Past Events
Film Screening- The Journey: The Greek American Dream |
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Saturday, May 2, 20098:00 PM, at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit, Rochester NY The HSCR will be screening the documentary, The Journey: The Greek American Dream, by Greek filmmaker Maria Iliou. The documentary is a creative assemblage of archival photos and movies of Greeks who immigrated to the US, from 1890 to 1980, with narration by prominent Greek American artists, historians, and politicians. The film will be shown in the fellowship hall of the Holy Spirit, which is on 835 South Ave., Rochester NY. Related Links: The Proteus Archive Preservation Project |
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Greek Film Screening: Nyfes (Νύφες) |
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Friday, April 4, 20088 PM in the Curtis Theatre of the George Eastman HouseThe Hellenic Cultural Society will screen the film “Nyfes” (a.k.a. “Brides”), by seasoned director Pantelis Voulgaris, at the George Eastman House’s Curtis Theatre. The film is predominantly in English, with some in Greek. The film, set in 1922, is a story of a mail order bride, Niki – one of 700 – heading for promised grooms in America. “Nyfes” is visually melancholy, but also beautiful. It won the 2004 Thessaloniki Film Festival award for Best Fiction Film. Admission is free, however donations will be welcome. (2008 Memberships will also be taken at the event.) The theatre Cafe will be open to serve sandwiches, desserts, and beverages. Related Links: Directions to GEH/Curtis Theatre Related Files: Poster for Greek film Nyfes_2004 |
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Early Human Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective |
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Thursday, April 3, 20087:30 PM in the Auditorium of the Memorial Art Gallery, 500 Univ. Ave., Rochester NYDr. James Adovasio, founder and director of Mercyhurst College Archaeological Institute in Erie Pennsylvania, will share with the audience what he has learned in his study of the archeology of North and MesoAmerica and of the former Soviet Union. Dr. Adovasio specializes in prehistory, its technology and material analysis and geoarchaeology. The Meadocroft site, whose excavation he has lead, has been cited as the earliest well-dated site in the Western Hemisphere. This AIA lecture is free and open to the public; non-MAG members can attend with $3 reduced MAG admission. Related Links: AIA_Apri03_2008_Event |
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HCSRI Book Fair at the Greek Festival 2007 |
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 through Sunday, June 3, 200711* AM to 10 PM, Greek Orthodox Church, 962 East Ave., Rochester NYThe HCSRi is participating again in Rochester's Greek Festival this year. The festival booth will present audio-visual and poster exhibits on cultural aspects of Greece. We will have a book fair, with books for everyone, of all ages. We will also answer all your questions about our Society, and tell you how we contribute to the cultural strength of Rochester. (*)The festival opens at 1 PM on Sunday, June 3rd. For more information, use the links below to contact Walter Bubie, HCSRI president. Note that book fare purchases can be made with cash and check only. Related Links: Annunciation Orthodox Church-Festival Schedule Related Files: Contact Info- Walter Bubie |
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Multispectral Imaging of the Archimedes Palimpsest |
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Saturday, April 21, 20077:30 PM in Basil Hall Auditorium (Rm 315), St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave, Rochester NYMr. D. Michael Hansen, a recent graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology will present his research dealing with one of the most significant texts in the history of science, the Archimedes Palimpsest. fluorescence and spectral pattern recognition. Working with colleagues Dr. Roger L. Easton, Jr., and Derek Walvoord at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Hansen has worked to classify and separate layers of writing in X-ray fluorescence images of the 1,000 year-old manuscript. For additional details download the full program flyer (link below). This event is free and open to the public. Related Files: Poster of Archimedes Palimpsest event |
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Understanding the Films of Theodoros Angelopoulos |
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Saturday, March 17, 20075:30 PM in Basil Hall , room 135, St. John Fisher College |
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A Touch of Spice (Πολίτικη Κουζίνα) (2003) |
