2024 Greek History and Culture Seminars

2024 Greek History and Culture Seminars

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	7 Mar.	Olympia Thea Nelson	Why Byzantium? The Contemporary Relevance	Mezz
2	14 Mar.	Eva Boleti	Biculturalism, acculturation, and the Greek women of the diaspora	Mezz
3	21 Mar.	Melina Mallos	Communicating Identities in Digital Spaces: Greek Migrant Youth and New Media	Mezz
4	28 Mar.	Fotis Papadopoulos	Greek migration to Tanganyika and Southern Rhodesia: community formation, economic activities and Greek’s ambivalent position within colonialism, 1890-1960	Online
5	4 Apr.	Dr Giota Tourgeli	Οι "Μπρούκληδες": Οι Ελληνοαμερικανοί και οι κοινότητες καταγωγής τους: Δεσμοί και μετασχηματισμοί (1890-1940). || The "Brooklidhes": Greek Americans and their communities of origin: Links and transformations (1890-1940).	Online
6	11 Apr.	Dr Ioannis Limnios Sekeris	Migration as an Opportunity: The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) and the Greek transport companies in the post-WWII migration to Australia	Online
7	18 Apr.	Prof David Pritchard	The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux	Online
		EASTER BREAK
8	9 May	Nick Bogiatzis	Kastellorizo and its Gold	Mezz
9	16 May	Dean Kalimniou	Pontian Genocide Memorial Seminar	Mezz
10	23 May	Jim Claven	From Imbros over the Sea: Imbros and Gallipoli Revealed	Mezz
11	30 May	Dr Nick Trakakis	Tasos Leivaditis: Poet of Revolutions and Sunsets	Mezz
12	6 Jun.	Alex Billinis	The Heroic Retreat - Serbs in Corfu	Online
13	13 Jun.	Prof Alexander Kitroeff	AHEPA 100 Years Between Americanism and Hellenism	Online
14	20 Jun.	Dr Georges Tassiopoulos	The Greek Diaspora in France	Online
15	27 Jun.	Prof Gonda Van Steen	Children of the ‘Silent Migration’: Child Adoptions from Greece to Countries Overseas in the 1950s-1960s	Online
16	4 Jul.	CANCELLED -- Dr Angeliki Alvanoudi	CANCELLED -- Gender in Modern Greek	Cancelled
17	11 Jul.	Dr William Mallinson	Cyprus and Kissinger: Killing the Myth	Online
		MID YEAR BREAK
18	1 Aug.	Dr Phil Kafcaloudes	Going English: the Greek migrants who left their family names behind	Mezz
19	8 Aug.	Assistant Professor Michail Bakoyiannis	Ο ποιητής της διασποράς Κ. Π. Καβάφης και η ελληνική Ιστορία || The poet of the diaspora - Kavafis and Greek history	Mezz
20	15 Aug.	Dr Andonis Piperoglou	Envisioning a Mediterranean Pacific: photography and sugar cane migrants	Mezz
21	22 Aug.	CANCELLED -- Prof Gary K. Busch	CANCELLED -- The Massacre of Kalavryta	Cancelled
22	26 Aug. MONDAY	Professor Philipp Stockhammer	Australian Archaeological Institute of Athens Seminar: Athenian Society in the 1st millennium BC from a bioarchaeological perspective	Mezz
23	29 Aug.	Eugenia Mitrakas OAM	Australian Greek Welfare Society AGSW - the Early Years	Mezz
24	5 Sep.	Harry Ballis	Rediscovering Joice Nankivell Loch	Mezz
25	12 Sep.	Dr Tim Themi	A historical Critique of Platonism, from Its Ancient Emergence to its postmodern ideological descendants of today	Mezz
26	19 Sep.	Dr Konstandina Dounis	Dimitris Tsaloumas Memorial Seminar	Mezz
27	3 Oct.	Prof Nikos Papastergiadis	The Cosmos in Cosmopolitanism	Mezz