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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – The “Logos 6” Event continues at the National Library of Greece located at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Foundation Center.
On Thursday, 7 February 2019, from 19:30 to 21:30 (Book Tower), a lecture will be held by Nikos Bakounakis, a professor of practical journalism and technical advertising at the Panteion University, titled: An American writer in the plain of Thessaly: Stephen Crane in the Greek-Turkish war of 1897 and how a war is for the first time a “media phenomenon”.
The programmed events are organized by Stavros Zoumboulakis, President of the Executive Council of the National Library of Greece. Entrance is free to the public.
At the center of this lecture is the American writer Stephen Crane (1871-1900), who covered the so-called 1897 “accident” as a war correspondent on behalf of major American newspapers.
Crane focused on the Thessalian battlefront and the byproduct of his experiences there is a series of great reports, unknown in Greece, as well as works of art inspired directly by the war. Thanks to Crane, but also to the new technologies of the time, especially in film, this war that the Greeks want to forget, became a phenomenon of “mass culture” in Europe and America.
This lecture also gives a behind-the-scenes look of a study that reconstructs the events and synthesizes the bigger picture story with the smaller stories. Stephen Crane’s archive is preserved at two New York universities, Columbia University and Syracuse University respectively.
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National Library of Greece
Center for Culture Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Tower of Books
Thursday 7 February, 19: 30-21: 30
Free entrance
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.