Friday, July 11, 2025

Η Αόρατη Ελληνική Διασπορά – «Παγκόσμια ελληνική διασπορά» πέρα από εθνοτική καταγωγή


Η φίλη μου η Τ που μεγάλωσε στην Ελλάδα με την βοήθεια των μεταναστών γονέων της από την Αλβανία που μετανάστευσε στην Αμερική και που διαβάζει παθιασμένα ελληνική λογοτεχνία την οποία σπουδάζει. Ο φημισμένος μας γκλόμπαλ μπραντ Γιάννης που από την Αμερική υποστηρίζει υλικά την γειτονιά που μεγάλωσε. Ο γνωστός μου Κ με γονείς από Αιθιοπία, γεννημένος στην Πάτρα τώρα μετανάστης στο Λονδίνο που από μικρός καλλιεργεί τις (τώρα απέραντες) γνώσεις του για την Ελληνική μουσική και πειραματίζεται με πολυπολισμικες διασταυρώσεις.

Αυτοί οι τρεις άνθρωποι και άλλοι εκατό και χιλιάδες που οι βιογραφίες τους συνδέουν τις καταγωγές τους με την εμπλοκή τους και καλλιέργεια της ελληνική κουλτούρας -και σε σχέση με άλλες- έξω από τα σύνορα. Αυτοί που το αφήγημα της διασποράς ως ομογένεια όμως τους αποκλείει. Αποτελούν την αόρατη Ελληνική διασπορά.

Αυτά τα θέματα περιφέρονται στην σκέψη μου καθώς μελετώ πρωτοποριακά κείμενα από την δεκαετία του 1990 περί παγκόσμιου Ελληνισμού ως παιδεία. Πέρα από την ομογένεια λοιπόν, κάτι που είχα επισημάνει στο παρακάτω, και τώρα προσκαλεί συστηματική σκέψη προς ένα εναλλακτικό αφήγημα.
 
Δες, «O Γιάννης Αντετοκούμπο, ζωντανή μαρτυρία της αδυναμίας του όρου «ομογένεια» να εκφράσει τη δυναμική της διασποράς στην Αμερική».


Γιώργος Αναγνώστου
Ιούλιος 11, 2025

Monday, July 7, 2025

Contemporary Greek American scholarship–On the Question of Recommended Reading Lists


Ok. Look

Since the 1990s, the list has been growing of Greek American scholarship which

(a) is published by prestigious US and global University Presses

(b) has opened new conceptual spaces, advanced the field in conversation with theories of diaspora, migration, subjectivity

(c) has been widely discussed by US diaspora and migration scholars

(d) has been extensively cited by worldwide prominent scholars and the next generation of researchers

(e) offers powerfully written, sophisticated and innovative analyses of new research domains

(f) had been advancing comparative studies

[we can continue adding to the list]

If these books are not featured in current recommended reading lists (they are not in a recent example) then this exclusion turns into an object of analysis historicizing Greek American studies. The canon that the lists produce and their ideological underpinnings...

YA

July 7, 2025












Friday, July 4, 2025

A few thoughts about Greek transnational/diaspora studies and the next generation of researchers


Context

The last four months, amid global turmoil and regional devastation, I have been striving to continue my critical work on diaspora, in a project taking up the construction of “Global Hellenism.” I would have never advanced this work without the benefit of pioneering research achieved by scholars from the previous generation but also my contemporaries. Feeling a sense of gratitude and intellectual debt, my thoughts also veered toward the next generation in the context of the current state of the field of diaspora studies, still short of human and institutional resources. I felt compelled to share the following, initially intended as a conclusion to my writing (still in progress) with the community of modern Greek studies scholars and the broader public.

The Text

As I move toward concluding this writing, I think about the question of the next generation of modern Greek transnational/diaspora scholars. I recall the intellectual resources my generation inherited but also the challenges it confronted. I feel immensely grateful to those intellectual ancestors who produced quality scholarship, boldly taking risks to challenge canonical renderings of diaspora and "Hellenism," opening new routes for critical inquiry, raising the bar while freeing us to explore new research questions.

But I also remember, so viscerally, the embodied frustration about the vast knowledge gaps in the field due to the limited human resources and institutional power. As a result, a great deal of labor was necessary––excavating tunnel after tunnel it was exhausting––to be able to cross into new research frontiers.