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Friday, February 2, 20078 PM, George Eastman House, Curtis Theater, 900 East Ave
A touch of spice is the story of Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor; they both require a touch of spice. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. Thirty-five years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather and his first love; he travels back only to realize that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life. About the DirectorMr Boulmetis was born in Constantinople (Istanbul), in 1957. He came to Greece in 1964. He studied physics at the University of Athens and film production and direction at UCLA. He co-produced, wrote and directed the feature film Dream Factory, which won the Golden Award at the Houston Fantastic Film Festival. Since 1988 he has been directing TV spots, internationally, and has specialized in Special Effects and Processing of Electronic Images AdmissionNo charge; however donations appreciated (suggested: $5/person) |
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Tales from the Trenches: Fighting Culture Wars with the AIA |
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Thursday, October 12, 20067:30 pm in the Auditorium at The Memorial Art Gallery of the Uni. of Rochester Dr. Jane C. Waldbaum, President of the National Archaeological Institute of America will be presenting Tales from the Trenches a discussion about some of the fronts on which the AIA and its members have been involved in, and the importance of preserving cultural and archaeological heritage for all of us. This event is in honor of the 100 years>that the AIA Rochester Society has been active and supporting the dissemination of archaeological and cultural learnings. Related Links: Event information from the AIA |
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HCSRI Silver Anniversary Celebration |
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Saturday, April 1, 20067:30 PM, Crystal Barn, 2851 Clover StreetJoin us as we celebrate 25 years of bringing opportunities to experience and learn about Greek culture to our members and the Rochester-area public. A very special event has been planned to mark the occasion! Dr. Peter Bien, renowned Kazantzakis scholar and translator of The Last Temptation of Christ, will join us to discuss his analysis of the widely acclaimed and historically controversial novel as post-Christian. Dr. Bien is Professor of English and the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing Emeritus at Dartmouth. His major translations include Kazantzakis's Report to Greco and The Last Temptation of Christ as well as Stratis Myrivilis's Life in the Tomb. He has also co-edited with Darren Middleton, God's Struggler: Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis. In addition, Professor Bien was a founding member of the Modern Greek Studies Association and a senior editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies. In addition to the talk by Peter Bien, a review of the Society's past programs will be presented. Over drinks, desserts and hors d’oeuvres, you can help us recognize the society’s many noteworthy accomplishments and acknowledge the people who've contributed to its success over the last quarter century. SynopsisKazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ has been condemned as blasphemous. This is unjust because, although not Christian in an orthodox sense, the book is post-Christian. Sharing Christianity's assurance that Spirit triumphs, and honoring Jesus as our supreme spiritual model, Kazantzakis nevertheless reinterprets Jesus's life by making him evolve from Son of the Carpenter to Son of Man to Son of David and finally to Son of God, a process of gradual dematerialization that leads from happiness to meaningfulness. Determined to bring Christianity into the modern world by making it consistent with Darwinian evolution, he goes so far as to say that God, too, evolves and is therefore neither eternal nor immutable. In this he is supported by process-relational theism, which treats divine process as within the allowable bounds of Christian speculation. The book's entire purpose is not to undo Christianity but, rather, to make Jesus speak to our modern sensibility. BioPeter Bien is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Dartmouth College. Although in his teaching he concentrated on British and Irish fiction, especially James Joyce, in his research and writing he has devoted his energies chiefly to Modern Greek literature and language. He translated Kazantzakis’s The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis, and Report to Greco, as well as Myrivilis’s Life In The Tomb, and poetry by Ritsos, Cavafy, and