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War & Identities

War and Identities
Macedonia (1904-1908), Occupation & Civil War (1941-1949),
Cyprus (1955-1959; 1963-1974)

Athens, May 26-27 2006
Gennadius Library, The Cotsen Hall
9 Anapiron Polemou Street

 
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Friday, May 26

10.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Part I: Irregular War

10.30-12.15

Panel 1.1: Macedonia

Chair: Evangelos Kofos, ELIAMEP

Persefoni Karabati, Research Centre for Macedonian History and Documentation, Museum of Macedonian Struggle Foundation, Thessaloniki
“Weapons and Community Seals. National Action and Division in the Greek-Macedonian Communities during the Macedonian Struggle”

Vemund Aarbakke, Political Science, Aristotle University
“The Civil War within the Civil War”

Aggelos Chotzidis & Iakovos Michailidis, Research Centre for Macedonian History and Documentation, Museum of Macedonian Struggle Foundation, Thessaloniki & , Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia
“Perpetrators and Victims in Macedonia (1901-1912)”

12.30-14. 4 5

Panel 1.2: Cyprus

Chair: Takis Pappas, University of Macedonia

Vasiliki Karagianni, History-Archaeology, University of Athens
The Self-definition of the Armed Conflict: Cyprus: 1955-1959”

Diana Markides, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
“The Importance of Grivas’ Arrest: Cyprus 1958 - 1959”

Petros Papapolyviou, History & Archaeology, University of Cyprus
“The EOKA Struggle and the Identity of the “Traitor:” The Use of the Term, the Antecedents, the Crime, and the Punishment”

Daniel Branch, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, Yale University
“Violence and Counter-Insurgency in Cyprus, 1955-59: A Comparative Perspective”

16.45-19.00

Panel 1.3: Occupation and Civil War

Chair: Dimitris Sotiropoulos, University of Athens

Frank Meyer, Independent Researcher
“Epirus in the Summer of 1943: Actions of the EDES-resistance, German and Italian Reprisal Operations, and their Impact on the Civilian Population”

Tasoula Vervenioti, Greek Open University
“’Women and Children’ in the Total Wars of the 1940s”

Nikos Marantzidis, Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
“The Party in War: The Political Commissar in the Democratic Army of Greece”

Stathis Kalyvas, Political Science, Yale University
War and Identities in the Civil War”

19.15-21.00

Panel 1.4: Roundtable

Irregular War and its Consequences

Chair: Spyros Economides, London School of Economics

Vassilis Gounaris, History & Archaeology, Aristotle University

Elias Katsoulis, Political Science & History, Panteion University

Dimitris Keridis, Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University

Spyros Economides, International Relations & Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics

Konstantinos Svolopoulos, Academy of Athens

 

Saturday, May 27

Part II: Identities

9.00-10.45

Panel 2.1:Macedonia

Chair: Kostas Ifantis, University of Athens

Kostas Katsanos, Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia
From Serbian ‘Patriotism’ to Yugoslavian Nationalism: Serbian ‘Macedonian fighters’ in Interwar Yugoslavia”

Ioannis Manos, Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia
Macedonian Struggle and Greek National Identity: Symbols, Practices and Politics in the Florina region after 1990”

Vlasis Vlasidis, Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia
“’Kapetanios’ and Journalists: The Macedonian Struggle and the Politics of Perception in the Modern Greek Newspapers”

11.00-12.30

Panel 2.2: Occupation and Civil War

Chair: Grigoris Psallidas, Ionian University

John Iatrides, Political Science, Southern Connecticut State University
Politicizing Resistance in Wartime Greece: External Factors”

Konstantina Botsiou, Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens
A ‘Pyrrhic’ Victory: The Erosion of the Popular Party by the Civil War”

12.45-14.30

Panel2.3: Cyprus

Chair: Nikos Mouzelis, London School of Economics

Sotiris Rizas, Center of Research into the History of Modern Hellenism, Academy of Athens
“From ‘Desirable Union’ to ‘Feasible Independence.’ The Transformation of Greek-Cypriot Nationalism during the 1960s”

Giorgos Kazamias, History & Archaeology, University of Cyprus
“The Revolution that did not end.” History of Hellenism and the Cyprus Struggle”

Giorgos Georgis, History& Archaeology, University of Cyprus
Makarios III, Archbishop and Ethnarch of Cyprus: Collective Perceptions, Faces, and Masks of a Leader”

 

Part III: Comparative Perspectives

16.45-18.30

Panel 2.4

Chair: Theodoros Kouloumbis, ELIAMEP

Ioannis Stefanidis, Faculty of Law, Economics and Political Sciences, Aristotle University
Three Versions of the ‘Fighting Spirit’ of the Nation: the Memoirs of ‘Kapetan Akritas,’ ‘Kapetan Markos’ and ‘Digenis’”

Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, History & Archaeology, University of Athens
Irregular War as a Political Lever in Greek history, 1904-1959”

Keith Darden, Political Science, Yale University
Competition, War, and the Development of Identities in Borderlands:  Ukraine and Macedonia in Comparative Perspective”

19.00-21.00

Panel 2.5: Roundtable

Identities and Post-War Greece

Chair: Thanos Veremis, University of Athens

Ivo Banac, History, Yale University

Stathis Kalyvas, Political Science, Yale University

Paschalis Kitromilides, Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens

Evangelos Kofos, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy - ELIAMEP

George Mavrogordatos, Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens

   

Organizing Committee

Basil C. Gounaris
Stathis Kalyvas
Giorgos Kazamias
Nikos Marantzidis
Spyros Economides
Ioannis Stefanidis
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

Support

Margarita Gogou
Nasos Roussias