Harvard Seminar of Modern Greek Studies, Mahindra Humanities Center: Online event on Missolonghi, the Greek Revolution, and European politics, April 16, 2pm

[Roilos, Panagiotis]

 

Dear all,

I would like to invite you to the following event.

Best wishes,

Panagiotis Roilos

Panagiotis Roilos

George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature

Department of the Classics and Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature

Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

President of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi

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MAHINDRA HUMANITIES CENTER, HARVARD  

SEMINAR ON MODERN GREEK STUDIES

April 16, 2:00 pm BOSTON TIME

Missolonghi as the Symbolic Focal Point of European Liberalism

(online event)

SPEAKER: Aristides N. Hatzis, Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Director of the Laboratory for Political and Institutional Theory and the History of Ideas

Chair: Panagiotis Roilos

Graduate co-ordinator: Alexia Wang

Abstract: 

In the early 1820s, Missolonghi was a minor and relatively obscure town, scarcely known even to Europeans with some familiarity with the Levant and Greece. By the end of 1826, however, it had emerged as a symbolic focal point of Philhellenism and, more broadly, of European liberalism. This transformation can be attributed to three interrelated developments. First, Alexandros Mavrokordatos established Missolonghi as the political base of his operations and of a circle committed to institutional and constitutional reform. Second, representatives of the London Greek Committee selected the town as the base for their efforts to recast the Greek Revolution as a radical political and institutional experiment. Third, the final months of Lord Byron’s life, spent in Missolonghi, endowed the town with exceptional cultural and emotional significance. These developments help explain the intensity of European interest during the final stages of the siege. They also account for the profound shock, mourning, and renewed political engagement that followed its fall - reactions shaped in particular by the memory of the Sortie, which galvanized philhellenic activism across Europe.

For further details, including registration, please visit: https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/missolonghi-symbolic-focal-point-european-liberalism?occ_id=0

[Roilos, Panagiotis]

 

Dear all,

I would like to invite you to the following event.

Best wishes,

Panagiotis Roilos

Panagiotis Roilos

George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature

Department of the Classics and Department of Comparative Literature

Committee on the Study of Religion and The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature

Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

Harvard University

President of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi