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Chris Gipson | Reader’s Digest: Extinguishing Kleos in Lykophron’s Alexandra
Published: October 10, 2022Dodd 248/Zoom; 12-1. All welcome! Hercules rescuing Hesione from a sea-monster. Engraving by B. Picart after C. Le Brun.
Public Talk: Andreas Mayer
Published: October 7, 2022Intangible and Recalcitrant Objects: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations and the Predicament of the Human Sciences In 1833, Honoré de Balzac published a short essay entitled La théorie de démarche. In…
My Rembetika Blues
Published: October 7, 2022Film screening and discussion with filmmaker Mary Zournazi. My Rembetika Blues is a film about the power of music and what makes us human. Rembetika music or the Greek blues…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Travelling Players
Published: October 7, 2022The Travelling Players (O Thiassos) Greece, 1975 A powerful vision of postwar Greek history as experienced by a troupe of actors on perennial tour, The Travelling Players swept the awards…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Ulysses’ Gaze
Published: October 7, 2022Ulysses’ Gaze (To Vlemma tou Odissea) Greece, 1995 Theo Angelopoulos once confessed to an interviewer, “I would like to believe the world will be saved by the cinema.” Ulysses’ Gaze…
Evita Arapoglou, “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday – Catastrophe – Displacement – Rebirth”
Published: October 7, 2022In this lecture, part of the Hellenic Together 4.0 series held in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens, exhibition curator Evita Arapoglou leads us through “Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Weeping Meadow
Published: October 7, 2022The Weeping Meadow (To Livadi pou Dakryzei) Greece, 2004 A family history told in wide shot, The Weeping Meadow spans the turbulent decades between 1919 and the end of the…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Hunters
Published: October 7, 2022The Hunters (I Kynighi) Greece, 1977 When a hunting party finds the body of a communist partisan perfectly preserved in the snow, they carry it back to their lakeside lodge…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Alexander the Great
Published: October 7, 2022Alexander the Great (O Megalexandros) Greece, 1980 Theo Angelopoulos insisted that Alexander the Great was his “most simple film” to date for its linear structure, beginning on New Year’s Eve…
Byzantine Studies Conference
Published: October 7, 2022We welcome the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) and participants to the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies conference at UCLA! Most conference activities will take place at the Luskin…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: The Suspended Step of the Stork & The Beekeeper
Published: October 7, 2022The Suspended Step of the Stork (To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou) Greece, 1991 The plight of refugees in the Balkans and internationally dominated much of Theo Angelopoulos’ attention in the…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Voyage to Cythera
Published: October 7, 2022Voyage to Cythera (Taxidi sta Kithira) Greece, 1984 After years living in exile in the Soviet Union, a communist resistance fighter, Spyros (Manos Katrakis), returns home to the dismay of…
Film Screening: Last Voyage
Published: October 7, 2022A documentary based on the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis’ travels in the Far East. The film’s director Aris Chatzistefanou will join us for Q & A following the screening. Co-sponsored…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Days of ’36
Published: October 7, 2022Days of ’36 (Meres tou ’36) Greece, 1972 A political assassination kicks off Theo Angelopoulos’ portrait of one Greek dictatorship made under the shadow of another. This opening act of…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Eternity and a Day
Published: October 7, 2022Eternity and a Day (Mia Aioniotita kai mia Mera). France/Italy/Greece/Germany 1998 Bruno Ganz plays a famed Greek author with a growing list of uncompleted projects after becoming despondent following the…
Angelopoulos Retrospective: Landscape in the Mist
Published: October 7, 2022Landscape in the Mist (Topio stin Omichli) Greece/France/Italy, 1988 A young girl and her brother run away to find the father they’ve never met in Germany. Ducking train conductors and…
Roger Michel, “Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary”
Published: October 6, 2022The Parthenon Marbles, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by…
Chamber Music at the Clark presents: Parker Quartet
Published: October 5, 2022Inspiring performances, luminous sound, and exceptional musicianship are the hallmarks of the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet. Renowned for its dynamic interpretations and polished, expansive colors, the group has rapidly distinguished…
Sammelband Scientia: Collecting Dürer’s Books and Printing Instruments
Published: October 5, 2022Seventeenth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade –lecture given by Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Newberry Library) Presented in-person at the Clark, and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube…