Video Archive of Gennadius Lectures
Video archive of Gennadius Lectures in chronological order.
December 2021
The United States Mediterranean Squadron and the Greek War of Independence: The Operation on Mykonos and the Role of the Pirate Mermelechas
Antonis Kotsonas, New York University
* The lecture is in Greek
December 14, 2021
November 2021
1821: Ideology and History in the 20th Century
Efi Gazi, University of the Peloponnese
Kostis Karpozilos, Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI)
Mark Mazower, Columbia University
November 30, 2021
Voices of the Lost Children of Greece, 1948-1968
Gonda Van Steen, King’s College London
Mary Cardaras, California State University, East Bay
November 23, 2021
Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library: ‘By this conquer’: Relics as Weapons in Byzantium
Brad Hostetler,
Kenyon College
November 16, 2021
Η εσωτερική μετατόπιση της Μεγάλης Ιδέας: Το Τάμα του Έθνους και η μνήμη του ‘21 στα χρόνια της δικτατορίας
Dimitris Antoniou,
Columbia University
* The webinar is in Greek
November 9, 2021
Η αρχιτεκτονική ως ιδεολογία και πολιτική: το Ηρώο της Επανάστασης
Panayotis Tournikiotis,
National Technical University of Athens
* The talk is in Greek
November 2, 2021
October 2021
Το 1821 εξ ανατολών
Maria Mavroudi, UC, Berkeley
Christine Philliou, UC, Berkeley
Marinos Sariyannis, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH
* The talk is in Greek
October 18, 2021
September 2021
39th Annual Walton Lecture
Stephen Greenblatt,
Harvard University
September 29, 2021
June 2021
Philhellenism and the Development of Female-led Reform in the United States
Maureen Connors Santelli,
Associate Professor of History, Northern Virginia Community College
June 1, 2021
May 2021
Αλληγορίες από τον Καζαντζάκη. Ο Θεός φταίει που έκανε τον κόσμο τόσο ωραίο
Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος,
Συγγραφέας
* The webinar is in Greek
May 12, 2021
April 2021
From Orphans to Humanitarians: Wartime Refugees and the Making of Greek America
Dr. Thomas W. Gallant,
Nicholas Family Endowed Chair
Professor of Modern Greek History & Archaeology
University of California, San Diego
April 6, 2021
March 2021
Neourgia: The Restoration of Icons in the Premodern World
Byzantine Dialogues - Episode 6
Ivan Drpić,
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair, University of Pennsylvania
March 23, 2021
Η ιστορική πινακοθήκη της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης και η διαμόρφωση της εθνικής μνήμης
Χριστίνα Κουλούρη,
Πρύτανις, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών
*The webinar is in Greek
March 9, 2021
February 2021
Byzantine Intellectuals having Fun in Justinianic Constantinople
Byzantine Dialogues - Episode 5
Alexander Alexakis,
Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Ioannina
February 2, 2021
January 2021
A Prosperous Realm Beyond Borders: Byzantine-Islamic Trade in the Early Middle Ages, 9th-11th Centuries
Byzantine Dialogues - Episode 4
Koray Durak,
Associate Professor, Department of History, Bogazici University
Vice-director of Byzantine Studies Research Center, Istanbul
January 26, 2021
Monuments for 1821: Fruitless Proposals for a Panhellenic Heroon
Δώρα Φ. Μαρκάτου,
τ. Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων
* The webinar is in Greek
January 19, 2021
