Past
& Present Empires :
Concepts, Critical Approaches & New Perspectives
University
of Thessaly in Volos (Greece)
27-29 June 2003
FINAL PROGRAM
Friday,
June 27
Opening ceremony, 17.00
- Greetings
- Ioanna Laliotou, Past and present empires: An introduction.
First session, 17.40
Antiquity and Empire
Chair : Ioanna Laliotou
Dimitris Kyrtatas, Alternatives to empire: Greek political
ideas from Herodotus to Aristotle.
Kostas Bourazelis, Imperium Sine Fine or the Roman Empire
has no frontiers.
Giorgos A. Souris, Aspects of the Roman governmental system
and methods of integration of subject populations. Comparisons
with the imperial systems of other historical times.
Discussion
Coffee break
Second session, 19.30
Historiographical approaches
Chair : Henriette-Rika Benveniste
Antonis Liakos, The four empires and the order of time.
Nikos Karapidakis, The emperor's sceptre.
Rebecca Karl, The asiatic mode of production and comparative
imperial formations.
Discussion
Reception Party
Saturday, June 28
First session, 9.00
Empires and nation-states
Chair : Christina Agriantoni
Anda Dialla, Empire and nation: Frictions and convergences
in nineteenth-century Russia.
Kostas Raptis, A jarring note or an accomplishment? Thoughts
about the Habsburg Empire.
Marius Turda, From empire to nation-states: Federalism
in Central Europe (1900-1940).
Dimitris Stamatopoulos, Networks of power and imperial
political structures.
Discussion
Coffee break
Second session, 11.30
Empire and imperialism
Chair : Efi Gazi
Margarita Miliori, The heritage of Rome and the "Europe
of Nations" in nineteenth-century Britain.
Nicholas Dirks, Sovereignty territoriality and legitimacy:
The establishment of British power in India in the late 19th
century.
Tom Gallant, Soft, hard and naked: Power and legitimacy
in the British empire during the 19th century.
Discussion
Third session, 17.00
Multinational pasts: Ideologies and politics
Chair : Maria Vasilaki
Sia Anagnostopoulou, The ideology of imperial Ottoman nationalism
in the late nineteenth century.
Caglar Keyder, Law and legitimation in the Ottoman Empire.
Paris Konortas, Empire within an empire? The Orthodox Ecumenical
Church in a multinational state (15th-18th century).
Haris Exertzoglou, Representations of social change in
the late Ottoman empire.
Discussion
Coffee break
Fourth session, 19.30
Legitimacy and sovereignty
Chair : Nikos Alivizatos
Polymeris Voglis, New forms of rule. Nation-building and
American intervention in Greece (1947-1950).
Antonis Manitakis, Transformations of national sovereignty
in the age of imperial sovereignty.
Christos Papastylianos, The economic constitution in the
age of empire.
Discussion
Sunday, June 29
First session, 9.00
Globalization and postcolonialism
Chair : Effi Voutyra
Giorgos Stathakis, The passage from imperialism to empire.
Partha Chatterjee, Empire and democracy.
Stathis Gourgouris, The politics of anti-Americanism.
Discussion
Coffee break
Second session, 11.00
The empire in trouble
Chair : Riki van Boeschoten
Giannis Papatheodorou, Waiting for the barbarians: The
decline and fall of the empire.
Foteini Vaki, The empire and its enemies.
Patricia Clough, Coming from the future: A transcendental
empirical approach to empire.
Discussion
Fourth session, 17.00
Political practices and mythologies
Chair : Vaggelis Karamanolakis
Gianna Katsiamboura, The use of sciences as diplomatic
means in the medieval empires.
Georgia Drakou, Empire and orientalism: The Ottoman East
in the Greek literature of the nineteenth century.
Ioulia Pentazou, The king's weddings and crossbreed civilization:
Readings of Alexander's "empire" in the Greek historiography
of the nineteenth century.
Vaggelis Kechriotis, Hellenism and empire: the public debate
on civic identity versus "historical rights" in Smyrna during
the second constitutional period (1908-1912).
Discussion
Coffee Break
Fourth session, 19.30
Contesting the empire
Chair : Ritsa Deltsou
Alexandra Bakalaki, Anthropological research and practice
in the age of empire.
Athena Athanasiou, The empire in a "state of emergency":
From the biopolitical discipline to the cosmopolitan utopia.
Dimitris Tourountsis, Tracing the postcolonial and the
post-communist on a Balkan carta. Participations, communities
and cinematic projections in Theo Angelopoulos 'Ulysses' Gaze'.
Lia Yioka, Is there a civilization of the empire anyway;
Discussion
Closing remarks, 21. 00
