New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Greek Revolution

An International Two-Day Symposium Open to the Public

THIS EVENT HAS NOW TAKEN PLACE. THANK YOU TO ALL PARTICIPATING SCHOLARS AND ATTENDEES!

Jackson School of International Studies, Hellenic Studies Program

This event took place Dec. 3-4 virtually from the University of Washington.

See below for the program and speaker abstracts.

 

 

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

Paris Papamichos Chronakis (Royal Holloway, University of London), Narratives of Exclusion, Performances of Belonging: Jews and the Greek War of Independence, 1871-1941

Chair: Devin Naar (University of Washington)

 

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

Chair: Evdoxios Doxiadis (Simon Fraser University)

 

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)

Chair: Nektaria Klapaki (University of Washington)

 

PANEL 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

Chair: Simos Zenios (UCLA)

 

CLOSING REMARKS

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

 

View Speaker Abstracts Here

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Feature image: Alexander Hollmann