Around The Globe Old Questions, New Topics in Comparative and Transnational History

Volos, Greece. 04–06 June 2010

FRIDAY, JUNE 04
17.45 WELCOME

18.00 IN THE LABORATORY
OF HISTORICAL METHODS
chair: DIMITRIS KYRTATAS

SABINA LORIGA
The Extraterritorial Biographies of
Rahel Varnhagen and Jacques Offenbach

EFFI GAZI
Marxist Historiographies

SATURDAY, JUNE 05
10.00 MIGRATIONS
chair: ANNA MATTHAIOU

LENA KORMA
Étudier l’i-émmigration d’une minorité:
approches parallèles, approches croisées

RIKA BENVENISTE
Comparing medieval expulsions

12.00 CRITICIZING MODERN HISTORY
chair: POLYMERIS VOGLIS

HENRIETTE ASSEO
Une critique radicale
du multiculturalisme en europe:
L’exemple des Roms

ANTONIS LIAKOS
The implied canon of European history:
framework of comparative activities

18.00 SCIENCE’S TRAVELS
chair: MITSOS BILALIS

ANTONELLA ROMANO
Ordering the globe at the dawn of the early modern period:
José de Acosta and Antonio Possevino,
two worldviews in comparison

KOSTAS GAVROGLU, MANOLIS PATINIOTIS
Can there be (trans)national histories of science:
A case study from the history of Newtonianism

20.00 AROUND THE GLOBE: REGIONALISM CONSIDERED
chair: CHRISTINA AGRIANTONI

NICK DOUMANIS
The Eastern Mediterranean in world history
and “la longue durée”

IOANNA LALIOTOU
Rethinking globality:
from transnationalism to critical regionalism

SUNDAY, JUNE 06
10.00 REFLECTIONS ON 20TH CENTURY’S TRAUMAS
chair: ANNA MATTHAIOU – POLYMERIS VOGLIS

ANNETTE WIEVIORKA
Camps de concentration, crimes contre l’humanité,
génocide: comparer ou brouiller?

RIKI VAN BOESCHOTEN
Nation, memory and the politics of suffering in
a transnational space: chosen traumas of the Greek Civil War

11.30 DISCUSSION

12.30 CONCLUSION

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