[MGSA-L] Save the date! Dr. Kostis Karpozilos on the Macedonian Question and Greece-FYROM Agreement, UIC Institute for the Humanities, 11/19/2018, 4:00 pm

[Paris Papamichos Chronakis]

Dear friends and colleagues,


It will be a pleasure and an honor to welcome you in our forthcoming event!




The Hellenic Studies Initiative at the UIC Department of Classics and
Mediterranean Studies and the Institute for the Humanities cordially invite
you to a lecture on




*The Macedonian Question*

*The Trap of History and the Recent Greece-FYROM Agreeement*



*Monday, November 19, 2018, 4:00 pm*



*UIC Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall, Lower Level*
<https://goo.gl/maps/ZRdHbhqmjrC2>






*Dr. Kostis Karpozilos (Hellenic Open University) *


On June 17 the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Macedonian
counterpart Zoran Zaev signed an agreement resolving a long-standing
dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
regarding the latter’s name. From the early 1990s Greece had questioned the
right of Macedonians to self-determination leading to a complicated
diplomatic dispute that fuelled nationalism on both sides of the borders.
This talk aims to disentangle the trajectory of this complicated issue and
argues that perceptions of ancient and modern history were seminal in
entrapping Greek society in a state of denial. At the end of the day, why
can’t one ask for a “Macedonian salad” in Greek Macedonia?


*Kostis Karpozilos* is the director of the Contemporary Social History
Archives and teaches at the Hellenic Open University and College Year in
Athens. He is the co-author of the best-selling book 10+1 Questions and
Answers on the Macedonian Issue and has published monographs and articles
on the history of the Greek left and on Greek-American immigrant
radicalism. He is currently completing a book-length study on the
transnational history of the Greek Left.


Light refreshments will be on offer. The event is free and open to the
public.


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With kind regards,

Paris Papamichos Chronakis



-- 
Paris Papamichos Chronakis
Lecturer
Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street (MC 315), 1818 University Hall
Chicago, IL, 60607-7117
tel. 310 560 2732
skype name: pchronakis
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