UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture

06/08/2026

As the teaching quarter comes to an end, we congratulate our advanced Modern Greek students, who gave their final reports (in Greek) on a wide range of topics, including Graffiti in Athens.

05/31/2026

We had an amazing time yesterday at the Antaeus Theatre's production of Antigone! Thank you to Nike Doukas (Artistic Director of the Antaeus Theatre), Professor Kathryn Morgan (Joan Palevsky Professor of Classics & Associate Director of the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center), and Andy Wolk (Director, Antigone) for the insightful discussion following the performance. We were so happy to see so many community members and students enjoy this new translation and adaptation by Kenneth Cavander. Congratulations to all the cast members for their wonderful performances! Antigone runs through June 15.

05/29/2026

Taking place tomorrow! Only several seats left. We are looking forward to the theatrical performance of ANTIGONE at Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale at 2 PM.

This event is made possible through the generous support of the Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Use promo code UCLAHellenicCulture at checkout: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/performance/11778595

05/28/2026

Our Center continues to host tours of the Weaving Dreams exhibition at the Ghika Gallery in Athens. Last week, Sofia Pitouli had the pleasure of introducing students from the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University to the art of weaving in Geraki. Many thanks to Professor Katerina Konstantinou for bringing her students studying Anthropology and Art to the exhibition!

05/28/2026

The UCLA SNF Hellenic Center congratulations Dr. Areti Tillou, Professor of Surgery, who has been honored with a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. This prestigious award celebrates teaching excellence and educational innovation, helping to elevate the practice of teaching. The awards recognize deserving instructors for their creativity in the classroom, dedication to helping students thrive, and commitment to continually enhancing the educational experience. ΑΞΙΑ! In addition to her teaching and scholarship, Dr. Tillou has helped innumerable members of the Greek community, has served as a long-term member of the Center's Faculty Advisory Committee, and is an active member of the Academic Committee of the PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation

05/28/2026

We are thrilled to announce that Kathryn A. Morgan, Joan Palevsky Professor of Classics at UCLA, has been named Associate Director of the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center for 2026-2028. Professor Morgan will be focusing on the historical context of the Olympics and be an ambassador for the 2028 Olympic activities associated with the campus on behalf of our UCLA community. Professor Morgan’s interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. She regularly teaches graduate seminars in Attic tragedy, Pindar and Greek lyric, and Plato, and her research moves between projects connected with Plato and with Pindar. The former is represented by her book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato, by many recent papers, and by her current book project on Plato and Thucydides. Her next book, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (2015), was a groundbreaking reading of the poetry written by the lyric poet Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse. Professor Morgan served as Chair of the UCLA Department of Classics from 2014-2020 and was a founding member of the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center for which she has also chaired the Faculty Advisory Committee.

05/27/2026

We are so proud of Katrina!!!

AIA Fellowships in Action: Monuments in Motion in Roman Greece

What stories can “wandering” monuments tell? Scholars have long debated whether architectural spolia—materials reused from earlier structures—reflects pragmatic recycling or ideological motivations. However, repurposed religious buildings are not so easy to put in a box.

Katrina Kuxhausen-DeRose (UCLA), recipient of the 2026 Colburn Fellowship, is tracing the exceptional journeys of reused sacred monuments in Roman Greece in order to follow how temples and altars were selected, dismantled, transported, and rebuilt under imperial rule.

With support from the AIA, Katrina will travel to Greece to reconsider legacy data from the early Athenian Agora Excavations a century ago, combining architectural materials analysis with spatial reconstruction to understand the behaviors, movements, and transformations enacted on reused blocks.

Her research treats material reuse as an active, risky, and diversely meaningful process of negotiation. As reused sacred architecture gathered or lost meaning through movement, ancient people could shape cultural heritage, ritual, identity, and authority across communities and generations.

Click here to learn more about Katrina and her background in archaeology: https://buff.ly/LvNkTH7

05/27/2026

05/27/2026

This Saturday! We are excited for the performance of ANTIGONE at Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale at 2 PM.

This event is made possible through the generous support of the Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Tickets are on sale. Use promo code UCLAHellenicCulture at checkout: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/performance/11778595

05/22/2026

Almost sold out! We look forward to welcoming you to this performance next Saturday, May 30 at 2 p.m. at Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale.

Following the performance, we will have a special talkback featuring Artistic Director Nike Doukas (Antaeus Theatre Company) and Professor Kathryn Morgan (UCLA Department of Classics)

This event is made possible through the generous support of the Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Use promo code UCLAHellenicCulture at checkout: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/performance/11778595