<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Begin forwarded message:<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">Dear Friend,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">We have been missing your company since the end of the UCLA SNF Center/Benaki Museum lectures. We hope you are doing well during this challenging time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">At long last the video recordings are online! We hope you will enjoy watching the lectures again, or seeing ones that you might have missed. And, of course, you should feel free to send the links to your friends and family. Here we are (the Greek versions only have the introductory information and texts in Greek, the lecture is always in English):</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">Niko Ghika, John Craxton, Patrick Leigh Fermor: Charmed Lives in Greece, by Evita Arapoglou.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">ENG<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2447:niko-ghika-john-craxton-patrick-leigh-fermor-charmed-lives-in-greece&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en" title="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2447:niko-ghika-john-craxton-patrick-leigh-fermor-charmed-lives-in-greece&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2447:niko-ghika-john-craxton-patrick-leigh-fermor-charmed-lives-in-greece&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">GR<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2448:john-craxton-patrick-leigh-fermor&Itemid=615&lang=en&Itemid=202&lang=el" title="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2448:john-craxton-patrick-leigh-fermor&Itemid=615&lang=en&Itemid=202&lang=el"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2448:john-craxton-patrick-leigh-fermor&Itemid=615&lang=en&Itemid=202&lang=el</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">Nelly’s: Reflections on the life and work of the Greek female photographer Elli Seraidari-Sougioultzoglou (1899–1998), by Aliki Tsirgialou</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">ENG<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2443:nelly-s-reflections-on-the-life-and-work-of-the-greek-female-photographer-elli-seraidari-sougioultzoglou-1899-1998&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en" title="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2443:nelly-s-reflections-on-the-life-and-work-of-the-greek-female-photographer-elli-seraidari-sougioultzoglou-1899-1998&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2443:nelly-s-reflections-on-the-life-and-work-of-the-greek-female-photographer-elli-seraidari-sougioultzoglou-1899-1998&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">GR<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&lang=el&id=2444&Itemid=202" title="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&lang=el&id=2444&Itemid=202"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&lang=el&id=2444&Itemid=202</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">‘Mr. Byzantoine et ses amis’: Antonis Benakis and the art scene of Alexandria, by Mina Moraitou</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">ENG<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2431:mr-byzantoine-et-ses-amis-antonis-benakis-and-the-art-scene-of-alexandria&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en" title="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2431:mr-byzantoine-et-ses-amis-antonis-benakis-and-the-art-scene-of-alexandria&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2431:mr-byzantoine-et-ses-amis-antonis-benakis-and-the-art-scene-of-alexandria&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">GR<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&lang=el&id=2436&Itemid=202"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&lang=el&id=2436&Itemid=202</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">‘For the Benefit of the Nation’: A Collection of Chinese Art for Greece, by George Manginis</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">ENG<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2445:for-the-benefit-of-the-nation-a-collection-of-chinese-art-for-greece&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2445:for-the-benefit-of-the-nation-a-collection-of-chinese-art-for-greece&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">GR<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&lang=el&id=2446&Itemid=202"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&lang=el&id=2446&Itemid=202</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">Rites of Passage: The Wedding Rituals in Classical Athens, by Irini Papageorgiou</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">ENG<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2441:rites-of-passage-the-wedding-rituals-in-classical-athens&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&id=2441:rites-of-passage-the-wedding-rituals-in-classical-athens&Itemid=202&lang=el&Itemid=615&lang=en</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">GR<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&lang=el&id=2442&Itemid=202"><span style="color:purple">https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_multimedia&view=multimediaitem&lang=el&id=2442&Itemid=202</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">We are looking forward to continuing our lecture series in November and early December and we are happy to report that Rosanna Ballian has already committed to contribute a lecture on “Bacini or immured vessels on post-Byzantine churches, 16th-17th c.: The case of Iznik, Italian and local ware” on 14 November. We will be in touch once the schedule is set. In the meantime, please consult our website for the schedule of our ongoing events (<a href="https://hellenic.ucla.edu/">https://hellenic.ucla.edu/</a>), including a series on Greek archaeology, which will take place in October.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">Warmest wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#404040">Sharon Gerstel</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#005587">Sharon E. J. Gerstel</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Professor of Byzantine Art & Archaeology</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">George P. Kolovos Family Centennial Term Chair in Hellenic Studies</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Director, UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"> Center <i>for the</i> Study <i>of</i> Hellenic Culture</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">100 Dodd Hall, UCLA<br>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://hellenic.ucla.edu/">https://hellenic.ucla.edu/</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">For donations to the UCLA SNF Center, click <a href="https://giving.ucla.edu/Campaign/Donate.aspx?SiteNum=2026&code=M-6874">here</a>.</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><img border="0" width="253" height="45" style="width:2.6333in;height:.4666in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D65EE8.838874B0"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><style><!--
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