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We have solicited timely short essays from our collaborators related to the three clusters of our initiative.

Notes on an Anticolonial Athens

There’s a history that flickers and never fully comes into focus. An anticolonial Athens. ...
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Notes on Subalternist Cosmopolitics in Greece and its Neighborhoods

In the context of globalization and of post-conflict and humanitarian interventions, the hegemonic ideal of cosmopolitanism, as the universal ideal ...
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Civilization, Again!

More than fifteen years ago Hamid Dabashi had written that, “The re-emergence of civilizational thinking at the last two decades ...
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Bicentennial Celebration[s] of Nation[s], Revisited

In 1988, Australia marked the bicentenary of two hundred years of European settlement. The Australian bicentenary sparked a public contestation ...
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Defacement and/as Historical Redress

In 1963 the Order of AHEPA (Greek Organization of Americans of Hellenic Descent) commissioned Felix de Weldon, the sculptor of ...
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