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𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙉 𝙀𝙇𝙀𝙁𝙎𝙄𝙎 | 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚![]()
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In the art project "𝘔𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 32_"𝘖𝘗𝘌𝘕 𝘌𝘓𝘌𝘜𝘚𝘐𝘚 - 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴," historical and ethnographic research meets artistic creation, in order to write a history of Elefsina that focuses on its people. ![]()
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🗃️ The results are collected in the digital open archive, 𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙉 𝙀𝙇𝙀𝙁𝙎𝙄𝙎, a living library and a memory bank of the city, presenting the material from the ethnographic and historical research [exts and documents such as photographs, videos, maps, testimonies, interviews etc] a digital narrative.![]()
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🎥 In addition to the digital archive, the material of the project is transformed into the documentary "𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙖: 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨,"which narrates the multiple stories of the city's lived present as industrial center with distinctive characteristics, through stories by residents of the city, along with male and female workers of Elefsina’s factories. ![]()
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🔗Click the link to find out more about this fascinating project 👇![]()
www.openeleusis.eu/film/chapter-1?lang=en![]()
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📍𝘖𝘗𝘌𝘕 𝘌𝘓𝘌𝘜𝘚𝘐𝘚 is a production of the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture and implemented in collaboration with the Κέντρο Έρευνας για τις Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες - ΚΕΑΕ [Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH)
🗣️🎤 #Interview: Kostis Kornetis on Southern Europe's Democratic Transitions & Greece's Metapolitefsi![]()
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On the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Democracy in Greece, we sat down with renowned historian Kostis Kornetis to discuss his upcoming monograph “𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.”![]()
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In this interview with Rethinking Greece, Kornetis reflects on how Greece, Spain, and Portugal experienced and remember their tranistion from dictatorship to democracy as well as the cultural imprint and the political legacy of Greece’s 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘴𝘪 era.![]()
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Kostis Kornetis on the Democratic Transitions of Greece, Spain, and Portugal: Memory and Legacy
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Κοstis Kornetis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has studied History and Political Science in Munich, London and Florence, taught history at ...
🏆📢 The 2024 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association, has been given to historian Michalis Sotiropoulos for his book 𝙇𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚, 𝙘. 1830-1880![]()
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📖In this book Sotiropoulos illustrates the ideological breadth, creativity, and potency of nineteenth-century Greek liberalism, as well as the way it engaged in reforms of the Greek state.![]()
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🔍Be sure to check out the insights Sotiropoulos has shared in an interview with Rethinking Greece: tinyurl.com/te3unusr
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The Edmund Keeley Book Prize is awarded every two years by the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) to an academic book dealing with modern Greece or a Hellenic theme published originally in the En...