Harkianakis. His scholarly writings treat Cavafy, Ritsos, and especially Kazantzakis, whose “Selected Letters” he is expecting to publish in a few years. A founder of the Modern Greek Studies Association of America, Professor Bien served twice as its president and also as the editor-in-chief of its official periodical, the Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Together with several colleagues at Princeton, he is the co-author of Greek Today, a textbook for the teaching of Modern Greek via the oral/aural method. In 2004 he and colleagues published a 900-page bilingual anthology of twentieth-century Greek poetry. Volume 1 of his critical/biographical study, Kazantzakis: Politics of The Spirit, was brought out in Greek translation by the University of Crete Press in 2001; he has recently completed volume 2, which will be published by Princeton University Press in 2006 and in Greek by the University Presses of Greece in 2007. He is now preparing an edition, in English, of Kazantzakis’s selected letters. |
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From the Margins to the Center: |
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Saturday, February 11, 20067:30 PM in Basil Hall Auditorium (room 135), St. John Fisher College |
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War Then and Now: Desertion and Disinheritance |
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Monday, November 14, 20057:30 PM in Basil Hall Auditorium, St. John Fisher College |
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HCSRI Booth |
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Thursday, June 2, 2005 through Sunday, June 5, 2005Festival hours, Annunciation Church, 962 East AvenueThe HCSRI booth will feature a History of the Greek Language informational exhibit, Order-your-souvlaki-in-Greek language lessons, Karagiozis shadow puppet theater and much more. Visit us there or immerse yourself in the experience and help us prepare! Related Links: Rochester Greek Festival |
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Murder on Black Mountain: Love and Death on a Nineteenth Century Greek Island |
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Saturday, May 7, 20057:30 PM, Crystal Barn, 2851 Clover StreetThe brutal murder of English Captain James Parker on the Greek island of Kephallenia in May 1849 created a cause celebre in mid-nineteenth century Europe. The case was widely reported in the press and even led to a fierce debate in the House of Commons over how the British Empire should respond to the slaying of a former British military officer by assassins on one of the Crown's colonial possessions: the Ionian Islands. Parker, a long-term resident of the Ionian Islands had married the beautiful Kira Assanis, the daughter of the islands' prominent families and their union scandalized polite socity. Parker's murder was never solved. Now, noted social historian Thomas W. Gallant using materials from archives in Greece and Great Britain attempts to solve the over 150 year-old mystery, and in so doing tells the story of the Parkers' love affair as well as illuminates much about Greek society during the ninteenth century. The annual meeting of the HCSRI will follow the presentation. Board elections and a referendum to ammend the HCSRI by laws will be conducted. Related Links: Dr. Thomas W. Gallant Related Files: Gallant Lecture Announcement (PDF, Rev 2), Gallant Lecture Press Release (PDF, Rev B) |
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Miracle on the Monastery Mountain |
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Sunday, April 3, 20053 PM, St. John Fisher College, Basil HallThe HCSRI in collaboration with the St. John Fisher College Department of Sociology present photographer, Douglas Lyttle. Through slides and lecture, Professor Lyttle will explore the recent and remarkable revitalization of the Mount Athos region of Greece. This event is free and open to the public. The Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, a Grecian peninsula that juts into the Aegean, is the principle center of monasticism for all branches and nationalities of the Orthodox Church. It is a truly unique area of modern Europe that is dedicated to nothing but religious and monastic life. Professor Lyttle made twenty-two extended visits to Mt. Athos, between 1972 and 1998, during which he built a file of approximately 50,000 photographs. Also, during that time, the region experienced, and his photography captured, a marvelous reawakening and renewal - both physical and spiritual. Douglas Lyttle is Professor Emeritus, School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology. His work in Mount Athos is wonderfully documented in his book, Miracle on the Monastery Mountain (2004).
