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