Modern Greek Studies Seminars

This seminar series seeks to explore key themes in Modern Greek Studies through a global, interdisciplinary, and self-reflexive lens. Providing a forum for scholars coming from different disciplines and working in the field (broadly conceived), it aims to situate the Greek experience within broader transnational contexts, interrogate established narratives, and foster critical dialogue across disciplines. The seminar series is open to all.

Semester 1 2025/26

DateSpeakerTitleNotes
Thu 9 OctGeorgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London)'Greeks bearing Gifts: The Emergence of Modern Greece and the Birth of the Idea of "the West"'4:30-6pm, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre (Old College)
Wed 3 DecMaria Boletsi (University of Amsterdam and University of Leiden), Huw Halstead (University of Edinburgh), Daniel Knight (University of St Andrews), Vassiliki Kolokotroni (University of Glasgow)        Workshop: 'Beyond Crisis? Greece, Europe and the Global South’4-6pm, 1.312 - Doorway 1 (Old Medical School)
Thu 22 JanDimitris Papadimitriou (University of Manchester) and Kevin Featherstone (LSE)‘Greek Prime Ministers in the Eye of the Storm’ Details to follow
Mon 23 FebVioletta Hionidou (University of Newcastle)‘Remembering and forgetting the Famine in Axis-occupied Greece, 1941-1944’Details to follow
Wed 11 MarAngelos Chaniotis (IAS, Princeton) ‘Cavafy as a historian of the post-Classical World’  Co-hosted with the Classics Seminar; details to follow
Thu 19 MarYanni Kotsonis (NYU)‘1821 and the Creation of a Christian Greece’Details to follow
TBC Dimitra Vassiliadou (University of Aegean), Efi Avdela (University of Crete, Emeritus), Nikolaos Papadogiannis (University of Stirling)Workshop: 'Sexual violence and law in postwar Greece'Details to follow

Further information

if you have any questions about the seminar series please contact the organisers, Dr Michalis Sotiropoulos (msotirop@ed.ac.uk) and Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou (K.Stergio@ed.ac.uk).

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