Related Links: Miracle on the Monastery Mountain Website Related Files: Lyttle Lecture Press Release (PDF) |
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Ancient Greek Art in Southern Italy and Sicily |
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Tuesday, March 1, 20057:30 PM at St. John Fisher College, Basil HallThe Hellenic Cultural Society of Rochester and the Department of Sociology, St. John Fisher College present “Ancient Greek Art in Southern Italy and Sicily”, a lecture by Dr. Barbara Barletta. This event is free and open to the public. Art historian, Barbara Barletta, will explore the distinctive characteristics of Greek art and architecture in the colonies of southern Italy and Sicily. Settlers came here from several parts of the Greek world, but especially Mainland Greece, beginning in the eighth century B.C. The artistic traditions that they developed reflect their interaction with their various homelands, their trading partners, and their neighbors in Italy, as well as their local innovations. Dr. Barletta, a Professor of Art History at the University of Florida, received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology. Her specialty is Greek art. She has focused particularly on the Greek colonies of Southern Italy and Sicily and the role played by ideas from different regions of the Greek world on the development of sculptural and architectural styles in the West. Her publications include two books, Ionic Influence in Archaic Sicily: The Monumental Art (Göteborg, Sweden, 1983) and The Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders (Cambridge 2001), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. She has received a number of grants and fellowships, including the Rome Prize/Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome and most recently a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2002-2003). Related Files: Barletta Lecture Announcement (PDF), Barletta Lecture Press Release (PDF) |
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Music from Around the World - |
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Saturday, December 4, 20047:00 PM, St. John Fisher College, Basil Hall
Tickets for this concert are available from the HCSRI for $12 ($6 for persons under 18 and students with valid ID). Proceeds support the Society's activities. Contact Dimitri Katsetos or Walter Bubie. Related Links: Nicholas Goluses Related Files: Goluses Concert Poster (PDF), Goluses Concert Poster (PDF, Large) |
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Eternity and a Day |
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Friday, November 19, 20048 PM, George Eastman House, Dryden Theater, 900 East AvenueThe HCSRI has sponsored the screening of this Greek (with English subtitles) film at the George Eastman House Dryden Theater. Admission is $6 for the general public, $5 for students, and $4 for museum members. A limited number of tickets are available from the HCSRI for $5 each; proceeds support the society's activities. Contact Dimitri Katsetos or Walter Bubie. Synopsis Eternity And A Day traces the final days of Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a celebrated Greek writer as he prepares to leave his seaside home forever. While packing, he finds a letter from his long-dead wife, Anna (Isabelle Renauld), who wrote about an enchanted summer day they spent thirty years ago. From that point, Alexandre embarks on a mystical journey through his past and present. Realizing that after spending his entire life chasing after the words of poems and novels, Alexandre wants one final chance to capture the lost precious moments of true happiness, even if only for one day. Related Links: George Eastman House Related Files: Angelopoulos Films Poster (PDF), Greek Films Press Release (PDF) |
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Mary Lefkowitz |
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Sunday, November 14, 20043 PM, St. John Fisher College, Basil HallThe HCSRI in collaboration with the St. John Fisher College Department of Sociology present renowned classicist and author, Mary Lefkowitz, on the topic of her most recent book, Greek Gods, Human Lives. This event is free and open to the public. Synopsis In Greek Gods, Human Lives, Mary Lefkowitz reintroduces us to the literature of ancient Greece. Lefkowitz demonstrates that the Greek myths, although endlessly entertaining, are never frivolous. These stories - as told by Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and many others - offer crucial lessons about human experience. Greek mythology makes vivid the fact that the gods control every aspect of the lives of mortals, but not in ways that modern audiences have properly understood. We can learn much from these myths, Lefkowitz shows, if we understand that they are stories about religious experience - about the meaning of divinity, the nature of justice, and the limitations of human knowledge. These myths spoke to ancient audiences and helped them to comprehend their world. With Mary Lefkowitz as an interpreter, these myths speak to us as well. Bio Mary Lefkowitz is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Department of Classical Studies, Wellesley College. She has taught a highly popular introductory Greek mythology course for more than twenty-five years and has written extensively on ancient history and mythology. Among her books is Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, which led to appearances on national radio talk shows and on 60 Minutes as well as to interviews in the Boston Globe and the Washington Post.
