“1821 : Revolution and Poetry in Motion”-
Join us Sunday for EMBCA’s “1821 : Revolution and Poetry in Motion” Panel Discussion Webinar on June 27 at 2 P.M. EST / 9 P.M. Athens EEST. The panel discussion will be in Association with AHEPA’s Hellenic Cultural Commission. The event will be introduced and moderated by Lou Katsos, EMBCA's President/Founder and Chairman of AHEPA’s Hellenic Cultural Commission. The distinguished panel will include Author/ Poet Nicholas Alexiou Professor of Sociology and Director of the Hellenic American Project at Queens College; Poet/Essayist/Prose Writer/Translator and twice President of the Hellenic Authors’ Society Yiorgos Chouliaras; and Author/ Translator/Materials Scientist Andeas Melas the former President of Hellenic Link- Midwest. The panel discussion will focus on the Hellenic Revolution of 1821 and the poetry around it. Professor Nicholas Alexiou will be presenting on “The Greek Revolution and America Philhellenic Poetry” which will include the poetry of James Gates Percival, William Cullen Bryant, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney; Yiorgos Chouliaras on "Greece, Poetry, Revolution" and discuss among other poets the "double-headed eagle"of modern Greek poetry Solomos and Byron; and Andreas Melas will discuss the poem "The 9th of July 1821" by Vasilis Michaelides, considered the national poet of Cyprus, that he has translated and written about.
Poetry, a word from the Ancient Hellenic ποίησις/ poiesis, meant in philosophy "the activity in which a person brings something that did not exist before" and etymologically deriving from the Hellenic term ποιεῖν/ "to make" has a long history in the Hellenic world and played a very important and pivotal role in the Hellenic Revolution and Independence both domestically and abroad. This genre was used to explore and disseminate new political ideas in a period of Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Revolution. In many ways poetry and Revolution are intertwined historically and certainly in the Hellenic Revolution.
The event among others we have had this year around the anniversary of the Hellenic Revolution are part of EMBCA’s American Hellenic Revolution of 1821 Bicentennial Committee series of events focusing not only on the Revolution but also importantly on the American, Diaspora and International aspects and influences of the Revolution on this its 200 Year Anniversary.
Panelists/ Presenters :
Nicholas Alexiou-
Prof. Nicholas Alexiou was born in Volos, Greece, where he studied economics. He has received an M.A. degree (Sociology Dep’t, Queens College, CUNY), and a Ph.D. (Sociology Dep’t, Graduate Center, CUNY). He has taught in the Department of Sociology at Queens College, CUNY, since 1990, and he has received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. His fields of interest are social and political sociology, ethnic studies and research.
He has established the first Archive – Library - Museum, for the Greeks of New York, and he is the Director of Research of the Hellenic American Project (HAP), at Queens College.
Also, a contemporary poet, he is the author of six books of poetry, and many of his poems have been published in Greek and American journals and anthologies.
He is a member of the Greek Authors Association, Greece, and the Greek American Writers Guild Association, NY.
Yiorgos Chouliaras -
Yiorgos Chouliaras is a Greek poet, essayist, prose writer, and translator. In 2014, he was awarded an Academy of Athens prize for his innovative writing and for his work in its entirety. His poetry in translation has been published in leading periodicals and anthologies, such as Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, World Literature Today, and Modern European Poets, and in Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, and Turkey among other countries. Born in Thessaloniki, he studied (at Reed College and at The Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research) and worked mostly in New York, before returning to Athens from Dublin. He has worked as a university lecturer, advisor to cultural institutions, correspondent, and press counselor at Greek diplomatic missions. He has served twice as President of the Hellenic Authors’ Society, the principal association of literary writers in Greece.
Andreas Melas -
Andreas Melas was born and raised in Lemesos, Cyprus, born , and USA University educated. He is the author of “Three Hellene Cypriots”, 2014, and “Slaughter us all…”. The author, while a sixteen-year-old, first came to the United States having won an American Field Service scholarship. He made presentations about Cyprus to numerous organizations.
At Ripon College, Wisconsin, USA, he earned the A.B. degree. At Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, he continued with graduate studies earning a M.Sc. and then begun Ph.D. studies. Finally, he had Harvard University graduate training in Management through case studies. This gave him additional insight into policy, leadership and leaders such as those covered in his two books. A rigorous Harvard writing course as well as professional writing experience helped prepare the author for his book endeavors.
He is following his father, Tonis Melas,who in his shortened life, published nineteen books but had another thirty-one ready for publication.
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