[MGSA-L] Onassis Scholar talks at the University of Illinois
Modern Greek Studies UIUC
moderngreek at illinois.edu
Sun Apr 22 11:50:30 PDT 2012
The program in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Illinois is
delighted to be hosting two talks by Dr Pantelis Lekkas, Onassis Foundation
Senior Visiting Scholar & Associate Professor of Political Science at
Panteion University in Athens, Greece.
*Nationalism qua modernization: The Greek War of Independence*
Tuesday, April 24, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CSAMES Brownbag series
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave.,
Urbana
*Nation and People*
Wednesday, April 25, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
1800 South Oak (corner of Oak Street and St. Mary's Road), Champaign
Short bio: *Pantelis Lekkas* was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1960. He
holds a B.A. in Sociology (Sussex University, 1982), and PhD from Cambridge
University (1986). Since his return to Greece he has taught at various
Greek universities (Thessaloniki, Panteion, Crete) as well as at the
universities of Cyprus and Haifa. He has published three books: *Marx on
Classical Antiquity: Problems of Historical Methodology* (1988), *Nationalist
Ideology: Five Working Hypotheses in Historical Sociology* (in Greek, 1992,
1996, 2006), and *Playing with Time: Nationalism and Modernity* (in Greek,
2001, 2nd edn forthcoming) and several articles (in Greek and in English)
on Greek nationalism, the theories of nationalism, political and historical
sociology, and classical and modern social theory. In addition, he has been
involved in the translation from English into Greek of a number of books
(by Zygmunt Bauman, Ian Craib, Elie Kedourie, Theda Skocpol, and Charles
Tilly among others).
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