CHRONOLOGY OF PROGRAMS 1990 - 2018
The Greek Institute Lecture Series - The Many Aspects of Greek Culture
Date |
Lecturer |
Title of Lecture |
01/21/91 |
Consul Ingemar Lindahl |
Greece in the New European Structure |
01/23/91 |
Aliki Bacopoulou-Halls |
Historicity and Social Concern in Modern Greek Drama |
02/11/91 |
Consul Theodore M. Passas |
Greece in a Changing World |
02/20/91 |
Katerina Romiopoulou |
Ancient Greek Art and Modern Greek Poetry |
03/06/91 |
Katerina Romiopoulou |
Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Art: I |
03/13/91 |
Katerina Romiopoulou |
Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Art: II |
03/20/91 |
Katerina Romiopoulou |
Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Art: III |
04/10/91 |
Prof. Nicholas Kostis |
Kostas Tachtsis - The Work and the Man |
04/29/91 |
Nicholas Gage |
The Greek Legacy |
05/05/91 |
Mary Vouras |
The Relevance of Greek Cultural Traditions |
09/20/91 |
Mirsini Zorba |
Gov't Policy for Books and Publishing in Greece |
10/24/1991 |
Prof. Michael Antonakes |
Nikos Kazantzakis and the Russian Miracle |
12/04/91 |
Lena Divani |
Greek - American Relations in WWII |
02/06/92 |
Prof. Michael D. Papagiannis |
Evolution of Astronomy from Ancient Greece to the Present |
02/20/92 |
Prof. Robert W. Allison |
Manuscripts and Monastic Mission |
03/12/92 |
Prof. A. Lily Macrakis |
The Bank of Crete and the Cretan Polity 1898-1908 |
03/15/92 |
Dr. Costas Proussis |
Greek and Cypriot Poets and Writers |
03/19/92 |
Dr. Constantine Hionides |
Ancient Greek Civilization in Sicily and Southern Italy |
04/02/92 |
Amb. Monteagle Stearns |
Between the Balkans and the Middle East |
04/21/92 |
Theodore M. Valtinos |
Notes on the film "Landscape in the Fog" |
05/21/92 |
Stratos Papaefstratiou |
The Aegean: Past, Present and Future |
10/08/92 |
Dr. Barbara Miliaras |
Michael Cacoyiannis Meets Euripides |
10/28/92 |
The Hon. Michael S. Dukakis |
The 1992 Presidential Election |
02/02/93 |
Prof. Zoe Georganta |
Why Productivity is the No. 1 Underachiever - Greece's Experience |
The Greek Institute Lecture Series
Date |
Lecturer |
Title of Lecture |
02/14/93 |
Dr. Barbara Miliaras |
Shakespeare's Greek Plays |
02/27/93 |
William Bromell |
Greece, the Sea and the Greek Master Shipbuilders |
03/07/93 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Last Ottoman Decades |
03/14/93 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Outbreak of the Revolution |
03/19/93 |
Dr. Elelutheria Yiakoumakis |
Neo-Hellenic Dialects |
03/21/93 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Revolution 1821-1829 |
03/25/93 |
Dr. Athan Anagnostopoulos |
Celebrating Greek Liberty - 1821 |
03/28/93 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Fledgling Greek State |
05/18/93 |
Prof. Epimenidis Haidemenakis |
The Olympiad of the Mind |
02/10/94 |
Dr. J. C. B. Petropoulos |
The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thekla |
03/10/94 |
Dr. Constantine Hionides |
Greek Civilization in Asia Minor |
03/23/94 |
Stephen Powelson |
Exerpts from the Iliad |
12/08/94 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Cultural Identity of Greeks from Pre-Homeric Times to the Present |
01/10/95 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Byzantine Period |
03/06/95 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Early Modern Period - The War of Independence 1821 |
03/23/95 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Continuity of Greek Culture: A Historical Perspective |
05/01/95 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
19th and 20th Century Greece |
05/18/95 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Greece and the Greeks from 1933 to the Present |
09/13/95 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Greece in the Classical Period |
11/08/95 |
Marina Karaitidou |
Publishing in Greece Today |
11/08/95 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Hellenistic Civilization |
01/15/96 |
Prof. Ioannis Miaoulis |
What Makes Girls Shun Science and Math |
02/15/96 |
Dora Bakoyannis |
Greece as a NATO and EU Member in the New Balkan Reality |
03/16/97 |
Prof. Mary Lefkowitz |
Not Out of Africa: Reflections on the Origins of Greek Civilization |
