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Inviting Stories from the Diaspora is designed for individuals with any level of experience with writing (including none) and of all generations (first, second, third and beyond). Through guided discussions, field trips and writing opportunities, participants will learn storytelling methods for relating their unique journey and relationship to Greece as ancestral homeland, beloved landscape, and cultural touchstone. Are you ready to share your story?
Inviting Stories from the Diaspora gives the gift of time and slowing down, of reflection and connection, of being in Greece with the kind of intention writing asks of us.
Are you ready to share your story? Join us on Thasos in June 2026.
Photo by Madison Bierl
Meet the Facilitators:
Anastasia Panagakos is a cultural anthropologist who has over twenty-five years of research experience in the Greek American and Greek Canadian diasporas on themes of Greek identity, traditional dance and dress, and gender.
Panayotis League is a Harvard-trained ethnomusicologist specializing in the traditional music and poetry of the Greek islands. His Greek Language and Culture course will focus in part on what we can learn about our culture through Greek folk and popular songs.
Joanna Eleftheriou is a nonfiction writer whose work often engages her Cypriot-American heritage, as in her memoir This Way Back. Joanna Eleftheriou earned a PhD in English from the University of Missouri and she is Associate Professor of English at Christopher Newport University.