{"id":10364,"date":"2022-10-27T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/conference-revolution-and-empire-in-the-mediterranean-the-greek-revolution-in-context\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:42:04","slug":"conference-revolution-and-empire-in-the-mediterranean-the-greek-revolution-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/conference-revolution-and-empire-in-the-mediterranean-the-greek-revolution-in-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: “Revolution and Empire in the Mediterranean: The Greek Revolution in context”"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 November<\/strong> 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Organized by HISTOREIN<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In collaboration with the British School at Athens<\/strong><\/a> & the Research Centre for the Humanities<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the support of Initiative 1821-2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Attendance in person is limited and upon invitation by the organizers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attendance for the public only via Zoom. Please register by contacting abozika@rchumanities.gr<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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DESCRIPTION<\/h5>\n

The Greek Revolution of 1821 took place in a moment of reaction and restoration that came after the first revolutionary wave of the Age of Revolutions and the Napoleonic wars. Be that as it may, the revolution became a reference, if not a model for other movements around the world, changed the geopolitical map of the Eastern Mediterranean, caused a rethinking of international affairs, and had a profound impact on the Ottoman state. Like all revolutions of the revolutionary age, it had manifold currents and contradictions, bringing together diverse social and cultural groups. Like some successful revolutions, it resulted in the secession of some provinces from an Empire and the creation of a new state. An understanding, thus of the outbreak and course of the revolution (as well as its \u201csuccess\u201d\u2014a problematic term in itself) has to consider this larger context. Historians have for sometime now shown that this larger context was by and large defined by a \u2018World crisis\u2019, that was shaped to a large extent by empires. Hence the recent renewed focus on these latter, and the transnational (and in fact, inter-imperial) movement of people, ideas, and goods as the context for understanding the transformations of the Age.<\/p>\n

We want to take this opportunity and discuss the Greek Revolution by situating it in this larger context. That it is appropriate to do is evidenced by the state of the Greek world at the conjuncture of the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. Indeed, during this time Greeks inhabited empires (Ottoman, Russian, Austrian, Venetian, French, British) which afforded them enormous mobility and opportunity, while at the same time imposing (more familiar) limits. By the time of the 1820s\u2014a period of imperial crises and of the first cracks of the Vienna system\u2014the Greek world was at its most expansive. In seeking to think about this larger context and the Greek Revolution, the workshop will give special attention to the Mediterranean and the many imperial contexts in which this was a part. At the same time, and while discussing the Greek Revolution as a Mediterranean event, it will also interrogate into the particular character of the revolutionary wave of the 1820s.<\/p>\n

Some of the papers do so by focusing on the interconnections and the shared features of the revolutionary developments taking place in the Mediterranean during the time (complex and region-wide events that included elections, constitutional and financial reforms, state-building, border-making, population politics etc.). Others focus more on the dynamic relationships such developments had with how people thought about the new political and social conditions in the region, and the political projects (national, imperial etc.) that they put into effect (or, sought to do so). Most papers show that the Greek revolution had an important role in debates about empire, revolution, statehood, and the international order that took place with particular force during this time. They also show that these debates were framed by an interplay between imperial visions\u2014with the emphasis here being on those of Britain and Russia\u2014and national and colonial projects.<\/p>\n

Thus, the workshop has four aims: i) to reflect on the validity of using the largely ignored geography of the Mediterranean for understanding this period, ii) to revise our understanding of the Age of Revolutions, conventionally centered on the North Atlantic and France, and in this way to rethink the role of empires (not least of the Ottoman) and the Mediterranean in the coming of political modernity, iii) to reassess the 1820s as a foundational moment for the transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states, iv) to expand the geographic\/spatial scope of the Greek Revolution and thus go beyond the West-European perspective in which the Greek revolution has been conventionally examined.<\/p>\n

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PROGRAM<\/a><\/h5>\n

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10:30 <\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong>10:40 <\/strong>Welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:40 <\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong>11:00\u00a0<\/strong>Despoina Valatsou, <\/strong>Adjunct Lecturer of Digital Humanities, Athens School of Fine Arts; RCH Administrator; HISTOREIN<\/em><\/p>\n

Presentation of the <\/em><\/strong>1821 Digital Archive<\/strong> Project<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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11:00 <\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong>12.30<\/strong> Panel 1: The Greek Revolution and the Mediterranean: Connections, resonances and cultural geographies <\/u><\/strong><\/h6>\n

