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.
XRONIA POLLA KAI KALI XRONIA 2016
Dear members and friends,
Lykion ton Ellinidon Atlanta and the Hellenic Women’s Cultural Association invite you to a celebration of the traditional Vasilopita cutting.
Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 3 pm at the Kafenion
Special guest speaker for the day will be Dr. Louis Ruprecht, Director, Hellenic Studies Program, Georgia State University
Topic: “The Strange Journey of Greek Statues”
“How Sixteen Statues Went From Aegina and Athens, to Rome and Munich… and Why Hitler Wanted to Be Buried With Them.”
We hope to see you all there to celebrate the beginning of another great year for both organizations!
A CELEBRATION OF CRETE
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Homeric Age
The GSU Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an academic pre-party in support of the Atlanta Pan-Cretan glendi, which will take place on Saturday, January 30, 2016.
To that end, we have invited two noted Cretan archaeologists: Dr. Thomas Strasser of Providence College (Providence, RI); and Professor Anastasia Tzigounaki, Director of Antiquities for the Greek Ministry of Archaeology’s Cretan Ephorate (Rethymnon, Crete).
Professor Strasser will speak about exciting new evidence of Paleolithic and Neolithic settlement on the island of Crete. He will discuss his excavations at Plakias and Damnoni, where evidence of early hominid habitation going back more than 200,000 years has been unearthed. This work has already significantly altered our understanding of early hominid migration out of Africa.
Professor Tzigounaki will offer an overview of what we now know about the three major “palatial” periods in Bronze Age, or Minoan, Crete. She will discuss new discoveries from her excavations at Kalo Chorafi, near Mylopotamos, in order to highlight some of the distinguishing features of this remarkably sophisticated Bronze Age culture—in art, in political administration, in seafaring and more.
The Director of the Center will offer a summary of the presence of Crete in the Homeric poems, focusing primarily upon the suggestive notion that Odysseus’ preferred lie in the Odyssey makes him out to be a pirate from the island of Crete. These Homeric reflections will take us beyond the ancient world, right up to the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
This panel discussion will take place in the 8th floor Conference Room at 25 Park Place on Friday, January 29, 2016, from 1:00-5:00pm.
The schedule of events will be as follows:
12:30-1:00pm: Reception and Greetings
1:00-1:15pm: Welcome, The Honorable Giorgos Panagiotidis, Greek Consul of Atlanta
1:15-2:15pm: Thomas Strasser, Crete in the Stone Age: Crete before Minos: The Stone Ages of a Rough and Rugged Island”
2:15-2:30pm: Break
2:30-3:30pm: Anastasia Tzigounaki, Crete in the Bronze Age: “Minoan Civilization: Insights from a New Excavation at Kalo Chorafi, Mylopotamos”
3:30-3:45pm: Break
3:45-4:45pm: Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Crete in the Homeric Age: “How the Place of Mixing Became a Place for Monsters”
A wine reception will follow the panel, in a location TBA.
We hope that you will be able to join us for this exciting event, and to celebrate the unique richness of the island of Crete. Please share the attached flyer with friends and colleagues.
The event is located with walking distance from the Five Points and Peachtree Center MARTA stations. Parking is also available in a number of public lots located on Auburn Avenue and Peachtree Center Avenue, NE, all within two blocks of the 25 Park Place Building (nearby parking locations).
We hope to see you there!
Sarah Y. Levine and Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.
The GSU Center for Hellenic Studies