The Organization of Constantinople - Οργάνωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως
Αικατερίνη Μπούρα,
Πρόεδρος των Φίλων της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης
Νατάσα Λαιμού,
Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London
* The webinar is in Greek
January 12, 2021
November 2020
Eustathios of Thessaloniki on Homer and Excellent Oratory
Byzantine Dialogues - Episode 3
Baukje van den Berg,
Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at Central European University (Vienna)
November 24, 2020
The Red Monastery Church (Upper Egypt): Its Significance and Conservation
Byzantine Dialogues - Episode 2
Elizabeth S. Bolman,
Professor in the Liberal Arts, Case Western Reserve University"
November 10, 2020
October 2020
"Byzantine Literature. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About It (But Were Afraid to Ask)"
Byzantine Dialogues - Episode 1
Stratis Papaioannou,
Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Crete
October 20, 2020
June 2020
"Museums, Society, and the Public Interest"
Webinar
Daniel Weiss, President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 26, 2020
"Gender, Cultural Elites and the Cold War in Greece. A Case Study Approach Based on the Life and Work of Alison Frantz and Ekaterini Myrivili"
Webinar
Despina Lalaki, M. Alison Frantz Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
June 2, 2020
October 2019
"Spolia: Programmatic, Enigmatic, Problematic"
Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr
October 29, 2019
"Εκδήλωση για τα 50 χρόνια από τον θάνατο του Στράτη Μυριβήλη"
Μάριος Κυπαρίσσης-Μώρος, Παντελής Μπουκάλας, Γιώργος Συρίμης και η Λένα Παπαληγούρα
October 15, 2019
September 2019
“Αναχρησιμοποίηση λίθων. Ναός Παναγίας Γοργοεπηκόου”
Manolis Korres, Academy of Athens
September 10, 2019
June 2019
"When Hollywood Came to Greece: Spyros Skouras and the Politics of Cine-Antiquity"
Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, Saint Joseph's University
June 25, 2019
May 2019
"Dressing Empire: Ottoman Costume Albums and Transculturation"
Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida
May 28, 2019
March 2019
"Ο Ρόλος των Ελλήνων στη Διαμόρφωση της Σύγχρονης Αιγύπτου 19ος-20ος αιώνες"
Αλέξανδρος Κιτροέφ, Haverford College - Πενσυλβάνια
March 12, 2019
November 2018
"The Glittering Sound of Imperial Violence: The Music for the Feast of the Exaltation on the Cross of Hagia Sophia"
Bissera V. Pentcheva, Professor of Art History, Stanford University
November 29, 2018
"Celebrating the 550th anniversary of George Castriot Skanderbeg’s death"
Dr. Machi Paizi-Apostolopoulou, Research Director Εmerita, Institute of Historical Studies, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Dr. Dorian Koçi, Director of the National Historical Museum of Albania
November 6, 2018
May 2018
"Diving into the Wreck - The Antikythera Mechanism, Lord Byron_s Last Days, Tear Gas in the Lyceum, a Poetry Reading"
Dr. Scot McKendrick, Head of Western Heritage Collections, British Library
May 2, 2018
April 2018
37th Annual Walton Lecture - “English Collectors of Greek Manuscripts at the British Library: Lord Guilford and Anthony Askew”
Dr. Scot McKendrick, Head of Western Heritage Collections, British Library
April 24, 2018
March 2018
“Found in Τranslation”
A panel discussion with Karen Van Dyck, Alicia E. Stallings and Fr. John Raffan.
