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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PRINCETON UNIVERSITY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Seeger
<span class="Heading2Char">Center</span> for Hellenic Studies</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Lecture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Antisemitism and State Formation:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Case of Modern Greece<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Paris Papamichos Chronakis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of Illinois at Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This talk offers a nuanced overview of antisemitism in Greece in the 19th and 20th centuries, arguing that Judeophobia was (and still is) an integral part
of imagining the Greek nation and building the modern state. The paper argues that Judeophobia was not a side-story but intimately linked to the formation and transformation of Greek national ideology and to the constitution and reconstitution of the Modern
Greek state. In the early 19th century, the image of the Jew informed the first imaginings of a European and civilized Greek body politic; in the late 19th century it interwove with Greek irredentism, the “Great Idea” of expanding the boundaries of the Greek
nation-state deep into the Ottoman lands; in the interwar period, once this dream was shuttered, the close monitoring of Zionist Jews legitimized the setting of surveillance mechanisms and the establishment of a police state. Finally, during the recent financial
crisis, while sarcastic allusions to antiquity abound in the international press’s coverage of Modern Greece, metaphorical uses of the Holocaust in Greek political discourse have been one of the most prominent tropes in Greece proper. Greek antisemitism might
not have been particularly violent, but it was neither just a negligible echo in the European periphery, nor a remnant of the Ottoman past refusing to die. Rather, in its manifold, but always discreet manifestations, it informed nation-state building in positive
ways. Antisemitism was not just destructive for the Jews, but also productive for the Greek Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white">Paris Papamichos Chronakis</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white">
is Lecturer in Modern Greek History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research explores the transition of the Eastern Mediterranean port-cities from empire to nation-state bringing together the interrelated histories of Sephardi Jewish, Greek Orthodox
and Muslim entrepreneurial elites. He has also been developing digital tools to map social networks during the Holocaust and has published on Greco-Jewish relations, Greek Zionism and antisemitism, and the Holocaust of Greek Jewry.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Monday, February 26, 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">4:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Co-sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Supported by The Christos G. and Rhoda Papaioannou Modern Greek Studies Fund</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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