05/21/97 |
Polly Hogan |
The Power of the Word - C. Fenno Hoffman Lecture |
06/12/97 |
Daphne Politis |
Unfinished Thoughts on Feminism and Motherhood |
10/06/97 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Founding of the Byzantine Empire to the Latin Conquests of 1204 |
10/13/97 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Latin Crusades to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 |
The Greek Institute Lecture Series
Date |
Lecturer |
Title of Lecture |
10/20/97 |
Prof. Liana Cheney |
The Italian Byzantine Mosaics of Ravenna |
03/23/98 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Kolokotronis and Capodistrias: Two Important Leaders of the Greek War of Independence 1821 |
05/14/98 |
Prof. Francis Blessington |
Jokes, the Theory of Humor and Ancient Greek Comedy - C. Fenno Hoffman Lecture |
02/11/99 |
Dr. Malcolm C. Patterson |
Classics Make a Comeback in Holebrook |
03/15/99 |
Prof. Michael Antonakes |
Aristotle, Psychagogia and Greek Tragedy |
03/22/99 |
Dr. Barbara Miliaras |
The Bostonian Philhellenes and the Greek War of Independence 1821 |
05/23/99 |
Dr. James C. Skinner |
The Anastenaria and the Suspension of Disbelief |
09/27/99 |
Prof. Mary Lefkowitz |
Women in Euripides |
10/28/99 |
Prof. Mary Lefkowitz |
The Lyric Poets: Sappho and Alkaios |
01/31/00 |
Dino Siotis |
MONDO GRECO - The Greek Literary Magazine in English |
03/07/00 |
Dr. Christos Gianopoulos |
What Myths Do You Live By? - Arche (The Beginning) |
03/20/00 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Greek Diaspora During the Ottoman Years |
03/20/00 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Greeks in Italy during the First Ottoman Centuries |
03/21/00 |
Dr. Christos Gianopoulos |
What Myths Do You Live By? - The Legend of Childhood |
04/04/00 |
Dr. Christos Gianopoulos |
What Myths Do You Live By? - Rites of Passage - Becoming an Adult |
04/18/00 |
Dr. Christos Gianopoulos |
What Myths Do You Live By? - Middle Passage- Becoming and Adult |
04/22/00 |
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin |
The Hand of the Great Powers in the Smyrna Catastrophe 1922 |
04/27/00 |
James W. Mavor |
Reflections on Atlantis |
05/09/00 |
Dr. Christos Gianopoulos |
What Myths Do You Live By? - Telos |
10/16/00 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
MANI in Modern Greek History and Culture |
03/07/01 |
Galina Guslyeva-Efthivoulidis |
Ancient Greek Music - Historical and Theoretical Texts |
03/14/01 |
Galina Guslyeva-Efthivoulidis |
The Ethos of Greek Music |
03/19/01 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
The Greek War of Independence 1821 |
03/21/01 |
Galina Guslyeva-Efthivoulidis |
Greek Music as a Bridge Between East and West |
04/18/01 |
Galina Guslyeva-Efthivoulidis |
Traditional Greek Music - Folk songs, Instruments and Musicians |
04/23/01 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Plethon Gemistos and Neoplatonism |
04/25/01 |
Galina Guslyeva-Efthivoulidis |
The Tradition of Folk Dance. Easter Carols |
05/02/01 |
Galina Guslyeva-Efthivoulidis |
Contemporary Greek Music - Manolis Kalomoiris And His Influence |
The Greek Institute Lecture Series
Date |
Lecturer |
Title of Lecture |
05/09/01 |
Galina Guslyeva-Efthivoulidis |
Nikos Skalkotas, Dimitri Mitropoulos |
05/16/01 |
Galina Guslyeva-Efthivoulidis |
Avante Garde Music in Greece |
09/24/01 |
The Hon. Michael S. Dukakis |
Thoughts and Reactions to 9/11 |
11/12/01 |
Dr. Dimitrios Yiatromanolakis |
Healing Sounds: Music and Medicine in Greek Antiquity |
01/21/02 |
Dr. Jonathan Harrington |
Aristotle and the Wildlife of Lesvos |
02/20/02 |
Dr. Christine Kondoleon |
New Prospects for the Greek Art Collection at the MFA, Boston |
04/22/02 |
Peter Accardo |
Byron and Boston's Philhellenes |
05/20/02 |
Prof. Michael Antonakes |
Poets of World War II - A Reminiscence |
06/07/02 |
Dr. Athan Anagnostopoulos |
The Treasure of the Greek Language Project |
09/23/02 |
Dr. Eleutherios Yalouris |
Topography of Chios: Archaeology and Early Settlements |
09/23/02 |
Dr. Eleutherios Yalouris |
The Development of Sports Related Architecture at Olympia |
11/04/02 |
Maria Karagianis |
Democracy is More Than a Right; It's a Privilege |
