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Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Dorchester, Dorset: Community Lectures at Thomas Hardye School
Community Lectures website - The latest news and details about upcoming lectures, as well as information on previous lectures.
Abstract Expressionists and the National Promotion of Art
"The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world – but some say they became pawns of US spies in the Cold War" - Alastair Sooke investigates (BBC)
One might make the same sort of argument about any country or state that sponsors or supports art exhibitions nationally or internationally.
Zagori Village Plane Tree - Only Good Spirits Inhabit the Tree - Αγαθά πνεύματα - Πλάτανος
From Frixos Tziovas, Axion esti (To chroniko enos dentrou)
Σε ποιο μέρος της Ελλάδας βρίσκεται ο πλάτανος ηλικίας 2.400 ετών, που έχει περίμετρο 24 μέτρα και είναι από τους μεγαλύτερους στον κόσμο
Σε ποιο μέρος της Ελλάδας βρίσκεται ο πλάτανος ηλικίας 2.400 ετών, που έχει περίμετρο 24 μέτρα και είναι από τους μεγαλύτερους στον κόσμο
Paxos Under Italian Occupation, 21 May 1941 - 2 October 1943; Commandeered Houses in Gaios
From the publication by Dionysios Zerbas,
Simeioseis apo tin Katochin ton Paxon
(Athens, 1973)
(Athens, 1973)
Stamp images from Ebay and Delcampe
See also:
Paxos e Antipaxos nel mare Jonio, Alessandro Martelli (Presso la Societa geografica italiana, 1901)
Carta geologica e ipsometrica delle isole di Paxos e Antipaxos nel Mar Jonio, Alessandro Martelli, 1901. Greek translation, Athens, 1907.
Πώς η Θρυλική VΙΙΙ Μεραρχία συνέτριψε την ιταλική επίθεση στην Ηπειρο, Epirusgate
Carta geologica e ipsometrica delle isole di Paxos e Antipaxos nel Mar Jonio, Alessandro Martelli, 1901. Greek translation, Athens, 1907.
Πώς η Θρυλική VΙΙΙ Μεραρχία συνέτριψε την ιταλική επίθεση στην Ηπειρο, Epirusgate
Greek Populism in Perspective
Notice of a lecture just received:
The Hellenic Studies Initiative at the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago -
Professor Cas Mudde (University of Georgia) - From Papandreou to Tsipras: Greek Populism in Comparative and Historical Perspective - Monday, October 24, 4 pm
"For many Europeans, the roller coaster first year in office of the Greek party "Coalition of the Radical Left" (SYRIZA) constituted the hope for a different Europe, beyond austerity and national egocentrism. In his lecture, Professor Cas Mudde will critically chronicle the rapid rise of SYRIZA to argue that SYRIZA is not so much a new European phenomenon, but rather a rejuvenated form of an old Greek phenomenon, left populism, which overpromises and seldom delivers. By putting the phenomenon of SYRIZA within a broader Greek and European context, in which political extremism and populism are increasingly threatening liberal democracy, Mudde argues that Greece is neither a new Weimar Germany nor the future of Europe".
Related:
Yanis Varoufakis: "The left never recovered from the fall of the Soviet Union — yet there is hope" - New Statesman - "The Syriza government, in which I served as finance minister from January to July 2015, failed to achieve change because we ended up disunited and the prime minister capitulated to the EU at the moment when he had a mandate from the Greek people to do the opposite".
"For many Europeans, the roller coaster first year in office of the Greek party "Coalition of the Radical Left" (SYRIZA) constituted the hope for a different Europe, beyond austerity and national egocentrism. In his lecture, Professor Cas Mudde will critically chronicle the rapid rise of SYRIZA to argue that SYRIZA is not so much a new European phenomenon, but rather a rejuvenated form of an old Greek phenomenon, left populism, which overpromises and seldom delivers. By putting the phenomenon of SYRIZA within a broader Greek and European context, in which political extremism and populism are increasingly threatening liberal democracy, Mudde argues that Greece is neither a new Weimar Germany nor the future of Europe".
Related:
Yanis Varoufakis: "The left never recovered from the fall of the Soviet Union — yet there is hope" - New Statesman - "The Syriza government, in which I served as finance minister from January to July 2015, failed to achieve change because we ended up disunited and the prime minister capitulated to the EU at the moment when he had a mandate from the Greek people to do the opposite".
Five Ambassadors on Greece
From Kathimerini (Greek edition) - Τζον Κίτμερ, Μεγάλη Βρετανία : «Είμαι βαθιά ερωτευμένος με την Ελλάδα»
Related: Μάικλ Χέρτσφελντ - «Εχω μια φοβερή αγάπη για την Ελλάδα» (To Vima)
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