NEW YORK, NY – The East Mediterranean Business Culture Alliance (EMBCA) presents the “570th Anniversary Commemoration of the Fall of Constantinople (Tuesday, May 29, 1453) Webinar Panel Discussion on Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 2 P.M. EST/ 9 P.M. Athens EEST.
The panel discussion will be Introduced by Lou Katsos, EMBCA’s President and Co-Moderated by him and Marina A. Belessis Casoria EMBCA’s Exec. VP.
A highly distinguished panel for this unique historical discussion will include the Mayor of Sparta Petros Doukas; Prof. Dr. Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis of the Freie Universität Berlin; Dr. Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou Adjunct Assit. Professor at St. Johns’ University and City University of New York; Prof. Ilias Yerenis of Ionian University; and Author/Poet Prof. Nicholas Alexiou, and Director of the American Hellenic Project (HAP).
This event is presented in the memory of Dr. Marios Philippides who passed away December 27, 2022 and was Emeritus Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and who published among other things many articles and books relating to the fall of Constantinople including his monumental 2011 study, The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies.
