Greek History and Culture Seminars 2023

Greek History and Culture Seminars 2023

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.

All seminars are scheduled to start at 7:00pm and will be held either at the Mezzanine Level of the Greek Centre (168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne) or Online (see under 'Venue' on table below)

For details relating to each seminar please see the Events menu on this website close to the day of the event.

#	Date	Presenter	Subject	Venue
1	2 Mar.	Prof Vrasidas Karalis	Cornelius Castoriadis 100 years later: Greek philosophy after the Greeks!	Mezz
2	9 Mar.	Dr Anna Fyta	Galatea Alexiou Kazantzaki (1884-1962): A Modernist Greek Woman in the Shadow of a Great Man	Online
3	16 Mar.	James McDonald	Debunking Xenophon - Sifting Fact from Dross in the Life of a Major Historian	Mezz
4	23 Mar.	Prof George Kouvaros	Diasporic Visibility in Sydney’s Post-War Greek Neighbourhoods	Mezz
5	30 Mar.	Dr Kostis Karpozilos	The Asia Minor Refugees and the Remaking of the Greek Left	Online
6	6 Apr.	Prof Paul Cartledge	Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: a tale of two cities	Online
7	11 Apr. TUESDAY	Μαρία Ευθυμίου | Prof Maria Euthymiou	Αντέχοντας στον χρόνο: τα ισχυρά σημεία του Ελληνισμού στα 3.500 χρόνια της καταγεγραμμένης Ιστορίας του | Enduring the test of time – The highlights of Hellenism in the 3,500 years of its recorded history	Online
		EASTER BREAK
8	20 Apr.	Dr Aris Trantidis	The Curse of Sisyphus: Clientelism and the Greek State	Online
9	27 Apr.	Dr Effie Steriopoulos	The ANZAC Pilgrimage to Gallipoli: A heritage brand with mythical status	Mezz
10	4 May	Dr Christos Fifis	The Greek Australian Community, 1900-1954	Mezz
11	11 May	Dr Stavroula Nikoloudis & Prof James Walker	Greek in Melbourne: language, identity and belonging.	Mezz
12	18 May	Dean Kalimniou	Pontian Genocide Memorial Seminar	Mezz
13	25 May	Dr Anna Tsalapatanis	The Economy in Ruins: Cartooning during the Greek Financial Crisis	Online
14	1 Jun.	Prof Vangelis Karamanolakis	Ξαναδιαβάζοντας τους φακέλους κοινωνικών φρονημάτων. | Revisiting the certificates of correct civic-mindedness	Online
15	8 Jun.	Dr Andrew Connor	The Role of Greek in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs	Mezz
16	15 Jun.	Rexhina Ndoci	Language and ethnic identity: Constructing the Albanian diaspora in Greece	Online
17	22 Jun.	Naz Vardar	Carnival Celebrations in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Intersections of Class, Gender and Identity in Apokries and Baklahorani’.	Online
18	29 Jun.	Dr Dimitris Kamouzis	The Asia Minor Campaign and the Fate of Returned Soldiers	Online
19	6 Jul.	Alexander Billinis	The Role of Greek Cotton Merchants in the American Civil War	Online
20	13 Jul.	Dr Konstandina Dounis	Literary Translation as a Political Act: transferring post-war narratives from the margins to the mainstream	Mezz
21	20 Jul.	Dr Elena Bouleti	Early Years of British Administration in Cyprus	Online
22	27 Jul.	Δρ. Μαρία Μπουγιέση	Ελληνικός παραδοσιακός χορός, μια εναλλακτική μορφή άσκησης και αστείρευτη πηγή πλούτου	Online
23	3 Aug.	Dr Andonis Piperoglou	Launching 'Little Greece': Transcultural Place Naming and Narratives of Migration	Mezz
24	10 Aug.	Dr Alexandra Dellios	Greek-Australian women and welfare advocacy in the 1970s	Mezz
25	17 Aug.	6:00pm: Μιχάλης Μπακογιάννης // 7:15pm: Dean Kalimniou	6:00pm: «Η Ελλάδα: ένα σταυρωμένο κορμί (Γ. Σεφέρης). Ο Εμφύλιος πόλεμος (1946-1949) στην ελληνική πεζογραφία» // 7:15pm Pyrrhus - the western Alexander	Mezz
26	24 Aug.	Daphne Arapakis	Greek Lives on Indigenous Lands: Community Responsibility and the Ethnic Experience of Coloniality	Mezz
27	31 Aug.	Dr John Yiannakis	Peter Michaelides - Globalisation and the demise of a tobacco tycoon	Online
28	7 Sep.	Michael Alexandratos	The Other side of the Moon: Constructing an Anthology of Greek Outsider Writing	Mezz
29	14 Sep.	Angela Costi	Dimitris Tsaloumas Memorial Seminar	Mezz
30	21 Sep.	Assoc Prof Francesco Ricatti	Beyond sacrifice and respectability: the importance of ethnic history in Australia.	Mezz
31	28 Sep.	Dr Emily Hulme	Must one have a beard to be a philosopher? Women and ancient Greek philosophy	Mezz
32	5 Oct.	Dr Erma Vassiliou	Small words with mighty power: a fascinating insight into the Greek Language	Mezz