Greece

This conference, to be held online as part of the bicentennial commemoration of the Greek War of Independence.

It will be an exploration of the many kinds of connections between the Greek War of Independence itself and developments and actors to the East and West. The Greek Kingdom that was established out of the War of Independence was a new state-formation, and one that blended aspects of old and new regimes of the moment.

As we view the story of the War of Independence as a process that bridged Greek life and society under the Ottomans and the achievement of Greek statehood we will consider it through the Russian, Balkan, Ottoman, Italian, and broader European lenses. What was unique about the Greek War of Independence? What did it–as a conflict, as a process, and as an outcome–have in common with the political and social currents in the broader regions to which it was connected?

Registration

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Program

Friday, November 5th

Welcome: Christine Philliou
9:00 AM (PDT)

Introductory remarks: Lieutenant Governor, Eleni Kounalakis and Ambassador of Greece, H.E. Alexandra Papadopoulou

Keynote: Paschalis Kitromilides (University of Athens)

Keynote lecture: “The Greek Revolution and Theories of Revolution”
9:30-10:00 AM (PDT)

Panel One: Law and lawlessness (Christine Philliou, Moderator)
10:00 – 11:30 AM (PDT)

1. Apostolos Delis (Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno) – “A Hub of Piracy in the Aegean: Syros during the Greek War of Independence” 
2. Michael Sotiropoulos (British School of Athens) – “The intellectual foundations of the Greek Revolution of 1821”  
3. Will Smiley (University of New Hampshire) – “The violence of the Greek war of independence is legendary”

Saturday, November 6th

Introductory remarks: Consul General of Greece in San Francisco, Socrates Sourvinos
9:00 AM (PDT)

Panel Two: Religion and millets (Christine Philliou, Moderator)
9:00 – 10:30 AM (PDT)

1. Emily Neumeier (Temple University) – “Improvising Political Identity in Ottoman Greece” 
2. Dimitris Stamatopoulos (University of Macedonia) – “The Ecumenical Patriarchs in the Age of Revolution”
3. Antonis Hadjikyriacou (Panteion) and Ali Yaycioglu (Stanford) – “1821 and the Ottoman Age of Revolutions: Magnates and Their Regional Orders”

Panel Three: Italian/Mediterranean/European dimension: (Katerina Lagos, Moderator)
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)

1. Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) – “The Greek Revolution from the Shores”
2. Alex Tipei (University of Montreal) – “Civilization and Nation: Rhetorical Strategies of Independence after the Greek War” 
3. Elpida Vogli (Democritus University of Thrace) – “The Politics of Belonging and teh Mergence of a Modern Nation State in Southeastern Europe” 

Part II: Friday/Saturday, November 12 – 13th

Friday, November 12th

Introductory remarks: Hellenic Minister of Justice, Kostas Tsiaras
9:00 AM (PDT)

Keynote: Eleni Angelomatis-Tsougarakis (Ionian University)

Keynote lecture: “Women during the Greek War of Independence”
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (PDT)

Panel Four: Russian dimension: (Victoria Frede-Montemayor, UC Berkeley, Moderator)
10:00 – 11:00 AM (PDT)

1. Ada Dialla (Athens School of Fine Arts) – “Uprisings, Rebellions, Revolutions, Civic Wars: Conceptual Oscillations in the European Periphery” 
2. Lucien Frary (Rider University) – “The Myth and Reality of Russian Intervention and the Greek War of Independence”
3. Viktor Taki (Edmonton) – “Between Greeks and Romanians: Russian Policy in Moldavia and Wallachia in the Wake of 1821”

Panel Five: Cultural Representations of the Revolution (Simos Zenios, Moderator)
9:00 – 10:30 AM (PDT)

1. Vasiliki Dimoula (University of Vienna) – “Drawing on the ‘Curtain of Futurity’: Hegel, Zambelios, and Shelley on the meaning of the Revolution”
2. Foteini Dimirouli (University of Oxford)  – “’Kleftika’ as a window into the prerevolutionary society”
3. Marios Hatzopoulos (University of Nicosia) – “Counting down time for Revolution”

Saturday, November 13th

Panel Six: Literature and Language (Eva Prionas, Moderator)
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)

1. Alexander Grammatikos (Langara College) – “Lord Byron’s Two Trips to Greece”
2. Simos Zenios (UCLA) – “Testing and Contesting Power in Philhellenic Thought and Literature”
3. Ewa Roza Janion (University of Warsaw) – “Literary Outlooks on Greek Women’s Captivity. Polish Philhellenic Literature in European Contexts”