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ONLINE ONLY: The Destruction of Smyrna. An age of nation building and violence
Live Stream Here: YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitter Broadcast
Date: THURSDAY 2 June 2022 @ 7:00pm AEST (Melbourne) | 12:00pm EEST (Athens) | 5:00am EDT (New York)
Presenter: Associate Professor Nicholas Doumanis
Language of Presentation: English
Entry: FREE
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Synopsis
September 2022 marks the centenary of the destruction of the Aegean port of Smyrna. A cosmopolitan city in which Greeks formed the largest community, it was violently transformed into an overwhelmingly Turkish city within a three week period. What happened between 9 September, when Turkish Nationalist troops marched into the city, and 1 October, when there were no Greeks left in the city? Why did a prosperous city that had survived a long period of Greek-Turkish hostilities become the chief victim of those hostilities? The lecture will recount the events and discuss the global significance of the destruction of Smyrna, and what it said about the great and dramatic global shift from a world of empires to one of nations.
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Bio
Nick Doumanis teaches history at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of the last volume of The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, with Emeritus Professor Antonis Liakos of the University of Athens, which reconsiders the history of Greece, Cyprus and the diaspora from 1912 through to the present. It will appear in 2023.
The Greek translation of his Before the Nation (2013), which discusses Greek life in the Late Ottoman Empire, has just been published in Athens by Papadopoulos Press.
https://www.epbooks.gr/shop/biblia-gia-enilikes/istoria-martyries/prin-apo-tin-katastrofi/
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Sponsors
We thank Geoffrey Conaghan for the kind donation that makes seminars like this possible.
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