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Dean Kalimniou

Dialogue

Defunding the funders: Averoff and Slavery

Mention the name “Giorgios Averoff” to any Greek, and the immediate response is “benefactor.” A wealthy expatriate businessman, he applied his wealth to a number of institutional and educational projects …

Dialogue

Tongues of Greek Australia: An Anglicised Hellenic language

The photograph of the composite sign accompanying this text was taken by my own insufficiency while driving around the streets of Melbourne. It represents, better than any words ever could, …

Dialogue

Bert Birtles, his love of Greece and ‘Exiles in the Aegean’

It is fair to say that Melbourne poet, journalist and social activist Bert Birtles harboured an enduring fascination for Greece. He named the poetry journal that he founded in 1935 …

Dialogue

‘Black’ Africans and the Ancient Greeks

As a result of George Floyd’s murder and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, there have been calls to decolonise the academic fields of Classical and Byzantine Studies. …

Life

Dr Christos Fifis: Narratives in the autumn of our times

It is autumn in Greek Melbourne. At least that is what one is to understand from the front cover of author and academic Dr Christos Fifis’ latest book, Ελληνοαυστραλιανά Διηγήματα. …

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Maria Euthymiou’s resignation from 2021 Commemorative Committee

“We’re gon’ party like its your birthday” – 50 Cent Recently, historian Maria Euthymiou resigned from the 2021 Commemorative Committee, tasked by the Greek government to organise the celebrations that …

Dialogue

‘Lord and Master of My Life’, a new book by Archbishop Makarios of Australia

“Lord and Master of my Life..” is how the Lenten prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian, commences. It is not perhaps not entirely coincidental that Archbishop Makarios has chosen to …

Dialogue

Court nostalgia in time of lockdown

Generally speaking, court appearances, which form a significant proportion of the daily tasks of the legal practitioner, are the bane of my existence. Just as I have recurring nightmares of …

Dialogue

When the British House of Commons purchased the Parthenon Marbles from Lord Elgin

In 1816, a Select Committee of Inquiry of the British House of Commons was called upon to deliberate as to whether it would be expedient for Parliament to purchase the …

Life

A resilient spirit: David Krasnostein and the art of the perennial

“When I look at my photographs today, I feel like an archaeologist might feel when she or he has uncovered some carefully wrought object from the past that illuminates precious …

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