Revisiting National Pasts: Reflections from the Trenches
Stathis N. Kalyvas is Gladstone Professor of Government and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford. Until 2018 he was Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he founded and directed the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence and co-directed the Hellenic Studies Program. His lecture will reflect on his historical and political studies of Modern Greece (from the Greek Civil War to the Greek dictatorship) to consider why we care about history, the relationship between academic and public history, ‘doing’ history.
November 10th: 18:00
Stewart House: 1st Floor; Room 1
Senate House Entrance: Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Stewart House Entrance: 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN
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In 2019 Professor Kalyvas founded and currently directs the T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence at All Souls College. He is the author of The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996), The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2015), the co-editor of Order, Conflict, and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2008) the Oxford Handbook on Terrorism (Oxford University Press, 2019), and multiple volumes on modern Greek history and politics, including, Big Bang 1970-1973: Η άνθηση του πολιτισμού στα χρόνια της δικτατορίας/ Big Bang 1970-1973: The Flourishing of Culture during the Greek Dictatorship
(Μεταίχμιο: 2025), with Natasha Triantaphylli.
His work has received multiple awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Award for best book on government, politics, or international affairs, the Luebbert Award for best book in comparative politics, the European Academy of Sociology Book Award, the Luebbert Award for the best article in comparative politics (three times), and the Greenstone Award for best book in politics and history.
Please register for attendance by email here (Hellenic-Institute@rhul.ac.uk), giving names of those intending to attend.
The Hellenic Institute thanks the Greek Embassy in London and Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth of the Republic of Cyprus for their generous support.