Maurizio Isabella, <\/strong>Professor of Modern History, Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n

A Petitionary Moment?\u00a0Communitarian and Individual Rights during the 1820s Revolutions in Greece, Portugal Spain and Naples<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Juan Luis Simal<\/strong>,<\/strong> Associate Professor of Modern History, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid
\nRevolution and Finance in the Mediterranean in the 1820s<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elisavet Papalexopoulou, <\/strong>PhD Candidate, European University Institute<\/p>\n

The long gowns of female slavery: between confinement and the revolutionary world outside<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

12:30 \u2013 12:45 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

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12:45 \u2013 14:15 Panel 2: Liberalism and Empire in the Mediterranean during the 1820s<\/u><\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u039cark Philp<\/strong>, Professor of History, University of Warwick<\/p>\n

Liberalism and Revolution: British responses to Greece and the Mediterranean in the 1820s<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Arsan<\/strong>, Professor in Arab and Mediterranean History, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

Greece as Laboratory: Population Politics, Sovereignty, and Border-Making in the Eastern Mediterranean, c.1821-1867\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Giuseppe Grieco<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Fellow, Luigi Einaudi Foundation<\/p>\n

Connections across Central Mediterranean: Empires, Two Sicilies, and Greece in the early 19th century<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

14:15 <\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>15:30 Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

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15:30 \u2013 17:00 Panel 3: The Greek Revolution and the Ottoman Mediterranean<\/u><\/strong><\/h6>\n

Peter Hill, <\/strong>Lecturer in History, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne<\/p>\n

Mount Lebanon and Greece: Mediterranean Crosscurrents, 1821-1841<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yusuf Ziya Karabicak, <\/strong>PhD, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<\/p>\n

Being a Moreot: Kocaba\u015f\u0131s between Morea and Constantinople before the Revolution<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Antonis Hadjikyriacou, <\/strong>Assistant Professor, Panteion University<\/p>\n

Respatialisation in the Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus and the Ottoman age of revolutions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

17:00 <\/strong>\u2013<\/strong> 17:15 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

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17:15 \u2013 18:45 Panel 4: Imperial and colonial visions of the Mediterranean and the Greek Revolution<\/u><\/strong><\/h6>\n

Yanni Kotsonis, <\/strong>Professor of History & Russian & Slavic Studies, NYU Jordan Center<\/p>\n

The Greek Revolution as an Imperial Event<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ada Dialla, <\/strong>Professor of European History, Athens School of Fine Arts; President of the Board of the Research Centre for the Humanities; HISTOREIN<\/em><\/p>\n

What is a revolution in the Age of Revolutions? The Greek case of 1821<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Michalis Sotiropoulos, <\/strong>1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies, British School at Athens<\/p>\n

The Declaration of Greek Independence in a Global context<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

18:45 <\/strong>\u2013<\/strong> 19:15: Quo vadis?<\/u> <\/strong><\/h6>\n

20:00 Dinner <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Download the full program here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Academic Committee:<\/span> <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ada Dialla<\/strong>, Athens School of Fine Arts; Research Centre for the Humanities; HISTOREIN<\/em><\/p>\n

Antonis Liakos<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus, University of Athens; HISTOREIN<\/em><\/p>\n

Michalis Sotiropoulos<\/strong>, British School at Athens<\/p>\n

Athena Syriatou<\/strong>, Democritus University of Thrace; HISTOREIN<\/em><\/p>\n

Konstantina Zanou<\/strong>, Columbia University<\/p>\n

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Organizing Committee:<\/span> <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Athena Bozika<\/strong>, Research Centre for the Humanities<\/p>\n

Christos Chrysanthopoulos<\/strong>, Initiative 1821-2021<\/p>\n

Ada Dialla<\/strong>, Athens School of Fine Arts; Research Centre for the Humanities; HISTOREIN<\/em><\/p>\n

Michalis Sotiropoulos<\/strong>, British School at Athens<\/p>\n

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POSTER IMAGE:<\/p>\n

Mavrocordatos prenant un fort defendu par des turcs<\/em>
\nCharles-Henri Loeillot-Hartwig<\/p>\n

\u00a9 National Historical Museum – Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece<\/a>
\nRetrieved by: 1821 Digital Archive<\/strong><\/a>
\n(https:\/\/1821.digitalarchive.gr\/archive\/show\/art\/1093<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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