Greek genocide lecture highlights growing public interest

Key points

• Greek Australian historian Dr Themistocles Kritikakos spoke to more than 60 attendees at Laconian House in Brunswick on 4 October. The lecture, hosted by the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria Leonidas, focused on his book on Armenian, Greek and Assyrian genocide recognition in Australia.
• He examined violence and displacement affecting Greeks in Asia Minor, Pontus and Eastern Thrace.
• Dr Kritikakos said growing interest in the history, across generations, is shaping new understanding of the past and its relevance today.