Greece and the Modern World: Migration and Diasporas

Autumn series

Three seminars. Six works in progress. Pre-circulated papers and extended discussion bringing Greek history into conversation with wider historical questions.

Organisers

• Georgios Giannakopoulos · Department of International Politics · City St George’s, University of London
• Gonda Van Steen · Koraes Chair · Centre for Hellenic Studies · King’s College London

This session

About the speakers

Nicholas Doumanis — University of Illinois Chicago

Nicholas Doumanis is Professor of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, specialising in modern Greece, nationalism and the Mediterranean. His books include Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean (1997) and Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and Its Destruction in Late Ottoman Anatolia (2013).

Marilena Anastasopoulou — University of Oxford

Marilena Anastasopoulou is a historian based in the University of Oxford specialising in forced migration, refugee memory and identity. Her publications include A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece ( 2025), examining the experiences and legacies of population displacement.

Othon Anastasakis — University of Oxford | Discussant

Othon Anastasakis is Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), specialising in Balkan politics, European integration and diaspora studies. His publications include the co-edited volumes Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis: Greece and Beyond ( 2022) and The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974 ( 2021).