03/10/03 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Capodistrias: A Modern Greek Hero? |
04/14/03 |
Prof. Stephen Scully |
Achilles' Shield: Terror, Anger, Delight |
09/29/03 |
Theoharis C. Theoharis |
Constantine P. Cavafy |
10/21/03 |
Theoharis C. Theoharis |
Nikos Kazantzakis |
11/10/03 |
Prof. George Prevelakis |
The Greeks: Nation and Diaspora |
11/17/03 |
Theoharis C. Theoharis |
Three Greek Poets - George Seferis, Elytis and Homer |
02/09/04 |
Theoharis C. Theoharis |
C. P. Cavafy poetry series - session I |
02/16/04 |
Theoharis C. Theoharis |
C. P. Cavafy poetry series - session II |
02/23/04 |
Theoharis C. Theoharis |
C. P. Cavafy poetry series - session III |
04/19/04 |
Prof. Stephen Scully |
Apollo and the Dance of the Olympians |
04/26/04 |
John W. Cobb |
Translations from the Iliad |
05/06/04 |
Jonathan Harrington |
The ORNITHIAKA of Dionysios of Philadelphia |
10/19/04 |
Prof. George Marcopoulos |
Women and Imperial Power in Byzantium - co-sponsored with Tufts Univ. Classics Dept. |
01/17/05 |
Iacovos Kareklas |
Early History Leading to the Foundation of the Republic of Cyprus 1906 |
01/20/05 |
Iacovos Kareklas |
Isocrates' Oration on King Evagoras |
01/27/05 |
Iacovos Kareklas |
The Phase Until 1974: Intercommunal Conflict Analysis and U.S. Foreign Policy on Cyprus |
02/07/05 |
Dr. John Papajohn |
Why Greeks Are So Successful - Growing Up in a Values Driven Culture |
03/21/05 |
Prof. Spiros Pollalis |
Athens Olympics 2004: Challenges and Rewards in the Design and Construction |
11/6/05 |
Dr. Aaron J. Paul |
Greek and Etruscan Encounters: Contact and Change in Ancient Italy |
11/07/05 |
Eleutherios Yialouris, PhD |
The Development of Greek Temple Architecture |
05/13/06 |
Christos Stribakos, PhD |
The Greek Revolution of 1821 in European Context, Part I |
05/20/06 |
Christos Stribakos, PhD |
The Greek Revolution of 1821 in European Context, Part II |
05/27/06 |
Thomas C. Bruno, MLS |
The LIfe and Death of the Library of Alexandria |
06/25/06 |
Susan Schur |
Preserving the Memory and Artifacts of an Almost Forgotten Recent Past - Greek Immigrants of the Nineteenth Century |
11/20/06 |
Agni Thurner |
Phagesia (Foods) of the Ancient Greeks |
01/22/07 |
Nikos Panou |
Orthodoxy, patronage, and the Byzantine commonwealth in the late Middle Ages |
02/05/07 |
Nikos Panou |
Old wine in new bottles: a proto-Byzantine political treatise and its fortunes in the Ottoman Empire |
02/19/07 |
Dimitris Keridis, PhD |
A battle of Ideas: deconstructing post-junta historical and political master narratives in Greece |
03/19/07 |
Anne Dane, PhD |
Red Figure/Black Figure Colorways in Greek Vase Painting |
03/26/07 |
Maria Koundoura, PhD |
The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities |
04/12/07 |
Panagiotis Chatzidakis |
Ancient Delos: Then and Now - Recent Excavations |
10/15/07 |
Thomas Bruno, MLS |
"The Greek Century - The Re-Discovery and Re--Invention of the Greek Legacy in ther 19th Century" |
04/07/07 & 04/14/04 |
Dr. George Theodosiou |
"The Ethnic Mosaic of the Balkans and the Role of the Great Powers" |
11/04/07 |
Frederick O'Sullivan, Esq. |
"The Irish Contribution to the Greek Classical Legacy" |
11/12/07 |
Thomas Bruno, MLS |
"The Life, Death, and Re-Birth of the LIbrary of Alexandria" |
11/18/07 |
Dr, MIchael Antonakes |
"Commemorative Lecture on NIkos Kazantzakis" |
03/23/09 & 03/30/09 |
Dr.Tasos Mavrakos |
"Images and History: Byzantine Churches of Constantinople, Tenedos and Imbros" |
03/15/2010 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Adamantios Koraes, Part I |
03/22/2010 |
Dr. Christos Stribakos |
Adamantios Koraes, Part II |
04/12/2010 |
Dr. Emmanuel Paraschos |
The Early Greeks of Boston |
04/19/2010 |
Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis |
Religion and National Identity in the Greek Diaspora |
10/04/2010 |
Dr. Joanna Bertseka |
Removing the Parthenon Marbles |
4/4/2011 |
Dr. Emmanuel Paraschos |
"The Earliest Greek Immigrants to Boston" |
4/2011/2011 |
Dr. Athanasios Economou |
"Symmetry in the Visual Arts" |
5/2/2011 |
Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis |
"Historical Formation of Modern Greek National Identity" |
5/9/2011 |
Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis |
":Greek Politics" |
5/16/2011 |
Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis |
"Greek Society Through the Prism of Greek Cinema" |
3/19/2012 |
Dr. Vassiliki Rapti |
"Children's Games in the Work of Greek filmmaker, Theo Angelopoulos" |
3/26/2012 |
Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis |
" Greece and the Days Ahead" |
4/2/2012 |
Dr. Michalis Psalidopoulos |
"The Crisis, Europe and Greece" |
10/2/2012 |
Dr. NIcolas Prevelakis |
"Post election Greece" - an update" |
4/22/2013 |
Michael S. Dukakis |
"The Greek Economy and What to do About It" |
4/29/2013 |
Maria Zervos |
"Poetry and Film - Two Worlds Converging" |
5/23/2013 |
Maria Speck |
"The Grains of Greece" |
3/24/2014 Calliopi Dourou "Between Byzantium and Modern Greece: Recapturing the legacy
of Homer in Loukanes' 1526 Iliad"
3/31/2014 Christos Gianopoulos "Jung and the Greeks"
4/7/2014 Spyridon Antonopoulos "The Legacy of Medieval Byzantine Chant in Venetian Crete"
10/6/2014 Prof. George Kalogeris "Read Me Some More, Seferi"
The Greek Institute Author Series - Presentations of New Works
Date |
Author |
Title of Presentation |
05/02/90 |
George Maniotis |
Dark Fairy Tales - short stories |
06/12/90 |
Michalis Ganas |
Three Poems |
10/19/90 |
Alexandros Kotzias |
Jaguar - novel |
03/07/91 |
Ersi Sotiropoulos |
Mexico - novel |
10/20/92 |
Thordis Simonsen |
Dancing Girl - novel |
12/10/92 |
Demetris Bebezas |
Selected Poetry (in Greek) |
02/27/95 |
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke |
New Poems |
04/19/95 |
Vassilis Vassilikos |
And Dreams are Dreams - novel |
05/06/95 |
Maria Karatassou |
View to the Aegean Sea |
01/11/96 |
Dr. Guido Majno |
Ancient Greek Medicine and Healing Practices |
11/21/96 |
Angela Panagiotis |
The Prophet - Greek translation of Kahlil Gibran's work |
02/26/97 |
Leonidas Koumakis |
The Miracle - novel |
06/13/97 |
Dr. Judson Evans |
The Mutability Cantos - poetry |
06/17/97 |
Despina Lala Krist |
Nostos - novel |
02/25/98 |
Theodore Vrettos |
The Elgin Affair |
03/08/98 |
Dr. Alba Ambert |
An Evening of Poetry, Story and Art of Greece |
05/06/98 |
Dinos Siotis |
Navigating in Two Languages - poetry |
12/12/98 |
Dr. Yiannis Patilis |
Latest Works - poetry |
05/13/99 |
Nicholas Gage |
Greece - Land of Light |
02/14/00 |
Stephen Stathis |
Dreams and Demons - poetry |
12/11/00 |
Nicholas Gage |
Greek Fire - novel |
02/04/02 |
Theodore Vrettos |
Alexandria: City of the Western Mind |
05/13/02 |
Rebecca Nemser |
The Sappho of Smyrna - novel |
10/21/02 |
Theoharis C. Theoharis |
Before Time Could Change Them - Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy |
04/17/03 |
John Cobb |
New Translations of Homer's Odyssey |
11/03/03 |
Adrianne Kalfopoulou |
Wild Greens - poetry |
03/29/04 |
Prof. Mary Lefkowitz |
Greek Gods, Human Lives |
05/15/06 |
Yiorgos Chouliaras |
Roads of Ink |
03/17/08 |
Lou Ureneck |
"Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-Fishing and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska" |
05/18/08 |
Christos Papoutsy |
"Ships of Mercy" |
05/18/09 |
Rebecca Nemser |
"The Constellation of Ariadne" |
10/19/09 |
Arthur Gartaganis |
"The History of the Greek Community of New Bedford, MA 1885-1915" |
03/08/2010 |
Irene Koronas |
Pentakomo |
11/22/2010 |
Marianne Apostolides |
The Lucky Child |
10/29/2012 |
George Kalogeris and David Ferry |
"Two Poets" |
3/4/2013 |
George Kalogeris, Irene Koronas, Barbara Thomas |
"Three Greek American Boston Poets reading from their latest works" |
3/25/2013 |
Theoharis C. Theoharis |
""The Poetry of Constantine P. Cavafy" |
6/17/2013 |
Maggie Bromell |
"NISOS - An Island" |
The Greek Institute Art Exhibitions in the the Gallery at The Greek Institute
Date |
Artist |
Title of Exhibition |
02/01/91 |
Dimitri Dimopoulos |
New Sculpture - Ta Xylina |
03/02/91 |
Constantine Arvanites |
Images of Greece |
08/01/91 |
Cynthia Kollios |
Paintings and Drawings from Greece |
09/08/91 |
John Steczynski |
The Tree of Life - pen and ink drawings |
03/01/92 |
Sponsored by The Cypriot Embassy |
Photographs - The Destruction of Archaeological and Religious Sites In the Areas of Cyprus Occupied by Turkish Forces Since 1974 |
