The Hellenic Centre closes its autumn with Marina Sakali on the Ottoman Greek press of 1830 to 1862 and the second lecture in Gelly Gryntaki’s series on Greek women painters.
The talks programme sits on top of the Hellenic Centre’s year-round work. The Marylebone house teaches Greek to adults, keeps a library, sells books, hires out its rooms and administers a cultural fund. The Hellenic Community Trust has run the building since 1992 and has been a registered charity since 1994.
December closes the autumn with two evenings of archival scholarship. Marina Sakali reads the Greek-language press of the Ottoman Empire between 1830 and 1862 through its editors, correspondents, advertisers and readers. The result is a portrait of a generation living through the Tanzimat reforms.
Gelly Gryntaki gives the second lecture of The Origin of Painting, the series that began in October with the named women painters of antiquity. It now turns to three painters working between Greek independence and 1960. Both evenings require booking.
The Uses of Oppression: Greek Newspapers in the Ottoman Empire 1830–62
Marina Sakali, Lady Marks, discusses her book with Dr Şükrü Ilıcak, Associate Professor at the University of Athens.
The Ottoman Greek press ran from 1830 to 1862 through the reform decades known as the Tanzimat, and was both a product of that upheaval and an agent of it. Sakali reads it through its own editors, correspondents, advertisers and readers, which turns a press history into an account of how a generation actually lived. It is at seven, with a nominal five-pound entry.
Proofs of the Impossible: Three Greek Women Painters, 1821–1960
The second lecture in The Origin of Painting, the art historian Gelly Gryntaki’s series on Greek women in the visual arts.
October’s opening lecture began in antiquity with Timarete and Anaxandra. This one covers the hundred and forty years from independence to 1960, and the three painters who worked through them. It is at seven, with a nominal five-pound entry.