Symposium to explore cultural ties between Greek and Indigenous Australians

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The Consulate General of Greece in Sydney and the UNSW School of Humanities & Languages have jointly organised a symposium entitled ‘Encounters of Transformation: Intercultural Relations between Greek and Indigenous Australians’ – with the collaboration of the UNSW Foundation for Hellenic Studies and the students’ Hellsoc (Hellenic Society of UNSW).

The symposium will be held on Saturday, June 7 from 9:30am to 4pm at UNSW Patricia O’Shane (E19), Room 105, in Kensington.

The theme of the symposium is the interaction – direct or indirect – between Greek and Indigenous Australians, in a variety of domains and in a range of ways, such as through literature, the visual arts, sociopolitical advocacy movements and the self-representation of Australian First Peoples themselves.

The symposium will be accompanied by exhibited artworks of Christina Tsaou, a young Greek visual artist inspired by Indigenous art.

The event is structured into two parts. Part A includes four presentations (20 minute presentation and a 10 minute Q&A for each presenter), and Part B is made up of two roundtable discussions (60 to 75 minutes each including a Q&A). 

There will be a lunch and an afternoon tea break. The presentations will be delivered by academics, Greek and Indigenous, while the roundtable discussions will also feature Greek and Indigenous writers, artists, community leaders and/or activists, and generally people who have engaged somehow in Greek – Indigenous Australian relations.

Speakers include Dr Petro Alexiou, Effy Alexakis and Leonard Janiszewski, Daphne Arapakis, and Dr Vassilios Adrahtas. 

You can register for the symposium here.

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