The aim of the course is to critically examine the historical transformations and ruptures experienced by Greek society during the 20th century. At the same time, it seeks to situate the Greek case within its European context. The course frames the key periodisations and turning points of the Greek 20th century: the First World War and the arrival of refugees, social policy, the formation of minorities with the incorporation of the “New Lands,” the German occupation and the Shoah, Resistance and the Civil War, the postwar climate of national-mindedness, economic reconstruction, urbanisation, the Metapolitefsi, European integration, migration, the Balkan crisis, and the Macedonian question.
SEMINARS
- War and National Schism, state and parties
- Labour and women’s movements in the first half of the 20th century
- From Drapetsona to Halandri: Urbanisation, refugees, and class/ethnic composition
- The formation of new disciplinary mechanisms in the interwar period
- Dark Continent: Nationalisms, minorities, and war in Europe and Greece
- Red, black, and blue: Disciplinary mechanisms and security forces in the 1940s
- Star of David and the White Tower: The destruction of the Greek Jewry
- Children’s towns and Security Centres: Rural exodus, cities, and production
- Youth as a “problem”
- National Reconciliation: Politics and consumption in the Metapolitefsi
- “A bittersweet taste”: Nation and gender in the Metapolitefsi
- “End of history” and “European integration”: Historical narratives
- Presentation of student papers
Learning outcomes: The learning objectives of this course are for participants to be able to: a) identify the key events, periods, and figures in 20th-century Greek history, b) become familiar with and discuss the main methods and approaches of social and cultural history, and c) develop familiarity with the critical reading and use of relevant historical sources.
General Competences
- Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
- Working independently
- Team work
- Production of new research ideas
- Respect for difference and multiculturalism
- Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Criticism and self-criticism
- Production of free, creative and inductive thinking
- Αβδελά Έφη, Νέοι εν Κινδύνω. Επιτήρηση, Αναμόρφωση και Δικαιοσύνη Ανηλίκων μετά τον Πόλεμο, Αθήνα 2013.
- Βασιλειάδου Δήμητρα (επιμ.), Ιστορίες για τη Σεξουαλικότητα, Αθήνα 2020.
- Burke Peter, What Is Cultural History?, Cambridge 2008.
- Γκοτσίνας Κωστής, Επί της Ουσίας. Ιστορία των Ναρκωτικών στην Ελλάδα (1875-1950), Αθήνα, 2021.
- Ginzburg Carlo, Το Τυρί και τα Σκουλήκια. Ο Κόσμος ενός Μυλωνά του 16ου Αιώνα, Αθήνα 2008.
- Hobsbawm Eric, Η Εποχή των Άκρων. Ο Σύντομος Εικοστός Αιώνας (1914–1991), Αθήνα 2010.
- Κωστής Κώστας, Τα κακομαθημένα παιδιά της Ιστορίας. Η διαμόρφωση του νεοελληνικού κράτους, 18ος–21ος αιώνας, Αθήνα, 2018.
- Λιάκος Αντώνης, Ο ελληνικός 20ός αιώνας, Αθήνα, 2019.
- Mazower Mark, Dark Continent. Europe’s Twentieth Century, London 1998.
- Μπενβενίστε Ρίκα, Αυτοί που επέζησαν. Αντίσταση, Εκτόπιση, Καταστροφή. Θεσσαλονικείς Εβραίοι στη Δεκαετία του 1940, Αθήνα 2014.
- Scott Joan W., Gender and the Politics of History, New York, 1988.
- Thompson E. P., The Making of the English Working Class, London, 1963.
- Φωτάκης Αχιλλέας, Αστυνομία Πόλεων. Τα πρώτα βήματα στην Ελλάδα του Μεσοπολέμου, Αθήνα, 2022.
Related academic journals:
- * Ta Historika
- * Mnimon
- * Arhiotaxio
- * Past & Present
- * Social History
- * American Historical Review
