Wednesday 18 January 2017

International Conference!



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 1921 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 sociopolitical environments, in a period of time that extends from the ancient world to the nineteenth century and the establishment of the Greek nationstate, 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.

Monday 16 January 2017

International Workshop!



20-21 January 2017
Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna
1010 Vienna, Postgasse 7, Stiege 1, Third Floor (Hörsaal)

Organizing Team: Ewald Kislinger, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Claudia Rapp, Andreas Rhoby, Alexander Riehle
Sponsor: The Wittgenstein-Prize Project ‘Mobility, Microstructures and Personal Agency’ of the FWF (Austrian National Research Foundation). W: http://rapp.univie.ac.at/

For further information and registration, please contact Ms. Paraskevi Sykopetritou: paraskevi.sykopetritou@univie.ac.at


Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World , edited by Yannis Stouraitis, Edinburgh Byzantine Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh ...