Professor, Department of History and Archaeology

LIAKOS, ANTONIS
Modern Greek History,
Social History, Historiography /
Address: University campus, School of Philosophy, Faculty of History and Archaeology, Athens, 15784
Phone: 0030 6974504784
Fax: 0030 210 7248979
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Antonis Liakos

Athens, 1947, June 22

Professor, Department of History and Archaeology,

University of Athens

Tel: +30210 6630455

Home address: Post Box 32

Athens, 19004

Greece

Education:

BA in History at the University of Thessaloniki,1977

Postgraduate Studies in History and Political Science, University of Rome, 1980

PhD in History, University of Thessaloniki, 1984

Professional Experience

Associate professor, University of Thessaloniki 1984-1989

Professor at the Department of History, University of Athens, since 1990

President of the International Commission of the Theory and History of Historiography, 2010-2015

Member of the Board, 2006-2010

Managing Editor of the Review Historein

Major Fellowships :

Research Fellowship, University of Birmingham 1989-1990

Visiting Professor: University of Sydney, 1993

European University Institute, Florence 1994

Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies, 1995-1996, 2006

Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, Spring term 2001

New York University, Spring term 2002

National Council of Research and Technology 2003- 4

Historein, Managing Editor

European Doctorate in Social History, Member of the board, 2004-2009

Main research areas

History of 19th c. in Greece and Italy

Social History

History and Theory of Historiography

Nationalism

Public History and Historical Culture

Books

How the Past turns to history, Athens, Polis, 2007

The Nation. How was envisaged by those who wanted to change the world?, Athens, Polis, 2005

L'Unificazione italiana e la Grande Idea (1859-1871), Firenze, Aletheia, 1995

Labour and Politics in the Interwar Greece, Athens 1993

The Emergence of Youth Organizations, Athens 1988

The Unification of Italy and the Great Idea(1859-1862), Athens 1985

The Socialist Federation of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 1985

Articles/Chapters in Books

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<!--[endif]-->“Il passato come utopia e il desiderio di storia” in Rolf Petri (ed.)Nostalgia. Memoria e passggi tra le due sponde dellʼ Adriatico, Roma-Venezia, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, 2010, 63-74

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<!--[endif]-->“Di che tratta la critica storica?» in Memoria e Ricerca, 12 (2009), 159-166

<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<!--[endif]-->“History Wars: Questioning Tolerance” in: Gudmundur Halfanarson (ed.) Discrimination and Tolerance in Historical Perspective, Pisa, Edizioni Plus, 2008, 77-92

<!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<!--[endif]-->“History Wars – Notes from the Field”, in: Yearbook of the International Society for the Didactics of History 2008/09, pp. 57-74.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->5.<!--[endif]-->“Hellenism and the Making of Modern Greece: Time, Language, Space” in Katerina Zacharia (Editor), Hellenisms. Culture, Identity and ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, 201-236

<!--[if !supportLists]-->6.<!--[endif]-->„Canonical and Anticanonical Histories“ in Neni Panourgia and George Marcus,Ethnographica Moralia. Experiments in Interpretative Anthropology, New York, Fordham University Press, 2008, 138-156

<!--[if !supportLists]-->7.<!--[endif]-->“Canon and the conceptual frameworks of modern history” in Gurcan Kocan (Editor), Transnational Concepts, transfers and the challenge of the peripheries, Istanbul Technical University Press, 2008, 20-29

<!--[if !supportLists]-->8.<!--[endif]-->“Come il passato diventa storia? Lʼ uso metaforico della psicanalisi”, Contemporanea, Rivista di storia dellʼ800 e del ʽ900, Bologna, Il Mulino, 11,2 (2008) 260-270

<!--[if !supportLists]-->9.<!--[endif]-->“On negative consciousness” in Maria Stassinopoulou –Ioannis Zelepos (Editors),Griechische Kultur in Sudosteuropa in der Neuzeit, Wien, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008, 221-228,

<!--[if !supportLists]-->10.<!--[endif]-->“Utopian and Historical Thinking: Interplays and Transferences”, Historein 7(2007) 20-57

