Please note this upcoming lecture at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum…Hamilakis colloquium flyer
The Center for Hellenic Studies is very pleased that Georgia State University has been selected to host the 24th symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association. The biennial conference, to be held on campus October 15-18, 2015, is the meeting of the largest professional organization for Hellenic Studies in the world. Some two hundred international scholars are expected to attend the conference, which typically features more than eighty presentations, a keynote address, music concerts, film screenings, and more. Some of the program highlights will be announced well in advance on the program’s website, which can be accessed via www.mgsa.org.
Join us for this incredible event…a neoPhonia Music concert, Present Tense Antiquities: Modern Music from an Ancient Culture, designed by Nickitas Demos on Thursday, October 15, at 8:00 pm inside the Kopleff Recital Hall of GSU. Please see website for more details.
The Modern Greek Studies Association conference will be organized by the Hellenic Studies Center at Georgia State University this year. This is an annual academic conference that brings together hundreds of scholars from the US and abroad, specializing in Modern Greek studies. The opening keynote address of the conference is on October 16th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. The lecture is open to the general public – and all are welcome to attend. Dr. Yannis Hamilakis, a professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton in England will deliver the lecture.
Please see the updated event flyer below.
Click on the following links for more information: event Press Release and event Fact Sheet.
Tickets are available for advanced purchase from www.TicketAlternative.com
All shows are $12 in advance. Tickets will also be available at the door for $15. Save 10% by purchasing a “Cinema Lover’s Pass.” Free parking is available. The number to call for tickets is 877-725-8849.
Please join us for an after-party (at the conclusion of) the first evening of the film festival:
Join us for a New Year’s Eve celebration. See the attached flyer for details. Reservations required. Call 678-581-1533.
Our Lykion Book Club will discuss “Not Even My Name“ by Thea Halo on January 10, 2016. (Time and place to be determined.) All are welcome to join in this timely discussion.
“Not Even My Name” is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War I. As told by Sano Halo to her daughter, Thea, this is the story of her survival of the death march at age ten that annihilated her family, and the mother-daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano’s home seventy years after her exile. Sano, a Pontic Greek from a small village near the Black Sea, also recounts the end of her ancient, pastoral way of life in the Pontic Mountains.
