Framing the history of a diaspora: the Greeks, 1890 to the present
28February 2023
12.30pm – 2.00pmAEDT
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Free for everyone
Seminar
From the 1890s, Greek communities made new homes in European colonies, settler societies and advanced post-war economies like West Germany, but were also being violently uprooted from much of the eastern Mediterranean and the Soviet Union. This paper suggests how diaspora histories might be reframed within the context of global historical developments.
This event will be hybrid, both in person room 353 Morven Brown Building, Kensington Campus and online
Nick Doumanis has taught at UNSW since August 2001 but will join the University of Illinois Chicago this August. In his new co-authored book, The Edinburgh History of the Greeks: the 20th and 21st Centuries, he has tried to write a history of a transnational people rather than a nation.
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