Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Greek Revolution Dec 3-4

An International Two-Day Symposium Open to the Public

Jackson School of International Studies, Hellenic Studies Program
University of Washington | December 3-4, 2021 | Online via Zoom

Friday, December 3, 2021
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00-9:30 a.m. PST
Leela Fernandes, Director, Jackson School of International Studies
Alexander Hollmann, Chair, Hellenic Studies
Nektaria Klapaki, Lecturer, Hellenic Studies

PANEL 1:
From the Ionian Islands to the Greek Nation State: On British Colonialism and Religious Minorities
9:30-11:15 a.m. PST
Sakis Gekas (York University), The Ionian Connection: British Colonialism and the Greek Revolution
Evdoxios Doxiadis (Simon Fraser University), Muslims and Jews in the Greek War of Independence and Its Immediate Aftermath
Paris Papamichos Chronakis (Royal Holloway, University of London), Narratives of Exclusion, Performances of Belonging: Jews and the Greek War of Independence, 1871-1941
Chair: Devin Naar (University of Washington)

PANEL 2:
New Political Languages and the Greek Revolution
11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. PST
Efi Gazi (University of the Peloponnese), Conceptualizing “Liberty” in the Age of the Greek Revolution
Nektaria Klapaki (University of Washington), The Cult of the Insurgent Greek Nation in Kalvos’s Odes
Simos Zenios (University of California, Los Angeles), “Freedom-loving Speech:” Greek Poetry and Modern Revolution
Chair: Evdoxios Doxiadis (Simon Fraser University)

Saturday, December 4, 2021
PANEL 3:
The Greek Revolution through the Eyes of Philhellenes and Hellenes
9:30-11:15 a.m. PST
Roderick Beaton (King’s College London), Byron on Greece and Greeks – Was he a Phihellene?
Gonda Van Steen (King’s College London), The United States as a Haven for Greek Revolutionary War Orphans? Myth and Reality
David Ricks (King’s College London), Between Teos and Sparta: The Revolution in Panagiotis Soutsos’s The Cithara (1835)
Chair: Nektaria Klapaki (University of Washington)

PANEL 4:
The Greek Revolution from the Margins
11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. PST
Artemis Leontis (University of Michigan), Solomos’s Woman of Zakythos and the Making of Refugees
Vangelis Calotychos (Brown University), Nights of 2021/2022: Regarding Dionysios Solomos’s Free Besieged at the Bicentennial’s End
Nikolas P. Kakkoufa (Columbia University), Queering the Greek Revolution
Chair: Simos Zenios (UCLA)

CLOSING REMARKS
1:30-2:00 p.m. PST