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There will be Coffee and Chat lecture on Saturday, February 8th at 12:30 pm at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Columbus.  Dr. Christopher Brown, Lecturer in the OSU Modern Greek Program, will give a brief (20-30 minutes) talk on what the latest research is telling us about the advantages of learning Greek in childhood, and how parents can work together with Greek school teachers to make the experience of Greek school as enjoyable and beneficial as possible for their children.

Starting Monday, February 3, 9-10am, and continuing through the spring semester, there will be coffee hour for Greek conversation with Antenna television from Greece in the Crane Café of Hagerty Hall at Ohio State.

Hagerty Hall

Starting Monday, January 27, there is discussion in Greek together with screening of Greek television in Crane Café of Hagerty Hall on Mondays from 9-10am.

All are welcome to join us for Greek conversation at this time, or to stop by Crane Café between 7-11am on Mondays and 7am-noon on Fridays to see Antenna television broadcast from Greece.

Archdiocesan Education Conference Yields More Questions than Answers by Christopher Tripoulas

While an undergraduate Modern Greek student at Ohio State Emily Pandis ’19 began teaching at the Greek School of the Annunciation Cathedral in Columbus. She is now pursuing graduate studies at American University in Washington, DC and continues her teaching in the Greek school of St. Katherine’s Church in Falls Church, Virginia.

Click here for her description of some enjoyable classroom activities that are used by her and her peers at the Hellenic Education Center of St. Katherine Church.

Click here for some resources used at St. Katherine’s Greek school for students learning the alphabet.

The OSU Modern Greek Program participated in the 7th Annual Greek Language Festival at St Demetrios Church on Saturday, November 2. Four Greek schools from the Cleveland area were represented, together with a school from Pittsburgh. Students sang, participated in cultural and language activities, and competed in a quiz competition. Thanks to Eleni Papouras-Jenks and the parents and staff of the Dr. Michael A. Balourdas Hellenic Cultural School at St. Demetrios Church and to Maria Stamoolis, Director of Greek Education in the Pittsburgh Metropolis, for organizing this enjoyable event for the Greek school students.

AHEPA Midwestern Regional Banquet Honors Excellence in Ohio

Professor Georgios Anagnostou published a column in Τα Νέα on Friday on prospects for the participation of the Greek American diaspora in Greek politics.

On Tuesday, October 15, at 10:30am in Enarson 312 there will be a presentation on the Greek dialect of Mesta, Chios. The dialect of this historic village of Chios is being documented for the first time in a three volume work by Mr. John Kellis of Steubenville. Prof. Brian Joseph will discuss the village of Mesta and Mr. Kellis’s project in relation to the work of the OSU Laboratory for Greek Dialectology.  Mr. Kellis will respond to questions about his work. All are welcome to attend.

OSU Classics PhD candidate Gemma Storti will make a presentation in Greek about the scholarship of her dissertation director Prof. Anthony Kaldellis at 12:40pm in Enarson 218 on Monday, October 14.

She will discuss this interview with Prof. Kaldellis.

Here is a photograph from our archive of OSU Modern Greek students who in 2016 practiced the Systema Russian Martial Art with Steve Webb at the Aikido School of Central Ohio. In the front are Joe Pearl, now working as a financial advisor in Columbus, Zach Heller, now at the Holy Cross Seminary of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, and Nick Kyriacou, now a PhD student in Physics at the University of Michigan.