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*Thursday, October 4, 4:30 p.m*.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST
301 Herter Hall, Amherst, MA
*Corinne O. Pache* (Yale University)
"Why Do Nymphs Fall in Love? Nympholepsy in Ancient Greece"
Sponsored by the UMass Amherst Department of Classics
For more information contact Brian Breed at bbreed at classics.umass.edu
*Thursday, October 4, 7:00-9:00 p.m*.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MODERN GREEK STUDIES
*Dino Siotis* (former Director of Press & Communication Office,
Consulate General of Greece in Boston)
"Modern Poetry in Greece"
UNH, Hamilton Smith, Rm 129
For more information please contact:
paideia at comcast.net
*Sunday, October 7,  7:00 p.m*.
ALEA III International Composition Competition 2007
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue.
A Concert by  ALEA III,  *Theodore Antoniou* conducting
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue.
DIRECTIONS AND PARKING INFO
More Information:
ALEA III 2007-2008 Season
*Tuesday, October 9, 4:00 p.m*.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Pollack (Fine Arts) Auditorium
415 South Street, Waltham, MA
A Martin Weiner Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies
*Thomas Martin* (College of the Holy Cross)
"Can Comedy Be Treason? Aristophanes and Athenian Democracy"
Reception to follow, with light refreshments
Free and open to the public (for directions:
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or
aoko at brandeis.edu) or
Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or jbarry at brandeis.edu)
*Tuesday, October 9, 4:00 p.m*.
*Vivienne Gray* (The University of Auckland)
"Formulaic Scenes in Xenophon"
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 114,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Wednesday, October 10, 4:30 p.m.*
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall), Amherst, MA
*Nancy de Grummond*, (Florida State University)
"Themes of Prophecy in Etruscan, Greek and Roman Art"
Sponsored by AIA and Amherst College Classics Department
Reception to follow
*Friday, October 12, 7:30 p.m*.
"The Greek Gods of Comedy" live in Boston
staring *Basile, Jim Mendrinos,
Jimmy Santis & Ellen Karis*
John Hancock Hall
180 Berkley St.
Boston, Massachusetts
For tickets:   (617) 828-7543, (877) 548-3237 or
http://opabasile.com/bio/index.htm
*Friday =96 Sunday, October 12 =96 14*
*"A Taste of Greece"*
St. Athanasius Church
4 Appleton St. (corner of Mass. Ave.)
Arlington, Massachusetts
frnmk at saintathanasius.org
www.saintathanasius.org
*Monday, October 15, 7:00 p.m.*
*Thomas Bruno* (Librarian, Harvard University)
"The Greek Century =96 The Rediscovery and Re-Invention
of the Greek Legacy in the 19th Century"
THE GREEK INSTITUTE
1038 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel. (617) 547-4770 or
http://www.thegreekinstitute.org
*Thursday, October 17, 2007, 2:15 p.m.
*"The Eastern Policy of the European Union"
*H.E. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski*, Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs,
European Parliament
Co-sponsored with the Minda De Gunzburg Center for European Studies as part
of "Challenges of the 21st Century" series organized by Ms. Ren=E9e Haferka=
mp
Lower level conference room
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Center for European Studies
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA
For more information please:
Visit: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/kokkalis
Call:  617 496 0175, or email: kokkalis_program at ksg.harvard.edu
*Thursday, October 18, 2007, 4:00 p.m.*
"Leading by Dividing: The Case of Greece and Turkey after 1922"
*Bruce Clark*, International Security Editor, The Economist
Lower Level Conference Room
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, October 18, 4:30 p.m*.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA
*Leslie Kurke* (University of California at Berkeley)
"Herodotus and Aesop, or the Sociopolitics of Greek Prose"
Sponsored by the Wellesley College Newhouse Center for the Humanities
For more information contact Debra Carbarnes (dcarbarn at wellesley.edu)
*Saturday, October 20, 2007, 7:00 =96 9:00 p.m*.
*Hellenic Business Network* (HBN)
"Welcome all Hellenic Students to Boston"
Consulate General of Greece
86 Beacon St., Boston, MA 20108
HBN's annual event, aiming to help students of Hellenic origin make the
most of student life within the greater Boston area colleges and
universities. Open to All Students, Faculty and HBN Members Only. RSVP is
required.=20
For information contact hbngroup at hbngroup.org
*Tuesday, October 23, 4:15-6:00 p.m.*
*Andreas Kakridis* (Panteion University, Athens)
"Economists in Post-War Greece:  Towards a Sociology of the Profession"
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Center for European Studies
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sponsored by the Greek Study Group
Contact Name: Eleni Mahaira-Odoni
Contact Email: eleni.odoni at gamil.com
*Friday - Saturday, October 26 =96 27*
*"6th Annual Taste of Greece" *
St. Luke Church, 400 Prospect St.
East Longmeadow, MA
StLukeGO at aol.com
*Saturday =96 Sunday, October  27 =96 28*
(Saturday 2:00-8:00 p.m., Sunday 1:00-9:00 p.m.)
*HELLENIC EXPO OF NEW ENGLAND*
Maliotis Cultural Center
Brookline, Massachusetts
http://www.maliotis.org/
*Sunday October 28, 7:30 p.m* .
Internationally Acclaimed Tenor & Sony Classical Recording Artist
*MARIO FRANGOULIS* in a performance entitled "Amor."
The concert will be in Greek and Spanish, featuring songs from his
newly released CD: Amor Oscuro, based on the poetry of the Spanish
Lyric Poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, set to music by Dimitris Maramis.
SANDERS THEATER, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Presented by the Greek Institute
For tickets, Harvard University Box Office:
(617-496-2222 or online: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/tickets)
or (617-547-4770/ greekinst at verizon.net
http://www.thegreekinstitute.org/ )
*Tuesday, October 30, 4:15-6 p.m*.
*Venund Aarbakke* (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece)
"The Muslims of Thrace, their Political Elites and Representation
to the Greek Parliament since  1920s"
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for European Studies
Sponsored by the Greek Study Group
Contact Name: Eleni Mahaira-Odoni
Email: eleni.odoni at gamil.com
*September 20 =96 November 30, 2007 *
THE MALIOTIS CULTURAL CENTER
50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts
"*Towards a New Homeland, 1922: From Asia Minor to Greece*," a display of 6=
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photographs excerpted from a recent exhibit at the Hellenic Parliament,
presented for the first time outside Greece. The exhibit was organized in
cooperation with the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and
Democracy, and the Press and Communication Office of the Consulate General
of Greece in Boston. For more information please visit:
http://www.maliotis.org
*MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON*, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Fall 2007 Gallery Report Due to ongoing construction at the museum, some
Classical installations have been temporarily de-installed. It is expected
that as the fall term begins, the following galleries will be OPEN on a
regular basis: East Greek Art (1A11); Etruscan Art (1A01); Archaic Greek Ar=
t
(1A06 and 1A04b); Classical Greek Art (2A02); Roman Art (2A06); and Art of
the Eastern Roman Empire, including the Antioch  Marine mosaic (2A07). For
questions about particular pieces, you can reach the Classical offices at
(617) 369-3259.

* * * The Calendar of Events is issued monthly by the Press and Communication Office Consulate General of Greece in Boston

Magdalene Kantartzi
Director, Press & Communication Office
Consulate General of Greece
86 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
[email protected]

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