Following a commitment made by the Greek Community of Melbourne to provide both additional funding and assistance in increasing student enrolments, La Trobe University has agreed to continue the teaching of its…
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Experts have revealed the sexiest languages based on peoples’ reactions to hearing provocative chat-up lines in different dialects. The experiment conducted by Global e-learning platform Preply found that Italian speakers made heart rates…
Last week, La Trobe University announced that they propose to discontinue Modern Greek Studies. La Trobe University is currently the only university in Victoria that offers a comprehensive program in Modern Greek…
David Robertson, Head of Economic and Market Research, of the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank will present an online lecture on Thursday 19 November, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars,…
Kateřina Králová, Associate Professor of Modern History and Head of the Department of Russian and Eastern European Studies at Charles University, Prague, will give an online lecture entitled “Greek Civil War Refugees in…
Dr Manuela Pellegrino, a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, and language lecturer Ms Angeliki Douri, will present a virtual seminar about the dialect “Griko”, a dialect spoken by…
Greek academic, writer and activist, Dimitris Christopoulos, will present an interesting online lecture entitled ‘The day after the Golden Dawn Trial: Legal and political repercussions of a historical verdict’, on Wednesday, 21…
Fellow at Newcastle University, UK, Gönül Bozoglu, will present an interesting online lecture entitled ‘Memory Mapping and the Historic Greek Communities of Istanbul’, on Thursday 22 October, as part of the Greek…
Dr Ioanna Sitaridou will present an online lecture entitled In search for the lost Greek infinitive in Anatolia, on Thursday 15 October, at 7.00pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture…
With the popularity of Greek City Times’ interview with Merve Tanrıkulu, demands were made that we speak with more performers in Turkey who are keeping Pontian traditions and music alive. This time…
The Pontian Greek dialect, or more commonly known as Romeika (Ρωμαίικα), is thought to have died as a language in Turkey after the the 1923 population exchange when all the Christian Greeks…
The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopios Pavlopoulos bestowed Commander of the Order of Honour medals to Greek poet and translator, Titos Patrikios and theatre critic and translator Kostas Georgousopoulos, for their contribution to…
An alumnus of the University of Sydney, Peter Pontikis has generously pledged to donate $175,000 for the teaching of Modern Greek language and culture. For the next five years, the Department of Modern…
The US Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt met with Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Wednesday, where he emphasised the need for greater collaboration with Greece on cultural issues. The meeting comes…
Greece’s President Prokopis Pavlopoulos honoured Professor Macleod Beaton, Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History at the University of London, at a special ceremony at the Presidential Mansion on Monday. The President…
February 9 has officially been declared as International Greek Language Day and is a day for Greeks and non-Greeks to celebrate the important role the Greek language has played in world culture. According to a…