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🗣️🎤 #Interview: Kostis Kornetis on Southern Europe's Democratic Transitions & Greece's Metapolitefsi![]()
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On the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Democracy in Greece, we sat down with renowned historian Kostis Kornetis to discuss his upcoming monograph “𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.”![]()
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In this interview with Rethinking Greece, Kornetis reflects on how Greece, Spain, and Portugal experienced and remember their tranistion from dictatorship to democracy as well as the cultural imprint and the political legacy of Greece’s 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘴𝘪 era.![]()
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Kostis Kornetis on the Democratic Transitions of Greece, Spain, and Portugal: Memory and Legacy
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Κοstis Kornetis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has studied History and Political Science in Munich, London and Florence, taught history at ...
🏆📢 The 2024 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association, has been given to historian Michalis Sotiropoulos for his book 𝙇𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚, 𝙘. 1830-1880![]()
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📖In this book Sotiropoulos illustrates the ideological breadth, creativity, and potency of nineteenth-century Greek liberalism, as well as the way it engaged in reforms of the Greek state.![]()
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🔍Be sure to check out the insights Sotiropoulos has shared in an interview with Rethinking Greece: tinyurl.com/te3unusr
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The Edmund Keeley Book Prize is awarded every two years by the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) to an academic book dealing with modern Greece or a Hellenic theme published originally in the En...
🇬🇷 📢In 2024, Greece marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of the military dictatorship with three powerful exhibitions reflecting on the nation’s path to democracy:![]()
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📍“1974. 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝑫𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒚” at the Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος - National Library of Greece, chronicling the struggle against the regime as well as cultural and societal shift of the first years of the Metapolitefsi;![]()
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📍"𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒔 1974 & 1944 – 𝑨𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎,” honoring two crucial milestones, the 50 years since the restoration of democracy in July 1974 and 80 years since the liberation of Athens from the Nazi occupation in October 1944 and![]()
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📍“𝑫𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒚” at the Εθνική Πινακοθήκη - Μουσείο Αλεξάνδρου Σούτσου / National Gallery, exploring artistic responses to authoritarianism in Greece, Spain, and Portugal. ![]()
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Click on the link below for more info on the exhibitions that provide a profound look into Greece's modern history and legacy of resistance to authoritian rule👇![]()
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Δήμος Αθηναίων; Γενικά Αρχεία του Κράτους - ΓΑΚ; Τεχνόπολη Δήμου Αθηναίων - Technopolis City of Athens; Αρχεία Σύγχρονης Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας - Contemporary Social History Archives; ΕΡΤ Αρχείο
A nation's journey: Three major exhibitions highlight the legacy of 50 years of democracy in Greece
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In 2024, Greece commemorates the 50th anniversary of the fall of its military dictatorship (1967–1974) with a series of exhibitions reflecting on the nation’s journey from repression to democracy....