Athens, 19-21 January 2017
Venue: Amphitheater ‘Ioannis Drakopoulos’
Central
Building of the University of Athens
30 Panepistimiou Ave.
THE DRASTIC POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES, as well as
the surfacing of new social and cultural phenomena that have taken place in the
last decades have brought about a vivid reflection on issues of identity. These
issues were found in the epicenter of the scholarly interest and of the Public
History, thus provoking a strong discussion and a particularly interesting
production of academic works. The pertinent research on primary sources has
enriched our knowledge; has sharpened our historical vision, and has led to new
critical perspectives, which have broadened our way of thinking on the
historical process of concepts that have been used as collective
identifications both in the international and in the Greek academic literature.
Taking all this into account, the Department of
History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
is organizing, on 19‐21 January 2017, an international conference under the title ‘Έλλην’,
‘Ρωμηός’, ‘Γραικός’: Collective Identifications and Identities. The sessions
of the conference will focus on the content and the meanings of terms that in
various different times of history came to identify the collectivity of Greeks.
By hosting cases from diverse historical experiences and socio‐political environments, in
a period of time that extends from the ancient world to the nineteenth century
and the establishment of the Greek nation‐state, the conference aims at
highlighting the complex processes of the construction of collective identities
(such as ‘Έλλην’, ‘Ρωμηός’, ‘Γραικός’, etc.), and at examining further the
use of these identities within their historical context and in the pertinent
academic literature. The working languages of the conference will be Greek and
English.
