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Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. Photo: courtesy of L100.The 30th Annual Leadership 100 Conference, held virtually, which ran from February 17-19, 2021, concluded with a resounding musical program called Greek Music for the Greek Revolution, 1821-2021. The musical program was organized and introduced by Nektarios S. Antoniou, Artistic Director and Senior Advisor for Culture of the…

I got inspired by the recent celebration of Hellenic Education day on February the 9th and the 64th anniversary of the historic newspaper of Neos Kosmos to write a few words on the issue of Hellenic studies and the reinforcement of the ties between Greece and Greek Diaspora. Even though technology and especially the Internet seems that, on a personal level has neutralised a big part of the distance that parts countries, the need for specific programs, communal initiatives, and collective movem...

The Greek War of Independence Through American Eyes The Sortie of Missolonghi by Theodoros Vryzakis. Public Domain The Hellenic College Holy Cross and Stockton University will celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Greek War of Independence with a special exhibition. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America will inaugurate the exhibition titled ‘The Greek Revolution Through American Eyes’ on March 22. The exhibition will take place at the Maliotis Cultural Center of the Hellenic Coll...

Commemorate the 200 The Greek Revolution (1821-29) Through American Eyes  On March 22, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America will inaugurate the exhibition,  The Greek Revolution through American Eyes at the Maliotis Cultural Center of Hellenic College Holy Cross, Brookline, MA. It will remain up at the Maliotis Cultural Center until October 15, 2021. The exhibition is a Digital and physical Traveling Exhibition that commemorates the 200 th anniversary of the start of the Gr...

29 January 2021 7:12am At a time when international students are at an all-time low at Australian universities, Greece is looking at ways to showcase all it has to offer to international students and those of the diaspora. The General Secretariat for Public Diplomacy and Greeks abroad and the General Secretariat of Higher Education invited prominent members of thediaspora and international academic community to take part in the virtual conference, titled “Reinforcing bridges between Greek uni...

Content provided by Last updated: 27/01 - 08:10 Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) announced today that it will continue to provide a wide range of research opportunities and programming through its Tunisia Office for a further six years, supported by a $2 million gift from Harvard alumnus Hazem Ben-Gacem ’92. The office, which opened its doors in Tunis in January 2017 with the support of an initial gift fro...

Abstract This essay looks at the history of the novel, starting from the influential postwar critical insistence on the importance of the novel as a nineteenth-century genre. It notes that this tradition singularly fails to take account of the history of the novel in antiquity–for clear ideological reasons. It then explores the degree to which the texts known as the novel from antiquity, such as Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe, Petronius’s Satyricon, or Heliodorus’s Aethiopica, constitute...

Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) announced today that it will continue to provide a wide range of research opportunities and programming through its Tunisia Office for a further six years, supported by a $2 million gift from Harvard alumnus Hazem Ben-Gacem ’92. The office, which opened its doors in Tunis in January 2017 with the support of an initial gift from Ben-Gacem, provides students and scholars with a bridge to renowned Tunisian archival facilities, serves as an inc...