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“Memory, Conflict and Democratization in Post-Junta Greece”, lecture by Professor Kostis Kornetis (Autonomous University of Madrid)

Royce Hall, 306 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Date: April 11, 2023 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Royce Hall 306 Introductory remarks, by The Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles Q&A moderated by Simos Zenios, Associate Director, UCLA SNF Hellenic Center Reception to follow In this talk, Professor Kostis Kornetis will examine how distinct political generations experienced and remember the transition from authoritarianism to democracy in Greece, known as Metapolitefsi, since 1974. Its central claim is that the 2008-2012 economic and social crisis triggered a radical re-evaluation of democratisation by turning the conflicting generational recollections of these events into pivotal components of current political contestation. To...

Historical Trajectories of Hellenism in Asia Minor, lecture by Paschalis Kitromilides (Academy of Athens)

Royce Hall, room 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

Cplakidas,CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Historical Trajectories of Hellenism in Asia Minor lecture by Paschalis Kitromilides (Academy of Athens) Date: May 7, 2023 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Royce Hall 314 Reception to follow Moderated by Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) & Dimitris Krallis (Simon Fraser University) Professor Paschalis Kitromilides will present a survey of the Greek presence in Asia Minor from the original Greek colonization in antiquity to the exodus of the Greek population of the peninsula in the third decade of the twentieth century. He will examine the unity of the Greek world on both shores of the Aegean, East...