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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/hrc/making/
Thursday 7 - Saturday 9 September 2006
This conference is sponsored by the Centre for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, King's College London, and the Institute for Neohellenic Research.
Greece was among the first of the 'new' nation-states in Europe to win full statehood in the nineteenth century (1832). This conference sets out to investigate the ideological concepts underpinning the processes of nation-building and state formation during the century that began with Rigas' constitution and map of an imaginary republic (1797) and ended with the celebration of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens (1896).
The conference will therefore focus on the emergence, contestation, and consolidation, during that period, of a national identity at once 'modern' and 'Greek.' Participants will be invited to situate these developments within the theoretical context of current debates about modern nations and nationalism, and particularly about the role of the past in the formation of national consciousness.
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"...Greece was among the first of the 'new' nation-states in Europe to win full statehood in the nineteenth century..."
This means that Greece was ONE OF THE FIRST modern European nation-states. The American and French revolutions (1776 and 1791) are credited by historians as having given birth to the modern nation-state, which remain, by far, the most popular type of state in existence right up to the present-day. The formation of the modern Greek state inspired other European 19th century state formations such as Italy and Germany.
Bravo to Greece for getting in on the ground floor of the most successful political state formation in history!
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Current Topic - Making Grease the falsification of a nation
The ancient Hellenic heritage has been stretched to such extremes, it has become a subject of ridicule around the World. A free society cannot continue under the shadows of ancient glory and myth, the chains of Hellenism have compromised the sense of freedom and reality. The concept of self-criticism is a remote idea from the national Greek psyche.