The wide circulation of narrow and essentialist identity narratives in the public sphere also presented an impediment for advancing the field. Those of us working against this reductive cultural politics had to invest vast energies in demonstrating the self-evident reality of the diaspora as a heterogeneous field. It involved practicing scholarship as intervention, calling for inclusion of subjectivities, histories, and experiences not fitting normative simplifications. This critical work was urgent, we felt, to engage students, scholars of diasporas; also the public, community institutions. But in a weak and reticent diasporic public sphere this latter enterprise faced difficulties.

Though nation-centric narratives of diaspora still reign supreme in state and popular discourse, the critical corpus above was successful in carving alternative academic and public spaces for thinking and writing diaspora. Sectors in the academy cultivated it, graduate students were exposed to new ideas, a range of academic and popular journals were receptive. Though commanding a relative limited academic space, critical diaspora studies were effective in moving the conversation toward regional particularities, class and gender-specificities, silenced pasts, the making of bicultural selves, issues of ethnics and politics in cultural representation, transnational inquiries, diasporic citizenship, diaspora solidarities with vulnerable groups. There were significant gains, but a great deal of work remains to be done. Not everyone found critical self-reflection a compelling practice.

The next generation enters this field inheriting a significant corpus of work, but also still confronting major lacunas in knowledge. They do so while entering a market of limited academic opportunities in Greek diaspora studies at a time when critical scholarship finds itself under duress. The global tendencies of governments to tightly regulate multiculturalism and the simultaneous ascendancy of national historiographies and popular celebrations of heritage makes critical scholarship at best unpopular at worse undesirable and target of nationalist critique. Junior scholars embracing post-colonial projects are chastised in public as unpatriotic. Funding for such scholarship may be limited, magnifying opportunities for those who safely pursue complacent research. Once again, the next generation is confronted with cultural fronts which we thought, until recently, that we left behind. We now return to the struggle for asserting the value of diverse historiographies.

Greek diaspora studies carry limited academic capital and operate with limited human and financial resources. The Greek state and community organizations invest a great deal in promoting their own identity narratives but not in advancing a multifaceted public conversation by empowering reflective academic studies. In the diaspora governmental economy of positing diasporas as global players in advancing national interests, enhancing cultural prestige and status, knowledge production is hierarchical. Projects reflecting on improving “diaspora homeland” relations enjoy support by state and financial institutions vested in this relationship. Research that places limits in its critique of institutions enjoys great visibility while work interrogating dominant ideologies is still sidelined. This while spaces of critical freedom seem to be shrinking.

In the current global dynamic, under dramatic changes whose implications are difficult to foresee, diasporas serve as tools for states, elites, and institutions to advance their political, economic and national interests. Identity narratives privilege certain modalities of practices––investments, political support, philanthropy, transfers of professional expertise, cultural preservation, empowering local institutions––while displacing others. Questions regarding poverty in the diaspora, struggles for coping with soaring real estate prices, inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic exploitation fall outside the purview of this discourse. Scholars face the task of addressing these issues. But how to advance this remapping when academic positions are scarce and globalization contributes to the proliferation of new collectives, initiatives, institutions, cultural expressions, discourses. Diaspora studies lack adequate resources to meaningfully keep pace with these new articulations.

What is it to be done? There are no easy answers. In this juncture, we will do well to once again remind ourselves that modern Greek studies *is* transnational modern Greek studies. Let us also note that questions of globality intensify and expand the scope of this field where diaspora studies indeed cross paths with modern Greek studies, a potentially powerful academic partner (in the context of a historically uneasy relationship). Scholars may wish to consider position papers and essays as ways of contributing, though this practice does not often translate into academic credentials. Tenured scholars are best positioned pragmatically for this kind of tactical interventions. We may wish to think of edited volumes on diasporic literature, archives, popular culture, civic activism, solidarities with persecuted or devalued demographics, the arts. Anthologies of poetry and short stories. Enter in dialogue with think tanks and journalists. One major fight is for continuing critical scholarship producing knowledge raising questions, generating debate. Let us keep reflecting on what we could further deliver to the field and offer to the next generation…

Yiorgos Anagnostou
July 4, 2025


Thursday, April 17, 2025

Bibliography on Greek America (2024)

Once again since 2018 Ergon shares its annual compilation of academic and popular writings on Greek America for the benefit of a variety of communities (scholars, researchers, artists, journalists, cultural activists & producers, and the broad public).

