Unit for the Study of Historical Culture

Unit director: Prof. Christina Koulouri (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

 

Its main goal is the study of the relation of historiography and historical culture, memory and history, as well as the role of history in the making of national identity. The Unit has created a resources database which includes archives (texts, documents, photographs etc), bibliographical references and studies (articles, proceedings, papers etc.) on the contemporary historical culture in Greece and other European countries (Britain, France, Germany and the Balkan States).

 

Objectives:

• The creation of an electronic database with documentation on the celebration of national holidays within the Greek State (1830-to date).
• The creation of an e-library focused on the field of Public History
• Academic research relevant to the field of Public History as well as social and cultural history.
• The organization of post-graduate seminars and academic gatherings in collaboration with Greek and Foreign academic institutions.

 

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Unit for the Documentation & Study of the Greek War of Independence

Unit director: Prof. Stephanos Papageorgiou (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

 

The Unit aims at gathering documentation and at researching fields related to the history of the Greek War of Independence. To this end, the Unit has created an e-Lexicon of the Greek War of Independence, which already comprises approximately 200 entries for political, administrative and military institutions, diplomatic acts, people, places etc. Furthermore, the Unit gathers both hard copies and digital documents of period (unpublished texts, archives, published oral narratives and interviews etc).

The creation of an electronic archive, the formation of a relevant bibliographical guide, as well as the writing of short studies and articles (all available online) belong to the main aims of the Unit. Its ultimate goal is the configuration of an online academic centre for the dissemination and publication of resources relevant to this thematic field that may serve as an archive as well as a research and teaching tool.

 

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Unit for the Ottoman, Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies

Unit drector: Associate Prof. Sia Anagnostopoulou (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

 

 

Focused on Cyprus, which was an Ottoman province and later a British colony, we concentrate on research projects concerning topics like: imperial, ottoman modernity (central power, local authorities), imperial colonial modernity (central power, local authorities), ottoman imperial communalism (central power, local authorities), colonial imperial communalism and post-colonial communalism (institutional establishment of the communal phenomenon divided into three different chronological periods), ethnic-religious communalism (internal politics and social construction of the communities during the first two periods). In the context of this research, we will deal with the issue of bi-communal conflicts, as a colonial as well as a post-colonial problem, and with the issue of nationalism, within the colonial and post-colonial framework.

The comparative view of the Greek (Greek Cypriot) and Turkish (Turkish Cypriot) bibliography, focused on the Cyprus issue, as well as their analysis using the colonial and post-colonial studies constitute some of the main goals of the Laboratory.

 

Objectives:

• The creation of an electronic database of studies relevant to the Ottoman period ofCyprus.
• The creation of an electronic database of academic studies relevant to colonial and post-colonial studies, focused onCyprus.
• The creation of an electronic database of studies relevant to the history ofCyprusof the colonial and post-colonial period.
• The collection and digitization of relevant archives: British, Cypriot, Greek and Turkish archives, as well as communal archives (Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot).
• The collection and digitization of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot newspapers.

 

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Unit for the Documentation and Study of the Greek Press

Unit director: Dr Gioula Koutsopanagou (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

 

The aim of the Unit is to document the multi-faceted history of the Greek Press from the late 18th century to the present day and to correlate it with other national histories of the Press, as found in the relevant literature.

 

Within this context, the Unit has undertaken the task to create a database of the Greek Press both in Greece and Abroad, including newspapers and magazines, a “Register of Greek-speaking Journalists, Publishers and People of the Press in Greece and Abroad”, and archives containing relevant bibliography, oral testimonies, personal archives and publications in digital form.

 

In addition the Unit seeks:

• To organise research groups for the purpose of in-depth thematic analysis based on an interdisciplinary approach.
• To collaborate with professional press organisations and related academic and research institutions in Greece and abroad.
• To organise scholarly discussions and seminars.
• To publish research findings. In collaboration with Papazisis Publishers, the Unit has inaugurated a series under the general title of “History of the Greek Press: Documents, Testimonies and Studies”. As part of this series, we published (2006) a book in Greek by Babis Marketos – owner-publisher-editor of the National Herald (Ethnikos Keryx) – entitled Οι Ελληνοαμερικανοί: Ιστορία της εν Αμερική Ομογένειας (“Greek-Americans: History of the Greek Diaspora in America”).