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An online seminar aims to transport audiences back in time to the late Ottoman era in Constantinople (Istanbul) - Naz Vardar, a PhD candidate from the Department of History and Stavros Niarchos Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University, will present "Carnival Celebrations in Late Ottoman Istanbul".

At least 14 Greek-Australians from all walks of life have been honoured in this year's King's Birthday Honours list.

The management of the National Research Foundation 'Eleftherios K. Venizelos' based at the paternal House-Museum of Eleftherios Venizelos in Halepa, Chania, unanimously decided to establish and operate a Melbourne-based branch, with the aim of studying, researching and promoting the work and national contribution of Eleftherios Venizelos to the wider region of Oceania and Australasia.

The Australian Hellenic Educators' Association (AHEA), in collaboration with the NSW Department of Education, is gearing up to host this year's Conference on Modern Greek education in primary and secondary schools, titled 'New Ways'.

La Trobe University's Greek Studies Program, the Dardalis Archives of the Hellenic Diaspora, and the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria jointly present as series of seminars delving into the History of the Greeks in Australia.

An edited excerpt of the speech made by Professor M J Osborne at the book launch event of Professor Anastasios Tamis' book 'The Aegis of Hellas'

Professor of Classics John C. Franklin is internationally recognized as one of the most important scholars of Kinyras, the mythical ancient king of Cyprus. He is the author of the book Kinyras - The Divine Lyre, published by Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in 2015. In 2017, the American professor, along with cartoonist and illustrator Glynnis Fawkes, return to Cyprus for the production of the documentary Kinyras, the Cherished Priest of Aphrodite. In the documentary, Kinyra...

The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts presents its core and visiting faculty for summer 2023.

From a scrapped spring 2020 premiere, to its development online that fostered a devoted fan base, a musical about the warrior Achilles and his beloved, the prince Patroclus, makes an in-person debut with staged reading at The Pear.

Above all, Zisis loved Greece. He was a genuine patriot. Her son. It couldn't have been otherwise. On her altar his father was sacrificed. He and his sisters grew up in her orphanages. His ancestors had all lived there and were buried there. Greece as a way of life was the umbilical cord that kept him alive.