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The "Greek History and Culture Seminars" are organised and hosted by The Greek Community of Melbourne and provide the opportunity for everyone to experience the long and fascinating history of Greece and Greek culture in its various forms and stages, aspects of which have formed the foundation of Western civilisation.

This year all our seminars are free and open to the general public, and unless otherwise noted, presented in English.

Most seminars take place on Thursdays at Greek Centre, Mezzanine Floor, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.

All seminars are scheduled to start at 7:00pm. For details relating to each seminar please see the website calendar close to the day of the event.

Enrol to our seminars for free and be kept up to date with details of each Seminar and all events of the Greek Community.

2021 Greek History and Culture Seminars Program

#	Date	Speaker	Topic
NUGAS-GCM Crash Course on 1821
A	18 Feb.	Yianni Cartledge	Greek War of Independence (1821-1832): Between history and 'mythistory' Part 1
B	25 Feb.	Yianni Cartledge	Greek War of Independence (1821-1832): Between history and 'mythistory' Part 2
2021 GCM Public Seminars Program
1	4 Mar.	Prof Vrasidas Karalis	Did the Greek Revolution of 1821 really happen? Myths, counter-myths and historical knowledge.
2	11 Mar.	Δρ Ελευθερία Ζέη	Μαντώ Μαυρογένους: ανάμεσα σε δύο κόσμους
		Dr Eleftheria Zei	Manto Mavrogenous: Between Two Worlds
3	18 Mar.	Facilitator: Prof Joy Damousi	Growing Up Greek: Intergenerational Dialogues
4	25 Mar.	Prof Alexander Kitroeff	Greece's 1821 as an International Event: its Impact on America
5	1 Apr.	Prof Paschalis Kitromilides	Visions of Freedom in the Greek world
6	8 Apr.	Prof P.A. Cartledge	Thebes: The Forgotten city of Ancient Greece
7	15 Apr.	Prof Thanos Veremis	1821 Birth of a Nation State
8	22 Apr.	Prof Margaret Cameron	Practicing toward virtue, or, why it shouldn’t hurt to be good
	29 Apr.	GREEK EASTER BREAK	GREEK EASTER BREAK
9	6 May	Barabara Cullen	Battle of Crete veterans that played AFL
10	13 May	Dean Kalimniou	Pontian Genocide Memorial Seminar
11	20 May	Dr Leonidas Moiras	Ottoman Perceptions of the Greek Revolution
12	27 May	Dr Gillian Shepherd	The Tomb of the Diver: Life, Death and Drinking in the Ancient Greek World
13	3 Jun.	Alexander Billinis	Hydra and the Flame of the Revolution
14	10 Jun.	Professor Michael Herzfeld	The 1821 Revolution and Greek Village Life Today
15	17 Jun.	Δρ Σωκράτης Πετμεζάς	Οι «κοτζαμπάσηδες» και ο ρόλος τους στη φορολογική και πολιτική λειτουργία των χριστιανικών κοινοτητων στην ύστερη Οθωμανική περίοδο
		Dr Socrates Petmezas	The communal notables (kodjabashis) and their fiscal and political functions and role in the Christian communities in the Late Ottoman Empire
16	24 Jun.	Assoc Prof Andrekos Varnava	Cyprus and 1821: Myths, Realities, Forgetting and Remembering
17	1 Jul.	Assoc Prof Nicholas Doumanis	Battle of Navarino
18	8 Jul.	Dr Anna Vlachopoulou	Who fought whom in 1821 and where to find the Sultan? The socioeconomic situation of Morea (Peloponnese) on the eve of the Greek Revolution
19	15 Jul.	Dean Kalimniou	The Greek Revolution And The Middle East
20	22 Jul.	Yianni Cartledge	The Chios Massacre (1822): British Humanitarianism and Chiot Emigration
21	29 Jul.	Kathryn Gauci	Threads of Life: Greek Textiles through the Centuries
22	5 Aug.	Dr Roslynne Bell	Warriors, Weapons, and Wild Women: The Amazons in Greek Art
23	12 Aug.	Dr James Kane	The Battle of Manzikert (1071): Tipping Point in Byzantine History?ÂÂÂÂ
24	19 Aug.	Dr Stavroula Nikoloudis	In memory of Theodoros Kolokotronis (1770 - 1843)
25	26 Aug.	Dr Aris Gounaris	Constantinos A. Doxiadis: A visionary urban planner who left his mark on cities around the world... and grew tomatoes in Queensland
26	2 Sep.	Τζουλιάνα Χαρπαντίδου	Ποιος είναι Ελληνας - 'Τα συνταγματικά κείμενα της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης 1821-1832'
		Juliana Charpantidou	Who is a Greek citizen? - the constitutional articles of the Greek Revolution 1821-1832
27	9 Sep.	Prof. Alfred Vincent	Language, Poetry and a Hot Air Balloon: Ioannis Vilaras and Ioannina in the Time of Ali Pasha
28	16 Sep.	Dr Cassi Plate	Monster & Colossus: Letters between Greek writer Costas Taktsis & Australian artist Carl Plate & their families in cosmopolitan post-war Sydney
29	23 Sep.	Prof Nikos Papastergiadis	Dimitris Tsaloumas Memorial Lecture
30	30 Sep.	Καθ. Αντώνης Λιάκος	Η διεθνής απήχηση της επανάστασης του 1821
		Prof Antonis Liakos	The International Resonance of the Greek Revolution
31	7 Oct.	Professor Vrasidas Karalis	Lord Byron: The Poet and the Revolutionary in Greece
32	14 Oct.	Prof Joy Damousi & Prof Sheila Fitzpatrick	Cold War Immigrants: Left, Right and the Orthodox Church
33	21 Oct.	Kimon Koemtzopoulos	The Mediterranean monk seal, the rarest pinniped in the world

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2021 Greek History and Culture Seminars Program