[MGSA-L] INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON THE AMERICAN FRENCH AND GREEK REVOLUTIONS : MAY 23rd, at 1 pm CDT (9pm Athens time) - REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

Stefanos Katsikas skatsikas at uchicago.edu
Mon May 17 15:47:55 PDT 2021


Dear friends of Hellenic Studies,

You are cordially invited to attend the following event which our Center for Hellenic Studies co-organizes, along with the Consulate General of Greece in Chicago and the Metropolis of Chicago.

All the best,
Stefanos Katsikas

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Stefanos Katsikas, Ph.D.
Associate Director &
Instructional Assistant Professor
Center for Hellenic Studies
University of Chicago
1153 East 58th Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Dear friends and colleagues,

On the occasion of the Bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, the Consul General of Greece in Chicago cordially invites you to a virtual international colloquium entitled

THE AMERICAN, GREEK, AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH

SUNDAY 23 MAY AT 1 PM CST (9 PM ATHENS TIME)

REGISTRATION LINK
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qH_A36eyQp64Gx_yipmTjA

The Age of Revolutions that roiled the Atlantic World with a set of national independence movements is conventionally dated from 1776-1830. In the eastern corner of the Mediterranean, Greece won its independence after a decade-long war beginning in 1821. Were there any common characteristics between the Greek and the other major revolutions of that era? Had the American and/or the French Revolution any impact on the Greek Revolution?

In his presentation entitled “The Greek War of Independence: From pre-modernity to modern nation-state”, Professor Thanos Veremis asserts that the duration of the Greek War of Independence marks the transition from pre-modernity to a modern nation-state, as well as that the initial state of social segmentation will lead to a unitary state under Kapodistrias.

The French Revolution had a decisive impact on events in Greece on the ideological plane, as the Greek diaspora in Western and Central Europe was permeated by the ideology of the Enlightenment and strongly affected by the idea of the sovereign and self-governing nation which was broadcast from France. Professor Pericles S. Vallianos, in his presentation “A strong imprint: The ideas of 1789 and the Greek Revolution of 1821” will talk about the different levels of impact of the French Revolution on its Greek counterpart in 1821.

In his presentation “States and Revolutions: The Greek Revolution and Imperial State Modernization” Professor Steve Pincus, will discuss whether the Ottoman imperial reform triggered the Greek Revolution and whether the Greek Revolutionaries were similar to their North American and South American counterparts.

Finally, in his own presentation “Small States in an Age of Revolutions: The Case of Greece”, Professor Paul Cheney argues about what the experience of Greece, hemmed in by large, powerful states but also the beneficiary of progressive political forces acting within them, have to tell us about the fate of small states in an Age of Revolution.


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SPEAKERS



Thanos Veremis (D. Phil, Oxon) is Professor Emeritus of Political History at the University of Athens, Department of European and International Studies, and Founding Member of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He has been Research Associate, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London 1978-79; Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard Univ. 1983; Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton Univ. 1987; Visiting Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford 1993-94; Constantine Karamanlis Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford Massachusetts (2000-2003); and more recently President of the National Council of Education, 2004-2010. Publications include The Military in Greek Politics, London: Hurst & Co (1997); with Mark Dragoumis Greece, World Bibliographical Series, vol.17, Oxford: Clio Press (1998); with John Koliopoulos Greece. The Modern Sequel, London: Hurst & Co, (2002) with John Koliopoulos Modern Greece: A History since 1821, Wiley- Blackwell (2010) Eleftherios Venizelos: A Biography, Pella Publishers (2011) A Modern History of the Balkans. Nationalism and Identity in Southeast Europe, I.B.Tauris, 2017



Pericles S. Vallianos received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He received M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University, specializing in the History of Ideas. His doctoral thesis was on the economic and social thought of G.W.F. Hegel. His subsequent research focused on classical Greek political thought and its impact on 19th-century philosophy, especially German Idealism. Until 2017 he taught the history of political philosophy at the University of Athens. He taught courses on Athens in the 5th c. B.C, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and the Philosophy of History among others, both on the undergraduate and the graduate level. His publications include: A critical edition of Hegel’s essay Faith and Knowledge;  Hellenism, Science, Criticism: the Conceptual Foundations of Modernity; The Sield of Achilles: Aspects of the Political Experience of Antiquity; Justice cosmique et droit politique: Le cas d’Antigone chez Hegel; Hegel and Greek Philosophy: The Claims of Historical Reason; Romanticism and Politics: From Heinrich Heine to Carl Schmitt –And Back Again; Politics as Mediation: Law and the Private Sphere in the Late Plato; The Ways of the Nation: Messianic and Universalist Nationalism in Renieris, Zambelios, and Paparrigopoulos. His latest work is his contribution to The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary (published in March 2021, by Harvard University Press) under the title: “Historiographical Traditions and Debates”.


Steve Pincus is the Thomas Donnelley Professor of History at the University of Chicago.  Educated at Dartmouth, Oxford, and Harvard, Pincus is the author of three monographs focusing on revolutions: Protestantism and Patriotism, a study of radical changes in mid-17th century Netherlands and England, 1688: The First Modern Revolution, and The Heart of the Declaration analysis of the origins of the American Revolution. Pincus has been a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard, a visiting fellow at All Souls, visiting professor at AMT Lucca in Italy, visiting professor at EHESS in Paris, and visiting professor at the University of Warwick. Pincus has taught at Yale and the University of Chicago.



Paul Cheney is Professor of European history at the University of Chicago. He was educated at Columbia University and is the author of two books on France in the global economy of the long eighteenth century: Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy (2010); and Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery (2017). He has taught in the United Kingdom, China, France, and Germany.

CHAIR

Alexander Nehamas was born in Athens, graduated from Athens College, and attended Swarthmore College and Princeton University, where he is currently Edmund Carpenter Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature.  Before coming to Princeton, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania.  He is the author of Nietzsche: Life as Literature, Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates,  The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art, and On Friendship, and a translator of Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus.  At Princeton, he has chaired the Council of the Humanities, directed the Program in Hellenic Studies, and was the Founding Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.  In 1993, he was the Sather Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley.  He has received a Mellon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities and was named a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the Greek Government.  In 2018, he was elected to the Chair of the History of Philosophy in the Academy of Athens.


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