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unfortunately for reasons pertaining to the Covid 19 situation we will have to reschedule the conference for next year,</div>
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we apologise for the inconvenience!</div>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">MODERN GREEK STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">15<sup>TH</sup> BIENNIAL CONFERENCE </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">DECEMBER 10-12, 2020 </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS </span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Deadline: 30<sup>th</sup> July 2020 </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Re-Viewing the Neo-Hellenic Project: 200 years after the Greek Revolution </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Organising Committee</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Vrasidas Karalis, The University of Sydney </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Anthony Dracopoulos, The University of Sydney </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Panayota Nazou, Emerita, the University of Sydney </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Elizabeth Kefallinos, Macquarie University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">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<span> </span>of self-perception, ideological allegiance, religious identification, and geopolitical re-orientation. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Abstracts must be around 300 words. Sent to:
</span><a href="mailto:Vrasidas.Karalis@sydney.edu.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Vrasidas.Karalis@sydney.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">
or/and </span><a href="mailto:Anthony.Dracopoulos@sydney.edu.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">Anthony.Dracopoulos@sydney.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Garamond",serif" lang="EN-US">
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