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My Life in Lockdown: Q&A with Martha Tsamis
Inflation and Chasers nightclub owner-turned-mask and hand sanitiser supplier Martha Tsamis has always been a gutsy busy woman. From providing masks to standing for local council elections, and from taking …
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War, identity and peace through a camera lens: a few weeks before the war in Nagorno-Karabakh
Over the last three years I have worked to protect cultural heritage in zones of conflict and war in the Netherlands and Cyprus. On 20 July 2019, when Cyprus marked …
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What’s On 22 October – 29 October
ONLINE VIRTUAL OPEN LECTURE: MEMORY MAPPING AND THE HISTORIC GREEK COMMUNITIES OF ISTANBUL Leverhulme Research Fellow Dr Gönül Bozoğlu will delve into the ongoing work with communities whose cultural memory …
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Arcare volunteers keep spirits up in age care centres with daily newsletter
It is no mean feat to produce a newsletter every day but to do it for 200 consecutive days and in seven languages in the midst of a pandemic is …
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Greece 2021 committee release video clip: “Let the Dances Last”
The Greece 2021 Committee released a cheerful video clip ahead of the 200th anniversary of the 1821 Greek Revolution. The clip features Dionysis Savvopoulos song, “Let the Dances Last”, and …
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Tu parli Griko? – online seminar looks at the Greek spoken in Italy
In 1999, Italy passed Law 482 which recognised the two languages of Greek origin, Griko (spoken in Apulia) and Greko (Calabria), as being among the 12 minority languages that are …
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NUGAS teams up with La Trobe to promote tertiary study of Greek language and culture
On Sunday the 18 October NUGAS Victoria hosted an information session on Greek Studies at La Trobe via Zoom. The session focused on informing those interested in studying Greek at …
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Art Athina goes virtual – and you can attend too!
The biggest annual art event of Athens and one of the oldest international art fairs in Europe, Art Athina, organised by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association since 1993, is back …
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Time to ask more questions about the Axis Occupation, says historian
Key perceptions of the Axis Occupation of Greece (1941 to 1944), the causes of the famine and black market were already set in the historical discourse of the nation by …
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Melbourne in lockdown stirs the emotions of growing up in Melbourne in the 80s
In the 1980s, growing up in Melbourne was a unique time for an inner-city migrant kid. My parents had been in town for ten or fifteen years by then. They …