[MGSA-L] Harvard, event on "Transnational Visions of Judicious Integration, " March 31

[Roilos, Panagiotis]

Dear all,

I would like to invite you to the following event.

Sincerely,
Panagiotis Roilos
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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Cultural Politics Seminar: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
“Transnational Visions of Judicious Integration: The Curious Fates of a Recessive Diplomatic Tradition"(Zoom; see below)

March 31, 4:00pm


Speaker:

George Kalpadakis, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University; Assistant Researcher, Modern Greek History Research Center (KEINE), Academy of Athens.



Chair/Respondent: Panagiotis Roilos, Harvard University


Abstract:

In the postwar period the issue of the post-colonial fate of Cyprus generated a debate on how to reconcile the complicated geostrategic balances in the Eastern Mediterranean with the principle of equal rights and self-determination of its people. In this context two divergent approaches emerged in Greece, which mirrored the cleavages formed by earlier diplomatic traditions. The first, which would come to dominate foreign policy in the latter part of the 1950s, harbored a more territorially-bounded notion of nationhood while the second, whose influence was receding, was characterized by a gradualist, more diachronic and transnationally-oriented approach aimed at what the Alexandrian Greek Constantine Cavafy termed “judicious integration.” While not antithetical to the pursuit of territorial consolidation, its proponents nevertheless envisioned a transitional phase whereby a multiplicity of national centers could wield soft power tools with the overriding goal of gradually asserting the hegemonic role of diasporic Hellenism in the region.

Remote Access Information:

To join by computer:

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdOCppz4tE9R0daQEqgOdotsBuCrt9T3F

Please note: This event requires registration in advance in order to receive the meeting link and password.


Panagiotis Roilos
George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature
Department of the Classics and Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Founder and Director, Delphi Academy of European Studies
Greek Hauntologies and Disjointed Times: Temporality and Tropes of Indebtedness from British Aestheticism
to the Current European Crisis
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