Last weekend, Macquarie University students and graduates shared their ‘pathway stories in careers through Greek language’.
An extensive list of guest speakers including the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Giannis Chrysoulakis, Consul General of Greece in Sydney Christos Karras and THI Australia representative George Giovas, spoke to participants from Australia and Greece.
Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University Professor Panos Vlachopoulos, the Greek Studies Foundation President Theofilus Premetis, and Head of Macquarie University’s Modern Greek Studies Program Dr Patricia Koromvokis, was also in attendance.
“The goal of today’s event is not to promote the indisputable value of the Greek language but to answer tangible and crucial questions,” Dr Koromvokis said in her opening remarks.
10 February 2021 1:24pm
Greek Australians had extra reason to celebrate yesterday as they had played a leading role in promoting the establishment of the International Greek Language Day, now in its fourth year, said Archbishop Makarios of Australia in a statement to mark the day.
“I have no doubt that our compatriots here in the Antipodes constitute the most dynamic part of Greeks abroad, and keep alive their relationship with the motherland, honouring the customs and mores, the traditions, the Orthodox faith and, of course, the language of our ancestors,” the archbishop said.
He said the Archdiocese was committed to “work for the conservation and strengthening of these strong bonds”.
Participants from Australia and Greece shared first-hand accounts of Greek language learning and benefits experienced, in an online conversation co-organised by the Macquarie University Greek Studies Program and the University’s Greek Association (MUGA).
Titled ‘Pathway stories in careers through Greek language’ the event was held last week ahead of the International Greek Language Day commemorated annually on 9 February.
Both current students and graduates joined in the event, featuring an extensive list of guest speakers, including the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General John Chrysoulakis, the Consul General of Greece in Sydney Christos Karras and THI Australia’s representative George Giovas.
February 9 has officially been declared as International Greek Language Day and is a day for Greeks and non-Greeks to celebrate the important role the Greek
Ευρωκίνηση 2/9/2021 Athens News Agency
ΑΤΗΕΝS Aspects of philhellenism depicted in Russian literature are being presented online by the Russian Embassy in Greece as of February 9, Ambassador Andrey Maslov announced on Tuesday in social media.
The announcement came on the occasion of Greece s celebration this year of the bicentennial of its 1821 War of Independence, which Maslov called the Greeks heroic liberation struggle .
The Russian Embassy s first in a series of posts, published on the International Greek Language Day, is a poem by Russian philhellene Alexander Pushkin, titled Arise, Greece, Arise . We will regularly post verses of famous Russian poets of that period, in Greek, who were overwhelmed by philhellenic sentiments and praised the uprising of Orthodox Greeks against the Ottoman rule, the Russian Embassy wrote on Facebook.