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<div style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Talk:<b> "“In the Same Town…”: Contemporary Fictional Representations of Greek-Turkish Co-existence Under Ottoman Rule" </b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><b>Trine S. Willert</b>, University of Copenhagen and Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow, Princeton University</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; ">Film screening: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; ">"The
Other Town" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">(40 mins, in Greek and Turkish with English subtitles)</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">directed by Nefin Dinc and Iraklis Millas. </span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><span class="eventDescription">Professor Willert's talk brings attention to a number of Greek historical novels published in the past 15 years dealing with the changes
in the Ottoman Empire from the mid eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Particular focus will be on one specific novel that revolves around the close friendship between a Greek-Christian and an Ottoman-Muslim boy giving equal voice to the Greek and the
Ottoman/Turkish protagonist. The trend in historical novels dealing with the Ottoman period will be considered in the broader context of Modern Greek literature and popular culture as well as in relation to developments in historiography and politics.<br>
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The documentary The Other Town examines the perceptions of the citizens of two towns, Birgi in western Turkey and Dimitsana in central Peloponnese. In the past the Ottomans had captured the Greek town and the Greeks the Turkish one. The filmmakers visited the
two towns several times for a year and examined a range of aspects: how history is taught in schools, how the Other is presented during the national festivities, what the dignitaries think and say about the conflict and the past, what are the perceptions and
the prejudices of the laymen and of the children, what the museums exhibit as history, etc. The films objective was to examine at what extent the widespread popular beliefs of the citizens, as well as the state policies of opinion forming reproduce prejudices
which in turn perpetuate the conflict.</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">The event will conclude with a discussion of the topic with Professors Dinc and Willert</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">The
event is a collaboration between the Hellenic Studies Program and the Council on Middle East Studies.</span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><b>Local community event on the role of the Greek Orthodox Church in the civil rights movement</b></div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">On Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 at 7:00 PM in the St. Barbara Social Hall, 480 Racebrook Road, Orange, CT there will be a presentation and panel discussion on the Greek Orthodox's Church's
role in the civil rights movement. led by the Very Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Symeonides, Director of the Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations.</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">New Haven Chapter, Ahepa Chapter #98, is sponsoring this event as part of the Mustard Seed Faith Group lecture series. The event honors the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King's historic march on Selma, Alabama and Archbishop Iakovos' courageous, compelling, and historically significant participation in that March.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><b>**</b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">PLEASE NOTE THAT THE EVENT BELOW HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE</span>**</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Thursday, March 5, 5:00 PM</span></span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; "><b>"The Orthodox State: Modern Greece and the Mediterranean Origins of Counter-Model of Governance"</b></div>
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