Bibliography on Greek America (2024)
[with extensive references to Greece’s Strategic Plan for the Diaspora / Στρατηγικό Σχέδιο του ΥΠΕΞ για τον Απόδημο Ελληνισμό]

https://ergon.scienzine.com/.../bibliography-on-greek...

Ergon thanks Angeliki Tsiotinou for her invaluable work in compiling this bibliography.


Bibliography on Greek America (2024)
ergon.scienzine.com
Bibliography on Greek America (2024)
This bibliography compiles publications on Greek America for 2024, in English and Greek.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Who Speaks for the Diaspora?


With the increasing governmental value of the diasporas (particularly the wealthy ones) we are seeing the expansion of a managerial class in the media, heritage organizations, institutions, the cultural service sector as well as the academy who have limited understanding of the histories and the complexities of the phenomenon but know enough (and also are adept at rehashing nation-centric ideologies) or will be producing enough to reproduce regulated meanings of the diaspora and in the process shrink the (already small) demographic who does the critical work of naming these phenomena and their connection with neoliberalism and the ruling of the dominant classes.


Tuesday, March 18, 2025

A note about academic diaspora studies and their public role

In the absence of relevant studies, we can only speculate about the reasons for the lack, or at best limited, institutional interest in supporting Greek diaspora studies.
 
But we can very well see the implications of this neglect, particularly in this historical moment when grassroots interest in heritage and identity accelerates. With limited human and other resources there is little what researchers can do, while some opt to strictly stay within the niche of their research interests. As a result, academic contributions for understanding and contextualizing grassroots identity narratives is limited, and in some areas non-existent.
 
To speak about a topic which is close to my heart and politics, understanding women’s struggles for equality. In the context of this year’s International Women’s Day, diaspora associations mobilized widely, paying tribute to diaspora women, recognizing their contributions, honoring trailblazers, granting awards––under the rubric of promoting the discourse of equality.

I have not fully followed the discourse, and I do not think there is yet academic essays or commentaries contextualizing its various iterations. I hope I am mistaken. Perhaps there will be in the future. But Greek diaspora gender studies has also few practitioners.
 
I would have loved to hear how these grassroots celebrations of women addressed working class women. Whether the discussion included various feminisms and intersections between gender, class, sexuality. Whether there were discussions of how the struggle for equality squares with the social organization of associations which still segregate gender. Whether there were expressions of solidarity with vulnerable women in demographics beyond the Greek diaspora, in the spirit of an outward ethos of diasporic citizenship.

The lack of support for diaspora studies has considerably compromised its contributions to the public sphere, to the detriment, I believe, to all diaspora citizens as well as those in Greece who value reflection and learning.

A broad conversation is due about our presence in the public sphere and the forms it might take.


Saturday, March 8, 2025

Note on Entrepreneurialism

Entrepreneurialism is valorized as a driving force for innovation, creativity, progress, success. It is cited to foreground the willingness to take risks, the ability to think and act outside the box, to the crossing, that is, of all kinds of boundaries, leading to new solutions and technologies, discoveries, medical breakthroughs, ultimately human well-being. Entrepreneurialism is of course ideologically loaded. In immigrant/ethnic discourses, where it is celebrated, it has provided ahistorical explanations of mobility, justification for intra-ethnic (as well as interethnic) hierarchies (successful vs unsuccessful migrant) and the arrogance that comes with them, national mythologies (bootstrap mobility), attacks on labor movements (the entrepreneurial middle class seeking to discipline immigrants involved in the labor movement, fearing the tarnishing of the ethnic reputation and the capitalist status quo). Entrepreneurialism creates but also destroys (social relations, the environment, values). Not rarely it connects with shady dealings behind sealed doors.
 
This is to say that the media, journalists, scholars, citizens ought to move beyond the ideology of entrepreneurialism as unbounded optimism––the sky is the limit––and explore the various facets of its social implications.



