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Pontus the Opera (Pontian Genocide Memorial Seminar) | Seminars 2024

Date: Thursday 16 May 2024 @ 7pm Melbourne
Location: Level M, 168 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Presenter: Dean Kalimniou

Language of Presentation: English
Entry: FREE

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Synopsis

“Pontus the Opera.” While Pontus is commonly portrayed as an isolated region with its own idiosyncratic culture, this was not always so. In this lecture, Dean Kalimniou will examine how Pontus captured the western imagination and served as the inspiration for the composition of opera and classical music. In this was the stereotype of Pontus as the other is both augmented and confounded leading to a discussion about externally and internally imposed Orientalism and how this affects identity formation.

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Bio

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Dean Kalimniou is a lawyer, poet and short story writer within the Greek community. He has published seven poetry collections in Greek and translated the works of many local Greek authors into English. He has also published translations of Papadiamantis’ short stories in the critical anthology “The Boundless Garden. Selected Short Stories.” Recently he released his first bilingual children’s book. “Simela and the Magic Kemenche”, is this is to be followed by another one in 2024, 'The Librarian from Cappadocia'

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How to Participate

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This is an in-person only event, so please join us at the Greek Centre, on Level M.

See our speaker live, ask questions during the Q&A and hobnob with fellow participants before and after the event.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Sponsors

We'd like to thank Peter Patistea on behalf of AHEPA Victoria and Roma Siachos in memory of Olga Siranidou for the kind donations that make seminars like this possible.

During the course of the year considerable expenses are incurred in staging the seminars. In order to mitigate these costs individuals or organisations are invited to donate against a lecture of their choice.

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