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Semester 2 2025/26

Date	Speaker	Topic	Notes
Tue 3 Feb	Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos (City St George’s, University of London)	'National questions and the making of international order in South-eastern Europe'	6-7:30pm, Teaching Room 07, Old College Co-hosted with Modern Greek Studies Seminar
"This paper largely draws from my recently published book 'The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe 1870-1930'. It examines how British scholars and public intellectuals engaged with the management of ethnic difference in multinational empires—from Britain and Austria-Hungary to the Ottoman Empire—and how regional national questions were translated for British and international audiences. The paper discusses how British scholars (historians, journalists, archaeologists, classicists) attempted to reconcile liberal democracy, nationalism, and imperial rule."

Date

Speaker

Topic

Notes

Tue 3 Feb

Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos (City St George’s, University of London)

'National questions and the making of international order in South-eastern Europe'

6-7:30pm, Teaching Room 07, Old College

Co-hosted with Modern Greek Studies Seminar

"This paper largely draws from my recently published book 'The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe 1870-1930'. It examines how British scholars and public intellectuals engaged with the management of ethnic difference in multinational empires—from Britain and Austria-Hungary to the Ottoman Empire—and how regional national questions were translated for British and international audiences. The paper discusses how British scholars (historians, journalists, archaeologists, classicists) attempted to reconcile liberal democracy, nationalism, and imperial rule."

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This article was published on 2024-08-01