<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><b>From:</b> Yiorgos Chouliaras <yiorgos.chouliaras@gmail.com><br><div dir="ltr"><b>Date:</b> June 25, 2021 at 3:02:56 PM PDT<br><b>To:</b> undisclosed-recipients:;<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>1821: Revolution & Poetry in Motion (Sunday, June 27, 2021, 2pm EST, 9pm Athens time)</b><br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">1821: Revolution & Poetry</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> <b>in Motion</b> (Sunday, <b>June 27</b>, 2021, 2pm EST,<b> 9pm Athens
time</b>)</span><br></div><div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">JOIN HERE:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1WjxVezvNo" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:blue">“1821: Revolution and
Poetry in Motion” Panel Discussion - YouTube</span></a></span><span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">A panel discussion webinar on the Hellenic Revolution of 1821 and poetry.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">This EMBCA event,
i</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">n association with
AHEPA’s Hellenic Cultural Commission, will be introduced and moderated by <b>Lou
Katsos</b>, EMBCA’s President/Founder and Chairman of AHEPA’s Hellenic Cultural
Commission.<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br></span></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Panelists</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">: <span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Nicholas Alexiou</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">uthor, poet and Professor of Sociology &
Director of the Hellenic American Project at Queens College, CUNY) will speak on
“The Greek Revolution and American Philhellenic Poetry,” including the poetry
of James Gates Percival, William Cullen Bryant, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney.<span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Yiorgos Chouliaras</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> (poet, essayist, prose writer, translator &
twice President of the Hellenic Authors’ Society) will speak on “Greece,
Poetry, Revolution” and among others discuss Solomos and Byron, the two heads
of a “double-headed eagle” of modern Greek poetry, as he has called them.<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Andreas Melas</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> (author, translator, materials scientist & former
President of Hellenic Link-Midwest) will discuss the poem “The 9th of July 1821”
by Vasilis Michaelides, considered the national poet of Cyprus, which he has
translated and written about. <span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Poetry, a word derived from Greek </span><span style="color:black">ποίησις</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> (from the verb </span><span style="color:black">ποιεῖν</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> = to make or create), which philosophically alluded
to “an activity in which a person brings forth something that did not exist
before,” has a seminal history in the Hellenic world and played a pivotal role
in the Hellenic Revolution and War of Independence, both domestically and
abroad. Poetry was used to explore and disseminate new political ideas in the periods
of Enlightenment and Romanticism and was historically intertwined with Revolution
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">in many ways</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">, in Greece and elsewhere. <span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">This event is part of EMBCA’s American Hellenic Revolution of 1821
Bicentennial Committee series of events on the Hellenic Revolution as well as its
American, diaspora, and international aspects and influences.<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4"> </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">“1821: Revolution and Poetry in Motion” Panel
Discussion Webinar<span></span></font></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Dear Friends and Colleagues,<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Join us for EMBCA’s “1821: Revolution and Poetry in Motion” Panel
Discussion Webinar Sunday, June 27 at 2 P.M. EST (9 P.M. Athens EEST). The
panel discussion will be in association with AHEPA’s Hellenic Cultural
Commission.<b><span></span></b></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Best regards<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">- EMBCA<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Lou Katsos<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Marina A. Belessis Casoria<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Stamatis Ghikas<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Konstantinos Drougos<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Constantine Sirigos<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Richard S. Khuzami<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">Prof. Nicholas Alexiou<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4"> </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">EMBCA, The Eastern Mediterranean Business
Culture Alliance<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">c/o Louis Katsos<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">745 5<sup>th</sup> Avenue, 5<sup>th</sup> Floor<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4">New York, NY 10151</font><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Yiorgos Chouliaras, "Modern Greece Is An Outcome of Poetry" (an interview</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">in Greek </span></font></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:black">published in 2009 and made available <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">online </span>again in 2016)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Χουλιάρας, <i>Η σύγχρονη Ελλάδα
προέκυψε από την ποίηση</i> (2009, αναδημοσίευση 2016)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">

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