Haris Vlavianos - moderator of the discussion
March 27, 2018
"Making a Byzantine Holy Land. The Impact of Monastic Activity in the Mazi Plain, Attica"
Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia
March 6, 2018
January 2018
"Συρία. Ιστορία, άνθρωποι, μνημεία"
Μαρία Γεωργοπούλου, Γιώργος Μαγγίνης, Μαρία Φακίδη & Ντόρα Μηναΐδη
January 23, 2018
November 2017
"70 Χρόνια Fulbright στην Ελλάδα «Παιδεία και Ανάπτυξη» "
Γιάννης Στουρνάρας, Ευαγγελία Κουνέλη, Δημήτρης Α. Σωτηρόπουλος
November 15, 2017
"The Enigma of Cappadocia"
Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania
November 7, 2017
April 2017
"Thirty-Sixth Annual Walton Lecture - The Colonel’s Dictatorship: the View from London"
Richard Clogg, Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford
April 25, 2017
March 2017
"Visualising 500 Years of Circulation of Greek Incunabula in European and American Collections"
Dr. Cristina Dondi, Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities, Lincoln College, Univ. of Oxford, Secretary of the CERL
March 21, 2017
November 2016
"History in Tune: The Ottoman Music Tradition"
Panagiotis Poulos, Lecturer at the Dept. of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Okan Murat Öztürk, Associate Professor at the Başkent University, Ankara on "Describing Any Melody: Makam Knowledge in the Ottoman Musical Writings"
November 28, 2016
"Ακολουθίες Αγίων και Χάρτινες Εικόνες"
Αναστασία Τούρτα, Επίτιμη Διευθύντρια του Μουσείου Βυζαντινού Πολιτισμού και Διευθύντρια του Ευρωπαϊκού Κέντρου Βυζαντινών και Μεταβυζαντινών Μνημείων, και ο Κρίτων Χρυσοχοΐδης, Ομότιμος Διευθυντής Ερευνών στο Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών
November 18, 2016
October 2016
"History in Shadows: Shadow Theater Venues and Audiences in Greece and Turkey"
Prof. Serdar Öztürkr , Department of Radio Television and Cinema, Faculty of Communication in Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
October 18, 2016
"Fairy Tale Logic: The Philosophy of Mythology through the Eyes of Poetry"
Ginger F. Zaimis, Arts and Literary Chair (Greece) for the International Friends of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, The Library of Alexandria.
October 4, 2016
September 2016
"Glimpses of the Past in the Cultural Expressions of Greece and Turkey - Session I"
History in Motion: Relating the Past through Cinema and Televized Serials
Yannis Papadopoulos & Thanassis Agathos, “Byzantium in Greek Cinema and Television”
September 20, 2016
June 2016
"The Flora Graeca before Sibthorp"
Dr. Alain Touwaide, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions
June 30, 2016
April 2016
"Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana and the botanical exploration of Greece"
Arne Strid, Professor emeritus, former Director of the Göteborg Botanical Garden
April 18, 2016
February 2016
"Murder on Black Mountain: Love and Death on a Nineteenth Century Greek Island"
Thomas W. Gallant, University of California San Diego
February 23, 2016
35th Annual Lecture: "The Peacock and the Basket, the Marble and the Brick. Architectural ornaments and their materiality in a transcultural perspective. Constantinople to Bukhara (6th to 10th century)"
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf Director, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
February 16, 2016
November 2015
"Βλέμματα εκ του μακρόθεν: Άγιον Όρος και γυναίκες της Δύσεως,1880-1980"
Veronica della Dora, Chair of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
November 10, 2015
June 2015
"The Ottoman Monuments of Athens"
Machiel Kiel
June 2, 2015
May 2015
35th Annual Lecture in Ηonor of Francis R. Walton: "The Mystic Lettrist 'Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami and the Origins of Ottoman Historical Consciousness"
Cornell Fleischer, Kanuni Suleyman Professor, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, University of Chicago
May 5, 2015
February 2015
“Dodwell and Ottoman Athens, 1805”
John Camp II, Director of the Athenian Agora Excavations, ASCSA; Stavros Niarchos Professor of Classics, Randolph-Macon College
February 10, 2015
January 2015
Ιστορίες Μαγείας από το Βυζάντιο στην Ευρώπη
Alexander Alexakis, University of Ioannina
January 13, 2015
October 2014
Χαρτογραφία και Ιατρική “στον απόηχο του χρόνου και του χώρου”. Διδάγματα από την Ιστορία
Dr. Panayotis N. Soucacos
October 14, 2014
Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author
Stratis Papaioannou, Associate Professor of Classics, Brown University and 2014-15 Whitehead Professor, ASCSA
October 9, 2014
May 2014
“The Alternative Archaeologies of Eva Palmer Sikelianos”
Artemis Leontis, Associate Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan
06, 2014
February 2014
“Επισκέπτες και Αναγνώστες στη Λαυρεντιανή Βιβλιοθήκη”
Paschalis Kitromilides, Prof. of Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
February 18, 2014
January 2014
“Η χαρτογραφία του Κλαύδιου Πτολεμαίου”
Άρτεμις Σκούταρη, Sylvia Ioannou Foundation
January 28, 2014
November 2013
“Το πάθος με το γράψιμο. Μια εκδήλωση για το Βαγγέλη Ραπτόπουλο και το Αρχείο του"
Βασίλης Βασιλικός, Αλέξης Ζήρας, Αλέξης Πανσέληνος & Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος
November 12, 2013
October 2013
Reconfiguring Constantinople: Story Spaces & Storied Imperial Places in the Madrid Skylitzes MSS
Elena Boeck, Associate Professor of Art History, DePaul University
October 7, 2013
May 2013
Ελληνική φιλοσοφία στην αυλή του Μωάμεθ Β΄
Μαρία Μαυρουδή, University of California, Berkeley
May 29, 2013
April 2013
"Presentation of the Elias Venezis Archive"
Anna Venezi Kosmetatou (Venezis' daughter), Takis Theodoropoulos (Writer), Demetra Papaconstantinou (Demos Fellow) and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist) will present the Elias Venezis' archive.
