On Wednesday 8 June the Institute will host its final lecture of the
2021-2022 academic year. This will be an in-person event in the
auditorium of the Institute’s new premises (Orminiou 3A, Ilisia).
Starting at 19:00, Dr. D. J. Ian Begg (Bagnani Research Fellow, Trent
University Archaeological Research Centre) will give a lecture entitled
“Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece: The Odyssey meets Gone with the Wind”.
“By day, young Gilbert Bagnani studied archaeology in Greece, but by
night he socialized with the elite of Athenian society. Secretly writing
for the Morning Post in London, he witnessed both antebellum Athens in
1921 and the catastrophic collapse of Christian civilization in western
Anatolia in 1922. While there have been many accounts by refugees of the
disastrous flight from Smyrna, few have been written from the
perspective of the west side of the Aegean. The flood of a million
refugees to Greece brought in its wake a military coup in Athens, the
exile of the Greek royal family and the execution or imprisonment of
politicians, whom Gilbert knew. Gilbert’s weekly letters to his mother
in Rome reveal his Odyssey-like adventures on a voyage of discovery
through the origins of western civilization.”
We look forward to welcoming you to our new premises for what promises to be a most interesting presentation.
Jonathan Tomlinson
Assistant Director
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