Oakland, California
Ascension Historical Society
Other Activities
Symposia
What is a symposium?
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary defines "symposium" from the Greek word symposion as "a convivial meeting, usually following a dinner, for [...] intellectual discussion," especially a "meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience."
Lineage of a Series of Symposia
We convened the 1st ever symposium on The Preservation of Our History: Past, Present, and Future, held in the Ascension Cathedral complex, Oakland, California, with the co-sponsorship of the Hellenic Cultural Association (HCA) of Salt Lake City, Utah, the National Association of Hellenic Cultural Museums, and the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute (PAOI) of Berkeley, California, in 1998.
We then co-sponsored the 2nd symposium on preservation, the Arizona Greek Cultural History Symposium, held in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1999.
We also co-sponsored the 3rd symposium on preservation, the Valley Cultural History Symposium, held in Stockton, California, in 2001.
Furthermore, we inaugurated and co-sponsored the workshops about Procedures for the Preservation of Parish Histories, presented in the 36th Biennial Clergy Laity Congress of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, 2002.
Most recently, we are the co-sponsors and host for a Symposium for the Historical Societies of the Metropolis of San Francisco, 29 April 2006.
