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SUMMARY:The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to all\, but pre-registration is required. Please email us to register. \nJoin 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. \nAbout the book\nThis 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. \nAbout the speakers\nPaschalis 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.\n\nAthena 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’.\n\nJohn 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’.\n 
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LOCATION:Graham Wallas Room LSE\, LSE\, Houghton Street\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Army\, the Nation\, Nuclear Annihilation
DESCRIPTION:The Anthony D. Smith Fellowship Seminar is given by the 2023 Fellow\, Jack Matlack\, on ‘The Army\, the Nation\, Nuclear Annihilation: Constructing ‘Western’ identity in German-American NATO training exercises of the Cold War’. Join us in person in room PAN9.05 at the London School of Economics\, or join us on Facebook or YouTube. Members will receive a link to join on Zoom. \nAbstract\nBeginning in the Cold War\, joint training exercises between the German and US armies involved tens of thousands of soldiers\, colliding in imaginative play of plausible WW3 scenarios on the open fields and farms of West Germany. Proceeding from the reports and recollections of the two officer corps\, I contend that ‘Western’ identity in the military context of NATO exercises was not principally the product of Christian conviviality\, shared democratic ethos (Winkler\, 2007)\, or civilisational public rhetoric (Jackson\, 2006). Rather\, I call attention to precise military tactics and operational assumptions employed by both armies to construct mock war. By interrogating the underlying logic of training exercises\, I argue that the army as the ‘people in arms’ (Moran and Waldron\, 2003) embodied the German and American nations through their (re)enactment of World War 3. When the US Army trained in defending Germany\, the American nation incrementally embraced the identity of the preponderant superpower (Bavaj and Steber\, 2015). Conversely\, mock war  compelled Germans\, for the first time in the 20th century\, to surrender national notions of self reliance. Both nations adopted the standpoint of shared security and the ‘coupling of fates’ as an essential pillar of the Atlantic pact. Through the recurring rehearsal of exercises\, ‘Western’ identity emerges in this context as synthetic\, ultimately channeled through lenses of German and American national identity. \nAbout Jack\nJon-Wyatt ‘Jack’ Matlack is a PhD student at the GSOSES and a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus at the University of Regensburg. He received the 2023 Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship at LSE IDEAS for his research proposal\, “Maneuvering Westward”\, concerning training exercises of the US Army and German Army in the Cold War. \nFor more information about the Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship\, please visit asen.ac.uk/smith.
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LOCATION:PAN9.05\, Pankhurst House\, LSE\, 1 Clement's Inn\, London\, WC2A 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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