Greek Community of Melbourne
 
 

Visions of Freedom in the Greek World

 

Location: Zoom, YouTube Live, Facebook Live
Date: THURSDAY - 1 Apr. 2021 @ 7:00pm AEDT (Melbourne) | 11:00am EEST (Athens)
Presenter: Prof Paschalis M. Kitromilides

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

 
 

Synopsis

 

This presentation is a survey of the gradual articulation of the idea of a free and independent polity for the Greek nation as reflected in Greek political thought  from the 1770s to the outbreak of the Greek Revolution.

 
 

Bio

 

Paschalis M. Kitromilides, PhD Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and member of the Academy of Athens. He has been Director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies and of the Institute of Neohellenic Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (2000-2011). He has held visiting appointments at Harvard and Brandeis Universities in the USA, at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the European University Institute and the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence. Besides English and Greek, his books have appeared in Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Serbian.


His books in English include:

The Enlightenment as Social Criticism. Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992); Enlightenment Nationalism Orthodoxy (Variorum, 1994); From Republican Polity to National Community. Reconsiderations of Enlightenment Political Thought (Voltaire Foundation, 2003); An Orthodox Commonwealth. Symbolic Legacies and Cultural Encounters in Southeastern Europe (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, 2007); Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment (Voltaire Foundation, 2010); Enlightenment and Revolution. The Making of Modern Greece (Harvard University Press, 2013); Enlightenment and religion in the Orthodox world (Voltaire Foundation, 2016); Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World. The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Challenges of Modernity (Routledge, 2019); Insular Destinies. Perspectives on the History and Politics of Modern Cyprus (Routledge, 2020); The Greek Revolution. A Critical Dictionary (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021).

 
 

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/7316128491029/WN_Iz20jwo1R9-3FipWC2lkOg

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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