Zoom HUC Event Recordings

Below are video recordings of Hellenic University Club discussions that have taken place virtually since March 2020. They are listed in reverse chronological order, from newest to oldest.

HUC Scholarship Awards Ceremony for 2022-23 Recipients

HUC Speaker Event: Greek Music in Tarpon Springs, Florida with Panayotis League - from 5/12/22

Panayotis League is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Director of the Center for Music of the Americas at Florida State University. He specializes in the traditional music of the Greek islands, northeastern Brazil, and Ireland. He has published extensively in ethnomusicology and his new book explores the musical heritage of Asia Minor in the United States, Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora (2021). Dr. League is an accomplished musician and recording artist. In 2018 he was awarded a Traditional Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and in 2019 was named a Master Artist by the Florida Folklife Program for performing and teaching the traditional music and oral poetry of Kalymnos in the Greek immigrant community of Tarpon Springs.

Scholars Katerina Lagos & Othon Anastasakis discuss “The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974” - from 4/16/22

Scholars Katerina Lagos & Othon Anastasakis joined HUC for The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974. Anastasakis and Lagos have just co-edited The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past (2021).

From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that left a lasting mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, The Greek Military Dictatorship explores the junta’s attempts to impose authoritarian rule upon a rapidly modernizing country while navigating a complex international landscape. Focusing both on foreign relations as well as domestic matters such as economics, ideology, religion, culture and education, this book offers a fresh and well-researched study of a key period in modern Greek history.

2022 Speaker Series - Eleni Angelomatis-Tsougarakis on Greek Women in the War of Greek Independence - from 3/26/22

Fighters and Victims: Greek Women In the War of Greek Independence

Eleni Angelomatis-Tsougarakis is Professor Emerita of the Department of History at Ionian University. Her expertise covers many aspects of Modern Greek history such as foreign travelers in Greece, Greek men of letters during the Ottoman era, the history of education, the history of women, and local history in Crete and Corfu. She has published seven monographs, seven edited volumes, and over seventy papers in academic journals and edited volumes, including The Eve of the Greek Revival: British Travellers’ Perceptions of Early Nineteenth Century Greece (1990), and Greece before the War of Greek Independence: 1821 the Birth of a National State (2011).

HUC Young Scholars Spotlight Talk: Dr. Myrto Grigoroglou - from 3/24/22

University of Toronto linguist Dr. Myrto Grigoroglou will deliver the latest talk in HUC's Young Scholars Spotlight series: Do children adjust their speech to the informational needs of others?

Dr. Grigoroglou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Cognitive Science Program at Toronto. Her PhD in Linguistics and Cognitive Science is from the University of Delaware. She studies how children acquire the meaning of words and grammatical constructions in their native language, and how children and adults use language in communication. Her work also explores how linguistic meaning interacts with non-linguistic cognition (e.g., social and spatial cognition, logical reasoning).

Joanna Eleftheriou Discusses "This Way Back: From New York to Cyprus and Back" - from 2/10/22

Joanna moved from New York City to a Greek-Cypriot village, a journey dramatically captured as a coming-of-age experience for a professional, feminist woman seeking a way to remain part of the Greek Orthodox Church both in the United States and Cyprus. Joanna will read from the essay “Ithacas” and discuss the process of sharing her Greek-Cypriot-American experience with a broad readership and fielding questions such as: What does it mean to go “back home” when you are Greek-American? Are we on a journey back to our Greek and Cypriot homelands, or searching for any place that will make us feel like we belong? How do we keep alive the traditions of our homelands as we emerge as modern Greek-Americans of the twenty-first century?

“Seeing Through the Prism of a Century: Latino Immigration Today from a Greek-American Perspective” - Talk with Paul Apostolidis, from 1/22/22

Dr. Apostolidis is grandson of HUC cofounders Dr. Nicholas and Kively Padis, and he recently joined our Club as a member from England.

HUC Scholarship Awards Ceremony for 2021-22 Recipients, from 6/4/21

Watch our scholarship recipients discuss their plans of study!

“The Relics of the Struggle” - Talk with Sakis Gekas, from 5/6/21

On Thursday, May 6, 2021, Sakis Gekas discussed his forthcoming book “The Relics of the Struggle: Veterans, Widows, and Orphans of the 1821 Greek Revolution”. This talk offers new perspectives on the history of the veterans of the Greek revolution and will discuss their participation in the war, their condition as disabled or suffering from serious illness, and their families’ condition after the war.

“The Diaspora & the Greek War of Independence” - Talk with Richard Clogg, from 3/27/21

On Saturday, March 27, 2021, Richard Clogg discussed the national movement which led to the outbreak of the war for Greek independence in 1821. It has a particular interest. It was the first to develop outside Western Christendom and in a Muslim state. The Greeks were the first of the peoples of the Balkan peninsula to establish a sovereign state, an example which was followed by the other peoples of the region during the next ninety years. The talk will look at the reasons for this precocity and, in particular, at the role of the pre-independence Greek diaspora that had emerged in central and western Europe, southern Russia and the Mediterranean in the development of the national movement. Greek merchants had in effect established a commercial empire before Greece had gained its independence. The Philiki Etairia, the secret revolutionary society which laid the organizational groundwork for the uprising, was founded in Odessa by three petty merchants. Few of the wealthier merchants played any role in its activities. But they did have an indirect role in developing a national consciousness by enabling young Greeks to study in European universities, where they became aware of the almost universal admiration for the civilization of ancient Greece that existed in educated circles. Some founded schools back in the Greek homeland and subsidized the printing of books. Few observers in 1821 expected the uprising to succeed, but the insurgents, by holding out long enough for the Great Powers to feel obliged to intervene against the Ottoman Empire, eventually met with success in establishing an independent state.

“Aivali: A Story of Greeks and Turks in 1922” - Talk with Author and Cartoonist Soloúp, from 1/31/21

On Sunday, January 31, 2021, Soloúp discussed his graphic novel “Aivali: a Story of Greeks and Turks in 1922. Soloúp is a celebrated Greek cartoonist whose work has been featured in newspapers and magazine (To Vema, Pontiki, etc.) He is the author of many books, including The Collector: Six Short Stories for a Big Bad Wolf (2018), Sweet Dawn: Fourteen Stories from the German Occupation of Athens (2019), and History of the Greek Comics (2012). Aivali is a seaside town on the western Aegean coast overtaken by Kemal Atatürk’s army on September 5, 1922. Soloúp narrates the sufferings of the Asia Minor Catastrophe through the eye-witness accounts of four Aivali natives, authors Elias Venezis, Agapi Venezi-Molyviati, Photis Kontoglou, and Ahmet Yorulmaz.