Visions of Freedom in the Greek world | Seminars 2021

Presenter: Prof Paschalis Kitromilides

Abstract:
This presentation is a survey of the gradual articulation of the idea of a free and independent polity for the Greek nation as reflected in Greek political thought from the 1770s to the outbreak of the Greek Revolution.

Bio:
Paschalis M. Kitromilides, PhD Harvard University, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and member of the Academy of Athens. He has been Director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies and of the Institute of Neohellenic Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (2000-2011). He has held visiting appointments at Harvard and Brandeis Universities in the USA, at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the European University Institute and the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence. Besides English and Greek, his books have appeared in Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Serbian.

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