Saturday, February 8, 2025

Collected Writings (in blogs and the media) on Greek American history and historiography

I have now collected my writings in my blog and the media (2007-2024)
on the subject of Greek American history and historiography (36918 words) ––

https://www.academia.edu/127422937/Greek_America_History_Historiography 

[see Table of Contents below]

Greek America
History and Historiography
Writings in Blogs and the Media
(2007-2024)
Yiorgos Anagnostou ©

The writings in this collection sprang from several intertwined desires, intellectual and affective. Deep feeling, while thinking about or experiencing particular Greek American realities, was one driving force. Another was the need to keep public memory alive about events not recognized as broadly as their significance requires. Also at work was an aspect of the research process––presenting knowledge left out from publication in the interest of space. Occasionally, a piece derived from research undertaken for work on a peer-reviewed project. This found its way into my blogs, which explains the long, article-like feel of some of the entries. In a few cases, let me note, I incorporated sections of my academic publications into blogs in my wish to bring the research closer to the broader public.

This collection documents an aspect of my writing life amidst major writing commitments––articles, book chapters, essays, editorials, book reviews, poems as well as blogs published in Ergon: Greek/American & Diaspora Arts and Letters, which are not included in this corpus.

Several of the writings featured here were meant as interventions in unfolding public conversations, produced in circumstances associated with intense, often overwhelming, work schedules. This urgency compromised, to some extent, the depth and range of my thinking as well as the degree of narrative expressiveness necessary for evoking complexity. This has been a relative drawback, but a price I was willing to pay in exchange for my intellectual contribution on issues that mattered to me.

The bulk of the writings were initially published in my blog Immigrations–Ethnicities–Racial Situations: Writings about Difference and Contact Zones (I-E-RS) (https://immigrations-ethnicities-racial.blogspot.com/), a venue which was founded in 2010. Some comprise book reviews and essays published in the media––Greek and Greek American mostly; I also include a Greek Australian example.
I would like to take the opportunity and express my debt to Kostis Kourelis given that my venturing into blogging was greatly inspired by his Objects-Buildings-Situations (https://kourelis.blogspot.com/), an initiative I admired for its eloquence and substance. The term “situations,” a borrowing in the title of I-E-RS, speaks to this affinity.

In I-E-RS, readers will also find entries pertaining to popular culture, including film, literature, Greek American studies, the politics of diaspora. I plan to compile and make this facet of my work available later in 2025.

Table of Contents

The Helen Zeese Papanikolas Papers (1954-2009):
Entering a Greek/American Archive

Why Support Greek American Archives? [Greek Cultural Resources, Meletios Pouliopoulos]

Making the Archive, Animating It

Our Responsibility in Representing Greek American History and Why it Matters
[African Americans and Greek Americans]

Immigrant Adaptations: Reflections

Greek Americans and African Americans in Conflict and Solidarity
[Review of George Pelecanos’ The Turnaround]

Explaining Immigrant Mobility: Do not Neglect the Race Factor 
[Review of Larry Odzak's Demetrios is Now Jimmy: Greek Immigrants in the Southern United States, 1895-1965].

Intra-Greek Conflicts in New York City

Migrant Letters as Agents for Rethinking Greek Migrant Historiography?

“When Greeks and Turks Met”: Cultures in Dialogue, Nationalisms in Conflict 
[Review of Demetra Vaka's The Unveiled Ladies of Istanbul (Stamboul)]

Empowering Greek American Women
[Review of Constance Callinicos’ American Aphrodite: Growing Up Female in Greek America]

Women in early Greek America – Ελληνοαμερικανίδες:
Μεταξύ Παράδοσης και Νεωτερικότητας

Immigrant Women’s Culture and the Ethic of Empathy
[Helen Papanikolas]

The Journeys of an Immigrant Woman: A Quest for Home
[Helen Papanikolas]

Greek American Histories, Popular and Scholarly

Migrant Spaces Encounters: Autobiographical, Introduction

Migrant Spaces Encounters: Reading Aspects of Greek Migrant History_A Structure of Feeling
[Helen Papanikolas]

Lindsay Hand's Paintings _ “Remembering the Ludlow Massacre” (2014)

Revisiting Ludlow: Its Enduring Legacy

Louis Tikas: Cretan and Greek Identities in Poetry and History

On the Causes of the Castle Gate Mine Disaster (1924): Human Life, Science, Government, Industrial Capitalism, and the Law

