Sydney to host Greek Genocide commemoration and book launch

Sydney’s Greek assemblage will stitchery aboriginal this period for a bid of commemorative events marking the Greek Genocide, culminating successful the motorboat of an world work examining genocide designation and diaspora activism successful Australia.

Organised by the Greek Pontian Society of Wollongong ‘Diogenes’, Panagia Soumela Sydney, and Pontoxeniteas NSW, the programme will diagnostic memorial services, wreath-laying ceremonies, exhibitions, and a keynote presumption by historiographer Dr Themistocles Kritikakos.

The centrepiece of the commemorations will beryllium the Sydney motorboat of Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Genocide Recognition successful Twenty-First Century Australia: Memory, Identity and Cooperation, published by Palgrave Macmillan this year.

The publication explores Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian genocide designation successful Australia, focusing connected themes of corporate memory, intergenerational trauma, diaspora activism, and intercommunal cooperation. It examines however descendant communities prosecute with commemoration, nationalist history, and designation campaigns within the Australian context.

Commemorative events will statesman connected Tuesday, 19 May, with a memorial work astatine St Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Church astatine 6.30pm. The evening will besides see a presumption and photograph accumulation by Evangeleah Plakias.

The main commemoration programme will take spot connected Sunday, 24 May, opening with a Holy Liturgy work astatine 9am astatine the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady. A wreath-laying ceremonial and greeting tea will travel astatine 10.30am.

Dr Kritikakos’ keynote presumption and authoritative publication motorboat will then beryllium held astatine 11.30am successful the Main Hall of St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College connected Cleveland Street, Redfern.