Sponsored by the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture

This lecture is offered on the occasion of International Translation Day, in collaboration with the Embassy of Greece in Washington, DC, the UCLA Department of Classics, and the American Archaeological Institute (Los Angeles Chapter).

The discussion will be co-moderated by Professor Sarah Morris (Classics; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) and Dr. Simos Zenios (UCLA SNF Hellenic Center).

Instructions: Registration is required, so please click the link to register for the event.

The Classics Department cordially invites you to join us for The Laic Archaic, a Zoom discussion presented by author and “The Chatner” founder, Daniel Lavery. This event will take place Wednesday, March 9th, at 5:30 pm (EDT) via Zoom.

Daniel Lavery is the author of Something That May Shock and Discredit You, The Merry Spinster, and Texts From Jane Eyre. He is the co-founder of The Toast and the proprietor of the Chatner newsletter; formerly the Dear Prudence advice columnist at Slate. He will be reading from some of his published writings, particularly on Sappho and Catullus, and then discussing with Prof. Johanna Hanink how his work has been informed by his “amateur enthusiasm for Classics.”

The Program in Modern Greek Studies, with support from the C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureships Fund, cordially invites you to join us for “The Archeologist”: Panel Discussion featuring Prof. Johanna Hanink . Panelists include Sadia Abbas (Rutgers), Patricia Felisa Barbeito (RISD), and Felipe Rojas (Brown). This event will take place Friday, March 4th, at 5:30 PM in Pembroke Hall, room 305.

“Translated into English for the first time, The Archeologist is a landmark of Greek national literature, and an important document in the history of archeology and classicism. Published for the bicentennial year of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence.” (Penguin Random House)

Registration is required for this event. Please follow the link to access the registration form. As always, this event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

This conversation is prompted by the appearance of Johanna Hanink’s volume of works by Andreas Karkavitsas (The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories, Penguin Classics 2021) and the new and expanded edition of Michael Herzfeld’s seminal Ours Once More (first published in 1982, new edition Berghahn Books 2020).

Herzfeld’s work marked a landmark intervention in Modern Greek Studies (among other fields) for its authoritative history and analysis of the role played by folklore in Greek nation building. On the other hand, Andreas Karkavitsas—who himself contributed to the burgeoning study of laografía (Greek folklore studies) drew heavily upon the folkloric tradition in his attempts to project a vision of Hellenism more expansive variegated that being pursued by the Greek state in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

This conversation will touch on the intersections between Greek folklore, literature, archaeology, and nation building, and the significance of these issues today – particularly in the light of this year’s centennial remembrance of the Great Catastrophe. 

The Greek war for independence (1821–1830) often goes missing from discussion of the Age of Revolutions. Yet the rebellion against Ottoman rule was enormously influential in its time, and its resonances are felt across modern history. The Greeks inspired others to throw off the oppression that developed in the backlash to the French Revolution. And Europeans in general were hardly blind to the sight of Christian subjects toppling Muslim rulers. In this collection of essays, Paschalis Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas bring together scholars writing on the many facets of the Greek Revolution and placing it squarely within the revolutionary age.

On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, this panel brings together a range of scholars from History, Political Science, and Classics, to explore the significance of this book, as well as the Greek Revolution and its legacy.

This event is Presented and co-sponsored by the Embassy of Greece in the US and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies.

Princeton University classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta will be joined by Brown University classicist Johanna Hanink to discuss what, if anything, the study of the ancient Mediterranean has to offer us in this specific moment of calamity – the result and sum total of many earlier moments and histories of calamity, most notably the violences of the transatlantic slave trade and Euro-American settler-colonialism. In place of the knee-jerk rush in some circles to ostensibly emancipatory or liberatory uses of the “classical” past, they will consider the benefits of what Charles Mills has termed “the illumination of Blackness” or what Jacoby Adeshei Carter has singled out as a pressing need for canon-builders in philosophy: “a lively active oppositional set of communities of inquiry.”

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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate, explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell.

Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Daniel Mendelsohn weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own – works that pondered the nature of narrative itself: Jewish philologist Erich Auerbach, 17th-century French archbishop Francois Fenelon, and the German novelist W.G. Sebald. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life. He will be joined in conversation by classicist Johanna Hanink.

The event is part of the 21 in 21 activities, celebrating the 2021 bicentenary of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 21 Greek-British encounters. The 21 in 21 events are sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation. 

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEGreece

Why do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make right? For nearly 2,500 years, students, politicians, political thinkers, and military leaders have read the eloquent and shrewd speeches in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War for profound insights into military conflict, diplomacy, and the behavior of people and countries in times of crisis. Scholar Johanna Hanink discusses her new book How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy, which offers new translations of the artful Athenian speeches from History, a work that the ancient historian hoped would become a “possession for all time.” Book signing to follow.

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Παρουσίαση του καινούργιου βιβλίου του Κωνσταντίνου Πουλή, “ΑΠ’ ΤΟ ΑΛΕΤΡΙ ΣΤΟ SMARTPHONE: ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΠΑΤΕΡΑ ΜΟΥ”

We live in a world where the lessons of the past are constantly ignored or dismissed. Yet the past continues to fascinate us. The classical world especially has never been more popular. In movies, novels, video games and TV documentaries, Greece and Rome are constantly in the public eye. So what does the classical world have to offer us in the 21st century? In this session, a panel of classical scholars with a special interest in contemporary popular culture will debate this issue, with questions and contributions from members of the audience.

Join classicist Johanna Hanink as she talks to Professor Tim Whitmarsh about How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy.

“Cleon’s Rule and Fictions of Civic Privacy in Classical Athens”

“Classical Debt ‘after’ the Crisis: Greek Antiquity in the Era of Grecovery”

Ever since 2010, the country of Greece has been notorious for its monetary debt. But for two centuries, the phrase “Greek debt” has also meant something quite different: the symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. This lecture will depart from the premise that there are two sides to Greek debt: the premise that is the foundation of Johanna Hanink’s 2017 book The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity (Harvard University Press). Hanink will also respond to various critiques of the book, and consider just what has changed—and what, sadly, has not—about the accounting (and accounts) of that debt since the book manuscript was put to bed, just weeks after the “Brexit” referendum in June of 2016.

Presentation of The Classical Debt sponsored by Yale University's Hellenic Studies Program

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