The Responsibility of Remembering the Castle Gate Mine Disaster (1924)

Το Χρέος της Μνήμης
[Τhe Castle Gate Mine Disaster]

Ελληνική Κοινότητα Μελβούρνης: Αγώνας για Ιδεολογική Επικράτηση––Ανταγωνισμός μεταξύ Κοσμικής και Θρησκευτικής Προσέγγισης
[Βιβλιοκριτική του «Σάρκα και Οστά της Μακρινής Πατρίδας: Η ιστορία της Ελληνικής Ορθόδοξης Κοινότητας Μελβούρνης και Βικτώριας από την ίδρυσή της μέχρι το 1972» (Γεωργία Χαρπαντίδου)]

Η Αμερική ως Κάτοπτρο
[Βιβλιοκριτική του «Το όραμα των Ελλήνων για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής: Από την Ελληνική Επανάσταση έως τον Πρώτο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο» (Κωνσταντίνος Διώγος)]

A Posthumous Letter to Dan Georgakas

February 1, 2025

Yiorgos Anagnostou
Ohio State University


Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Facebook’s praise culture

Witnessing the super applause at play, thunderous clapping elevating average value at a triumphant pedestal; showering with petals the illusion of super achievement.
 
Thinking how deeply damaging this is for a cultural field, an academic project. Cheers from a variety of angles working in tandem to blanket weak assumptions, blind spots, limitations. The weight of interests lowering expectations, compromising critical reflection, crashing the bar low. A ritual massacre hailed as a triumph in fb’s colosseum…









 


Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Ergon Publications 2024 (at a glance)


This year Ergon continued its multifaceted work, with an emphasis on contributing to ongoing conversations about the Greek diaspora and State politics, historical memory, and diasporas as political communities. You can also find below the research profiles of the next generation scholars of diaspora studies.

Visit us –– Read us!
(with many thanks to our editors and contributors)

Next Generation Diaspora Studies Scholars

Yiorgos Anagnostou, ed., 2024. [Introduction] “Greek Transnational Diaspora Studies: The ‘Next Generation.’” 3 January. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/the-next-generation

Daphne Arapakis, 2024. “Diasporic Tensions, Colonial Dimensions: Greeks, Australian Multiculturalism, and Indigenous Sovereignty.” 17 January. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/daphne-arapakis

Research Keywords: Diaspora; Settler Colonialism; Multiculturalism; Greek Australia.

Eva Boleti, 2024. “Exploring Greek-Australian Transgenerational Identities Through Nostalgia.” 13 October. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/eva-boleti

Research Keywords: Immigration and Diaspora; Diasporic Studies; Greece & Australia; Transgenerational Identities; Memory.

Athanasia Chalari, 2024. “Transforming from ‘European Citizen’ to ‘International Immigrant’ Identity after Brexit: The Case of Greek Diaspora in the UK.” 21 January. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/athanasia-chalari

Research Keywords: Brexit; Greek Diaspora; Identity transformation; Britishness.

Foteini Kalantzi, 2024. 15 January. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/foteini_kalantzi

Research Keywords: Greek diaspora; Political engagement; Diasporic vote.

Melina Mallos, 2024. “Communicating Identities in Digital Spaces: Greek Migrant Youth and New Media.” 16 January. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/melina-mallos

Research Keywords: Greek migrant youth; New media: Identity; Digital spaces; A/r/tography.

Fevronia K. Soumakis, 2024. 8 February. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/fevronia-soumakis

Research Keywords: History of Education; Religion and Schooling; Gender; Diaspora; Greek America.

Yiorgo Topalidis, 2024. 3 January. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/dr-yiorgo-topalidis

Research Keywords: Ottoman Greeks; Whiteness; Anti-racism; White supremacist Whiteness; Migration.

Giota Tourgeli, 2024. 25 January. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/giota-tourgeli

Research Keywords: Transnationalism; Greek Americans; Remittances; Migration economy.

Angeliki Tsiotinou, 2024. January 14. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/angeliki-tsiotinou

Research Keywords: Museum representations; Uses of the past; Identity politics; American White Ethnic Groups; Multiculturalism; Transnationalism.

