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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><b style="font-size: 20px; "><i>Ulysses's Gaze</i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription">Directed by Theo Angelopoulos, 1995</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription"><span class="eventDescription">Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this drama centers on the Balkan conflict as viewed through the eyes of a filmmaker
named A (Harvey Keitel). Director Theo Angelopoulos wrote the screenplay, drawing from personal experiences. A is a Greek émigré director who returns to his homeland after 35 years in the U.S., ostensibly to screen his latest film, which is so controversial
that it attracts religious protests. In fact, A's real purpose is to search for three reels of undeveloped film that may be the first ever shot by pioneer Balkan filmmakers the Manakis brothers, who documented simple circa-1900 peasant life. A's Homeric journey
includes flashbacks into past historical events. He travels by taxi to Albania, where he enlists the help of a film archivist (Maia Morgenstern, who plays all four female roles). She joins him on a train ride to Bucharest, Romania. An extensive flashback chronicles
A's childhood under Communism in Bucharest. His next stop is Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, where he is directed to Sarajevo. Angelopoulos mixes scenes shot during the actual Balkan war with historic re-enactments and dreamscapes to examine the role of the
artist in political upheaval. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription">The film is 2 hours and 16 minutes with English subtitles</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription">The film is screened in the context of the course "Cold War History and Culture in Europe and the Balkans."</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; ">Tuesday, April 22, 4:30 pm</div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><b>Vangelis Calotychos</b></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; "><b>The Balkan Prospect and the Greek Crisis (of the 1990s): Cultural Reflections</b></span></span></div>
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<div>In 1989, the borders hitherto separating Greek culture and society from its contiguous Balkan polities came down, and Greeks had to reorient themselves toward their immediate neighbors and redefine their place within a 'new Europe' and a more fluid world
order. Projecting the political foresight and mustering the modernizing policies to succeed in such an undertaking would be no small feat even at the best of times. However, little time elapsed before Greece and Europe were effectively held hostage to events
in the Balkans--just at the time when both intended to serve as the region's welcoming hosts. Casting a glance back at this historical conjuncture and its aftermath--from a distinct vantage point, a Greek prospect of sorts--this talk reflects on cultural and
theoretical study of the Balkans. How did one theorize the Balkans then and why? How do we imagine or reimagine it now?</div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription" style="font-size: 20px; "><b>Christian Populations in the Middle East since the Arab Spring</b></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription">Panel discussion with </span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription"><b>Stephen Davis</b>, Yale University</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription"><b>Ellen Lust</b>, Yale University</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription"><b>Christine M. Philiou</b>, Columbia University</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; "><span class="eventDescription"><b>George Syrimis</b>, Moderator, Yale University</span></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia,sans-serif" style="font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; ">Organized by the Hellenic Stu</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span">dies Pr</font>ogram,
the Council on Middle East Studies, the Department of Religious Studies, the Yale Divinity School, and the Ottoman Studies Initiative with the support of the Order of AHEPA, Yankee District #7 and New Haven Chapter #98, The Hellenic Bar Association of Connecticut,
and Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Order of St. Andrew the Apostle</font></div>
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