04/05/92 |
Avra Pirkle |
Watercolors: Moments of Love |
05/31/92 |
Melissa F. Johnson |
Greek Revels - works on paper |
12/10/92 |
Svetlana Rockwell |
Greek Landscapes - pastels |
02/13/93 |
Joan Orphanos |
The Islands of Greece - Two Artists, Two Views - paintings |
02/13/93 |
Jean M. Ploss |
The Islands of Greece - Two Artists, Two Views - paintings |
04/01/93 |
Reenie Schmerl Barrow |
Photographs of Greece |
05/02/93 |
Panos Ghikas |
Triptychs, Icons and Drawings |
05/02/93 |
Patience E. Haley |
Watercolors and Drawings on Rice Paper |
06/06/93 |
George Polanos |
Photographs from Northern Epirus |
10/20/93 |
Charles Milson |
Latest Works - Hydra - paintings |
02/18/94 |
Catherine G. Frantzis |
Journey into the Aegean - paintings |
02/22/94 |
William Harby |
Paintings and Drawings from Greece |
05/12/94 |
Lena Mouyer |
Harmonies - paintings |
12/04/94 |
Stuart Carduner |
Epiphanies - black and white photographs |
03/28/95 |
Eugene Constan |
Images of Byzantine Frescoes and Mosaics |
06/15/95 |
Jan Watson |
Greek Sites and Sightings - paintings |
12/02/95 |
Nancy Lang |
Reflections from Santorini - paintings |
01/24/96 |
Mary Mavor |
A Trip to Mykonos - paintings |
01/24/96 |
Grace Stergis |
A Trip to Mykonos - paintings |
04/19/96 |
Melissa F. Johnson |
Leavings - works on paper |
06/01/96 |
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Annual Members' Show |
The Greek Institute Art Exhibitions in the the Gallery at The Greek Institute
Date |
Artist |
Title of Exhibition |
03/02/97 |
Dimitri Hadzi |
Works on Paper |
03/21/97 |
Evangelos Pantazoglou |
Sifnos in Apollonian Light 1967-97 - black and white photographs |
06/01/97 |
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Annual Members' Show |
10/19/97 |
Adele Skinner |
Architectural Structures: Myths and Sacred Places - sculpture |
05/08/98 |
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Exhibition of Greek Traditional Folk Instruments |
06/01/98 |
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Annual Members' Show |
09/08/98 |
Irene Koronas |
Kissing God - 3-dimensional paintings |
10/04/98 |
Sam Thurston |
Reliefs and Sculpture |
06/01/98 |
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Annual Members' Show |
09/12/99 |
Dragan Grujic |
Converging Spaces - black and white photographs |
10/17/99 |
Claudia Michael |
The Dodecanese - watercolors |
03/05/00 |
Constantine Arvanites |
Retrospective 1921-1998 - paintings |
04/02/00 |
Catherine G. Kernan |
The Artist in Greece 1976-1998 - color prints |
06/01/00 |
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Annual Members' Show |
06/08/01 |
Panagiotis Malamelis |
Lesvos: The Island and its People - paintings |
09/16/01 |
Jessica Ferguson |
Skopelos - Two Views |
09/16/01 |
Peter Madden |
Skopelos - Two Views - paintings |
12/02/01 |
Sandra Harris |
Watercolors and Acrylics |
12/02/01 |
George W. Thomas |
Watercolors and Acrylics |
02/01/02 |
Skopelos Island Center for the Arts |
Painting and Book Making - Student Show |
03/01/02 |
Panayiotis Michopoulos |
The Art of Karaghiozes |
06/01/02 |
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Annual Members' Show |
11/16/02 |
Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern |
Greece and its Many Colors - paintings |
03/16/03 |
SYMA |
Masks and Shields - Past and Present - multi media |
05/01/03 |
Karen Varnakis |
Photographs With Color |
09/21/03 |
Vassilios Giavis |
Paintings by Vassilios Giavis - A Retrospective |
11/09/03 |
Adele Skinner |
Cyclades: Myths and Images - sculpture |
01/30/04 |
Elizabeth C. Moraites |
Paintings and Collages |
03/01/06 |
Weavers from Arachova and Stemnitsa, Greece |
Women at the Loom |
04/30/06 |
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Greek Embroideries and Textiles from the Private Collection of George V. Decas |
05/05/07 |
Thomas Doane Perry III |
Life in Areopolis, Mani, Greece, 1974-75 - black and white photographs |
09/30/07 |
Ellen Cavanagh O'Sullivan |
Greek Myths- paintings |
05/10/08 - 6/20/08 |
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"A Return to the Homeland: Two Greek American Photographers" - photographs |
05/17/08 - 6/28/08 |
Paraskevi Papademetriou |
