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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.

Please follow this link for the current newsleter of the OSU Modern Greek Program.

This summer I have created the website Archiving Greek America, which features Greek American articles, magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, postcards, photographs, brochures, newspapers, community publications, catalogues, LPs, CDs, letters, announcements, and notes that I have been accumulating through decades of research. This personal archive of largely public documents covers the recent past between the early 1990s, when I started graduate work, up to 2010 or so, when I started e-filing most of the relevant resources. The archive will be updated regularly.

Please visit, https://archivinggreekamerica.home.blog

Yiorgos Anagnostou

The President of the Hellenic Republic with Emily Pandis ’19 (National Herald credits).

“I am from both Columbus, Ohio and Corfu, Greece and I just graduated from Ohio State University,” declared Emily Pandis. While living in both countries exposed her to both the best and darkest realities of life in Greece, “its role on the global playing field was off my radar…my perspective of Greece has been transformed” by the AHIF trip. The experience also taught her about the power she has as an individual, and her constitutional duty and privilege to communicate with Congress about Greece and Cyprus.

Follow this link to read the National Herald’s reporting on the 2019 AHIF student trip to Greece and Cyprus.

President Pavlopoulos Meets Greek-American Students (Video)