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SUMMARY:The Wisdom of Laughter for the Ancient Greeks
DESCRIPTION:What is humour? What does it do for us and for society? From the way the ancient Greeks thought of laughter to contemporary philosophy\, it is a fascinating subject that influences our daily lives.   \nFrom Plato to Bergson and\, more recently\, N. Carroll\, philosophers have always emphasised the importance of aggressiveness in humour. Indeed\, it is well known that many jokes are based\, directly or indirectly\, on racism\, sexism\, or other forms of discrimination. If there is no positive value in these types of aggression\, is it possible to regulate the humour that gives rise to them?  \nFurthermore\, we should attempt to explain why we find such jokes amusing\, even if we object to their content. Pierre Destrée and Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi will present this problem and its philosophical history. They will then discuss two very different ways in which ancient Greek philosophers proposed regulating it—those of Plato and Aristotle\, respectively. 
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/the-wisdom-of-laughter-for-the-ancient-greeks/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre London\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, ONLINE\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:At the Edge of Kamchatka with Nastassja Martin
DESCRIPTION:Anthropologist and writer Nastassja Martin discusses East of Dreams\, drawing on the years she spent living with the Even people in Kamchatka. Displaced after the fall of the Soviet Union\, an indigenous family works to reclaim their former self-sufficient way of life in this lyrical work of anthropology and colonial Russian history. The author examines how humans\, animals and spirits can be claimed as interconnected\, challenging mainstream Western ideas that view nature as something separate from us. \nIn conversation with her translator Sophie R. Lewis\, she will reflect on what these encounters reveal about colonial histories and the environmental crises of today.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/at-the-edge-of-kamchatka-with-nastassja-martin/
LOCATION:Institut français in London\, 17 Queensberry Place\, London\, SW7 2DT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T190000
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SUMMARY:Designed to Belong: Modernism\, Industry and Community
DESCRIPTION:Belonging is not accidental – it is designed. This panel explores how architecture shapes belonging\, not just by providing shelter\, but by structuring everyday life. \n\nUsing the Bata village at East Tilbury as a starting point\, it examines how modernist ideals\, industrial ambition and community planning created a distinctive model of living. Historian Milan Balaban situates the settlement within the global story of Bata cities\, while architectural historian Gillian Darley reflects on its significance for British modernism. Mick Pinion from the Bata Heritage Centre brings a local and heritage perspective on East Tilbury’s development and legacy\, and architect Ondřej Chybík discusses contemporary lessons for urban planning. Chaired by John Tusa\, the conversation links historical experiments to today’s questions of development\, identity and place-making. \nSPEAKERS:\nSir John Tusa is a British arts administrator\, author\, journalist and former presenter of the BBC’s Newsnight. Born in Czechoslovakia\, he moved to East Tilbury in 1939\, where his father was Managing Director of the British Bata Shoe Company factory. He is Co-Chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra and was previously Managing Director of the BBC World Service and Director of the Barbican Arts Centre. He is the author of On Board\, Making a Noise and On Creativity. \nGillian Darley OBE is a widely published writer and historian who was President of the Twentieth Century Society from 2014 until 2021. She first visited East Tilbury\, in search of the Bata industrial village\, in the early 1970s\, when researching and photographing her first book Villages of Vision (1975\, reissued 2007). Ever since she has returned at regular Intervals. The village featured in her most recent book Excellent Essex (2019). In 2024 Gillian achieved a longed-for aim\, a visit to Zlin. \nMilan Balaban is a historian specializing in business\, economic\, and industrial history\, with a focus on the global Bata Company network. He is a researcher at the Information Centre Bata\, Tomas Bata University in Zlín\, and a lecturer at Palacký University in Olomouc. His work examines industrialisation\, company towns\, and corporate mobility in Central and Eastern Europe. He has published several books\, including Bata across Continents (2022)\, and articles in leading journals\, and lectures internationally on multinational enterprises and industrial modernity. \n\nAdmission: £5 (+ Eventbrite fee)\nBOOK NOW\n\nPart of London Festival of Architecture. \nThe talk is an accompanying event to the exhibition Desire to Create: Baťa’s Architecture of Belonging\, presented at the Vitrínka Gallery\, running from 9 April till 12 June 2026.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/designed-to-belong-modernism-industry-and-community/
LOCATION:Czech Centre\, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens  \, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Mama Klorin: A Conversation with Visual Artist and Women Cleaners
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion centring the voices of women cleaners of Greece in the 1990s–2000s. Behind each mop-stroke lie displacement and invisible labour. Doreida Xhogu’s Mama Klorin explores memory\, migration\, class and human dignity\, issues that resonate across borders\, generations and social divides.  \nHere the women cleaners speak for themselves\, not as symbols\, but as people with voice\, memory and lived experience. Centring Doreida Xhogu’s Mama Klorin project\, initiated in 2015 as an emotional territory shaped by her and her mother’s experiences as migrant cleaning workers\, the conversation brings personal testimony into dialogue with art\, migration and social history.  \nThrough stories rarely heard in public\, the speakers trace what migration demanded of them and what it made possible: what they left behind (homes\, families\, lives and careers)\, and what they encountered on arrival\, often invisible labour\, inequality and the daily reality of being overlooked\, alongside resilience\, solidarity and persistence. They will reflect on the different routes that nonetheless converged in the same occupation and on the embodied experience of cleaning work. The tired body\, the passing glance\, the silence that can accompany everyday labour. Across each testimony emerges the richness of their identities as women\, mothers and workers\, reminding us that questions of dignity and value concern us all.  \nSpeakers: Adriana Xhogu\, Liliana Saliaj\, Maria Michalakopoulou\, Doreida Xhogu.   \nChair: Pari Vardhami and Ioanna Papapavlou\, curators of the exhibition Mama Klorin. 
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/mama-klorin-a-conversation-with-visual-artist-and-women-cleaners/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre London\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, ONLINE\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Talks
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