The Byzantium after the Nation:

Public lecture and Discussion:

The Byzantium after the Nation: the problem of the continuity in the Balkan Historiographies

Dimitrios Stamatopoulos (Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia )

Centre for Advanced Study Sofia 7, Stefan Karadja St., vh. 3, ap. 23, Sofia 1000
March 27, at 17.00

Dimitris Stamatopoulos, is Assistant Professor of Balkan History in the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia. Stamatopoulos holds a PhD in History from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has received scholarships and fellowships from the Greek state, Princeton University, and the University of Veliko Tarnovo.

He has published many articles on the history of Orthodox populations in the Ottoman Empire. He is the author of Μεταρρύθμιση και εκκοσμίκευση: προς μια ανασύνθεση της ιστορίας του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου τον 19ο αιώνα [Reform and Secularization. Towards a Reconstruction of the History of the Ecumenical Patriarchate 19th century], (Alexandreia: Athens, 2003), Το Βυζάντιο μετά το Έθνος: το πρόβλημα της συνέχειας στις Βαλκανικές Ιστοριογραφίες [The Byzantium after the Nation: the problem of the continuity in the Balkan Historiographies] (Alexandreia: Athens, 2009), and has co-edited (with Fotini Tsibiridou) the collective volume Οριενταλισμός στα όρια: από τα Οθωμανικά Βαλκάνια στη σύγχρονη Μέση Ανατολή (Orientalism on the Edge: from the Ottoman Balkans to contemporary Middle East, Kritiki: Athens, 2008). His current interests focus on the relationship between religion and politics in the Balkans and more specifically on the process of secularization and the rise of civil society.