<!--[if !supportLists]-->11.<!--[endif]-->“Susannah and the Elders. What the Theory of History is needed for?”, Politis, 161 (2007), 19-23

<!--[if !supportLists]-->12.<!--[endif]-->“From the Greek to the common our language” in A.F. Christides (ed.), History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to the Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 1287-1295

<!--[if !supportLists]-->13.<!--[endif]-->“Historical Time and National Space in Modern Greece”, in Hayashi Tadayuki and Hiroshi Fukuda,Regions in Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Present, Sapporo, Slavic Euroasian Studies 15, 2007, 205-227

<!--[if !supportLists]-->14.<!--[endif]-->“Multiple Paths to Citizenship. T.H.Marshallʼs Theory and the Greek Case”, in Steven Ellis, G.Halfdanarson, A.K. Isaacs (Eds), Citizenship in Historical Perspective, Pisa, Plus, 2006, 65-70

<!--[if !supportLists]-->15.<!--[endif]-->With Dimitra Lambropoulou and Yannis Yannitsiotis, “Work and Gender in Greek Historiography” in Berteke Waaldijk (Ed.), Professions and Social Identity. New European Historical research on Work, Gender and Society, Pisa, Plus, 2006, 1-14

<!--[if !supportLists]-->16.<!--[endif]-->“The 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, 3-9 July 2005”, Ta Istorika, 43, (2005), 529-539

<!--[if !supportLists]-->17.<!--[endif]-->“The question of continuity in the Modern Greek Historiography” in P.Kitromilidis-Tr.Sklavenitis (Ed.) Historiography of Modern and Contemporary Greece, 1833-2002, Athens, Hellenic Centre of Research, 2004, Vol. 1, 53-65

<!--[if !supportLists]-->18.<!--[endif]-->Asking or Listening? The politics of Heritage”, Cogito, 1, 2004, 58-61

<!--[if !supportLists]-->19.<!--[endif]-->«The statues are not wreckages. The statues are in the Museum. On History and Psychanalysis», Tetradia Museiologias, 1 (2004)14-18

<!--[if !supportLists]-->20.<!--[endif]-->“La deuxième vie de la langue Grecque”, Les Langues Classiques: La gestion dʼun capital culturel, Athènes-Thessalonique, Centre de la Langue Grecque, 2004, 97-101

<!--[if !supportLists]-->21.<!--[endif]-->a. “Modern Greek Historiography (1974-2000). The Era of Tradition from Dictatorship to Democracy” in Ulf Brunbauer (ed.), (Re)Writing History. Historiography in Southeast Europe after Socialism, Münster, LIT Verlag, 2004, 351-378;

b. Lʼhistoriographie grecque moderne (1974-2000). Lʼère de la tradition, de la dictature a la democratie, Rue Descartes 51 (2006) 92-113

<!--[if !supportLists]-->22.<!--[endif]-->“Rebels and Bandits in the academic conferences” introduction to H. Fleischer (editor) Grece ʽ36-ʽ49. From the Dictatorship to the Civil War, Athens, Kastaniotis, 2003, 27-36

<!--[if !supportLists]-->23.<!--[endif]-->“Cognitive or Normative History?”, Ta Istorika, 38(2003)209-224

<!--[if !supportLists]-->24.<!--[endif]-->.“The Construction of National Time. The Making of the Modern Greek Historical Imagination” in Jacques Revel and Giovanni Levi, Political Uses of the Past, The Recent Mediterrannean Experience, London, Frank Cass, 2002, 27-42

<!--[if !supportLists]-->25.<!--[endif]-->“The Ideological renovation” in Yannis Voulgaris end others (eds.) The Prospects of Modernization in Greece, Athens, Kastaniotis, 2002, 53-64

<!--[if !supportLists]-->26.<!--[endif]-->“Identita e cittadinanza nella Grecia moderna” in Carlotta Sorba (a cura) Cittadinanza. Individui, diritti socially, collettivita nellaa storia contemporanea, (Atti del convegno annuale SISSCO, Padova, 2-3 dicembre 1999, Quaderni della Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato 101, Roma 2002, 63-69 Roma