Related Links: Mary Lefkowitz Bio at Wellesley, St. John Fisher College Directions & Campus Map Related Files: Lefkowitz Lecture Announcement (PDF), Lefkowitz Lecture Press Release (PDF) |
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Film: Landscape In the Mist |
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Friday, November 5, 20048 PM, George Eastman House, Dryden Theater, 900 East AvenueThe HCSRI has sponsored the screening of this Greek (with English subtitles) film at the George Eastman House Dryden Theater. Admission is $6 for the general public, $5 for students, and $4 for museum members. A limited number of tickets are available from the HCSRI for $5 each; proceeds support the society's activities. Contact Dimitri Katsetos or Walter Bubie. Synopsis In a working-class suburb of Athens, two illegitimate children, Voula, aged 11 and her brother Alexander, aged 5, dream each night that they will join their father in Germany. The father, in reality, does not exist and has been invented by their mother to keep them quiet. One day, Voula and Alexander decide to run away from home and go to Germany in search of their father. Related Links: George Eastman House Related Files: Angelopoulos Films Poster (PDF), Greek Films Press Release (PDF) |
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Lecture and Book-signing |
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Sunday, October 17, 20043 PM, St. John Fisher College, Basil HallThe HCSRI in collaboration with the St. John Fisher College Department of Sociology present religion scholar and author of A guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey. This event is free and open to the public. Synopsis Ancient Greece played a major role in the development of early Christianity, being the first European country visited by Christian missionaries and the home of several of the most important early Christian communities. Through slides and lecture, Dr. Mitchell Reddish will explore the development of Christianity in Greece during the first century, focusing on the important Christian communities in Greece that are mentioned in the New Testament, particularly those associated with the Apostle Paul. Among the sites discussed will be Corinth, Philippi, Thessaloniki, Athens, and some of the Greek islands. Bio Mitchell G. Reddish, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Stetson University, joined the faculty in 1983. From 1995 to 2000, he held the Sam R. Marks Chair of Religion, and in 2000 he was named to the O. L. Walker Chair of Christian Studies. Born in Jesup, Georgia, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Georgia and a Master of Divinity degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in New Testament studies from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Publications Among his publications are Apocalyptic Literature: A Reader, An Introduction to the Bible, An Introduction to the Gospels, Revelation, and A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey. He is currently working on another book with Clyde Fant tentatively entitled Lost Treasures of the Bible: A Map for Armchair Travelers and Others that will be a handbook on archaeological objects and other antiquities that have a direct bearing on the history, events, or places associated with the Bible.  Related Files: Reddish Lecture Announcement (PDF), Reddish Press Release |
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HCSRI Annual Meeting |
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Sunday, September 19, 20044 to 6 PM, Crystal Barn in PittsfordCome meet new members, catch up with your friends, and toast to a wonderful summer. Over drinks and hors d’oeuvres, you can help set the society’s future directions. Related Links: Crystal Barn |
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Highland Greek Festival |
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Friday, September 10, 2004 through Sunday, September 12, 2004Fri, Sat 12~10 PM, Sun 12~7 PM. Church of the Holy Spirit, 835 South AvenueThe Church of the Holy Spirit is holding their very first Greek Festival from September 10 through 12. The HCSRI will be on hand with a book sale fund-raiser and information table. Come check out our newest selections of Greek-related subjects that will make great additions to your library! Moreover, our members have put together an informative multi-media exhibit about this summer’s hottest topic – the Olympics! Want to be a part of our official booth? Like the thrill of making the sale?? Contact Dimitri Katsetos (473-0377). Related Links: Church of the Holy Spirit Greek Festival, Greek Orthodox Church Of the Holy Spirit |
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Lecture and Book-signing |
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Sunday, June 6, 20042 PM, Annunciation Church Hall, 962 East Avenue
Related Links: Alexander Kitroeff, Haverford College, Wrestling with the Ancients (greekworks.com) Related Files: Kitroeff Lecture Flyer, Kitroeff Lecture Press Release |
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Greek Festival 2004 |
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Thursday, June 3, 2004 through Sunday, June 6, 200411 AM to 11 PM, Annunciation Church, 962 East Avenue
The festival booth will house audio-visual and poster exhibits presenting information about the ancient and modern Olympics. We will provide visitors with information about the HCSR. To raise funds for events and projects we will be conducting a book sale. Related Links: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Rochester Greek Festival |
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From the Horse’s Mouth: The Recreation of the Past Through Testimonies |
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Sunday, May 16, 20043 PM, St. John Fisher College, Basil Hall
Related Links: Brown Universtiy Classics Department, Elsa Amanatidou Biographical Information Related Files: Amanatidou Lecture Poster, Amanatidou Lecture Press Release |
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Journalism in Greece: Then and Now |
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Sunday, December 14, 20032:30 PM, Crystal Barn, 2851 Clover Street
Related Files: Bubie Lecture Press Release |
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