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(Toronto) Speaker: Tassos Anastassiadis, Associate Professor of History & Phrixos B. Papachristidis Chair in Modern Greek Studies, McGill University

Tassos Anastassiadis (Phd Sciences-Po Paris, agrégation of history) is an Associate Professor of History and the Phrixos Papachristidis Chair in Modern Greek Studies at McGill University since 2011. He teaches and researches Modern European and Greek history, with a focus on inter-confessional relations and the emergence of differentiated modernities in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 18th-20th c.as well as the role of antiquity in the European imaginary. His most recent book, La réforme orthodoxe: Église, État et société en Grèce à l’époque de la confessionnalisation post-ottomane (1833-1940) (Peeters-EFA, 2020) , won the FRQSC’s Prix Louise-Dandurand in 2022.

Sponsors: CERES and the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University