1821: The Migration of Revolutionary Ideas (part 2)
Monday 22 February 2021, 6-8pm (GMT)
With King’s College London and the British School at Athens
Professor Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London)
Dr Athena Leoussi (University of Reading)
Dr Sanja Perovic (King’s College London)
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This event is part of the series of events, 21 in 21: Celebrating the 2021 bicentenary of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 21 Greek-British encounters, organised by the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London. Details of 1821: The Migration of Revolutionary Ideas (part 1) and other 21 in 21 events can be found here: https://21in21.co.uk/events/
Ideas about making a revolution – ideas that are in themselves revolutionary: these two back-to-back panel discussions, one in Athens, the other in London, will revolve around both concepts, as ways of understanding the outbreak of revolution by Orthodox Christian, Greek-speaking subjects of the Ottoman empire in the spring of 1821, that would lead to the creation of Greece as a modern nation-state in 1830. Speakers will focus on the transmission, or ‘migration’, of such ideas across the European continent in the wake of 1789 Revolution in France and their impact in creating the climate in which a Greek revolution became possible in 1821.