Theo Xenophontos, 2024. 9 January. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/theo-xenophontos

Research Keywords: Cypriot Canadian Diaspora; Filmic History; Memory; Identity.

Archives

“Greeks, Wild West & Near East Shows.” 27 October, 2024. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/archive-building/greeks-wild-west-near-east-shows
Keywords: Visual Archive, Photographs; Greeks, Wild West, Near East Shows; Greeks and Japanese; Louis Tikas Grave; Dan Georgakas.

“CFP on the Work of Olympia Dukakis: A Call–No Response.” 18 October, 2024. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/archive-building/cfp-olympia-dukakis

Keywords: Olympia Dukakis Tribute; Greek American Actresses; Gender and Ethnicity in American Cinema; Greek American Feminism; Autobiography.

“Chryssa & New York,” 2024. 24 August. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/archive-building/chryssa-and-new-york

Keywords: Chryssa; New York Artist; Forgotten Greek American [Women] Artists; Recognition; Wrightwood659, Chicago.

Harry Mark Petrakis’s “The Return of Katerina.” Ergon: Greek/American & Diaspora Arts and Letters, July 30, 2024. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/archive-building/the-return-of-katerina

Keywords: Harry Mark Petrakis Early Fiction; Greek American Authors; Marriage, Widowhood & Sexuality; Illustrating Greek American Literary Characters; Greek American Journals and Literature.

The “White Ethnic Racism” Thesis: Application to Greek Americans by Nicholas P. Petropoulos [Reprinted from The Greek Review of Social Research, 1978.]. Ergon: Greek/American & Diaspora Arts and Letters, May 28, 2024. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/archive-building/white-ethnic-racism

Keywords: White Ethnicity; Ethnic Revival; Ethnic Whiteness; Racism; Pioneering Greek American Whiteness Studies; Second Generation Greek Americans, Males; Cincinnati, Ohio; Greek American Research in Greek Scientific Journals.

Articles

Ολυμπία Γ. Αντωνιάδου, 2024. «Λογοτεχνία, Διασποροποίηση και Συνοροχώρες: Η Περίπτωση της Ελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας της Μετοικεσίας στο Γαλλόφωνο Χώρο του 20ου Αιώνα». 3 Νοεμβρίου. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/articles/logotechnia-diasporopoiisi-kai-synoroxores

Keywords: Diasporic, Francophone Literature.

Melina Mallos, 2024. “Dialogues with Identity: An A/r/tographer’s Exploration into Greek Migrant Youth Identities Through New Media.” 12 October. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/essays/dialogues-with-identity

Yiorgos Anagnostou, 2024. “The Castle Gate Mine Disaster Centenary: A Tribute.” 8 March. See in https://ergon.scienzine.com/

Yiorgos Anagnostou, 2024. “The Politics of Life and Death: Working-Class Greek Immigrant Women and the Castle Gate Mine Disaster—A Tribute.” 18 May. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/articles/the-politics-of-life-and-death

Bibliographies

Angeliki Tsiotinou, 2024. “Bibliography on Greek America (2023).” 5 February. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/bibliographies/bibliography-on-greek-america-2023

Blogs

Yiorgos Anagnostou, 2024. “Το «1ο Συνέδριο Νέων της Διασποράς»:
Πολιτεία – Διασπορά – Έθνος & Πολιτική των Αισθημάτων.” Δεκέμβριος. Forthcoming.

A Greek Australian Debate (23 November 2024)

Γιώργος Αναγνώστου, «Ελληνοαυστραλιανή Διασπορά: Αναπαραστάσεις και Πολιτικές Παρεμβάσεις». https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/anaparastaseis-kai-politikes-paremvaseis

Η επιστολή διαμαρτυρίας στον Πρωθυπουργό Anthony Albanese (Ελληνικά & Αγγλικά) [«Απάντηση στον Πρωθυπουργό της Αυστραλίας Anthony Albanese Σχετικά με τις Πρόσφατες Δηλώσεις του για τη Συμβολή της Ελληνικής Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας στα Πολιτιστικά και Εκπαιδευτικά Δρώμενα της Ελληνοαυστραλιανής Κοινότητας».]

