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SUMMARY:West Coast Hellenic Book Club   - Diary of a Soldier in the Asia Minor Campaign\, 1919-1921
DESCRIPTION:West Coast Hellenic Book Club \nDiary of a Soldier in the Asia Minor Campaign\, 1919-1921 by Pantelis C. Karatasakis\n(Published by Alec P. Karys\, 2023) \nThis discussion will feature book editors Alec P. Karys and Gregory Kontos. \nThe conversation will be facilitated by Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director of the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture\, and Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer in Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University. \nThis discussion will be held in English. \nSaturday\, October 3\, 2026\n10 A.M. Los Angeles / 8 P.M. Greece\nVia Zoom \nInfo: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/diaryofasoldier/
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/west-coast-hellenic-book-club-diary-of-a-soldier-in-the-asia-minor-campaign-1919-1921/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260926T100000
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SUMMARY:Hellenism 1821-1900: Origins and Leaps | a presentation by Maria Efthymiou\, Professor Emerita of History | Zoom event
DESCRIPTION: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. \n \nProfessor Efthymiou was born in Larissa\, Thessaly. She studied History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and in Sorbonne in Paris. She has taught Early Modern Greek and World History at the NKUA and has published 6 books and more than 85 articles. She has been honored with the “Exceptional Academic Teaching Award in honor of Vassilis Xanthopoulos and Stefanos Pnevmatikos.” \nThe presentation is organized by the The Basil P. Caloyeras Center for Modern Greek Studies and co-hosted with the Hellenic Studies Program at California State University\, Sacramento under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. \nRegister HERE \nMore info \nThe presentation will be in Greek.
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/hellenism-1821-1900-origins-and-leaps-a-presentation-by-maria-efthymiou-professor-emerita-of-history-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260926T080000
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SUMMARY:Historian Dr. Themistocles Kritikakos Presents His Book on 'Armenian\, Greek\, and Assyrian Genocide Recognition in Twenty-First Century Australia' | Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:HAWC Great Lakes and Hellenic Link–Midwest Present a Conversation on Memory\, Identity\, & Cooperation for Pursuit of Recognition\nfor Three Christian Communities\nSaturday\, September 26\, 2026 – 8:00 AM Pacific Time – Virtually via Zoom \nHistorian Dr. Themistocles Kritikakos Presents His Book on ‘Armenian\, Greek\, and Assyrian Genocide Recognition in Twenty-First Century Australia’\nThis is the first presentation of the book in the United States \nCHICAGO\, IL — The Hellenic American Women’s Council (HAWC) Great Lakes Chapter\, in collaboration with Hellenic Link–Midwest\, will present Greek-Australian historian and author Dr. Themistocles Kritikakos in a special Zoom program on Saturday\, September 26\, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time. Registration: https://tinyurl.com/GAA-Cooperation \nThe program will introduce Dr. Kritikakos’ newly published book\, Armenian\, Greek\, and Assyrian Genocide Recognition in Twenty-First Century Australia: Memory\, Identity\, and Cooperation (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2026)\, to a United States and Canada audience for the first time. The September program also takes place during the month commemorating the 1922 Catastrophe of Smyrna\, providing a poignant historical context for a broader discussion of memory\, recognition and the experiences of the Armenian\, Greek and Assyrian\, all Christian communities of the late Ottoman period. \nRegistration: https://tinyurl.com/GAA-Cooperation \n 
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/historian-dr-themistocles-kritikakos-presents-his-book-on-armenian-greek-and-assyrian-genocide-recognition-in-twenty-first-century-australia-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260328T100000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion with Katerina Angelopoulou\, “The Fumes of Mars” | Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:Book Discussion with Katerina Angelopoulou\, The Fumes of Mars \nMarch 28\, 2026 \n10:00 AM Pacific Time / 8:00 PM Greece \nVia Zoom \nRSVP Here \nOne 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 book\, The Fumes of Mars\, combines her photographs with personal testimonies from other survivors\, timelines\, maps\, and reports. With these materials Angelopoulou attempts to weave together a collective narrative of the events to better understand the violent disconnect between her own experience and the “official” account of the disaster in which facts were concealed and victims held culpable \n  \nFor more info: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/the-fumes-of-mars/
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/book-discussion-with-katerina-angelopoulou-the-fumes-of-mars-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260314T100000
