[MGSA-L] New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Greek Revolution: An International Two-Day Symposium Open to the Public

[Nektaria G. Klapaki]

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the international two-day symposium "New
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Greek Revolution" organized by the
Hellenic Studies program at the University of Washington (December 3-4,
2021). The symposium will be held online via Zoom and is open to the
public. For the symposium program and registration details, please see
below as well as the attached pdf document.

With all best wishes,

Nektaria Klapaki

Dr. Nektaria G. Klapaki (she/her/hers)
Lecturer, Hellenic Studies
Faculty affiliate, Comparative Religion
Co-director, Greece Study Abroad Program
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington, Campus Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195-3650

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New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Greek Revolution

An International Two-Day Symposium Open to the Public

Jackson School of International Studies | Hellenic Studies Program
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December 3-4, 2021 | ONLINE

REGISTRATION REQUIRED | CLICK OR COPY LINK BELOW TO REGISTER

bit.ly/3aiQVNi
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Friday, December 3, 2021


*Welcome and Opening Remarks *

9:00-9:30 a.m. PST

*Leela Fernandes*, Director, Jackson School of International Studies

*Alexander Hollmann*, Chair, Hellenic Studies

* Nektaria Klapaki*, Lecturer, Hellenic Studies


*PANEL 1: From the Ionian Islands to the Greek Nation State: On British
Colonialism and Religious Minorities *

9:30-11:15 a.m. PST

*Sakis Gekas* (York University), The Ionian Connection. British Colonialism
and the Greek Revolution

*Evdoxios Doxiadis* (Simon Fraser University), Muslims and Jews in the
Greek War of Independence and Its Immediate Aftermath

*Dimitrios Varvaritis* (University of Vienna), Ottoman Jewry and the Greek
Revolution. Rethinking an Overlooked Facet of the War of Independence
Period


*PANEL 2: New Political Languages and the Greek Revolution *

11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. PST

*Efi Gazi *(University of the Peloponnese), Conceptualizing “Liberty” in
the Age of the Greek Revolution

*Nektaria Klapaki* (University of Washington), The Cult of the Insurgent
Greek Nation in Kalvos’s *Odes *

*Simos Zenios* (University of California, Los Angeles), “Freedom-loving
Speech:” Greek Poetry and Modern Revolution


Saturday, December 4, 2021


*PANEL 3: The Greek Revolution through the Eyes of Philhellenes and
Hellenes *

9:30-11:15 a.m. PST

*Roderick Beaton* (King’s College London), Byron on Greece and Greeks –
*Was* He a Phihellene?

*Gonda Van Steen* (King’s College London), The United States as a Haven for
Greek Revolutionary War Orphans? Myth and Reality

*David Ricks* (King’s College London), Between Teos and Sparta: The
Revolution in Panagiotis Soutsos’ *The Cithara* (1835)


P*ANEL 4: The Greek Revolution from the Margins *

11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. PST

*Artemis Leontis* (University of Michigan), Solomos’s *Woman of Zakythos*
and the Making of Refugees

*Vangelis Calotychos* (Brown University), Nights of 2021/2022: Regarding
Dionysios Solomos’ *Free Besieged* at the Bicentennial’s End

*Nikolas P. Kakkoufa* (Columbia University), Queering the Greek Revolution


*CLOSING REMARKS*

1:30-2:00 p.m. PST
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