Digital map of Greek Shopping Trends in Montreal
Immigrec research team has recently finished working on a digital map that showcases Greek shopping trends in Montreal between 1950-1980s. To check out the map, click here.
Immigrec is an oral history project that studies Greek immigration to Canada between 1945 and 1975.
The Immigrec project involves research teams from McGill University, York University, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Patras: Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialectics. Our team has been working on gathering and analyzing oral histories by interviewing Greek immigrants in Montreal that arrived between 1945-1975. As well as oral histories, our team is gathering research from a diversity of Montreal archives. We are also creating a geo-spatial representation of the influx and out-flux of Greek immigrants within the Mile End and Park Extension neighborhoods shown in the form of an interactive digital map. The goal of our project is to explore the history and language of Greek immigrants to Canada and to elucidate their connection to the social and cultural history of the country. Find out more information here or visit the project's website at www.immigrec.com.
National Film Board of Canada featured films:
Stanley Jackson's 1959 documentary A Foreign Language looks at how immigrant children at a Montreal school learned English. The film opens in a classroom where Greek children are learning a few English words and phrases.
The 80 Goes to Sparta shows what life was like for Greek immigrants living in Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood in the late 60s. Bill Davies' 1969 film offers a glimpse into the time period.
Links hosted with the permission of the National Film Board of Canada.
WWI and the Armée d'Orient
Conducted by A. ANASTASSIADIS
The French School of Athens is engaged in a multi-year program (2016-2019) aimed at restoring the memory of the Eastern Front, as well as retracing the political, military, cultural and economic stakes of this theatre of operations. Though often forgotten, the Eastern army played a decisive military role during the Great War, particularly in 1918 in the collapse of the Central Empires, and contributed to the introduction of European modernity to the region. The French School of Athens would like to help visitors rediscover this episode in the history of conflict by providing them with a digital tool that gives access to an archive of audiovisual materials, photographs, and documents, in both Greek and French, relating to the Eastern Army. Through this tool, the FSA hopes to create a meeting place for a community of researchers - a member of which is our own A. Anastassaidis - as well as a digital resource accessible to the general public.
Exhibition Videos
Enjoy this 3D reproduction of Athens in 1917, based on photos featured in an exhibition curated by Professor Tassos Anastassiadis. The exhibition about the Eastern Army was organized by the EFA at the Benaki-Pireos Museum 138 from September to November 2017. This video was prepared in collaboration with the Acropolis Museum, and offers a unique panorama of the city of Athens and its monuments.
Professor Tassos Anastassiadis' talk at the Ecole Francaise D'Athenes' - EFA's annual conference in 2015.
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