Colloquium: Greeks and their Topoi: 18th-20th Century Diasporas (21 November, 1998)

Paschalis Kitromilides (University of Athens), " Diaspora, Identity and Nation Building."

Alexander Kitroeff (Haverford College), "Vision of Diaspora and Nationhood: 19th Century Greece (1833-1897)."

Olga Profili (European Commission, Brussels), "Language as a Constituent Element of Identity: The Case of Grecia Salentina."

Marina Petronoti (National Center for Social Research, Athens), "The Greek Community in Asmara: Continuity and Innovation."

Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham), "Dimitris Vikelas in the Diaspora: Memory, Character Formation, and Language."

Karen Van Dyck (Columbia University), "Kazan's 'America America': Immigration, Translation, and the Impossible Arrival."

Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) and Anthony Molho (Brown University), commentators.

Memory, Identity, Geopolitics: A Conference on the Eastern Mediterranean (5-6 May 2000)

Session 1: Multi-Ethnic Legacies in the Balkans

Chair: Paschalis Kitromilides

Paschalis Kitromilides (University of Athens), "In the pre-Modern Balkans: Stories of Loyalty and Identity."

Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University), "Were the Ottomans Turks? And What Kind of a Question is This?"

Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University), "Modern Ladino Culture and Jewish Identity in the 19th c. Balkans."

Session Two: Macedonia

Chair: Dimitris Keridis

Loring Danforth (Bates College), "Alexander the Great: A Contested Symbol of Macedonian Identity."

Keith Brown (Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University), "Parapolitics in the Making of Macedonian Identity."

Anastassia Karakasidou (Wellesley College), Discussant.

Session Three: Nation Formation and Identity

Chair: Georgia Gotsi

Charles King (Georgetown University), "The Return of the Near East"

Fikret Adanir (University of Bochum), "Imperial Responses to Nationalism: The Ottoman Case."

Antonis Liakos (University of Athens), "Citizenship and Identity in Modern Greece."

Nicos Mouzelis (London School of Economics), "Late Development and Identity"

Session 4: Cyprus

Chair: Vangelis Calotychos>

Adamantia Pollis (New School of Social Research, NYC), "Memories Lost and Identities Gained in Cyprus."

Nergis Canefe (York University, Ontario), "Citizenship and Memory in Turkish Cypriot Society: The Dying Breed of Cypriotness."

Paschalis Kitromilides (University of Athens) and Engin Akarli(Brown University), Discussants.

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