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Thu. 16 August
Open Seminar: Greek-Australians in the Australian Forces: Kokoda Track-New Guinea WWII

Thu. 23 August
Open Seminar: Nikos Karouzos and the question of being

Thu. 30 August
Open Seminar: The Uses of Photography in Northern Greece and the Southern Balkans (1903-1918)

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

#	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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