[MGSA-L] Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series to be Held in Athens, Washington, D.C., and New York City

Alicia Dissinger adissinger at ascsa.org
Thu Feb 18 06:27:58 PST 2021


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> The American School of Classical Studies at Athens <https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/> and Gennadius Library <https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/research/gennadius-library> are pleased to announce that the inaugural Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series on the Impact of Greek Culture <https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/news/newsDetails/frankopan-selected-as-inaugural-speaker> will be held in Athens, Washington, D.C., and New York City. Dr. Peter Frankopan <https://www.peterfrankopan.com/> was selected as the first speaker of the series and will be presenting his lectures on October 7, 2021, at the American School's Cotsen Hall <https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/research/cotsen-hall> in Athens, in April 2022 in Washington, D.C., and in May 2022 in New York City. Specific dates, locations, and event links will be forthcoming.
> Established in June 2020, the Thalia Potamianos Annual Lectures Series seeks to create a stimulating environment to draw both the academic community and the general public to the American School and the Gennadius Library. Every year, a highly distinguished, internationally renowned scholar is selected to conduct research and develop programs on a topic relevant to the Gennadius Library. The research will culminate in a minimum of three annual public keynote lectures, which will be delivered in Athens and the United States. These talks will be accompanied by publications, podcasts, and other appropriate media to maximize exposure and engagement.
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> The Thalia Potamianos lectures are being made possible by a generous commitment from Phokion Potamianos <https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/research/gennadius-library/about-us/overseers-of-the-gennadius-library>, an Overseer of the Gennadius Library. Mr. Potamianos named the series in memory of his grandmother, a distinguished Greek doctor, academic, and philanthropist. Mr. Potamianos remarked, “It is a great pleasure to commence the Thalia Potamianos lectures with a series of presentations in Greece and the United States by Dr. Frankopan. His work, placing Greece's cultural role in a global context, is at the heart of the purpose of the lectures and highly relevant to modern Greece that is, once again, connected to the modern Silk Road.”
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> Dr. Peter Frankopan <https://www.peterfrankopan.com/> is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Stavros Niarchos Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Dr. Frankopan is a world-renowned historian and an award-winning author who will present “Global Greece: A History” for the inaugural Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series. These lectures examine the role that Greece, Greek culture, literature, and language have played over the course of more than two and a half millennia. Rather than exploring the familiar and limited Mediterranean context, they are looked at from a global perspective, allowing not only a better understanding of world history but of Greece itself.
> Dr. Frankopan’s academic interests include the history of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Central Asia, and China. His book The First Crusade: The Call from the East looks at the Crusades not from the perspective of the Latin West but of Constantinople and Byzantium. It was described as making “the most significant contribution to rethinking the origins and course of the First Crusade for a generation” (TLS). This followed on from Dr. Frankopan’s translation of The Alexiad (Penguin Classics, 2009) by Anna Komnene, perhaps the most famous of all Byzantine histories.
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> His book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World was described as “magnificent” (Sunday Times) and “not just the most important history book in years, but the most important in decades” (Berliner Zeitung). A New York Times Best Seller, it has topped the non-fiction charts all around the world, including in the U.K., India, and China. It was also named Daily Telegraph’s History Book of the Year and one of Sunday Times’books of the decade (2010–2019).
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