2024

• November 1, 2024

        Empowering Democracy: The Agonistic Potential of Rebetika Music in Greece

        Dr. Yona Stamatis (University of Illinois-Springfield) Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Music Program Director

2022

• November 10, 2022

        Kyriakos Efthymiou Reads Constantine P. Cavafy (and his own poetry)

2019

• September 20, 2019

       Glass in Late Antiquity  (John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation Lecture)

        Dr. Anastasios Antonaras, Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki

• Nostalgia, a series of lectures in collaboration with the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago and the Department of the Classics at UIUC (Spring/Fall 2019). Professor Angeliki Tzanetou will moderate the talks.

1. October 27, 2019: Laura McClure (University of Wisconsin, Madison) on Nostos (https://www.nationalhellenicmuseum.org/event/laura-mcclure-on-nostos/)
2. October 6, 2019: Demetra Kasimis (University of Chicago) on Nostos in dialogue with Angeliki Tzanetou (UIUC) (https://www.nationalhellenicmuseum.org/event/demetra-kasimis-on-nostos/) 
3. May 2, 2019: Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine): Work and Wedding Songs: Perspectives on the Greek Female Nostos from Antiquity and Beyond