellency Alexandra Papadopoulou\, Ambassador of Greek to the United States\, will offer opening remarks. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Panepirotic Federation of America. \nTo take part in this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-the-mayor-the-honorable-moses-elisaf-mayor-of-ioannina/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Hellenic,Jewish Greece,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T100000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Tour of the Museum of Cycladic Art with Greek Prehistoric Archaeologist Metaxia Routsi
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCLA SNF Center and the Museum of Cycladic Art\, Athens\, for an inside look into the Museum’s unparalleled collection of Cycladic art. Go behind the scenes to view figurines\, vases\, tools\, weapons\, and pottery from all phases of the distinctive Cycladic island culture that flourished in the central Aegean during the Early Bronze Age (third millennium BC). \nMetaxia Routsi was born in 1973 in Munich. She graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Ioannina. She has participated in many systematic excavations\, such as the Mycenaean cemetery in Kallithea in Patra\, the Minoan Palace of Archanes in Crete\, etc. From 1999 to 2004 she worked as an archaeologist at the Ministry of Culture\, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. She has worked in many excavations of prehistoric sites\, such as the\nEarly Cycladic cemetery in Chalandriani of Syros\, the Neolithic settlement in Strofilas of Andros\, the Mesolithic settlement in Maroulas of Kithnos\, etc. She has undertaken the study and publication of material culture of an Archaic cemetery\, excavated by Y. Kourayos in Paros. In January 2019\, she began working as a guide at the Museum of Cycladic Art. \nTo attend this event\, please RSVP here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/a-virtual-tour-of-the-museum-of-cycladic-art-with-greek-prehistoric-archaeologist-metaxia-routsi/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T100000
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SUMMARY:Tassos Sakellaropoulos (Head of Historical Archives) and Maria Dimitriadou (Historical Archives)\, “1821\, Before and After: Narrating and Curating 100 Years of Greek History”
DESCRIPTION:The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of the 1821 declaration of the Greek War of Independence. To celebrate this major anniversary\, the Benaki Museum\, together with the Bank of Greece\, the National Bank of Greece\, and ALPHABANK are mounting a major exhibition of works of art and historical testimonies under the title “1821\, Before and After.” The exhibition will cover over a century in the history of modern Hellenism\, from 1770 to 1880. Among other aspects\, the following will be presented through the rich collections of the Museum and the artworks housed in the three banking institutions: everyday life\, trade\, education among the Greeks\, the preparation for the War of Independence as well as the events as they unfolded\, the philhellenic movement\, the work of Ioannis Kapodistrias\, the creation of the new state of Greece\, the reign of King Otho\, the building of modern Athens and the early years of George I’s reign up until the opening of the Corinth Canal. \nDr. Tassos Sakellaropoulos is a historian and Head of the Benaki Museum Historical Archives. He studied History at the University of Siena in Italy. His main area of interest is the history of the Greek twentieth century\, in particular\, the political role of the Greek Army\, political events during the 1940s\, political persecutions in post-War Greece and the resistance to the 1967 dictatorship. Dr Sakellaropoulos has curated exhibitions and edited publications on the 19th and 20th centuries. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism (Mnimon review) and a board member of the Archives of Modern Social History. \nDr. Maria Dimitriadou was born in Athens\, Greece\, and studied Political Sciences and History at the Panteion University\, where she was awarded a PhD from the Department on German Studies. Since 1994 she is a curator at the Historical Archives of the Benaki Museum. Dr. Dimitriadou has written numerous scholarly studies on modern Greek society and history\, covering\, among others\, the history of Skopelos in the 19th century\, the Balkan Wars\, and the relations between Greece and Germany during the Interwar. She has edited the Archive of the Greek Revolution held at the Benaki Museum\, in two volumes (published in 2011 and 2013). \nRSVP here to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/tassos-sakellaropoulos-head-of-historical-archives-and-maria-dimitriadou-historical-archives-1821-before-and-after-narrating-and-curating-100-years-of-greek-history/
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CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201121T100000
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SUMMARY:Polina Kosmadaki (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art\, Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints\, Benaki Museum)\, “Charting Mediterranean Archaisms in a Modern Framework: Christian Zervos and the Cahiers d’art Method”
