Upcoming Events
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September 27, 2023
Athens, Megaron Mousikis.
Panel of speakers on Mikis Theodorakis: His Music and Politics, by Gail Holst-Warhaft.
Panelists: Stephanie Merakos, Asteris Koutoulas, Yorgos Demerdzis, Tatiana Papageorgiou, Maria Farandouri. -
September 13, 2023
Paxos Music Festival.
“Buried Treasure: The Avant Garde Chamber Music of Mikis Theodorakis” (with the Athens String Quartet). In English.
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September 10, 2023
Solomos Museum, Corfu, Greek.
“In the Beginning Was the Word: The Marriage of Music and Poetry in the Work of Mikis Theodorakis”
Past Events
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November 11, 2022, 7 PM
Book Presentation: The Greek edition of Holst-Warhaft, Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature
Location: Bookstore Books +
There will be a performance of polyphonic laments by Nota Kaltsouni and Antigoneia.
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November 8, 2022, 7 PM
Nostalgia for the East: The Bitter-Sweet Poetics of Loss
Location: ASCSA Cotsen Hall - Hybrid Lectures, Anapiron Polemou 9, Athens 106 76
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July 2nd, 2022
Solomos Museum/ Durrell Library, Corfu, Greek.
The Oriental Strain: Poetry, Music, and the Maternal Inheritance -
June 27, 2022
Paxos Festival, Paxos Island.
Laments in Modern Greek Literature. -
June 2022
Serafeio Cultural Center Athens.
Presentation of A Journey into the Rembetika for Young and Old -
May 13, 2022
Holy Trinity Cathedral, New York City.
The Poetry and Music of Mikis Theodorakis. (lecture and translations) -
May 1 2022
Symphony Space, New York City.
Theodorakis: A Musical Tribute (Narrative and Translations) -
November, 2021
“The Black Duck,” Athens.
Presentation of Nisiotika -
May 6, 2021
Two readings in Ithaca’s Spring Writes Festival.
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February, 2021
“Odysseys”: a series of virtual readings by Ithaca-based writers.
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May 4, 2020
Ithaca Spring Writes Festival
Panel: "Expression as Freedom: Ithaca City of Asylum and Amnesty International panel on expression under dictatorship and in prisons"
GLH speaks on poetry written in prison and exile -
April 16, 2019, Yale University
Yale Hellenic Studies Program: “Greek Ethnomusicology: Where and What is the “Ethno” in Ethnomusicology?” -
April 15, 2019, Yale University
Modern Greek Studies Programs: “How Productive Pain is: Weaving, War, and the Work of Mourning in Greek literature, ancient and modern.”
Yale Directed Studies Colloquium -
The Out of Bounds Radio Show with Tish Pearlman (Listen online)
• Sat Dec 15, 2018 at 3:30pm ET WEOS-FM
• Sun Dec 23, 2018 at 11:30am ET WSKG-FM -
Nov 16, 2018, 3:00 pm
Reading at Buffalo Street Books,
215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY
Lucky Country -
October 24, 2018, 8:00 pm
News University of Crete (video) -
September 16, 2018, 2:00 pm,
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum. Morristown, NJ
Poets in the Garden
$10 per adult, FREE for members -
Mar 22, 2018, 7:00-9:00 pm
Literati Bookstore, 124 E Washington St. Ann Arbor, MI 48140
The Fall of Athens, a reading by Gail Holst-Warhaft -
May 21, 2017, 6pm
Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC
A Reading with Music -
March 7, 2017, 5pm
Burlington, VT
Farrell Room, St. Edmond’s Building, St. Micael’s College. -
November 4, 2017, 1:00-2:45 pm
Stockton Seaview Hotel, 401 S. N York Rd, Galloway, NJ.
Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium
Special session “Contemporary writing from, to, and about Greece”
Featuring works by 4 authors including The Fall of Athens -
February 20, 2017, 4:30 pm
Reading at Yale University.
Program in Hellenic Studies, Luce Hall 203.
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December 4, 2016, 2:00 pm
Reading at Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY