Hellenic Link - Midwest
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
On Sunday May 18, 2008 at 3
pm, Hellenic Link-Midwest will present Eve Geroulis,
Professor at Loyola University's School of Business, in a lecture
titled "Modern Media Agora: The Intersection of Democracy and
Demos".
The event will be held at 3 pm at the Four Points Sheraton
Hotel, 10249 West Irving Park Road at Schiller Park (southeast
corner of
Irving Park Road and Mannheim Road).
Admission is free for HLM members and $5 for non-members.
RECENT PAST EVENTS SPONSORED BY HELLENIC LINK-MIDWEST
On Sunday April 13, 2008 at 3 pm, Hellenic Link-Midwest will
presented Dr. John Wynne, Assistant Professor of Classics at Northwestern
University, in a lecture titled "The Thought of the Stoic Philosophers".
The Stoics (named after the Stoa Poikile in Athens, where they traditionally
met) formed a
school of philosophy and science that had colossal influence both for the
ancient Mediterranean world and in the evolution of modern thought.
The lecture will sketch the history of the Stoics school, and aim to understand
some of its more distinctive and fruitful claims about the world.
The event will be held at 3 pm at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 10249 West
Irving Park Road at Schiller Park (southeast corner of Irving Park Road and
Mannheim Road).Admission is free for HLM members and $5 for non-members.
In celebration of Greek Independence Day,
on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 3 pm,
Hellenic Link-Midwest presented Professor Nanno Marinatos
in a presentation titled, "The Poet of Freedom".
Professor Marinatos will read from the Hymn to Freedom, the Free
Besieged, and Psara, all renowned poems of the Greek National Poet
Dionysios Solomos, and she will comment on the poet's perceptions of the struggle
of the Greeks for freedom and his vision of a free Greece. To fully capture
the spirit of this struggle, this reading will be supplemented with readings
from the work of the Turkish Historian Taner Akçam's A Shameful
Act, the Memoirs of the heroes of the Greek Revolution General Makriyiannis
and General Theodoros Kolokotronis, and the work of the poet Aristotelis Valaoritis.
The event will be held at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 10249 West Irving
Park Road at Schiller Park (southeast corner of Irving Park Road and Mannheim
Road).
Admission is $5 for HLM members and $10 for non-members.
On Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 3pm, Hellenic Link Midwest presented
Dr. Andrew Horton,
Professor of Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma, in
a lecture titled,
"The Greek and Balkan Spirit of Comedy in the Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos".
The event will be held at 3 pm at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel,
10249 West Irving Park Road at Schiller Park (southeast corner of Irving
Park Road and Mannheim Road). Admission is free of charge for Hellenic
Link--Midwest members and $5 for non-members.
On Saturday, January 26 2008,at 6:30 p.m.,
The Annual Dinner Dance, New Year Celebration, and Scholarship Awards
of Hellenic Link-Midwest was held at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 10255
West Irving Park Road in Schiller Park, Illinois.
The proceeds from the Annual Dinner Dance are used to support the scholarships,
cultural and educational programs, and all other activities of our organization.
The generous support of our members and friends will be greatly appreciated.
On Sunday, December 9, 2007, at 3 p.m., Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Dr. Vaia Papadimitriou, Assistant divsion head at Fermilab,
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University in a lecture titled,
"The World of Elementary Particles".
On Sunday November 4, 2007, at 3 pm, Hellenic Link–Midwest presented Yannis Simonides, in a reading/performance titled “CAVAFY, Passions and Ancient Days ". The event was held at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 10249 West Irving Park Road at Schiller Park (southeast corner of Irving Park Road and Mannheim Road). Admission is free for HLM members and $5 for non-members.
On Sunday, October 21, 2007, at 3 p.m., Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Dr. George C. Papavizas,
noted author, in a lecture titled, "Macedonia: The Struggle for the Heritage,
Territory,
and Name of the Historic Hellenic Land, 1862-2004."
On Saturday, May 19, 2007, Hellenic Link-Midwest, The Pontian Society
of Chicago, and Enosis, presented
Professor Taner Akcam in a lecture titled: "A new assessment of Ottoman
Archival Material: Demographic Policy as
an instrument for Ethnic Cleansing of Anatolia 1913-1922".
On Sunday, April 22, 2007, at 3 p.m., Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Professor Andre
Gerolymatos,
in a lecture titled "The British Intelligence Services and the Roots
of the Greek Civil War".
The event was held at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel, on 10249 West Irving Park Road, in Schiller Park, Illinois,
SE corner of Irving Park and Mannheim Roads. The hotel's number is: 847-671-6000.
Admission is free of charge for Hellenic Link-Midwest members and $5 for non-members.
For further information call 847-498-0421.
On Sunday, March 18, 2007, in Celebration of Greek Independence
Day, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
James
Stoyanoff and the Orpheus Hellenic Folklore
Society in a program entitled
"Music and Dance Inspired by the Struggle for Freedom"
at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint John the Baptist, 2350 East Dempster,
Des Plaines, Illinois.
On Sunday, March 11, 2007, the young professionals of Hellenic Link-Midwest
organized a Night of Rebetika
By Rebetoneira (Dreams of the Rebet) at Parthenon Restaurant in Chicago.
On Sunday, February 4, 2007, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Vassilis Lambropoulos, Professor of Modern Greek at the University of
Michigan, in a lecture titled "Greek
American Accents".
On Saturday, January 20, 2007, Hellenic Link–Midwest held its
New Year Celebration, Annual Dinner Dance, and Scholarship Awards. The proceeds
provided
for the scholarships and the association's cultural and educational programs.
On Sunday December 10, 2006, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Paul J. Griffiths, Schmitt Chair of Catholic Studies, University of Illinois
at Chicago,
in a lecture titled: "Greek Thought and Western Christianity".
Hellenic Link-Midwest was a sponsor of the following 17th Chicago
Humanities Festival events:
Stanley Lombardo: An Iliad for Today, Saturday, Nov 4, Chicago Public Library
PERFORMANCE Aurea: War Music, Saturday, Nov 4, Merit School of Music
Derek Collins: The Iliad as Performance, Saturday, Nov 4, Chicago Public Library
Norma Thompson: The Rhetoric of War, Saturday, Nov 4, Alliance Française
de Chicago
Cynthia Farrar: The Collective Choice, Saturday, Nov 4, Alliance Française
de Chicago
James Redfield, David Tracy: Iliad, Poem of War?, Sunday, Nov 12, Chicago
Cultural Center
On Sunday October 22, 2006 Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Author Beatriz Badikian-Gartler, in a reading from her book titled "Old
Gloves - A 20th Century Saga".
On Sunday June 4, 2006 Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Thanasis Economou, in a lecture titled "Exploring
Mars, Saturn and comets and having fun doing it."
On Sunday April 9, 2006 Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Dr. Constantine Tzanos, in a lecture titled "Is
the Age of Oil Approaching its End?"
On Sunday March 19, 2006, in celebration of the Greek Independence
Day,
Hellenic Link-Midwest presented the
Theater Nefeli
at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint
John the Baptist in Des Plaines, Illinois.
On Sunday February 26, 2006, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented Professor
Gonda Van Steen,
in a lecture titled "Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece.
On Saturday, January 28, 2006, Hellenic Link–Midwest
held its
New Year Celebration, Annual Dinner Dance, and Scholarship Awards. The proceeds
provided
for the scholarships and the association's cultural and educational programs.
The Modern Greek Studies Association's Symposium was held in Chicago,
November 3rd through the 5th, 2005. Symposium Highlights:
Highly acclaimed author Olga Broumas delivered the keynote address.
The Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center hosted an exhibit of Chicago's early
Greek immigrants.
Dr. Jennifer Tobin, UIC, gave tours of the Classical Greek collection at the
Art Institute.
Kyriakos Katzourakis' docudrama, The Way to the West (O Dromos pros tin Dysi),
was screened.
Click Here
for the Symposium's agenda.
On Sunday December 18, 2005, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Jim Logothetis, Senior Partner with Ernst & Young LLP, in a lecture titled:
"Succeeding as a Professional-A Case Study in Public Accounting Profession".
On Sunday, October 16, 2005, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Plato's "The Apology of Socrates," a performance by
Yannis Simonides, at
Saint
John the Baptist in Des Plaines, Illinois.
On Sunday, May 15, 2005, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented Endy
Zemenides
in a lecture titled "Cyprus One Year After Annan: Prospects For A
Solution". The event was held at the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center,
801
West Adams, 4th Floor Chicago, Illinois.
On Sunday, April, 24, 2005
Hellenic Link–Midwest presented Dr. Spero Kinnas in a lecture titled
“Societal challenges and accomplishments for Orthodox Missionaries in the
field”.
On Sunday, March 20, 2005, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Yannis Simonides
in celebration of the Greek Independence Day.
Mr. Simonides performed excerpts from poems and songs that helped inspired
the Greek War of Independence.
CHECK NEWSLETTER #51 for a detailed
description of the event.
On Sunday, February 20, 2005, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
"Soul Murder and Tragic Art",
a Lecture-Performance,
by Professor Antonia Cacouros, University of California, Sacramento.
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 Hellenic Link-Midwest held
its Annual Dinner Dance,
Celebrating 20 years of community service.