DESCRIPTION:Christos or Christian Zervos (Argostoli 1889–Paris 1970) played a definitive role in shaping the cultural climate in interwar Paris through his journal Cahiers d’Αrt\, which he founded in 1926 and published until 1960. It was one of the longest-lived modernist journals\, which numbered 97 issues. As early as the first issue\, Cahiers d’Αrt had focused on promoting modern art and on the dialogue between works of different origins and different historical periods. Zervos is also known as the publisher of the iconic catalogue of Pablo Picasso’s paintings from 1932 on\, known today as “le Zervos\,” as well as his archaeological publications on prehistoric civilisations\, for example those of Neolithic or Minoan Crete and the Cyclades. His contribution was particularly significant in the dissemination of ancient–especially prehistoric–Greek art as well as the redefinition of ancient civilisations and archaic forms in the context of modernism. In this lecture\, I will try to expose the key aspects of Christian Zervos’ methodology in Cahiers d’art and in editions focusing on the creation of meaningful relationships between Mediterranean and earlier civilizations and the art of his time. I will speak about both his position and his practice in regard to the redefinition and reappraisal of various archaisms during the interwar period\, and make a case for his innovative approach of fusing modernism and antiquity within a liquid conception of time. \nPolina Kosmadaki is an art historian living and working in Athens. She holds a Ph.D in Art History from the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne. She is currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Head of the Department of Paintings of the Benaki Museum\, Athens and a Lecturer of Art History in the European Studies program of the Hellenic Open University. Since 2008 she is an associate researcher of the French School at Athens’ Modern Section\, currently the Head Researcher of a project on the editor and art critic Christian Zervos and his journal Cahiers d’art. She has edited the volumes: Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’art\, the archaic turn\, 2019; Paris-Athènes 1919-1939 Le double voyage\, École Francaise d’Athènes\, 2018 (with Lucile Farnoux); Greece: Traces of today\, Imago Mundi\, Fabrica\, Luciano Benetton Foundation\, 2015; Institution critique-critical institutions\, AICA HELLAS\, September 2013 (with Elpida Karampa). She has curated numerous exhibitions both for the Benaki Museum and as an independent curator\, for example: Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’art\, Benaki Museum\, Musée Zervos Vézelay\, École Francaise d‘Athènes 2019\, Jannis Varelas\, Anima I\, 2019\, Liquid Antiquity\, DESTE & Benaki Museum 2017\, Ametria\, Deste & Benaki Museum\, 2015\, George Lappas\, Happy Birthday\, Deste & Benaki Museum 2016\, Cabinets of Miracles with Christoforos Marinos for ZONE D\, 2010. Since 2011 she is running the commissions program «Artists in dialogue with the Benaki Museum» (Andy Holden\, Adam Chodzko\, Ciara Philips\, Zafos Xagoraris\, Antonis Pittas)\, in collaboration with the British Council\, Greece. \nRSVP\, click here.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/hellenic-together-polina-kosmadaki/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T100000
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SUMMARY:Anna Ballian (Curator Emerita\, Benaki Museum)\, “Bacini or Immured Vessels on Post- Byzantine Churches\, 16th-17th Century: The Case of Iznik\, Italian and Local Ware”
DESCRIPTION:The image of a small church with immured ceramic vessels on its walls is interwoven with representations of the Greek landscape\, whether on the islands or on the mainland. The practice of decorating church façades with brightly decorated vessels is older than the 16th century and the Ottoman period in Greece\, and is related to the phenomenon of bacini\, or plates\, immured in the façades of Italian religious buildings from the 11th to the 15th centuries. The spread of the practice appears to have followed sea routes and commercial networks opened up by Italian maritime cities. In Greece\, the practice is particularly apparent after 1204 in areas ruled over by Franks or Venetians. Glazed ceramic plates of various origins\, whether local Byzantine or imported from Islamic or Christian Mediterranean countries\, appeared on the exterior walls of late Byzantine churches and this practice continued after the Ottoman conquest with local\, Ottoman\, Italian and other Western European ceramics until the 19th century. This lecture will focus on a group of 16th- to 17th-century churches in Euboea\, Thessaly and the Peloponnese. Ottoman immured vessels from Iznik and possibly from Kütahya are the novel factor\, the outcome of a new political reality and change of taste\, but they co-exist with Italian maiolica vessels which continued to be traded along the same routes. Dating these ceramics helps provide a chronology for newly built or renovated churches and\, when possible\, unfolds