Greek Community of Melbourne
 
 

1821 Birth of a Nation State

 

Location: Zoom, YouTube Live, Facebook Live
Date: THURSDAY - 15 Apr. 2021 @ 7:00pm AEST (Melbourne) | 12:00pm EEST (Athens)
Presenter: Prof Thanos Veremis

Language of Presentation: English | No knowledge of Greek required.
Entry: FREE

 
 

Synopsis

 

The Greek war of independence belongs to the same tradition as those of the American and the French revolutions. It was fought by Greek Christians against Ottoman Muslims. Furthermore, the Greek diaspora in Europe and Russia played a vital role. On the Greek site there were manly warlords and primates competing among themselves in a pre-modern segmented society. The war attracted philhellene friends of the revolution and romantic Europeans who admired the heritage of Greek antiquity.

 
 

Bio

 

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. Nationalistm and Identity in Southeast Europe, I.B.Tauris, 2017

 
 

How To Participate

 

We are providing two ways for you to enjoy the seminar: 

A. If you want to actively participate and ask questions at the end of the seminar you will need to join us through a Zoom Webinar - for which you'll need to pre-register by following this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9216178058627/WN_Vg1_pzDOR0SkjSa-vo7rhw

B. If you prefer to sit back and enjoy the show, just visit our Facebook or YouTube pages where we will be live-streaming the event.

 
 
 
 
 
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