The Palimpsest: Layers of History and Memory in Greece |
Also as part of the closing lecture event, participation certificates will be awarded to qualified attendees and the 2017 seminar program will be unveiled. Helen Vatsikopoulos have set out on a personal journey to discover her own "Prespa Palimpsest". Prespa is a wetland and lakes region that is shared by Greece, Albania and FYROM. She has ventured to the Greek part of Prespa - the home of her ancestors to peel back the layers of the palimpsest and discover the stories of the overlapping scripts. It is a post-memory project as she takes guardianship of the memories of her parents and grandparents through oral histories and photographs - as an antidote to forgetting. Helen Vatsikopoulos is a Walkley Award winning journalist with three decades experience at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Special Broadcasting Service and the Australia Network. She has worked on flagship programs like ABC News, 7.30, Lateline, Dateline and Asia Pacific Focus and has produced three documentaries for SBS, ABC and the BBC. Helen is currently lecturing in Journalism at the University of Technology Sydney specialising in digital reporting and video and documentary supervisions. She is also working on a Doctorate in Creative Arts.
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