the mechanism of patronage and the status of the donors. Eventually\, the study of early churches and their immured vessels will expand our knowledge about the Greek elites of the early Tourkokratia. \nAnna Ballian is curator emerita of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Αrt. She began working at the Benaki as a curator of the post-Byzantine collection of church silver and embroideries and has worked on the presentation and opening of the Benaki | Greek Culture and Benaki | Islamic Art. She completed her BA in History and Archaeology at the University of Athens\, her MA in Islamic Art from SOAS\, London\, and her PhD at the University of Birmingham\, Centre for Byzantine\, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies with a thesis on the art and patronage of the Christian communities in Asia Minor during the Ottoman period. She has contributed and curated several exhibitions and published on Byzantine and Islamic art and culture\, and on post-Byzantine\, Armenian and Ottoman art and culture\, especially silverwork\, textiles and ceramics. \nRSVP here to receive the link.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/anna-ballian-curator-emerita-benaki-museum-bacini-or-immured-vessels-on-post-byzantine-churches-16th-17th-century-the-case-of-iznik-italian-and-local-ware/
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CATEGORIES:Art History,Community,Hellenic,Humanities,Lecture,Modern Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201025T150000
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SUMMARY:Artemis Leontis\, "Going after Eva Palmer Sikelianos"
DESCRIPTION:For more than a decade\, Artemis Leontis has carried out a recovery project researching and writing the life of Eva Palmer Sikelianos\, publishing her biography in 2019. Leontis knew Palmer as a shadowy figure in Greek cultural history\, known mostly as the wealthy American wife of the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos\, who spent all her money on his projects. Through intensive detective work\, she has uncovered a bigger\, more complicated story of a brilliant\, beautiful\, countercultural\, queer woman who may be the most influential philhellene after Lord Byron. In this talk\, she will speak of going “after” Eva Palmer Sikelianos in the double sense of pursuit and succession. She will recount some of her adventures pursuing the hidden archival resources of Palmer’s life\, then foreground the stakes of modern encounters with the ancient Greeks in the light of spectrums of meaning found in Palmer’ legacy. \nArtemis Leontis is C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Her field of specialization is Modern Greek Studies: the study of Greeks\, the Greek language\, migrations in and out of Greece by various ethnic groups\, and the idea of Greece cultivated in the West in the modern period. Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s by arguing historical descent from Greek antiquity. Henceforth the desire to align a corporeal\, living Greekness with the idea of Greece cultivated in the West became a driving force in the country’s cultural production. Her first book\, Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland\, compared Westerner’s projections of their collective fantasies on Greece and Greek literary modernism’s reterritorialization of those projections. It traced how Greeks inscribed the texts\, materials\, and geographical notions of Hellenism onto their national space: the forms of adaptation\, resistance\, and opposition to Western interventions they developed and deployed. Since the publication of that book\, her inquiry into competing figurations of Greekness has expanded in several new directions. Her other book projects include Greece: A Travelers’ Literary Companion (1997) published by Whereabouts Press in a series that introduces English language readers to countries through those countries’ own writers; and Culture and Customs of Greece\, written for a trade press to introduce students and general readers to countries of the world through a presentation of present-day cultural phenomena. Her multi-media interests are especially apparent in her investigation of the life and work of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952). The Bryn Mawr-educated American visionary lived in Greece from 1907 to 1933 and was married to poet Angelos Sikelianos. She worked for a lifetime to animate the lost Greek life suggested by ancient ruins and living practices. Her writing of this book took her on a 10-year journey to recover the traces of her life\, from the “Eva Sikelianou Papers” in the Benaki Museum Historical Archives to letters and artifacts collected (and sometimes hidden) in unexpected places such as the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens. \nRSVP & Registration
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/artemis-leontis-going-after-eva-palmer-sikelianos/
LOCATION:by Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200926T100000
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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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