Volume 2 / Athens 2000 "Second Meeting of Young Historians, in the Memory of Gunnar Hering" Vienna, 20-21 December 1999 by Katerina Papakonstantinou The meeting was organized by the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (University of Vienna), the Department of History and Archaeology (University of Athens), the Center for Research on the Balkans (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and the Austrian Association of Modern Greek Studies. This meeting was a follow-up of a previous meeting of young historians that had been organized by professor Hering in December 1993. The theme of the second meeting was "Twenty-five Years after the end of the Greek Dictatorship: Developments in modern history". Organizer Maria Stasinopoulou noted that the aim of this meeting was to trace the methodological and theoretical developments in the field of modern Greek studies during the last twenty-five years. The participants in the meeting were professors and graduate students at various academic departments including the department of history and archaeology at the University of Vienna, the department of history at the lonian University and the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna. The themes presented in the papers covered a broad historical period (13th-20th century) , including social, economic and cultural history, Ottoman history and the period of Venetian Occupation, Greek war of independence, diaspora and immigration, philhellenism and nationalism. The presenters also addressed issues related to the organization of modern Greek studies in the germanphone academia. The variety of themes and methodological approaches provided the opportunity for a fruitful exchange that concerned the need to envision new interpretative frameworks able to accommodate old and new questions in modern Greek history. Return to Top