Κώστας Καραμάρκος, «Οι Ελληνικές Διασπορές ως Πολιτικές Κοινότητες: Το Παράδειγμα της Αυστραλίας». (Ελληνικά & Αγγλικά)

Fotis Kapetopoulos, “Albanese’s Remarks Raise the Ire of Some in the Greek Community.” (English)

Γιώργος Βασιλακόπουλος & Τούλα Νικολακοπούλου, «Λαϊκισμός, Ρατσισμός, και Κοινότητες: Η Περίπτωση του Αυστραλού Πρωθυπουργού και η Επίσκεψη του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχη». (Ελληνικά)

For access to all entries see, https://ergon.scienzine.com/page/a-greek-australian-debate

Kostas Karamarkos, 2024. “When a Greece-centric Brochure is Called Strategic Planning for the Greek Diaspora!” 16 March. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/greece-centric-brochure

Book Reviews

Elpida Vogli. 2024. Review of Maria Kaliambou (ed.) Η Επανάσταση του 1821 και οι Έλληνες της Αμερικής. Aθήνα: Εκδόσεις Ασίνη. 2023. Ergon: Greek/American & Diaspora Arts and Letters, July 25. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/books/i-epanastasi-tou-1821-kai-oi-ellines-tis-amerikis

Kim Park Nelson, 2024. Review of Mary Cardaras, editor, Voices of the Lost Children of Greece: Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption. London and New York: Anthem Press. 2023. Ergon: Greek/American & Diaspora Arts and Letters, July 17. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/books/voices-of-the-lost-children-of-greece

Victor Roudometof, 2024. Review of Alexander Kitroeff, The History of AHEPA 1922-2022: A Century of Service. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press. 2023. 21 March. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/books/the-history-of-ahepa-1922-2022

Sam Koktzoglou and Erik Sjöberg, 2024. A Rebuttal and Response of The Greek Genocide in American Naval War Diaries: Naval Commanders Report and Protest Death Marches and Massacres in Turkey’s Pontus Region, 1921-1922. 14 February. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/books/the-greek-genocide-in-american-naval-war-diaries-response

Sakis Gekas, 2024. 2024. Review of Othon Anastasakis, Manolis Pratsinakis, Foteini Kalantzi, Antonis Kamaras, editors, Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis: Greece and Beyond. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. 1 February. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/books/diaspora-engagement-in-times-of-severe-economic-crisis

Editorials

Yiorgos Anagnostou. 2024. “What is a Diasporic Group and Why does the Answer Matter?” 11 April. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/editorials/what-is-a-diasporic-group

Essays

Yiorgos Anagnostou, 2024. “‘Greek Melbourne’ Calling! New Cartographies of Diasporic Belonging.” 3 September. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/greek-melbourne

Gregory Jusdanis, 2024. “Rae Dalven: Between Hellenism and Judaism in America.” 17 February. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/essays/between-hellenism-and-judaism-in-america


Interviews

“Canada’s Hellenic Heritage Comes Alive:
A Foundation for the Future—An Interview with Sandra Gionas,” 2024. Interview by Yiorgos Anagnostou. 8 March. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/interviews/interview-with-sandra-gionas

Poetry

Kalliopy Paleos, 2024. “Karpathian Suite.” 18 May. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/poetry/karpathian-suite

Angela Costi, 2024. “Failing Sight.” 30 March. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/poetry/failing-sight

Nathalie Handal, 2024. “Seven Poems.” Translated into Greek by Persa Κoumoutsi. 6 March. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/poetry/seven-poems-nathalie-handal

Poetry Review Essays

Anastasios Mihalopoulos, 2024. “Still on their Way: A Review of John Tripoulas’s Polytropos and Scott Cairns’s Correspondence with My Greeks.” 22 September. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/books/still-on-their-way

Review Essays

Harry Papasotiriou, 2024. “A Closer Look at Post-War US-Greek Relations: A Review Essay.” Review of Athanasios Antonopoulos, Redefining Greek-US Relations, 1974-1980: National Security and Domestic Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. Spyros Katsoulas, The United States and Greek-Turkish Relations: The Guardian’s Dilemma. London: Routledge. 2022. Spero Simeon Paravantes, Britain and the United States in Greece: Anglo-American Relations and the Origins of the Cold War. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2022. 6 September. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/books/closer-look-at-post-war-us-greek-relations