[MGSA-L] This Friday - You are invited to a Reading of The Black Sea and Screening of Grandma's Tattoos, with a Discussion with the Poet and Filmmaker

[Michael Anthony Fowler]

*The Black Sea Networks Initiative & **Columbia’s Program in Hellenic
Studies** invite you *

*to the following event:*

TRAUMA AND MEMORY:
TEARS IN THE FABRIC OF ARMENIAN AND GREEK COMMUNITIES▲
POETRY READING AND FILM SCREENING

Discussion with the poet and filmmaker
Discussants: Bella Grigoryan (Yale University) and Isin Onol (University of
Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria)
Reception to follow
Friday, February 17, 3:00-6:00 pm | 612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia
University









THE BLACK SEA is a long poem-cycle about the Black Sea Greeks and their
exodus from that region. The Black Sea explores the historic “great
catastrophe” of the Pontic Greeks of Asia Minor in the 1920s through a
series of “sonnet-monologues” or voices from the past. Priests,
prostitutes, soldiers, and a bizarre cast of characters move through this
poetic re-imagining of a tragic chapter in Greece’s history.

Stephanos Papadopoulos <http://www.stephanospapadopoulos.com/> was born in
North Carolina in 1976 and raised in Paris and Athens. He is the author of
three books of poems: *Lost Days*, *Hôtel-Dieu*, and *The Black Sea*, as
well as the editor and co-translator (with Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke) of
Derek Walcott’s *Selected Poems* into Greek (Kastaniotis Editions, 2006).
He was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship for *The Black Sea* and in
2014 he was awarded the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize selected by
Mark Strand. His poems and translations have appeared in journals such as *The
New Republic*, *The Yale Review*, *Poetry Review*, *Stand Magazine* and he
writes regularly for the *Los Angeles Review of Books*.

GRANDMA’S TATTOOS is a personal film about what happened to many Armenian
women during the genocide of 1915. Author and filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian
makes a personal journey into her own family to investigate the truth
behind Khanoum, her late grandmother. The film is like a ghost story; a
mystery, a taboo. No one wants to tell the whole story. In order to bring
the pieces of the puzzle together we move between different scenes, from
today’s welfare Sweden all the way to Suzanne Khardalian’s childhood in
Beirut. Produced by PeÅ Holmquist.

Suzanne Khardalian is an independent filmmaker and writer. She studied
journalism in Beirut and Paris and worked as a journalist in Paris until
1988 when she started to work in film. She holds a Master’s Degree in
International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts
University and contributes articles to various journals. She had directed a
dozen films that have been shown both in Europe and in the USA.

Discussants: Bella Grigoryan (Yale University) and Isin Onol (University of
Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria)

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Michael Anthony Fowler, M.Phil.
Assistant to the Director
Program in Hellenic Studies
Columbia University

e: maf2209(at)columbia.edu
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