Memories of Girlhood: Cinephilia Weekends

Jul 11, 2014

As an avid film lover‚ but less moviegoer lately, due to the minimization of leisure time‚ I cannot help but acknowledge that it’s a kind of bequest that stems straight from my childhood. My parents themselves were particularly fond of the big...

A Girl in Classical Athens

Jan 24, 2014

I’d like to share an exhibition that serves as a marvelous springboard to reflect on girlhood at the classical times in Athens. The Greek history is inevitably linked with the culture of classical Athens, especially its peak during the 5th century B.C. The...

Memories of Girlhood: Ice Skating Sundays

Oct 4, 2013

Women Single Figure Skating Short Program at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne Date 11 January 2020, Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. There are many...

A Girl in the Asia Minor Catastrophe

Aug 9, 2013 | 1 comment

Common meal for Asia Minor refugees in Mytilene, Greece. http://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/388321 At the beginning of the 20th century, the newly established Greece and the Turkish National Movement found themselves in conflict over territory in Asia Minor. The dispute...

A Girl in Ancient Egypt

May 10, 2013 | 2 comments

People tend to think of the past in modern terms and effortlessly make the obvious correlations. Although such a practice isn’t forbidden, it lacks the underlying information needed in order to reconstruct older cultures and societies. According to theoretics,...

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