The Tears of Chios: a Greek Family’s Story of Diaspora – LECTURE

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Date / time: 2 October, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location
King's College London


The Tears of Chios: a Greek Family’s Story of Diaspora - LECTURE

 

Speaker: Richard Calvocoressi

The speaker traces his family’s origins in the period when Chios was a prosperous merchant colony under Genoese rule to its reinvention post-diaspora as traders working in Liverpool and London for the hugely successful Anglo-Chiot firm of Ralli Brothers, of whose Indian branch his grandfather became director. The speaker’s great-great grandfather was born on Chios, his greatgrandfather in Constantinople, his grandfather in Liverpool, his father in Calcutta, and the speaker himself in Kent: 150 years of gradual migrations.

Flyer: https://www.levantineheritage.com/pdf/1st-Levantine-Heritage-Foundation+Centre-for-Hellenic-Studies-Society-lecture.pdf

Registration: https://richard-calvocoressi-presentation4.eventbrite.co.uk/