<!--[if !supportLists]-->27.<!--[endif]-->“Hercules, Amazons and the delicious crumpets. Representations of Gender and Power in the Writings of Rigas”, Mnimon, 23 (2001)99-112

<!--[if !supportLists]-->28.<!--[endif]-->“History writing as the return of the Repressed”, in L.Passerini (ed.) European Ego-Histoires, Special Issue of Historein, n. 3 (2001), 47-58

<!--[if !supportLists]-->29.<!--[endif]-->“Lʼ instrumentalisation de lʼ histoire par la politique» in NADQ, Revue dʼ Etudes et de Critique Sociale (Alger) 14/15 (2001) 9-24

<!--[if !supportLists]-->30.<!--[endif]-->“Modern Greek historiography in the last quarter of 20th century” in Syghrona Themata, 76-77 (2001) 72-91

<!--[if !supportLists]-->31.<!--[endif]-->“From the Greek to the common our language” in A.F. Christides (ed.), History of the Greek Language, Thessaloniki 2001, 963-971

<!--[if !supportLists]-->32.<!--[endif]-->“What should we remember and what should we forget? Memory, history and responsibility” in Responsibility: From Principles to Practice, Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg 2001, 50-54

<!--[if !supportLists]-->33.<!--[endif]-->“La storia della Grecia come costruzione di un tempo nazionale” Contemporanea, Rivista di storia dell ʽ800 e del ʽ900, 4,1 (2001)155-169

<!--[if !supportLists]-->34.<!--[endif]-->«K.Paparrigopoulos», in Greece, Books and Writers, Athens, National Book Centre of Greece, 2001, 196-107

<!--[if !supportLists]-->35.<!--[endif]-->“The transformation of historical writing. From syntagnatic to paradigmatic syntax” inHistorein, 2 (2000) 47-54 [and in Nyhedsbrev.Netvaerk for Historieteori & Historiografi, 8 (2000) 10-17]

<!--[if !supportLists]-->36.<!--[endif]-->“On the poetics of History” Ta Istorika, 31 (1999) p.259-290.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->37.<!--[endif]-->“Garibaldians, Socialists and the War of 1897”, in The War of 1897, Athens, Etaireia Spoudon, 1999, p.163-178 ; “1897: les socialistes, les garibaldiens et la guerre” in Paul Aubert (ed) Crise espagnole et renouveau ideologique et culturel en Mediterranee, fin XIX siecle, Aix-en-Provance, Publications de lʼ Universite, 2006, 109-116

<!--[if !supportLists]-->38.<!--[endif]-->“Welfare policy in Greece (1909-1940). From the private needs to the social question”, MIRE, Comparing Social Welfare Systems in Southern Europe, Paris 1997, 93-108

<!--[if !supportLists]-->39.<!--[endif]-->“Mazzini, mazzinianesimo e Grecia” in Ιl Mazzinianesimo nel Mondo, Istituto Domus Mazziniana, Pisa 1996

<!--[if !supportLists]-->40.<!--[endif]-->“The Canon of European Identity: Transmission and Decomposition”, Modern GreekStudies, 3 (1995),129-138 and in Luisa Passerini (ed) The Question of European Identity: A Cultural Historical Approach, EUI Working Papers, Florence 1998, 53-60

<!--[if !supportLists]-->41.<!--[endif]-->«The Long Revolution in Time. The reduction of worktime in international perspective: ILO and Greece, in Ιnter-war years”, Forum Seminar, Gender and the Use of Time, Florence 1995

<!--[if !supportLists]-->42.<!--[endif]-->Entries in Thomas Lane (Ed.) Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders, Westport Conneccticut, Greenwood Press, 1995

<!--[if !supportLists]-->43.<!--[endif]-->“Gunnar Hering writing his autobiography”, Sygxrona Themata, 56 (1995)56-60

<!--[if !supportLists]-->44.<!--[endif]-->“Critical Notes on the Theories of the Nation”, Simeio, 2 (1994)

<!--[if !supportLists]-->45.<!--[endif]-->“The Structure of National Time in Modern Greek Historiography” in Conference in Memory of C.Th. Dimaras,