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The "Greek History and Culture Seminars" are organised and hosted by The Greek Community of Melbourne and provide the opportunity for everyone to experience the long and fascinating history of Greece and Greek culture in its various forms and stages, aspects of which have formed the foundation of Western civilisation.

This year all our seminars are free and open to the general public, and unless otherwise noted presented in English.

Most seminars take place on Thursdays at Greek Centre, Mezzanine Floor, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.

All seminars are scheduled to start at 7:00pm. For details relating to each seminar please see the website calendar close to the day of the event.

 

Enrol to our seminars for free and be kept up to date with details of each Seminar and all events of the Greek Community.

2018 Greek History and Culture Seminars Program

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Date

Speaker

Topic
TERM ONE
 1 8 Mar. Professor Vrasidas Karalis From Helladism to Neo Hellenism
 2 15 Mar. Dr Katerina Bregianni Political Power and Social Hierarchies in the Ionian State (1814-1864)
 3 18 Mar. Dr Katerina Bregianni The Ionian Islands in the 19th century - LECTURE GIVEN IN GREEK
 4 22 Mar. Dr Andrew Connor Being Greek in Roman Egypt
Easter Break
 5 12 Apr. Dimitris Gonis The Self-Identification of Alexander the Great according to the Ancient Sources
 6 19 Apr. Professor Peter Monteath Australians on 'Special Operations' in Wartime Crete
 7 26 Apr. Dr Demeter Tsounis Revisiting Rebetika Roots
 8 3 May Georgios Lathyris The Greek Language, from its beginnings to the present day
 9 10 May Professor Marianna Sigala Synergizing wine and tourism: converting wine drinkers to Greek tourism ambassadors
 10 16 May Dean Kalimniou Sliding Doors: The Crypto-Christians of Pontus & the Negotiation of Ethno-Religious Identity
 11 17 May Facilitator Prof Joy Damousi Panel Discussion: War, personal stories and the landscape of memory: Forgotten narratives of war
 12 24 May Leonard Janiszewski Effy Alexakis, Documentary Photographer: In Her Own Image
 13 31 May Stephanie Jacobs Milk and Honey: The Hidden Stories of Friendship Between Greek and Turkish Cypriots
TERM TWO
 14 7 Jun. Assoc Prof Chris Houston De-Ottomanization of Istanbul after 1923: Istanbul Minorities and the Turkification of the City.
 15 14 Jun. Dr Kate McLardy Women’s Festivals in the Hellenistic Period: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Thesmophoria and the Adonia
 16 21 Jun. RESCHEDULED: Dr Erma Vassiliou RESCHEDULED: Language change in 14th century Greek: examples from the Chronicle of the Morea
 17 28 Jun. Dr Anna Efstathiadou Greek Popular Icons during the Greek-Italian War (1940-41): depictions of national identity under the Metaxist regime
 Winter Break
 18 19 Jul. Dean Kalimniou Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia
19 26 Jul. Dr Panayiotis Diamadis The Legacy of the Treaty of Laussane
CANCELLED: Dr Maria-Irini Avgoulas CANCELLED: Health Beliefs and Practices in Three Generations of Greek Australian Women in Melbourne
20 2 Aug. Dr Erma Vassiliou Language change in 14th century Greek: examples from the Chronicle of the Morea
TERM THREE 
 21 9 Aug. Dr George Vassilacopoulos The Greek-Australian Unemployed Movement in the 1950s and the Construction of the Migrants’ Rights Discourse
 22 16 Aug. Steve Kyritsis Greek-Australians in the Australian Forces: Kokoda Track-New Guinea WWII
 23 23 Aug. Dr Anthony Dracopoulos Nikos Karouzos and the question of being
 24 30 Aug. Elizabeth Gertsakis The Uses of Photography in Northern Greece and the Southern Balkans (1903-1918)
 25 6 Sep. Dr Nick Dallas The Events of Tashkent: Red Brotherhood at War
 26 13 Sep. Maria Stavrinos The Writing on the Facebook Wall: A cross-cultural comparison between Australian, Greek and Australian-Greek Facebook users
 27 20 Sep. Professor Michael Tsianikas Dimitris Tsaloumas Memorial Lecture - Antigone Kefala
 28 27 Sep. Professor Tim Parkin The Temple of Artemis

Opportunity for donations/sponsorships: Donate or sponsor one or more seminars and (optionally) let your name or brand be known as a patron of culture to our members, visitors and followers, as well as the broader artistic and cultural community of Melbourne. Individual, Corporate/Organisations and Naming Rights are available. If you find the seminars of value please consider contributing to help us keep the seminars free and open to the public.

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Professor Tim Parkin
 
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