“200th Anniversary Commemoration of the Passing of Lord Byron” Webinar Panel Discussion-

 “200th Anniversary Commemoration of the Passing of Lord Byron” Webinar Panel Discussion-

Join us/me today for EMBCA’s “200th Anniversary Commemoration of the Passing of Lord Byron” Webinar Panel Discussion on Sunday, May 26, 2024 at 2 P.M. EST/ 9 P.M. Athens EEST. I will be introducing and moderating the discussion. Our distinguished panel will include Dr. Katerina Lagos, Professor of History, Director, Hellenic Studies Program at California State University; Dr. Alexander Grammatikos of the Department of English at Langara College; Dr. Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou Adjunct Assit. Professor at St. Johns' University and City University; and Author/Poet Nicholas Alexiou, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Hellenic American Project at Queens College. The YouTube link to the event is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlFWVtrQpx4.

Our Panelists-

Katerina Lagos-

Katerina Lagos is a Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento and the Director of the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Center. She received her DPhil from St. Antony's College, Oxford in Modern History. Her research focuses on the Metaxas dictatorship, minorities, and the interwar period. She has published several articles and book chapters on interwar Greece, minorities, and the Greek economy. Her recent book publications include an edited volume with Dr. Othon Anastasakis (University of Oxford) entitled, The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974 (Berghahn, 2021) and a monograph on the Metaxas dictatorship, The 4th August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-41 (Palgrave, 2023).

Alexander Grammatikos-

Alexander Grammatikos is an Instructor in the English Department at Langara College (on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam [mus-kwee-um] People; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). His research interests include British Romanticism, early Greek statehood, and of course, Lord Byron. Alex's publications include British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and the forthcoming collected volume Byron and Translation (Liverpool University Press, 2024), which he has co-edited with Maria Schoina (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

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 President of the Greek American Writers Guild Association, NY. and, is a Director of EMBCA.

Dr. Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou-

Constantine Hatzidimitriou holds a doctorate in Byzantine, Ottoman

and Modern Greek history from Columbia University. He was a

Gennadius Fellow at the American School in Athens,

and an Education Counselor at the US. Consulate and a professor at

Anatolia College in Thessaloniki. Currently he is the managing editor

of the American Journal of Contemporary Hellenic Issues and the

Journal of Modern Hellenism; and an adjunct professor at St. John’s

University. Among his numerous publications include:

His book Founded on Freedom and Virtue: Documents Illustrating the

Impact in the United States of the Greek War of

Independence(2002) which was used for the recent exhibit “The Greek

Revolution Through American Eyes” by Stockton State University;

and his publications on the impact and importance of American

philanthropy during the war, and the so-called orphans brought to the

U.S. He is currently working on expanding these previous studies to

produce a book on the American Philhellenes in Greece.

Ilias I. Katsos