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The paper will explore the diaspora as an actor seeking to gain agency in Greek American relations. We aim to identify the characteristics of this community, its institutional identity and how it evolves over time, the extent and ways it intervenes within both Greek and American political elites...
In this paper I shall discuss Plotinus’ views on causation of and in the sensible sphere—by “the sensible sphere” I mean the physical world around us. The main focus is on the question whether all causes are ultimately mental and, if so, what conclusions can be drawn from that about Plotinus’ ontology. Is he a dualist with respect to the mind and the body? Or is he perhaps...
his presentation explores the institutional and political context of the Wehrmacht’s Kunstschutz (‘Art Protection’), established in 1941 following the conquest of Crete, through archival testimonies and the case studies of two young archaeologists, August Schörgendorfer and Ulf Jantzen. Recruited under the guise of protecting...
It was probably sometime in 1941 or early 1942 when İzmet İnönü, the second president of the Turkish Republic, summoned the minister of national education, Hasan Ali Yücel who confirmed – as İnönü had suspected – that Byzantine topics were not taught at the university level in the young Turkish Republic. Yücel was asked to immediately remedy the situation...
During the Second World War, more than four-fifths of Greece’s Jewish population, including ninety-five per cent of Thessaloniki’s 50,000 Jews, were murdered in Nazi concentration camps. That war...
In the long nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire promulgated not one but four regulations on antiquities: the first one in 1869, the second one in 1874, the third one in 1884 and the final one in 1906. These regulations reflected...
Scholars have long argued about how ‘primitive’ or ‘modern’ was the ancient Greek economy. In this context, arguments over the scale of olive growing in Archaic-Classical southern Greece and of oil exports therefrom assume broad importance for our understanding of early polis societies. A law attributed to Solon of Athens...
During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a generation of Ottoman Greeks was caught up in radical social and political changes, including the period of reforms known as Tanzimat. The Ottoman Greek press was both a product and an agent of these changes. The Uses of Oppression follows...
Professor Eirini Karamouzi, Dr Lamprini Rori – “The role of the Diaspora in Greek American relations, 1974-2024”
Professor Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson (University of Oslo), “Idealist, dualist or something else? Plotinus on the status of the sensible world”
Dr Georgia Flouda (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion), “Adventures in the Archives: Reconstructing archaeology in Nazi-Occupied Crete”
Dr Alessandra Ricci (Koç University), “How did it begin?: The Institutionalization of Byzantine Studies in Turkey and Sir Steven Runciman”
Dr Roderick Bailey (University of Oxford), “Anglo-American attitudes to the protection of Jewish cultural heritage in Thessaloniki, 1943-46”
Dr Artemis Papatheodorou (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), “The Ottoman laws on antiquities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”
Paul Halstead (Professor Emeritus, University of Sheffield), “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens: the contribution of ‘citizen science’”
Lady Marina Marks, “The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers, 1830–1862”