Yannis Skalidakis was born in Marseille in 1977. He studied in the University of Athens and in the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He is a historian, doctor of Political Sciences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he obtained his PhD in 2012. His dissertation was entitled "Political Committee of National Liberation (1944): a type of revolutionary government. Political, economical and social aspects". A revised form was published by Asini Publications in 2014 with the title "Free Greece. The power of EAM during Occupation (1943-1944)". His current research is focused in the Occupation period on the island of Crete. His research interests include World War II in Europe, the Holocaust and nazi terror, economic, political and social impacts of the war. 

Publications

• Η Ελεύθερη Ελλάδα. Η εξουσία του ΕΑΜ στα χρόνια της Κατοχής, Αθήνα, Ασίνη, 2014, σ. 420.

•  «From Resistance to Counter-state: The Making of Revolutionary Power in the Liberated Zones of Occupied Greece, 1943-1944», Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol 33, no 2, May 2015.

• «Guerrilla warfare and imperialism», in Saër Maty Bâ & Immanuel Ness (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Palgrave Macmillan, υπό έκδοση το 2015.

• «The Cretan society facing total war and occupation (1941-45)», στο Kostas Skordyles and Liana Giannakopoulou (eds), Πρακτικά του συνεδρίου From Kornaros to Kazantzakis: Language, Culture, Society, and History in Crete. UniversityofCambridge, υπό έκδοση.

• «Never-NeverLand. Η βρετανική πολιτική απέναντι στην Αντίσταση στην Κρήτη, 1941-1944», στο: Προκόπης Παπαστράτης κ.ά. (επιμ.), Πρακτικά του Συνεδρίου Η Αριστερά και ο αστικός πολιτικός κόσμος 1940-1960, Αθήνα, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Ιστορίας Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών & Βιβλιόραμα, 2014, σελ. 526-534.

• «Η διανομή της ξένης βοήθειας στην επαρχία την περίοδο της Κατοχής: κοινωνικές και πολιτικές διαστάσεις», στο: Πολυμέρης Βόγλης, Φλώρα Τσίλαγα, Ιάσονας Χανδρινός, Μενέλαος Χαραλαμπίδης (επιμ.), Η εποχή των ρήξεων. Η ελληνική κοινωνία στη δεκαετία του 1940, Θεσσαλονίκη, Επίκεντρο, 2012, σελ. 27-55.

jskalidis@yahoo.com

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND                             

• Ph.D. in Sociology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens/Greece. 


• BA in Sociology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens/ Greece.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant Professor, Panteion University, Department of Political Sciences and History: Historical Sociology: Schools and Methods of Historiography [FEK: 1061/Γ’/12.12.2011].

• Member of the Teaching Staff of the Hellenic Open University, Course taught: Studies in Greek Culture: Public and Private Life in Greece.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Reflexive Turn in Historiography

- Memory, Nationalism & Greek Revolution (1821)

- Sociology of Intellectuals

- History of Historiography

BOOKS

• Beyond Positivism and Postmodernism. Essays in Historical Sociology, Opportuna, Patras 2009 (in Greek).

• Playing with Boundaries. Therapeutic Communities and Drug Users, Vivliorama, Athens 2005 (in Greek).

Selective ARTICLES – Book REVIEWS – CONFERENCES

• “The Promise of the 1821 Revolution and the Suffering Body. Some thoughts on Modernization and Anti-intellectualism”, Synthesis e-journal, 6 (2013),   (under publication ).

• “Greek Intellectuals and Popular Culture. During those years I was reading Rabelais and I discovered Makriyiannis”, in Ch. Dermentzopoulos - G. Papatheodorou (ed.), Ordinary People. Approaches to Popular Culture and the Experience of the Everyday, Open University of Cyprus – Gutenberg, Cyprus 2012 (under publication), (in Greek).

• “Pantelis Lekkas, Abstraction and Experience. A formal approach to the ideological phenomenon, Topos, Athens 2012”, The Greek Review of Political Science 37 (2013), (under publication), (in Greek).

• “Elective Affinities between Postmodern Sensibilities and New Age Spirituality”, Dokimes 17-18 (2013), (under publication), (in Greek).

• “Teaching Marx today: John Seed, Marx. A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum, London 2011”, Historein 11 (2011) 175-177.

• “Against the current: Ian Craib (ed. P. Lekkas), Classical Social Theory: An Introduction to the Thought of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Simmel”, Katarti, Athens 2009”, Synchrona Themata 110 (July-Sept. 2010), 106-108 (in Greek).

• “The Postmodern Turn to Reflexivity in Historiography”, Conference Conversations in Contexts, European Sociological Association - Social Theory Research Network, Prague: 9-11 September 2010.

• “Towards a Reflexive Historiography”, European Social Science History Conference, Ghent-Belgium: 13-16 April 2010.

OTHER Publications

• “The Mother-historian and the child in the Archive”, Online Journal Chronos 2 (2013),(under publication ),  (in Greek).

• “There can be no peace for us, Anna Karenina. The incredulity of Joe Wright towards the grand narrative of love?”, Avgi-Enthemata, 27 January 2013 (in Greek).

• “The historian as poet. On John Seed’s Pictures from Mayhew”,  The Βοοk’s Journal 21 (July 2012), (in Greek).

E-mail: eadriak@hotmail.com

I have graduated from the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University/Athens. During my studies I had been awarded a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). At the moment I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology of Panteion University with the topic of “The settlement of refugees of Minor Asia in Nea Kokkinia”.   