"Works on Paper" by - a series of etchings |
9/22/08 - 10/30/08 |
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"12 Acropolis Artists" - paintings |
03/01/2010 - 03/30/2010 |
Pentakomo |
Oil pastels |
06/14/2010 - 07/20/2010 |
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Multi Media - Members Show |
12/16/2011 - 12/18/2011 |
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Holiday Agora Arts and Crafts Sale |
11/04/2012 - 11/30/2012 |
Elizabeth Menges |
"CYPRUS: Portraits and Landscapes" |
10/7/2012 |
Annee Spileos Scott |
"Longings for the Motherland" - an exhibition of mixed media collages with text - the 1922 Smyrna Catastrophe is the central theme of these works. |
11/4/2012 |
Elizabeth Menges |
"Cypriot Landscapes and Portraits"paintings |
The Greek Institute Music Series
Date |
Performer |
Title of Program |
02/17/91 |
Greek Folk Music Ensemble |
An Afternoon Family Concert - Greek Folk Songs - Cambridge Arts Building |
03/23/93 |
Harvard-Radcliffe Quartet |
Chamber Music and Greek Artists - The Ritz-Carlton, Boston |
05/26/94 |
Mikis Theodorakis |
Concert at the Wang Center - Co-sponsored with Pan-Cretan Assoc. of America |
05/08/98 |
An Orchestra of 70 Local Musicians |
A Celebration of Greek Music in America - Sanders Theater, Harvard University |
04/07/00 |
Contemporary Greek Music Ensemble |
A Concert of Greek Songs - Longy School of Music |
05/07/01 |
Contemporary Greek Music Ensemble |
From Rebetiko to Hadjidakis to the Present - Stuart Street Playhouse, Boston |
10/01/01 |
Mark Pevsner |
Skopelos Partita - Composition for Violin - World Premiere - at The Greek Institute |
02/21/03 |
Ensemble Chanterelle |
The Heirs of Orpheus - 17th Century music and Greek myths - Longy School of Music |
05/11/04 |
New England Conservatory grad students |
A Performance of Greek Music - Longy School of Music |
12/05/04 |
Contemporary Greek Music Ensemble |
ENTEXNA ELLHNIKA TRAGOUDIA - MIT Kresge Little Theater MIT |
12/12/05 |
Greek Music Ensemble |
Greek Urban Songs: Smyrneika, Rebetika, Laika - MIT Kresge Little Theater, Cambridge, Ma |
12/14/06 |
Greek Music Ensemble |
Greek Poets Set to Music - MIT Kresge Little Theater |
05/03/06 |
Ensemble Chanterelle |
The Heirs of Orpheus II, Baroque Music and Greek Myths - Longy School of Music, Cambridge, 05/05/06 Panayiotis Terzakis IMMORTALITY - Songs with the poetry of Nikos Gatsos, Zero Arrow Theater, Cambridge, MA |
06/16/06 |
Mario Frangoulis |
Mario Frangoulis in Concert - Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
05/17/07 |
Greek Music Ensemble |
Performance at the Bell-In-Hand - Boston,MA |
05/24/07 |
Greek Music Ensemble |
Performance at the Bell-in-Hand - Boston, MA |
05/31/07 |
Greek Music Ensemble |
Performance at the Bell-in-Hand - Boston, MA |
05/26/07 |
Greek Music Ensemble |
CD Release Party - The Radisson Hotel, Boston, MA |
10/28/07 |
Mario Frangoulis |
AMOR - Greek and Spanish Songs - Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
5/17,24,31/07 |
Greek Music Ensemble |
"Live, Authentic, Greek Music" performed at The Bell-in-Hand Tavern, Boston, MA |
5/12/08 |
Greek Music Ensemble |
"More Eros" - MIT Kresge Little Theater MIT |
10/30/08 |
Mario Frangoulis |
"Mario Frangoulis in Concert" - The Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston, MA |
11/23/2008 |
Greek Music Ensemble |
"More Eros" - MIT Kresge Little Theater MIT |
4/24/2009 |
George Perris |
"Greece: A Musical Journey" - , Stuart Street Theater, Boston, MA |
10/9/2009 |
"An Evening with Alkistis Protopsalti and Stefanos Korkolis" - Sanders Theatre, Harvard University |
05/07/2010 |
Mario Frangoulis and George Perris |
"The Light of Greece" - Sanders Theater, Harvard University |
12/21/2010 |
A Byzantine Christmas Celebration - Byzantine Christmas Hymns and Christmas Carols from the Greek mainland and the islands, First Church of Cambridge |
12/22/2011 |
Spyridon Antonopoulos and his Byzantine choir with instrumentalists, Mal Barsamian, Beth Bahia Cohen, Kostas and Nick Apazidis |
"A Byzantine Christmas Celebration" First Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA |
12/22/2012 |
Spyridon Antonopoulos and his Byzantine choir with instrumentalists, Mal Barsamian, Beth Bahia Cohen, Kostas and Nick Apazidis and Panayiotis League |
