The Celebrate Africa Festival brings students, faculty, and staff together with the vibrant African diaspora community in Pittsburgh. There is food, song & dance, artisans, children's activities, and more! It is a wonderful opportunity to engage with the diversity of Africa and the Pittsburgh community, as well as network with local African organizations and businesses.
The Greek Nationality Room is launching the new program period with a lecture series that will feature and explore women archetypes in Greek Tragedy, from ancient to modern times:
pahellenicfoundation.org/Tragedy
The first two lectures/presentations, scheduled for September 20 and 27, both at 7 PM explore enduring female archetypes in ancient Greek tragedy (September 20) and Byzantine culture (September 27). These presentations will offer insights into how archetypal patterns of female behavior have evolved and continue to evolve and influence modern identity, thought, and action.
The explorations will:
- interpret archetypal female behavior through literary and historic women.
- highlight the timeless power of archetypes that continue to shape contemporary consciousness.
- create a clear link between past and present, fostering reflection on personal and societal levels.
On the day following each presentation (September 21 and 28, respectively), participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and engage in live discussion with the presenter.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER, GIOVANNA LIVERI:
Giovanna Liveri is a philologist and educator with extensive experience in teaching Ancient and Modern Greek language and literature, both as a native and a foreign language. Founder of the website “Language and Culture Dialogues” and the educational platform “e-Dialogos”. She organizes interactive cultural workshops and seminars for Greek and international audiences and designs speaking and cultural courses through literature and culture for Greeks in the diaspora. She specializes in innovative, experiential teaching methods, combining traditional philological knowledge with modern educational approaches. She has taught in private schools, educational centers, and IB programs, with a focus on Greek language and literature studies.
Although the presentations will be open to everyone, to participate in the live discussion and Q&A period, we kindly ask those interested to register. Details are inside the program website:
pahellenicfoundation.org/Tragedy
We look forward to these presentations as well as other events in motion for this fall season.
American-educated, comparative literature professor Ali feels that he has shed his familial baggage, and with it, his father’s patriarchal, draconian sensibilities. Ali’s long-simmering resentment, however, resurfaces as he becomes aware that his mother’s untimely death may not have been natural.
When a mysterious drifter Riza turns up at his rural cabin looking for work, Ali thinks that Riza may be able to solve several problems. As the revenge scheme spins out of control, Ali’s generational trauma threatens to overturn everything he’s worked for. Part David Lynch, part Turkish realism, The Things You Kill explores how the power of the patriarchy is built on an unreal scaffolding, one that crumbles as soon as any pressure is exerted.
Winner, Sundance 2025 World Cinema Award
