West Coast Hellenic Book Club Diary of a Soldier in the Asia Minor Campaign, 1919-1921 by Pantelis C. Karatasakis (Published by Alec P. Karys, 2023) This discussion will feature book editors Alec P. Karys and Gregory Kontos. The conversation will be facilitated by Professor Sharon Gerstel, Director of the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of […]
A ZOOM presentation by Professor Maria Efthymiou, titled "Hellenism 1821–1900: Origins and Leaps" where she will discuss how, after nine years of battle, the Greek nation achieved independence and statehood, breakthroughs that would shape its path through both the 19th and 20th centuries. Professor Efthymiou was born in Larissa, Thessaly. She studied History at the National […]
HAWC Great Lakes and Hellenic Link–Midwest Present a Conversation on Memory, Identity, & Cooperation for Pursuit of Recognition for Three Christian Communities Saturday, September 26, 2026 - 8:00 AM Pacific Time - Virtually via Zoom Historian Dr. Themistocles Kritikakos Presents His Book on 'Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Genocide Recognition in Twenty-First Century Australia' This is […]
Book Discussion with Katerina Angelopoulou, The Fumes of Mars March 28, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time / 8:00 PM Greece Via Zoom RSVP Here One of the deadliest wildfires ever recorded took place on July 23, 2018 just 30 km from the historical center of Athens in Greece. Artist Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire and her […]
West Coast Hellenic Book Club: The Jasmine Isle by Ioanna Karystiani, trans. Michael Eleftheriou (Europa Editions, 2006) Discussion led by Professor Sharon Gerstel, Director, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center and Dr. Eirini Kotsovili, Senior Lecturer, Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University Saturday, March 14, 2026 10 A.M. Los Angeles / 8 P.M. Greece Via Zoom RSVP Here […]
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2026 | 7:00PM PST The Renaissance in Translation: a ZOOM reading and discussion with award-winning translator PATRICIA FELISA BARBEITO, translator of HARIS VLAVIANOS's poetry collection Renaissance PATRICIA FELISA BARBEITO is Professor of American Literatures at the Rhode Island School of Design and a translator of Greek fiction and poetry. Her translations include Menis Koumandareas’s Their […]
Remembering Alekos Fassianos Presented by Art Historian, Eleni Glinou See her bio at EleniGlinou.com Hosted by: Hellenic American Women's Council Saturday, January 24, 2026 11am Eastern 10am Central 8am Pacific 6pm Athens 4pm London Register for this most interesting and uplifting presentation on modern Greek art. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_VTcDYcHRsWVS9Y3YzU8Vw
John Gibson, RAUlysses Forcing Polyxena from Hecuba to be SacrificedPhoto courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts, London West Coast Hellenic Book Club: Hecuba by Euripides Discussion led by Professor Kathryn Morgan, Joan Palevsky Professor of Classics, Professor Sharon Gerstel, Director, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center and Dr. Eirini Kotsovili, Senior Lecturer, Global Humanities at Simon […]
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2026 | 10:00AM PST | Zoom Presentation CONSTANTINE CAVAFY: A NEW BIOGRAPHY A special ZOOM book presentation and conversation with Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys, co-authors of Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography. Drawing on extensive archival research, the authors offer the first major reexamination of Cavafy’s life in nearly 50 years, revealing the man behind […]
“Χριστουγεννιάτικες παραδόσεις στην Ελλάδα,” lecture (in Greek) by Stavroula Pisimisi December 13 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am Via Zoom, Χριστουγεννιάτικες παραδόσεις στην Ελλάδα Stavroula Pisimisi, Folklorist and Director, Angeliki Chatzimihali Museum of Folk Art and Tradition Saturday, December 13, 2025 10:00 A.M. Zoom This lecture will be in Greek RSVP link to be provided soon