"A Byzantine Christmas Celebration" First Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA |
The Greek Institute Film Series
Date |
Filmmaker |
Title of Program |
04/21/91 |
Angelos Antonopoulos |
Film Festival |
03/18/92 |
Dr. Nicholas Laskaris |
Experimental Film - at the Greek Institute |
04/15/92 |
Theodore Angelopoulos |
Landscape in the Fog |
02/28/93 |
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Greek Independence 1821 Film Festival - at The Greek Institute |
05/16/93 |
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An Afternoon of Films on Cyprus: Its Cuture and Present Realities |
10/28/93 |
Twenty Greek Film Makers |
From Cinemythology - A Retrospective of Greek Film - at the Harvard Film Archive |
10/05/94 |
Theodore Adamopoulos |
The 10 Earliest Greek Films - with Greek Film Archive - at The Greek Institute |
05/28/98 |
Yiannis Smaragdis |
Thus Spake the City - Nine Films - at The Greek Institute |
10/10/98 |
Yiannis Smaragdis |
Cavafy - at the Harvard Film Archive |
05/01/00 |
Dimitris Manolesakis |
The Greek Diaspora - 3 Documentary Shorts - at The Greek Institute |
09/27/04 |
Athens Film Archive |
Ten of the earliest known Greek films |
10/04/04 |
Athens Film Archive |
Ten of the earliest known Greek films |
11/01/04 |
Athens Film Archive |
Ten of the earliest known Greek films |
12/06/04 |
Athens Film Archive |
Ten of the earliest known Greek films |
05/17/07 |
Athens Film Archive |
ASTERO A Greek silent film accompanied with live music - Zero Arrow Theater, Cambridge, MA |
05/01/08 |
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"Daphnis and Chloe" - Greek silent film - The Harvard Film Archive, Harvard UnIversity, Cambrige, MA |
11/17/08 |
Apo Torosyan |
"Voices" - introduced by fimmaker, Apo Torosyan |
The Greek Institute Dramatic Reading Series
Date |
Playwright |
Title of Program |
04/09/98 |
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Contemporary Acting of Ancient Greek Texts - Prof. Del Lewis |
04/23/98 |
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Penn Greek Drama Series - readings by poets/translators |
10/19/98 |
Aristophanes |
Lysistrata (new translation) - X. J. Kennedy |
11/30/98 |
Euripides |
Hippolytos (new translation) - Richard Moore |
01/19/99 |
Euripides |
Andromache (new translation) - Donald Junkins |
02/18/99 |
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The Chorus in Ancient Greek Drama - Prof. Del Lewis |
02/18/99 |
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The Chorus in Ancient Greek Drama - Prof. Del Lewis |
02/18/99 |
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"Perseus and Medusa" - presented by The Tanglewood Marionettes - Zero Arrow Theater, Cambridge, MA |
Dramatic Readings Presented by The Greek Institute Players
02/03/92 |
Euripides |
Alcestis |
02/13/92 |
Aristophanes |
The Frogs |
02/17/92 |
Euripides |
Hippolytus |
04/11/92 |
Nikos Katsimboulas |
Leaden Sky - original play |
05/09/92 |
Christiana Lambrinidis |
Bones and Boxes - original play |
11/12/92 |
Dr. Barbara Miliaras |
Everyman - original play |
12/13/92 |
Nikos Katsimboulas |
Steel Moon - original play |
03/17/94 |
Euripides |
Iphigenia at Tauris |
05/05/94 |
Euripides |
Iphigenia at Aulis |
12/05/94 |
Euripides |
Medea |
02/02/95 |
Sophocles |
Antigone |
02/16/95 |
Sophocles |
Oedipus the King |
11/09/95 |
Euripides |
Electra |
01/18/96 |
Sophocles |
Ajax |
01/25/96 |
Sophocles |
The Women of Trachis |
02/22/96 |
Euripides |
The Bacchae |
05/16/96 |
Euripides |
Helen |
11/20/96 |
Euripides |
The Women of Troy |
Dramatic Readings Presented by The Greek Institute Players
Date |
Playwright |
Title of Program |
01/15/97 |
Aeschylus |
The Persians |
01/29/97 |
Aeschylus |
Prometheus Bound |
11/16/97 |
Dr. Michael Antonakes |
The Man From Crete - original play |
02/23/98 |
Euripides |
The Bacchae |
04/13/98 |
Aristophanes |
The Frogs (a new verse translation) |
04/16/98 |
Sophocles |
Philoctetes |
05/14/98 |
Sophocles |
Oedipus at Colonus |
06/06/00 |
Vassilis Ziogas |
Philoctetes - original play |
03/01/01 |
Pavlos Matesis |
The Nurseryman - original play |
06/18/01 |
Iakovos Kambanelis |
