Stylianos Perrakis
INTERVIWE DATE:
February 21, 2024
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Interviewer:
Alexandros Balasis
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language:
Greek

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INTERVIEW LOCATION:
Ottawa, ON
OCUPATION:
Finance Professor

Interview Summary:

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Stylianos Perrakis

GICREF050

Participants
Stylianos Perrakis
Intervieweer(s)
Alexandros Balasis
Date and Location
February 21, 2024
Ottawa, ON
Languages
Greek
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Project
Greeks in Canada: A Digital Public History
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GICREF050
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Decades Referenced
Locations Referenced
Piraeus, Crete, Athens, Nafplion, Chania, U.S.A., San Francisco, Ottawa; France, China, Beijing, Thailand, Romania
Occupation(s)
Finance Professor
Parents Occupation(s)
Names Referenced
Stylianos Perrakis (Grandfather), Gerasimos Melissinos (Grandfather), Konstantinos Karamanlis, Ioannis Tsolis (Professor), Alekos Makrygiannis; Thanasis Maskaleris (Professor), Andreas Papandreou, Philippe Deane Gigantès (Journalist), Stathis Kalyvas (Professor)

[00:00:20] His family story and moving from Piraeus to Athens

[00:03:33] Memories from the years of German occupation

[00:05:34] His Jewish babysitter and learning French

[00:11:50] His school years and studying at university

[00:14:40] Dekemvriana, liberation, and the Civil War

[00:25:22] Studying engineering at Athens Polytechnic

[00:27:47] Serving in the Greek Navy in 1960

[00:32:00] Working in Pyrkal and deciding to study abroad

[00:36:49] Applying to Berkeley University

[00:37:57] His family’s political beliefs and the Civil War

[00:45:39] Studying economics at Berkeley

[00:52:50] Becoming an anti-royalist and Greek Junta

[00:56:04] West Coast Committee for Democracy in Greece

[01:01:00] Protesting the war in Vietnam and coming to Canada

[01:03:30] His career as a professor

[01:05:55] Meeting Andreas Papandreou

[01:09:05] His parents’ visits to Canada and visiting Greece

[01:12:35] The return of Karamanlis and his trips to Greece

[01:16:40] Considering to return to Greece

[01:19:46] C.I.DA., teaching in China, Thailand, and Russia

[01:26:00] Being president of Parnassos in the 1980s

[01:35:24] Writing history books: The Ghosts of Plaka Beach

[01:47:30] The future of Greeks in Ottawa

[01:48:20] His book: The Improbable Heroine: Lela Karayanni