HHF Podcast Series
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Exodus: The Stories of 1922 The Podcast Series
Episode One: "Loss"
Listen here - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1552246/10643770 also available on Stitcher, Spotify and Apple podcasts
Episode Two: “Ta Meri Mas/Our Homelands”
Hosts Sandra Gionas and Prof. Sakis Gekas take a look at what life was like for the Greeks of Asia Minor, from daily life and culture to how the Ottoman politics affected them.
Listen here - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1552246/10705349 also available on Stitcher, Spotify and Apple podcasts
Episode Three: "Uprooted"
Hosts Sandra Gionas and HHF History Committee historian Terry Gitersos take a look at rising tide of nationalism, the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire and the how the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22 ultimately led to the mass expulsion of Christian Greeks from Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace.
Listen here - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1552246/10744190 also available on Stitcher, Spotify and Apple podcasts
Episode Four: "Strangers"
Hosts Sandra Gionas and HHF History Committee volunteer Jason-Nikolaos Rodopoulos examine how the refugees were absorbed into Greece and Turkey, what efforts were made to help settle them and what they experienced as they tried to start their lives over in new places.
Listen here - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1552246/10784569 also available on Stitcher, Spotify and Apple podcasts
Episode Five: "A New Greece"
Hosts Sandra Gionas and HHF History Committee volunteer Natasha Bourliaskou discuss how the Greek refugees from Asia Minor and Thrace changed Greece, in terms of politics, sports, language, literature, food and music.
Listen here - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1552246/10827141 also available on Stitcher, Spotify and Apple podcasts
Kore 670: The Podcast
KORE 670: The Podcast is a two-part podcast accompanying the Kore 670 Exhibit (March 12-September 25, 2022) at the Royal Ontario Museum. This podcast is produced by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF), the lead patron of the exhibit. The HHF is a national charitable, non-profit organization established in Toronto in 1996. Our mission is to preserve, promote, and advance Hellenic education, culture, and heritage in Canada by funding initiatives that enrich the lives of Hellenic Canadians and philhellenes.
This podcast is produced by the HHF’s award-winning History Committee and sponsored by Agape Greek Radio (www.agapegreekradio.com ) with original music by Demetri Petsalakis.
Episode One: A Kore Comes to Toronto.
Learn all about Kore 670, a Greek archaic antiquity at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), on exchange from the Acropolis Museum in Athens. With Paul Denis, Assistant Curator, Greek and Roman Galleries at the ROM.
Listen here - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1953038/10214349 also available on Stitcher, Spotify and Apple podcasts
Episode Two: The Parthenon Marbles & What Purpose Do Museums Serve?
A discussion with Prof. Dimitrios Pandermalis, President of the Acropolis Museum on the Parthenon Marbles; also, what should museums be and what can they offer the public, with museum consultant Gail Lord and Paul Denis, Assistant Curator, Greek and Roman Galleries at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Listen here - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1953038/10214425 also available on Stitcher, Spotify and Apple podcasts
The Idea of Greece
The Idea of Greece is a seven-part podcast exploring the Greek Revolution of 1821. This podcast is produced by the HHF’s award-winning History Committee and hosted by Journalist Georgia Balogiannis. The series is also under the auspices of the Greece 2021 Committee. Sponsored by Agape Greek Radio. Original music by Demetri Petsalakis.
This is not the history you learned in Greek School!
Episode One: The Origins of the Revolution
Journalist Georgia Balogiannis and Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, explore what the area, now known as Greece, looked like before the revolution and the conditions which led Greeks to revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
Georgia Balogiannis and Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, explore what the area, now known as Greece, looked like before the revolution and the conditions which led Greeks to revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
Listen here: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1552246.rss also available on Stitcher, Spotify and Apple podcasts
Episode Two: Not One War
Journalist Georgia Balogiannis and Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, look at the various groups which took arms during the Greek Revolution of 1821, to examine what was in it for them?
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Episode Three: The Brutality of War
Georgia Balogiannis and HHF History Committee historian Terry Gitersos look at the violence that permeated the Greek Revolutionary War of 1821. It went far beyond simple warfare, where vengeance, massacres and slavery were the price to be paid by fighters and civilians alike.
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Episode Four: The Heroes of The Revolution
Georgia Balogiannis and Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, go beyond the larger-than-life narratives of the Greek Revolution’s heroes to look at who they really were. Also, what exactly makes a hero in the first place?
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Episode Five: Women of the Revolution
Georgia Balogiannis and Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, delve into the feminine side of the Greek Revolution, featuring the female heroes who fought in and influenced the war. They also look at the toll the war took on the average Greek woman.
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Episode Six: Philhellenes and the Greek Revolution
Georgia Balogiannis, Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, and Chris Grafos, Co-Founder of the Greek-Canadian History Project and a historian with the HHF, look at the American and European Philhellenes who took up the cause of the Greek Revolutionary War.
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Episode Seven: The Founding of a Nation
Georgia Balogiannis and Prof. Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, along with Prof. Michalis Sotiropoulos from the University of Thrace, look at how the Greek Revolution ended and nationhood began. What challenges did the new state face and how did those initial years influence the nation Greece would eventually become?
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