Premiera książki “Bałkańskie Zapiski Kuchenne / Kuchnia Grecji Północnej w recepturach i opowieściach”

Autor: Iliana Genew-Puhalewa. Opracowanie graficzne: Simeon Genew
Bałkańskie Zapiski Kuchenne to seria wydawnicza, poświęcona sztuce kulinarnej narodów Bałkanów. Tematem drugiej książki w serii jest Grecja Północna (w szczególności Macedonia, Tracja i Epir). W centrum uwagi autorki jest nie tylko kuchnia tych regionów dzisiejszej Grecji, lecz także historia, etnografia – szeroko pojęta kultura. Łączy ona w sobie [...]

Shops at Museums in Greece

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   Visitors may explore Greek history and art through a huge collection of items on sale at nine shops (www.museumshop.gr) of the Hellenic Culture Organisation located at museums and archaeological sites throughout the country. Divided into two main categories of replicas and modern applications, the items are of aesthetic value highlighting the timelessness [...]

Cyprus: A Devided Island, 35 Years After

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)  35 years have elapsed since July 20th, 1974, a day which marked a turning point in the history of Cyprus. The Turkish invasion in the north of the island, which was facilitated by the then Greek totalitarian regime’s series of disastrous meddling, led to the brutal and permanent division of the island [...]

Foundation for Hellenic Culture: History Lost

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)    “History Lost” a multimedia exhibition organized by the Foundation for Hellenic Culture has been already presented in Nicosia, Athens, Trieste, Lisbon, Dublin, Brussels and Belgrade.  Forthcoming destinations include Paris, London, Frankfurt and Alexandria. “History Lost” aims at alerting countries worldwide, thus emphasizing the universal dimension of the issue of illicit antiquities trade. [...]

Reading Greece

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   James Edward Miller, 2009, The United States and the Making of Modern Greece (1950-1974), North Carolina University Press “Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history (1949- 1974), James Edward Miller provides the first study […] to shed light on the role the United States played [...]

Awarded Book: “Greece: A Jewish History”

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)  K.E. Fleming’s history of Greek Jews, titled “Greece: A Jewish History”” published by Princeton University Press is this year’s winner of the Runciman Award for books published in 2008. The announcement was made at a special ceremony held at the Hellenic Centre in London on May 21.  The Runciman Award is a [...]

Significant Hellenistic Statue Found in Alexandria

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   “A very importantHellenistic statue, very rare in terms of craftsmanship and beauty, and one that depicts a great figure of Hellenic history,” was unearthed on May 4 in Alexandria announced the director of the Hellenic Research Institute of Alexandrian Civilisation.  The 80cm-tall statue was found in very good condition and retains numerous characteristics reminiscent of [...]

Voting for the Greatest Greek

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)  In search of the most influential Greek personality of all time, Skai Television launched on February 16 the first part of the “Great Greeks” series, presented by Alexis Papachelas. After a voting procedure ended on May 2008, the public chose the 100 greatest Greeks, who are being presented in a 4-hour-long documentary. [...]

The Impact of Byzantium

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   The 18th Runciman Lecture was delivered on February 5, at King’s College London by distinguished Professor Judith Herrin, whose latest book “Byzantium: the Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire” has been recently translated into Greek. Under the title “We are all children of Byzantium”, Professor Herrin traced, during her lecture, some of [...]

Floating Museum in Greece for “The Liberty”

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   Once US navy vessels, the “Liberty” ships were donated by the United States of America to the Hellenic Republic soon after WWII in compensation for Greece’s significant loss of naval forces during the war and in recognition for the country’s contribution to the cause. The “Liberties” were used as American transport vessels [...]

Last Goodbye to the Leading Historian Angeliki E. Laiou

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   Angeliki E. Laiou, History Professor at Harvard University, died of cancer on Thursday, December 11, in Boston. Laiou, one of the world’s leading historians of Byzantine civilization, was born in Athens in 1941. In 1981 she joined Harvard University as Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and in 1985 she became the [...]

Reading Greece

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)  The series “Women Writing Greece” by editors Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Efterpi Mitsi, explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women’s travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the [...]

Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day

New book: Philip Matyszak, a British non-fiction writer, with a doctorate in Roman history from St John’s College, Oxford has published an entertaining guidebook entitled “Athens on 5 drachmas a day”. The book takes us on a travel back in time, to 431 BC Athens, giving the reader a vibrant sense of what everyday life [...]

Historein/Ιστορείν: Forum of Modern Greek Studies

GREEK NEWS AGENDA)      Historein/Ιστορείν (www.historein.gr) is a Greek-based, internationally-minded multilingual review of historical studies with the field of Modern Greek Studies as the point of departure. Historein/Ιστορείν provides a forum for a comparative perspective including the fields of epistemology, social anthropology, sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies.  The review’s forthcoming International Conference (Athens, October 30th [...]

Greek Literary Translation Prize for 2008

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   The Hellenic Foundation for Culture (HFC) Literary Translation Prize for 2008 will be awarded to Roderick Beaton, Professor of Contemporary and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College, University of London, for the translation of the book “George Seferis: A Levant Journal.”  The book comprises selections from the notebooks that Seferis [...]

Σας Kαλούμε να Γνωρίσετε την Ελλάδα / We Invite you to Explore Greece

Η GREECE IN WORLD (www.GreeceInWorld.com) μετά από πολυετή συλλογή στοιχείων και ερευνών έχει πλέον ανοίξει τις πόρτες της στον παγκόσμιο ιστό. Έχει σκοπό την προβολή της Ελλάδας, να γνωρίσει στους υποψήφιους επισκέπτες, την ιστορία, τον πολιτισμό, τα ήθη και έθιμα, τα αξιοθέατα, τις φυσικές καλλονές της και την πανάρχαια φιλοξενία των Ελλήνων. Το έργο της [...]

The Bible Enters Cyberspace

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   Seventeen centuries after it was written, the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the world’s oldest copies of the Bible, catches up with the digital age this week. Written in the fourth century and discovered in Egypt – at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine’s of Mount Sinai - in the 19th, it will enter [...]

Greece: Educational Conferences

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   History of Science in Science Education
The 7th International Conference for History of Science in Science Education under the title “Adapting Historical Knowledge Production to the Classroom” is taking place at the University of Athens from Monday July 7th to Friday July 11th. The idea of the conference is experts to exchange views [...]

Made in Greece

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)                Olive Oil
Nothing is more characteristic of Greece than the millions of olive trees that grow in valleys and mountainous areas. Olive oil is more than one of the leading agricultural products of Greece. It is a cultural heritage, reflecting thousands of years of history and tradition. Greece is in the major [...]

Voting for Greatest Greeks

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)  In search of the most influential Greek personality of all times, Skai TV is launching a TV series under the title “Great Greeks,” following the example of BBC’s own “Great Britons” series. The public is free to vote for the most eminent Greeks of the past and present until May 7, via [...]