Feb
7
7:00 PM19:00
Dec
31
to Jan 1
Dec
12
to Dec 14
The ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for international law and human rights?
Dimitris Machlouta received a Scholarship offered by the Carlsberg Foundation and presented a paper under the title “The Campaign of the Inter-American Federation for Freedom and Democracy in Greece to eject Greece from the Council of Europe; the Meynaud Papers”
Dec
6
to Dec 7
Situating Ottoman Europe
This was a workshop that brought together senior Ottomanists and four PhD candidates to discuss what Ottoman Europe means for historiography in general. Yusuf Karabicak presented a paper titled “Sultan’s Clergy: The Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople between Serbian communities and Ottoman Government, 1797-1813.”
Nov
8
to Nov 10
"Immigrec goes to school": Reflections on an oral history education program on the Greek immigration to Canada
Workshop “Introduction to Oral History”
In this workshop, Dr. Alexandra Siotou draws on her experience of designing and carrying out an oral history education program in Montreal and talks about methodological issues and the challenges and the benefits of implementing oral history in education.
Nov
7
to Nov 10
26th Modern Greek Studies Symposium
Dimitris Machlouta received the MGSA Graduate Student Grant and presented a paper under the title "Dear Co-Fighters"; The Inter-American Federation for Freedom and Democracy in Greece and its Anti-Junta Campaign.
Oct
16
to Oct 18
Religious communities and political constructions: Balkans, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean (7th-19th centuries)
This was a workshop that focused on religious communities and their place in politics. Yusuf Karabicak presented a paper on the position of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople during the Serbian Revolt of 1804
Sep
30
4:30 PM16:30
Sep
3
5:00 PM17:00
Greek Experience Under Ottoman Rule
Yusuf Karabicak presented a paper titled “The ayan and the metropolitan: A rocky relationship in late 18th and early 19th centuries.” The workshop brought together PhD students that studied different aspects of the Greek experience under Ottoman Rule.
Aug
3
5:00 PM17:00
Graduate Colloquium in Ottoman Studies
Yusuf Karabicak presented a paper titled “‘Why would we be limberte?’ Liberté in the Ottoman Empire, 1792-1800,” The workshop brought together PhD students that were currently enrolled in Ottoman history programs around the world.
Jul
23
5:30 PM17:30
“A Virtual Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada”,
“A Virtual Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada”, paper presented for Our Colleagues’ Discoveries event by Deniz Özlem Çevik.
Jun
18
5:30 PM17:30
Crisis of the Ottoman Old Regime: Orlov Revolts in the Peloponnese and Aegean Islands, 1770-1774
Yusuf Karabicak was a recipient of the Leibniz Institute for European History Doctoral Fellowship between March and September 2019. As part of the program, he gave a talk on the Orlov revolts situating it in wider European debates of late 18th century.
May
8
4:00 PM16:00
The Digital Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada: The poetics, politics and silences of exhibiting
What is recognized and established as an official migratory narrative? Who is entitled to narrate the history of immigration? Which aspects of this history are or should be highlighted and which ones are or should be silenced? And how an anthropologist converts oral testimonies and silences into exhibition items for a digital museum?
In this talk, Dr. Alexandra Siotou discusses the politics of representation and the possibilities and limitations regarding the exhibition of oral testimonies in a digital museum.
Apr
17
4:00 PM16:00
Exhibiting silences: an anthropological approach of the curatorial practices of the Digital Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada
In this talk Dr. Alexandra Siotou examines how digital technologies define the gathering of research data in an oral history program and how they contribute to the display of unheard voices as well as to the production of new silences in the context of a digital museum.