The Program in Hellenic Studies at Columbia University presents The Kimon A. Doukas Memorial Lecture

Vassilis Lambropoulos (C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan)

“Greek American Accents”

Thursday, April 13th, 7:30 p.m.
301 Philosophy Hall
1150 Amsterdam Avenue,
New York, NY 10027

7:30 p.m. Lecture
8:45 p.m Reception

Inquiries to Program in Hellenic Studies:
(212) 854 5758/6988

Greeks are always sensitive to accents: they listen inquisitively and they read into them, among many things, the other person's native region, class, education, and politics. How much can we understand by listening to Greek accents in the U.S. – to Greeks speaking different languages and to non-Greeks speaking Greek? The audience of this lecture will have the opportunity to hear a variety of contemporary Greek American accents, from song to poetry and from classical music to stand-up comedy. Vassilis Lambropoulos argues that there is a great polyphony of idioms and dialects in this country that is worth enjoying and studying.

Since Fall 1999, Vassilis Lambropoulos has been C. P. Cavafy
Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Michigan, in the Department of Classical Studies and the Program in Comparative Literature. Before that, he was Professor of Modern Greek at The Ohio State University for eighteen years. Lambropoulos was born in Athens in 1953. He received his B.A. from the University of Athens and his Ph.D. from the University of Thessaloniki. Before coming to this country in 1981, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom.
He has also published papers, articles, reviews, and translations in American, English, and Greek journals, periodicals, and newspapers. He is currently writing a book on the idea of hubris in modern theater.

One of our members, Zoha, has agreed to be the local contact for a meetup at the parade!

Please join her in front of the main entrance to Bloomingdale's on Lexington Avenue, closer to 60th Street at 12:15. Then as a group everyone will head over to the parade route, which is along 5th Avenue, between 60th and 74th streets.

Thank you Zoha!!!

For mor info, and parade line-up:
http://www.greekparade.org/

Dean Kostos

on Monday, March 27 at 8pm

at Waltz Cafe in Astoria. 2314 Ditmars Blvd going toward Astoria Park; last stop on N or W train. # 718-956-8742

click here for directions and more information about this place.

www.waltz-astoria.com

Dean, whose most recent book Last Supper of the Senses was published by Spuyten Devil Press, is an accomplished poet, editor and artist. Read on for his bio. Hope to see you there! Come out to support our fellow Greek-American writer.

Tea & coffee can be purchased at the cafe.

Dean Kostos holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He is the author of the collection The Sentence that Ends with a Comma (Painted Leaf Press, 1999; it was taught at Duke University, 2003) and the chapbook Celestial Rust (Red Dust Press, 1994). He co-edited the anthology Mama's Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers (Painted Leaf Press, 2000), a Lambda Book Award finalist. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Art & Understanding, Barrow Street, The Bitter Oleander, Blood and Tears (anthology), Bloom, Boulevard, Chelsea, The Cimarron Review, Exquisite Corpse, The International Poetry Review, The James White Review, The National Forum, Oprah Winfrey's Web site Oxygen, Poetry New York, Rattapallax, Southwest Review, The Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. His translations from the Modern Greek and Spanish have appeared in Talisman, Bomb, and Barrow Street.

George N., one of our members had a great idea for an event: Dinner & A Movie - Greek style!

Please join George and others for Kinetta (2005), directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, at the Walter Reade Theater on Monday February 20th at 5:45 pm. After the movie, George has proposed a dinner at a near-by Greek restaurant called Niko's, located at 76th Street and Broadway. The movie is 95 minutes long, so people should gather at the restaurant around 7:30 - 7:45.

To get to the movie theater, take the #1 local train to 66th Street/Lincoln Center Station. The theate is on the 2nd floor, you will need to take the escalator at 65th Street up to find it.

In your RSVP (yes's) please indicate if you will attend both dinner and the movie, or which one, if only one.

The movie is also playing 2/19 at 4 pm, and 2/22 at 2:45 pm.

ABOUT THE MOVIE:

Following a spate of murders in an off-season resort town, a
plainclothes cop, a photo-store clerk and a hotel maid come
together to stage a series of outlandish murder re- enactments.

Their attention to detail is exhaustive, their efforts are
obsessive but the scientific purpose is questionable. And a
distinct air of perversity hangs over this nameless trio's
cryptic performances. Imagine a minimalist anti-CSI with
almost no dialogue, an elliptical narrative and the most
vertiginous, handheld camera work since the Dardenne Brothers' Rosetta. Lanthimos is a talent to watch.

For more information, see http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/wrt.htm

Meet for conversation with others wishing to practice. We will also dicuss the best days to meet, so if you can't make it, please contact me, or Maria or Zena and let one of us know when you want the group to meet. We will try to pick the day that is best for the largest # of people.

This month we will cover vocabulary relating to emotions.