Bilkent University
Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Jean Monnet Talk Series announces:
“The Neo-hellenic Enlightenment and the Ottoman Empire”
Monday, 4 May 2015, 12:30-14:00
A-130 (FEASS Seminar Room)
by
Prof. Paschalis M. Kitromilides
University of Athens
Prof. Paschalis M. Kitromilides earned a BA in Political Science and Modern European History, Wesleyan University (B.A. with Highest Honors in Government, 1972), an MA and a PhD in Political Science at Harvard University (M.A., 1975, Ph.D., 1979).
Apart from the University of Athens he has held teaching positions at Harvard University, the University of Athens, Brandeis University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford and the European University Institute. He has served as the Director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies and the Institute for Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens. His books in English include:
The Enlightenment as Social Criticism. Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992); Enlightenment Nationalism Orthodoxy (Variorum, 1994); An Orthodox Commonwealth. Symbolic Legacies and Cultural Encounters in Southeastern Europe (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, 2007); From Republican Polity to National Community. Reconsiderations of Enlightenment Political Thought (Voltaire Foundation, 2003); Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment (Voltaire Foundation, 2010); Eleftherios Venizelos. The Trials of Statesmanship (Edinbourgh University Press, 2006); Enlightenment and Revolution. The Making of Modern Greece (Harvard University Press, 2013).