April 9, 2013
"St. Luke and the Icon of the Virgin Kykkotissa in Cyprus"
Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University
April 2, 2013
March 2013
"Αρχείο Κωνσταντίνου Βοβολίνη - Μεγάλο Ελληνικό Βιογραφικό Λεξικό"
Stathis Kalyvas, Kostas Kostis, Antonis Papagiannidis
March 11, 2013
February 2013
"Ο Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος και οι καλές τέχνες"
Μαρία Γεωργοπούλου, Διευθύντρια Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης
February 20, 2013
"Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire: A New Web-Based Resource”
Nicholas de Lange, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Cambridge
February 13, 2013
January 2013
“The 1923 Exchange of Populations. An Ongoing Debate”"
George Mavrogordatos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Ayhan T. Aktar, Istanbul Bilgi University
January 15, 2013
December 2012
“The Norton Anthology of Greek Poetry: Translations, Anthologies and their Critical Excess”
Karen Van Dyck, Fulbright Fellow and Professor at Columbia University
December 11, 2012
"Mapping the Ancient Environment: The Contribution of Manuscripts and Texts"
Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian Institution
December 3, 2012
October 2012
32nd Walton Lecture: “1453: How Important Was It?”
Molly Greene, Princeton University
October 30, 2012
May 2012
31st Walton Lecture: “Nectar and Illusion: Art, Nature, and Rhetoric in Byzantium.”
Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University)
May 8, 2012
“Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”
Artemis Cooper (Biographer)
May 24, 2012
April 2012
“Mr. Turkey Goes to Turkey. How a Dutch Diplomat Wined and Dined in 18th-century Constantinople.”
Joanita Vroom, University of Amsterdam
April 3, 2012
March 2012
“Αντίσταση και Εμφύλιος: Διερευνώντας μία δύσκολη διαπλοκή.”
Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
March 13, 2012
February 2012
“Financial Crisis! Economic Lessons from Ancient Athens.”
Edward E. Cohen, University of Pennsylvania
February 7, 2012
January 2012
“Forging Byzantine Animals: Manuel Philes in Renaissance France.”
Glenn A. Peers, University of Texas at Austin
January 31, 2012
November 2011
“Λογοτεχνία και τεχνολογία.”
Vassilis Vassilikos (Author)
November 29, 2011
October 2011
Οδυσσέας Ελύτης. Στοιχεία μιας ποιητικής ταυτότητας
Ioulita Iliopoulou, Gennadius Library
October 18, 2011
Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library
Gennadius Library
October 11, 2011
April 2011
The Americans and the Greeks, 1949-1959: Intervention and Modernization
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, University of Athens
April 12, 2011
March 2011
30th Annual Walton Lecture: “Kings, Princes and Powers: Venizelos and Dilemmas of National Revival”
Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, King’s College London
March 29, 2011
January 2011
Η Ελλάδα του Ortelius μέσα από τους χάρτες της Συλλογής Σαμούρκα
George Tolias, National Hellenic Research Foundation
January 20, 2011