• Lecture: "Carnival – The Ancient Festival of Disobedience"
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    27.02.2025
    Carnival is a world of reversed rules, joy, and masks—a timeless tradition whose origins are lost in history. It has vanished and reemerged, faced bans, yet remained alive. What is its secret? We will recall the Roman Saturnalia and Lupercalia, medieval celebrations in Germany, Venetian masks, and trace the evolution of carnival in Cyprus.
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