The Road Passes Inside - original play |
12/02/01 |
Euripides |
Hypsipyle - World Premiere in English - Staged Reading at Stuart Street Playhouse, Boston |
The Greek Institute Workshops
Date |
Title of Workshop |
06/17/91 |
Dramatizing Aesop: The Lion and the Mouse |
07/08/95 |
The Greek Summer Camp at the Shady Hill School, Cambridge, MA |
09/18/99 |
The Language Embodies the Culture - Teaching Greek |
02/24/01 |
The Heartbeat of Greek Culture - Greek Folk Dance and Music |
The Greek Institute Community Events
03/03/92 |
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Rebetiko - film and songs co-sponsored with the Athenian-Pirean Assoc. of NE |
03/03/93 |
George Souris |
Poetry and Athenian Songs - co-sponsored with the Athenian-Pirean Assoc. of NE |
02/20/02 |
Dr. Christine Kondoleon |
New Prospects for the Greek Art Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
Spring 2002 |
Educational Journeys - co-sponsored with University of New Hampshire's Interhostel |
Spring 2003 |
and Familyhostel educational travel programs |
05/14/04 |
Athanasopoulos Angelos |
Smyrna 1919-1922 - multimedia presentation |
05/15/04 |
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A Tribute to Brickbottom A celebration of the community of Greeks and their descendants who came from Anatolia |
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and settled in Somerville, MA. Lectures, presentations, art, food and music. |
09/29/04 |
Dr. Christine Kondoleon |
Tour of MFA exhibition: Games for the Gods : The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit |
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05/03/06 |
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Perseus and Medusa by the Tanglewood Marionettes - Zero Arrow Theater, Cambridge, MA |
06/17/07 |
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Perseus and Medusa by the Tanglewood Marionettes - Zero Arrow Theater, Cambridge, MA |
12/90-12/07 |
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Annual Holiday AGORA - sale of arts and crafts |
11/16/11 |
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A private viewing of the MFA's "Aphrodite and the Gods of Love" exhibition, guided by Dr. Christine Kondoleon, curator, of Greek and Roman Art |
The Greek Institute Publications
Date |
Author |
Title of Publication |
1990 |
Menis Koumantareas |
Two Stories - English Translation |
1990 |
George Maniotis |
Dark Fairy Tales - short stories - English Translation |
1991 |
Ersi Sotiropoulos |
Selected Poetry and Prose - English Translation |
1992 |
Nikos Katsimboulas |
24 Rembetika - songs in Greek with illustrations |
1993 |
George Chryssis |
HXOI kai APOHXOI (Echoes and After Echoes) - poems in Greek |
1996 |
George Chryssis |
Heliotropia - poetry in Greek and English translation |
2000 |
The Greek Institute |
The Greek Heritage Calendar 2000 - The Everlasting Wisdom of Aesop |
2001 |
The Greek Institute |
The Greek Heritage Calendar 2001 - The Everlasting Wisdom of the New Testament |
2003 |
The Greek Institute |
The Greek Heritage Calendar 2003 - Homage to Demetrios Bikelas |
The Greek Institute Forthcoming Publications
Kostas Ouranis |
Selected Poems - bilingual edition |
Yiannis Ritsos |
Greek Earth - bilingual edition |
Athanasios Christopoulos |
Aphrodite - bilingual edition |
Athansios Christopoulos |
Lyrics: Bacchus and Bacchus the Harvester - bilingual edition |
Athansios Christopoulos |
Lyrics: Erato - bilingual edition |
Euripides |
Hypsipyle - Euripides - English translation by Athan Anagnostopoulos based on |
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reconstruction and modern Greek translation by Tasos Roussos |
CORE COURSES
Introduction to Ancient Greek for High School Students
Introductory and Intermediate Ancient Greek
Homeric Greek
Homer's Iliad
Reading Ancient Greek
Modern Greek, Beginning I, II and III
Modern Greek, Intermediate I and II
Modern Greek, Conversation I
Modern Greek, Translation Seminar
Introduction to Byzantine Music
New Testament Greek
Masters of Tragedy: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
The Romance of Alexander
Seminars on Modern Greek History
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