I am working as a secretary of Practical Exercise at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University since 2008. I have participated myself in this Exercise when I worked for three months in the library of the Greek Parliament. Subject of my work was thecataloguing of archival material related with the Agricultural problem in Greece. Furthermore I have made research in various organizations and archives due to my PhD research. I have excellent knowledge of English (Proficiency level) and I have certified computing skills (ict Europe).  

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Kalliope Pavli, born in Samos island (Greece), studied Mass Media & Publicity in Athens and History in the University of Patras, Faculty of Humanistic Studies, on Scholarship. She travelled and lived abroad, from Canada throughout Middle East, and on her return she completed her master’s and doctoral studies at the Panteion University, Faculty of Political Sciences (Dept. of Political Science & History), Athens, Greece. She has participated in pre-historic excavations in Greece, in conferences in Greece and abroad as a speaker on various subjects,she is a Scientific Member of the Research Centre for Modern History at the Panteion University, a member of Scientific Committees of international conferences and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal SCS. Actually she is a Postdoctoral Fellow on the Colonialism of the late 19th - early 20th century in relation to the Greek military campaign in Anatolia (1919-1922) at the Panteion University (R.C.M.H., Dept. of Political Science & History). Her second book, In the Name of the Civilization: The ideology of the excavations in Asia Minor during the Greek occupation (1919-22) [Εις το Όνομα του Πολιτισμού: η ιδεολογία των ανασκαφών στη Μικρά Ασία κατά την μικρασιατικήν κατοχήν υπό της Ελλάδος (1919-22)] was published in 2014 (Isnafi Publications, Giannena, Greece). She speaks and writes Greek (mother language), English, French and Italian.

 Indicative activities

2014, Oct. 2-5: «The economic cost of our “origin”», announcement at the “5th European Conference of Modern Greek Studies”, Thessaloniki, Greece.

2014, July:«From the “Third Rome” of Mazzini to the “Roma Fascista” of Mussolini: the mythological foundations of the Italian policy through archaeology, history, urban planning and arts», article in the Journal Κοινωνίας Δρώμενα of the Sociologists of Thessaloniki, Vol. 2.

2013 Dec.: «For the benefit of the Greek “Great Idea”: the excavations during the Asia Minor campaign (1919-22)», article in the International Journal SCS, Vol. 4:5-10.

2013,Sept, 1: «AsiaMinor, Ideological roads - National identities», in AVGI newspaper,Sunday edition, p. 23-25.

2013, March, 28-30: «Barbarism reappears, but created in the lap of civilisation itself and belonging to it; (Marx, Wage-Labour, Lectures, Dec. 1847)», announcement at the conference of the National and Kapodistrian University, Faculty of History and Theory of Science (Athens, Greece).

2012, Sept. 2-12: Participation in the excavations held by the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki in Lemnos under the direction of Professor Nikolaos Efstratiou.

2012, June 28-30: «On the Way to Ankara; the Meaning of the Greek Archaeological Excavations in Anatolia during the Greek Military Campaign (1919-1922)», announcement at the conference held by the “International Congress on Culture and Society” in Ankara, Turkey.

2012, June: PhD degree in History (Grade: Excellent), awarded by Panteion University, Faculty of Political Sciences (Dept. of Political Science & History). Her treatise is entitled: “The excavations held by Greek archeologists in Asia Minor during the Greek military campaign of 1919-1922”.

2011, November 10-12: «Constructing Myths: Ottomans vs Greek ancient monuments», announcement at the international conference “Well-Connected Domains, intersections of Asia and Europe in the Ottoman Empire”, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

2011, June 30-July 2: «The excavations by the Greek Army during the Asia Minor campaign (1919-1922) and their ideology on the “Greekness”», announcement at the Aegean University, Faculty of Social Anthropology and History (Mytilene, Greece).

2011, June 20: «Ottomans and antiquities; the construction of a Greek national myth», announcement at the half-day conference held by the Professor Stephanos Pesmazoglou at the Panteion University, Faculty of Political Sciences.

2011, May 11-13: «The excavations held by the Greek State in Asia Minor during the campaign of 1919-1922; an expression of the Greek nationalism»: announcement at the conference of the National and Kapodistrian University, Faculty of History and Theory of Science (Athens, Greece).

2010: «Eretz Yisrael: The Holy Nationalism», article in the collective book Epetirida 2008-2009, Papazisi Publications, Athens, Greece.

2010, June 15-27: Participation in the excavations held by the Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki in Lemnos under the direction of Professor Nikolaos Efstratiou.

2010, May, 29: “The “ever Greekness” of Asia Minor and the “barbarian” Turks”, announcement at the half-day conference held by the Professor Stephanos Pesmazoglou at the Panteion University, Faculty of Political Sciences (Athens, Greece).

2009: Became Scientific Member of the Research Centre for Modern History (R.C.M.H.) at the Panteion University, Faculty of Political Sciences (Dept. of Political Science & History), Athens, Greece.

2008-2009: Taught Greek (free courses) to the School of Migrants, down town Athens, Greece.

2008: M.A. degree in History (Grade: Excellent) awarded by Panteion University, Faculty of Political Sciences (Dept. of Political Science & History), Athens, Greece. Her Master’s research, entitled “Nationalism in Archaeology” (case-studies concerning Greece, other European countries as well as Israel and Iran), was included in the bibliography proposed to the Μ.A. students by the Prof. Stephanos Pesmazoglou in his seminar “View and Politics of The Past: the Greek case/Politics, Ideology, Archaeology”.

2006-2007: successfully completed a semester course on “Hellenism and the West” (Grade: Excellent) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

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