Programme Chairs

Sophia Dingli, Glasgow

Vassilios Paipais, St Andrews

Plenary Session

Harbingers of the Apocalypse? Pandemics, Climate Emergency, Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons

Thursday, 1 September, 13:00 – 14:30, SAKIS KARAGIORGAS II

Chairs

Dr Sophia Dingli and Dr Vassilios Paipais

Plenary Speakers

Prof Sophie Harman, Queen Mary University

Dr Jairus Grove, University of Hawaii

Prof Shampa Biswas, Whitman College

Dr Erica Resende, Brazilian National War College

Prof Claudia Aradau, King’s College London

Semi-Plenary 1

The End of the Liberal World Order and the Return of Geopolitics

Thursday, 1 September, 15:00 – 16:30, SAKIS KARAGIORGAS I

Chair

Dr Sophia Dingli, University of Glasgow

Plenary Speakers

Prof Giorgio Shani, International Christian University

Prof Beate Jahn, University of Sussex

Dr Nicholas Michelsen, Kings College London

Dr Kevork Oskanian, University of Exeter

Prof David Lewis, Exeter University

Semi-Plenary 2

Pandemonium: World Politics in the End Times

Thursday, 1 September, 15:00 – 16:30, SAKIS KARAGIORGAS II

Chair

Dr Vassilios Paipais, St Andrews

Plenary Speakers

Prof Nomi Lazar, University of Ottawa

Dr Cameron Harrington, Durham University

Dr Ayşem Mert, Stockholm University

Prof Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Aberystwyth University

Dr Antoine Bousquet, Swedish Defence University

Anniversary Event

Revolutions as Global Events: The 1821 Greek revolution and beyond

Thursday, 1 September, 17:00 – 18:30, Aristotle Room

Revolutions, in their destruction of the existing order and in their overturning of hierarchies, are of course apocalyptic events. Ever since the modern revolutionary tradition, inaugurated by the French revolution, introduced the idea of novelty in world history, revolutions have been studied as dramatic, violent events that destroy the established order and open new horizons of expectation. Even more so, revolutions have been interpreted as collective eruptions that envisage and prepare the future, as factories of utopias that galvanise the collective imagination and mobilise movements across borders. That was the case with the Greek revolution in the early 19th century, perhaps the first successful national revolution of the modern era leading to the creation of an independent state and prefiguring the dawn of the era of national self-determination. The Greek revolution was not a local, isolated event, rather it was a major geopolitical and ideological event of its time, spreading the ideas of national self-determination and self-government while also forcing the major powers of the era to revisit the Eastern Question. Contemporaries projected on the Greek Revolution their liberal hopes in an age of reaction. Two centuries later, it seems to have anticipated later developments: independence movements, nationalist uprisings, civil wars, humanitarian interventions and refugee crises. Speakers in this event will address the impact and international dimensions of the Greek revolution and examine its significance within a global age of revolutions while also looking at the phenomenon of revolutionary politics and mobilisation from a global historical and comparative perspective and within the context of European imperialism.

Chair

Prof Andreas Gofas, Panteion University

Plenary Speakers

Prof Christina Koulouri, Panteion University

Dr Michail Sotiropoulos, British School at Athens

Prof Justin Rosenberg, Sussex University