Category: Modern Greece Unfolds

📚📚On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of #poet Manolis Anagnostakis, a symposium organized by the Department of Modern Greek Studies of the University of Geneva, in cooperation with the Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis, with the support of the Consulate General of Greece in Geneva, aims to shed light to the multi-faceted work of the great Greek poet.

Reading Greece spoke to the symposium’s organizers, Valia Tsaita-Tsilimeni (University of Geneva) and Thalia Ieronymaki (Circle of Friends of the Poet Manolis Anagnostakis), about the scope of the symposium, the various lectures that aim to contribute to a renewed understanding of Anagnostakis’s poetic vision, also discussing the way his moral and intellectual stance may speak to our present-day cultural and political realities, and the role that such events play in recontextualizing modern Greek #poetry within global literary studies.

Consulate General of Greece in Geneva - Consulat général de Grèce à Genève

The National Archaeological Museum shares rare online photos of the 1940–41 concealment of antiquities during WWII. Led by archaeologists Christos Karouzos & Semni Karouzou, staff safeguarded Greece’s treasures from looting and destruction—an enduring act of courage & devotion #NAM

On “Ohi Day”, meaning “Day of ‘No’”, celebrated on October 28, we commemorate Greece’s defiant rejection of a fascist ultimatum during World War II, and the heroic counteroffensive against the subsequent Italian invasion of Greece.