Seeing Like a Merchant: Jews and Greeks from Ottoman to Greek Rule Lecture by Paris Papamichos Chronakis Lecturer in Modern Greek History, Department of History Royal Holloway, University of London Presented by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and cosponsored by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture February […]
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs January 13, from 4-6 pm in Royce 314 A screening of a short documentary about Governor Michael Dukakis. The event is sponsored by the Aris Anagnos Family Chair in Hellenic Studies The screening will be followed by a panel discussion including Rusty Bailey (former Mayor of Riverside, California); Daniel […]
Messenia to Mesopotamia: New Directions in the Art and Archaeology of the Second Millennium BCE Symposium December 6 @ 9:00 am - 4:15 pm Royce Hall, 314, 10745 Dickson Ct Los Angeles,CA90095 United States Symposium with Emily Egan (Associate Professor, University of Maryland), Joanne Murphy (Professor, UNC Greensboro), David Schneller (Assistant Professor, UCLA), Efthymia Tsiolaki (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of […]
Pylos and Minoan Crete November 22 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Royce Hall, 314, 10745 Dickson Ct. Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States A lecture by Andreas G. Vlachopoulos Professor University of Ioannina Hosted by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture in collaboration with The J. Paul Getty Museum and held in conjunction with the exhibition […]
Between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans: Craft Technologies in the Second Millennium BCE Aegean Lecture by Nikolas Papadimitriou (Director, Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens) and Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi (Curator, Department of Prehistoric, Egyptian, Cypriot and Near Eastern Collections of Antiquities, at the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum, Athens) Demonstration by Akis Goumas (contemporary jewelry maker and […]
Pretty in Pink: A Portrait of Queen Olga of Greece at the Benaki Museum Lecture by George Manginis Academic Director Benaki Museum in Athens Saturday, January 11, 2025 4:00 p.m. 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Campus Reception to follow Conversation following the lecture with Sharon Gerstel, Director, UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of […]
This lecture tackles the question of “authenticity” when writing crime novels set in the remote past. Agapitos’ three novels (published between 2003 and 2009 in Greece) that are set in the first half of ninth-century Byzantium during the rule of the last iconoclast emperor, Theophilos (r. 829–842), form the basis of a lively discussion about […]
