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
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