The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism,Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896)
7-9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2006, ΛονδίνοCentre for Hellenic Studies
Department of Byzantine and
Modern Greek Studies
Contributors may address these issues with reference to any of the following:
• political, constitutional, legal texts or commentaries
• historiography
• literary texts
• linguistics and the 'Language Question'
• outsiders' perspectives, including 'Romantic Hellenism,' the influence of the
Philhellenes, travel books
• Greeks' perspectives on outsiders (Ottoman v. Western European identities)
• archaeology/art/architecture
• the collection, dissemination and interpretation of folklore
• classical studies; the growth of Byzantine studies in the nineteenth century