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SUMMARY:West Coast Hellenic Book Club: The Jasmine Isle by Ioanna Karystiani | Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:West Coast Hellenic Book Club: \nThe Jasmine Isle by Ioanna Karystiani\, trans. Michael Eleftheriou \n(Europa Editions\, 2006) \nDiscussion led by Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center and Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer\, Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University \nSaturday\, March 14\, 2026\n10 A.M. Los Angeles / 8 P.M. Greece\nVia Zoom \nRSVP Here \nFor more info: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/thejasmineisle/
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/west-coast-hellenic-book-club-the-jasmine-isle-by-ioanna-karystiani-zoom-event/
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SUMMARY:The Renaissance in Translation: a ZOOM reading and discussion
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, FEBRUARY 25\, 2026 | 7:00PM PST\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Renaissance in Translation: a ZOOM reading and discussion with award-winning translator PATRICIA FELISA BARBEITO\, translator of HARIS VLAVIANOS’s poetry collection Renaissance \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPATRICIA 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 Smell Makes Me Want to Cry; Elias Maglinis’s The Interrogation\, shortlisted for the Greek National Translation Award and winner of the Modern Greek Studies Association’s Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize; M. Karagatsis’s The Great Chimera; Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife\, shortlisted for the National Translation Award\, and Christos Chomenidis’s Niki\, shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for M. Karagatsis’s Junkermann. \nHARIS VLAVIANOS is a Greek poet whose work consistently probes the intersections of history and poetry. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry\, a range of prose works\, all of which have been translated into numerous languages. His Self-Portrait of White was awarded the National Poetry Prize\, the Academy of Athens Poetry Prize\, and the Critics’ Poetry Prize. He teaches Contemporary History and Modern Greek Poetry at the American College of Greece and Creative Writing at the Hellenic Open University. \nPLEASE\, REGISTER HERE \nThe presentation is co-hosted by the Caloyeras Center for Modern Greek Studies at LMU and the Hellenic Studies Program at the California State University\, Sacramento under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles.
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/12999/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Alekos Fassianos \, Greece's Most Iconic Modern Artist | Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Alekos Fassianos\nPresented by Art Historian\, Eleni Glinou See her bio at EleniGlinou.com \nHosted by: Hellenic American Women’s Council \nSaturday\, January 24\, 2026 \n11am Eastern 10am Central \n8am Pacific 6pm Athens 4pm London \n  \nRegister for this most interesting and uplifting presentation on modern Greek art. \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_VTcDYcHRsWVS9Y3YzU8Vw
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/celebrating-alekos-fassianos-greeces-most-iconic-modern-artist-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260117T100000
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SUMMARY:West Coast Hellenic Book Club: Hecuba by Euripides | Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:John Gibson\, RAUlysses Forcing Polyxena from Hecuba to be SacrificedPhoto courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts\, London \nWest Coast Hellenic Book Club: \nHecuba by Euripides \n  \nDiscussion 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 Fraser University \nSaturday\, January 17\, 2026 \n10:00 A.M. Los Angeles / 8:00 P.M. Greece \nVia Zoom \nRSVP Here \nMore info: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/hecuba/ \nStavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/west-coast-hellenic-book-club-hecuba-by-euripides-zoom-event/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260117T100000
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SUMMARY:Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography | Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY\, JANUARY 17\, 2026 | 10:00AM PST  | Zoom Presentation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n \nCONSTANTINE CAVAFY: A NEW BIOGRAPHY \nA special ZOOM book presentation and conversation \nwith Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys\, co-authors of Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography. \nDrawing on extensive archival research\, the authors offer the first major reexamination of Cavafy’s life in nearly 50 years\, revealing the man behind the poems and the city that shaped him. The event will feature a moderated discussion followed by audience Q&A. \nYou may register here \nOrganized by the The Basil P. Caloyeras Center for Modern Greek Studies at LMU
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/constantine-cavafy-a-new-biography-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251213T100000
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SUMMARY:“Χριστουγεννιάτικες παραδόσεις στην Ελλάδα\,” lecture (in Greek) by Stavroula Pisimisi
DESCRIPTION:“Χριστουγεννιάτικες παραδόσεις στην Ελλάδα\,” lecture (in Greek) by Stavroula Pisimisi \n\nDecember 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am\nVia Zoom\,\n\n\n\nΧριστουγεννιάτικες παραδόσεις στην Ελλάδα \nStavroula Pisimisi\, Folklorist and Director\, Angeliki Chatzimihali Museum of Folk Art and Tradition \nSaturday\, December 13\, 2025\n10:00 A.M.\nZoom \nThis lecture will be in Greek \nRSVP link to be provided soon
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/%cf%87%cf%81%ce%b9%cf%83%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%b3%ce%b5%ce%bd%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%ac%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%b5%cf%82-%cf%80%ce%b1%cf%81%ce%b1%ce%b4%cf%8c%cf%83%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%82-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T110000
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SUMMARY:BOOKCLUB - The Scapegoat by Sophia Nikolaidou
DESCRIPTION:Gefyra Book Club: \nThe Scapegoat by Sophia Nikolaidou\, trans. Karen Emmerich\n(Melville House\, 2015) \nDiscussion led by Professor Sharon Gerstel\, Director\, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center\nand Dr. Eirini Kotsovili\, Senior Lecturer\, Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University \nSaturday\, October 18\, 2025\n10 A.M. Los Angeles / 8 P.M. Greece\nVia Zoom \nRSVP
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/bookclub-the-scapegoat-by-sophia-nikolaidou/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250913T080000
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SUMMARY:"Renovating My Life\, with Aristotle as My Architect" by Fenia on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 13\, 2025 10am Central on ZOOM \nArchitect and author Fenia Tsanaka shows how Aristotle’s wisdom can help us “redesign” our lives. Just as the same plot of land can produce very different houses\, the same life circumstances can lead to completely different outcomes—depending on our blueprint. In this lively talk\, Fenia shares practical ways to find meaning\, manage emotions\, improve relationships\, and make better choices. Come ready to be inspired—and maybe start your own life renovation! Register here. \nFenia was born in Athens and is the mother of two. She studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens. Since then\, she has been the head of an architecture firm\, carrying out studies\, supervising and constructing private projects. Her latest project includes the supervision of the “Onassis National Transplant Center” 7\,000 sq. m. which is an addition to the existing building of the “Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center” in Athens. \nThe book”Renovating My Life\, with Aristotle as My Architect” is available on Google Books and Skroutz.eu. The book is described as a work that connects Aristotle’s philosophical insights with the practicalities of living. If you missed registering above here’s another link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/hmzEuZONTfKiK36XkybkZw \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“This book is the experiential journey of discovering Aristotelian philosophy and how it can change us\,” Tsanaka writes. “Change how we feel\, the way we see situations\, the way we think and ultimately the way we act. In short\, how we can renovate our lives by changing the situations that frustrate us in order to gain a lasting appetite for life.”
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/renovating-my-life-with-aristotle-as-my-architect-by-fenia-on-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250830T080000
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SUMMARY:"Celebrating Mimis Plessas – 100 Years of Music for Greece" with Efi Asvesti
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 30\, 2025 10am Central on ZOOM \nThis year marks the 100th birthday of one of Greece’s most treasured composers\, Mimis Plessas (1924–2024)—and sadly\, it’s also the first year we celebrate without him. Efi Avesti will be joining us from Greece. She will share Plessas life\, his music\, and why his songs are woven into the fabric of Greek culture. Register here to join the Zoom presentation. \nBorn in Athens\, Plessas was a piano prodigy who became Greece’s first piano soloist on national radio. Amazingly\, while earning a PhD in chemistry at Cornell University\, he also built an international reputation as a brilliant pianist. Over a 70-year career\, he wrote music for over 100 films\, 70 plays\, and countless TV and radio shows—blending Greek tradition with jazz and classical in a style all his own. \nHis 1969 album ‘O Dromos’ still holds the record as the best-selling album in Greek history\, and his songs are part of daily life in Greece. Plessas worked with icons like Nana Mouskouri and Marinella\, appeared on popular TV shows\, and earned Greece’s Gold Cross of the Order of the Phoenix. His music continues to inspire—and now\, so will his story. \nEfi lives in Greece and studied Interpretation & Translation in the English language. She loves teaching Greek to the Greek diaspora and foreigners alike. To hear some of Plessas music visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtgcLVCsnk \nIf you missed registering above catch the link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/7E15deB0Se6WK7kauXQcNA \nOrganized by: HAWC
URL:https://www.americanhellenic.org/event/celebrating-mimis-plessas-100-years-of-music-for-greece-with-efi-asvesti/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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