On Sunday, December 12, 2004, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Mr. Peter Parthenis in a lecture titled:
"Going into Business for Yourself vs. Working for a Company– One Man’s Right
Choice”
at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
One Sunday, November 21, 2004, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
Professor Leonidas Pittos
in a lecture titled: "Byzantium in the History of Modern Greece: Perceptions
of Continuity and Change"
at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
" Paradise in the East Mediterranean: A Vocabulary of Narrative
and Visual Motifs"
On Sunday, October 24, 2004, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented Professor Nanno
Marinatos
in a lecture with the above title, at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
Athletries: The Untold
History of Ancient Greek Women Athletes
On Sunday, May 23, 2004, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented Professor Irini
Vallera-Rickerson in a lecture titled
"Athletries: The Untold History of Ancient Greek Women Athletes", at the
Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
Opera and the Ancient
World
On Sunday, April 18, 2004, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented
"Opera and the Ancient World: Aida & the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon,
and Empire"
a lecture by Jon Solomon, Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona,
at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
Celebration
of Greek Independence Day
On Sunday, March 21, 2004, Hellenic Link-Midwest presented Maria Foustalieraki
in a program titled
"Highlights from the Greek history - poems and songs from the struggles
for freedom", at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
Won In Translation:
A Reading of Poems and Translations
On Sunday, February 22, 2004, at 3:00 PM
A poetry reading by Professor George Economou
at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
17th Annual Dinner Dance - Scholarship Awards
On Saturday, January 24, at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
Our Dinner Dances are distinguished for excellent food, unique kefi, and
fine music.
Islam
And The West
A lecture by UIC's Lecturer, Mr.Mustapha Kamal
This lecture was held at the
On Sunday, December 14th, 2003, at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
The
Survival of Greek in Today's Pontos
A lecture by UIC's Professor Pietro Bortone, Ph. D.
This lecture was held at the
On Sunday, November 23, at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
Minoans in Egypt
Professor Nanno Marinatos, Ph. D.
in a lecture titled: Minoans
in Egypt: Paintings and Royal Ideology
on Sunday, October 26 at 3:00 PM at the Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
Stalin's Outcasts
A talk by Ms. Golfo Alexopoulos, Ph. D.
on Sunday, May 18, 2003 at Crystal Palace Banquets
2648
Dempster, Park Ridge, IL 60068
"Greek
Daily Life in the 16th Century Ottoman Empire"
An illustrated lecture by Dr. Tom Papademetriou
Sunday April 13 at 3 p.m., Four
Points Sheraton Hotel.
"Children of the
Flame"
Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 7 p.m.
In celebration of the Greek Independence day, Hellenic Link–Midwest,
presented the Theater Nefeli in the play "Children of the Flame",
a tribute to the flame burning in the hearts of the Greeks of the Diaspora
that keeps alive and thriving our bonds with our Hellenic heritage.
St. John the Baptist, 2350 E. Dempster, Des Plaines, Illinois
"The Marbles: Elgin or Parthenon?" - A lecture by William
G. Stewart
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Ambassador Thomas G. Weston - Prospects for a Cyprus Settlement February
12, 2003
SELECTED LIST OF PAST EVENTS SPONSORED BY HELLENIC LINK - MIDWEST
03/24/2002 Hellenic Heroes and Muses – Greece
Celebrates Independence A presentation by the
Orchestra Concertante di Chicago with works from Mikis Theodorakis and Nikos
Skalkotas
10/07/2001 Human Rights Violations in the Balkans and the
Search for Justice
Lecture by Prof. Andrew Michels,
executive director of the International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University-Chicago
3/19/2000; Songs and Music of the Struggles for Freedom
Featuring pianist Theodora Satolia, singer Voula Karahaliou and the Orpheus
Dance Troupe
5/16/1999; Returning the Marbles – Hope and Reality
Lecture by Gwinn Owens
2/28/1999; The Cyprus Crisis of 1974: American Policy Perspectives
Then and Now
Lecture by Amb. Thomas Boyatt
11/22/1998; Anatomy of a Rogue State? Turkeys Foreign Policy
in the 1990s
Lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou
10/25/1998; The Journey of Hellenism from Byzantium to Present
Lecture by Dr. Stelios Ramfos
3/22/1998; Greek Independence Day: The Memoirs of General
Makriyiannis
by Yiannis Simonides
Songs from the Struggles of the Greek People by Maria Foustalieraki
Dances from the Islands
by The Orpheus Dance Troupe
2/22/1998; The Aegean and Greek - Turkish Relations
Lecture by The Hon. Nicholas Zafiropoulos
11/23/1997; The Pathfinder Mission to Mars: An Insider’s
Story
Lecture by Dr. Thanasis Economou
5/18/1997; Where Have You Gone Thomas Jefferson: Rethinking
Public Policy for a New Century
Lecture by Dr. Michael J. Bakalis
2/23/1997; Not out of Africa: Reflections of the Origin
of Greek Civilization
Lecture by Prof. Mary R. Lefkowitz
12/8/1996; The Orthodox Church and Everyday Life in Albania
Lecture by Penny Deligiannis
11/17/1996; The Greek Battalion
Lecture by John Giannaris
10/1/1995; The Cyprus Story - A Human Rights Eye Witness
Account
Lecture by Kathryn Cameron Porter
2/19/1995; Is American Policy Anti-Greek?
Lecture by Dr. Charles Moskos
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