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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">MODERN GREEK STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">15<sup>TH</sup> BIENNIAL CONFERENCE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">DECEMBER 10-12, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Deadline: 30<sup>th</sup> July 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Re-Viewing the Neo-Hellenic Project: 200 years after the Greek Revolution<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Organising Committee</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Vrasidas Karalis, The University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Anthony Dracopoulos, The University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Panayota Nazou, Emerita, the University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Elizabeth Kefallinos, Macquarie University</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Two hundred years after the Greek Revolution, there is considerable debate taking place about the future of the Greek project
as it started in 1821, focusing on its achievements, failures and perspectives. The Conference offers a great opportunity to scholars, academics, researchers and students to discuss about the past in critical, creative and yet dispassionate ways, exploring
its legacies and reconsidering its perspectives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The Greek revolution was one of the most important events of the 19<sup>th</sup> century, re-invigorating the ideas of
the French Revolution and bringing them to the East. The invention of a new cultural space for modernity through the introduction of the new form of social organization, the nation-state, meant deep changes in the cultural imaginary of the Greek communities
in Greece proper and in the diaspora. What was before diffused and polycentric was gradually reduced and concentrated to a specific space and a demarcated national territory.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">During this process, several questions emerged about the physiognomy, the ideology and the cultural specificity of Greek
culture and if it exists. This debate continues through the various political and social adventures of the Greek-nation-state and its diasporic communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The conference wants to critically explore various conceptual forms of thinking, patterns of self-articulation and images
of self-representation that were constructed over the last 200 years. It wants also to investigate their impact in order to delineate a narrative reconstruction of the intellectual history of modern Greeks inside and outside the Greek state, focusing on their
reflections over history, literature, art, language, society, cinema, education, music, politics and of course patterns of self-perception, ideological allegiance, religious identification, and geopolitical re-orientation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Furthermore, it wants to explore the specific work of major cultural figures before and after the establishment of the
Greek state, starting with their pioneering work during the Greek Enlightenment and their legacy until today, a period of intense historical and political revisionism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Abstracts must be around 300 words. Sent to:
<a href="mailto:Vrasidas.Karalis@sydney.edu.au">Vrasidas.Karalis@sydney.edu.au</a> or/and
<a href="mailto:Anthony.Dracopoulos@sydney.edu.au">Anthony.Dracopoulos@sydney.edu.au</a>
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