Faculty in the News: Prof. Doherty Delivers Keynote Address

Prof. Lillian Doherty delivered the keynote address to the Hellenic Society Prometheas.

On April 14, Prof. Lillian Doherty gave the keynote address for the Greek Letters Day celebration at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Potomac, hosted by the Hellenic Society Prometheas. Greek Letters Day is an annual celebration of the continuity of the Greek language and its literary tradition. The ceremony also includes the awarding of certificates to the students who have passed the Ellinomathia exam for proficiency in modern Greek.

Her talk was called “Friendship and Poetry: Philia in a Poem of George Seferis,” and it was a close reading of the poem “Stratis Thalassinos among the Agapanthi,” which was written in 1942 and set to music by Yannis Markopoulos in 1973.

The people in the photo are, left to right, Zoie Lafis (Executive Director of The Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University), Pericles Stabekis (President of the society), Dr. Ismini Lamb (professor of modern Greek at Georgetown University), Mr. Eleftherios Karmiris, Prof. Doherty, and Prof. Polyvia Parara (Senior Lecturer at UMD College Park).