Renowned author Artemis Cooper lectures about Patrick Leigh Fermor, the British author, scholar, soldier and polyglot who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during World War II. He was widely regarded as Britain's greatest living travel writer during his lifetime, based on books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). UCLA...
The Greek chorio has been a frequent subject of interest to anthropologists, who have written extensively about rituals, kinship structures, work and gender. Increasingly, the subject has come under the scrutiny of archaeologists, who have carefully traced the material remains of villages and households in order to reconstruct the lives of those who lived outside...
CAP UCLA in association with the Music Center presents Dimitris Papaioannou's The Great Tamer “Dimitris Papaioannou’s The Great Tamer a piece of theatre that grabs the attention and largely doesn’t let go. It’s part dream, part nightmare, part riddle, with a lot of room left for the audience to make their own associations and meaning;...
Please meet the new Consul General of Greece, Eugenia Beniatoglou. Professor of Modern Greek, Simos Zenios, will speak on the topic of "Greek (and its) people: Making Communities in and through Modern Greek Studies." Join us for an afternoon of introductions, conversation, and catching up with friends. Reception following on the beautiful balcony. Parking...