Bilkent University
Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Jean Monnet Roundtable Series
announces:
“Nationalism in Greece and Turkey: Modes of Comparison”
Tuesday, 5 May 2015, 15:30-17:00
A-130 (FEASS Seminar Room)
Panelists
Prof. Paschalis M. Kitromilides
University of Athens
Prof. Ahmet Evin
Sabancı University
Panelist-Moderator:
Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis
Bilkent University
Biographical Information:
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).
Prof. Ahmet Evin received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Middle East Studies and Cultural History in 1973. He was named William Mitchell Fellow at Columbia where he continued his graduate work. He had his BA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1966.
Prof. Evin is a Senior Scholar in Istanbul Policy Center and Professor at Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and and Jean Monnet chair at Sabancı University. Prior to his appointment at Sabancı University Ahmet Evin, the founding dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University, taught at New York University, Harvard University, Hacettepe University (Ankara), University of Pennsylvania (where he also served as director of the Middle East Center), University of Hamburg, and Bilkent University in Ankara (where he headed the Department of Political Science).
As director of education of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a Geneva-based international development foundation, he coordinated the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in cooperation with that US-based resource center assisted in the development of architectural education in Asia and Africa. He has also served as consultant to the Aga Khan Award for Architecture as well as an editor of the Award publication.
Evin is also the founding member of Turkish Economy and Social Studies Foundation and the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He has authored or edited over 10 volumes on politics, culture, and development.