Hellenic Cultural Month IV

Fall 2004
University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor

Admission to all the events is FREE.

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DATE TIME ROOM EVENT
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Sun 10/03 3-6 pm Vandenberg Room
Michigan League
Platsis Symposium
Talks on Crete
  8:00 pm Michigan League
Ballroom
Concert of Cretan Music
Sun 10/10 4:00 pm Vandenberg Room
Michigan League
Lecture: "The Greeks in Egypt during the 19th and 20th Centuries"
Sat 10/23 2-8 pm Trotter House
1443 Washtenaw
Greek Cooking Extravaganza
     
Tue 10/26 8:00 pm Angell Hall
Auditorium A
Lecture:
"The Parthenon Divided"
Fri 11/05 5:00 pm Angell Hall
Auditorium C
Greek
Hip-Hop Lecture
Fri 11/13 4-7 pm Michigan League
Ballroom
Cretan Dance Performance & Workshop
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Locations

Angell Hall [map]
435 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109
 
Trotter House [map]
1443 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
 
Michigan League [map]
911 N. University St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (Tel. 734-764-0446)
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Lectures

Sun 10/03/04
3:00 p.m.

"The Island of Crete: Stepping Stone between East and West during Antiquity"
 

Lecture by archaeologist L. Vance Watrous, Professor of Art History, SUNY-Buffalo

Michigan League
Vandenberg Room

 

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Sun 10/03/04
4:00 p.m.

"The Art and Culture of Medieval Crete: Between Venice and Byzantium"
 

Lecture by Byzantinist Maria Georgopoulou, Assoc. Professor of Art History, Yale University

Michigan League
Vandenberg Room

 

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Sun 10/03/04
5:00 p.m.

"Crete In Between: Still the Middle of a Wine-Dark Sea"
 

Lecture by philosopher Louis Ruprecht, Assoc. Professor of Ethics and Culture, Claremont Graduate University

Michigan League
Vandenberg Room

 

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Sun 10/10/04
4:00 p.m.

"The Greeks in Egypt during the 19th and 20th Centuries"
 

Lecture by Dr. Euthymios Soulogiannis. Dr. Souloyiannis is the leading world authority on the Greeks of modern Egypt. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he was for many years a Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens, Center for Modern and Contemporary history, where he is now Emeritus Director of Research. He has published several books on the Greek diasporas in Italy, Egypt, and South Africa. He has also organized the invaluable Egyption section of the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA) in Athens.

Michigan League
Vandenberg Room

 

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Tue 10/26/04
8:00 p.m.

"The Parthenon Divided"
 

Lecture by Anthony Snodgrass, Chairman, British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, and Emeritus Laurence Professor of Classical Archeology, University of Cambridge

Angell Hall
Auditorium A

 

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Fri 11/05/04
5:00 p.m.

Greek Hip-Hop Lecture
 

Lecture by Frank Hess

Angell Hall
Auditorium C

 

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The Sunday evening performance of Cretan poetry, music, and dance is organized by Dr. Maria Hnaraki (Ethnomusicology Ph.D. from Indiana University, Lecturer in Modern Greek at Cornell). We are fortunate to have Dr. Hnaraki, a native of Crete, among our experts.

 

Sponsored by:

  • UM Hellenic Student Association >
  • UM Modern Greek Studies Chair >
  • Foundation for Modern Greek Studies >

Contributors:

  • Michigan Student Assembly >
  • Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE) >
  • Office of Student Activities & Leadership >
  • Rackham Student Government >
  • LSA Student Government >

 

Questions about the Hellenic Cultural Month? E-mail hellenic.month@umich.edu

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