Historical Trajectories of Hellenism in Asia Minor
lecture by
Paschalis Kitromilides (Academy of Athens)

Date: May 7, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: 314 Royce Hall
Reception to follow

Introductory remarks by The Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles

Moderated by Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) & Dimitris Krallis (Simon Fraser University)

Professor Paschalis Kitromilides will present a survey of the Greek presence in Asia Minor from the original Greek colonization in antiquity to the exodus of the Greek population of the peninsula in the third decade of the twentieth century. He will examine the unity of the Greek world on both shores of the Aegean, East and West, for three millennia. Special attention will be paid to the modern period and to the cultural achievements of the “last Hellenism in Asia Minor”.

Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Ph.D. at Harvard University, is a Greek-Cypriot political scientist and intellectual historian. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and a member of the Academy of Athens. He has been director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies since 1980 and was Director of the Institute of Neohellenic Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation (2000-2011). He has held visiting appointments at Harvard and Brandeis Universities, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the European University Institute and the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti. He is the author or editor of over fifty books, including Enlightenment and Revolution: The Making of Modern Greece (Harvard University Press, 2013), and over two hundred and sixty articles and book reviews in academic journals and collective volumes in Greek and English. Besides English and Greek, his books have appeared in Russian, Romanian, Serbian and Bulgarian.

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This program is made possible thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

This lecture is sponsored by Gefyra, a collaborative program between the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University and the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) for this pilot program, which seeks to create networks across the West Coast of North America and between the West Coast and Greece. For more information, please visit https://hellenic.ucla.edu/ucla-sfu-pilot-program/. 

This event is being held under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies.

Parking Information:

Parking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at: 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095.  Parking Structure 5  is accessible from Royce Drive, south of Sunset Boulevard, and west of Hilgard Ave (in the northeast section of the campus).

No parking attendants will be on-site at the parking structure, and Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking is extremely limited in this lot, so we highly encourage you to purchase a parking permit in advance:

• You may purchase your parking permit for $15 using Bruin ePermit: https://bruinepermit.t2hosted.com/pnw2/selectValue.aspx. Select UCLA Royce Hall, then “Paschalis Kitromilides Lecture,” With the advanced parking permit, you can park on any level in Parking Structure 5 EXCEPT the Pay-By-Space area on the rooftop level. For instructions on how to use this portal, please click here.
• To purchase a permit when you arrive at Parking Structure 5, please park ONLY in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop of this structure, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card (the parking on this level is very limited).
• Guest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
• Accessible parking: If you have accessibility needs, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.  Please visit our Campus Accessibility Map to view related information.