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Join Paschalis Kitromilides, John Hutchinson, and Athena Leoussi to discuss Paschalis’s book, The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848). The event takes places on 5th February from 1800 at the Graham Wallas Room, LSE, and will be streamed live on Facebook and YouTube.
About the book
This volume aims to demonstrate the significance of the Greek liberation struggle to international history, and to highlight how it was a turning point that signalled the revival of revolution in Europe after the defeat of the French Revolution in 1815. It argues that the sacrifices of rebellious Greeks paved the way for other resistance movements in European politics, culminating in the ‘spring of European peoples’ in 1848. Richly researched and innovative in approach, this volume also considers the diplomatic and transnational aspects of the insurrection, and examines hitherto unexplored dimensions of revolutionary change in the Greek world. The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848) is published by Routledge.
About the speakers
Paschalis Kitromilides is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and a member of the Academy of Athens, where he holds the chair of the History of Political Thought. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard and Brandeis Universities, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the European University Institute. The author of more than fifty books and two hundred and sixty articles, his works have been published in Russian, Romanian, Serbian, and Bulgarian as well as English and Greek.
Athena Leoussi is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Reading and a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Government Department at the LSE. She is a founder of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and a founding editor of Nations and Nationalism. Her research interests include the history, theories and problems of nationalism and national identity; the comparative study of the peoples of Europe, including their political and cultural histories and contacts; the representation of national identity in art; race, anti-semitism and national identity in 19th Century Europe; and the role of the classical tradition in the making of modern national identities. She organised, together with Ian Jenkins, the British Museum exhibition, ‘Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art’.
John Hutchinson is Reader in Nationalism at the LSE. He has authored and edited eleven books in the field of Nationalism, including The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism (1987), Modern Nationalism (1994) and Nations as Zones of Conflict (2005) and Nationalism and War (2017), which was nominated for the ENMISA book prize and the Hedley Bull Book Prize in International Relations. He is currently Vice-President of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and Co-Editor-in Chief of Nations and Nationalism. In addition, he sits on the advisory boards of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences, Boston University, and of the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms, University of Amsterdam. He is working on a book, provisionally entitled ‘The Herderian Explosion’.
