Hellenic

“How to Think About the Past” Lecture by Katherine Elizabeth Fleming President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust and Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization, Department of History, New York University (NYU) March 2, 2024 4:00 p.m. UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium Reception to follow Event is free but advanced registration is requested RSVP here: https://forms.gle/W5pioXJ4g5YM8Kqs6 This lecture will not be livestreamed or recorded. In his poem “O gyrismos tou xenitimenou” (“The Return of the Exile”), Giorgos Seferis famously wrote that the protagonist’s nostalgia for Greece had created a “non-existent country.” We access the past in various ways, none of...