CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Antonis Liakos

Professor, Department of History and Archaeology
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Institutional address:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Department of History and Archaeology
School of Philosophy
University Campus, Zografou 15784
Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30-210-7277663
Email: aliakos@otenet.gr

Qualifications details:
BA in History at the University of Thessaloniki, 1977
Postgraduate Studies in History and Political Science, University of Rome, 1980
PhD in History, University of Thessaloniki, 1984
Associate professor, University of Thessaloniki, 1984-1989
Research Fellowship, University of Birmingham, 1989-1990
Professor, University of Athens, 1990-
Visiting Professor: University of Sydney, 1993
European University Institute, Florence, 1994
Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies, 1995-1996, 2006
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, spring term 2001
New York University, spring term 2002
National Council of Research and Technology, 2003- 4
European Doctorate in Social History, Member of the board, 2004-
International Commission of the Theory and History of Historiography, Member of the
Board, 2006-

Areas of research:
History of 19th c. in Greece and Italy, Social History, History of Historiography, Nationalism.

Books:
How the Past turns to history, Athens, Polis, 2007
The Nation. How was envisaged by those who wanted to change the world?, Athens, Polis,
2006
L'Unificazione italiana e la Grande Idea (1859-1871), Firenze, Aletheia, 1995
Labour and Politics in the Interwar Greece, Athens, 1993
The Emergence of Youth Organizations, Athens, 1988
The Unification of Italy and the Great Idea (1859-1862), Athens, 1985
The Socialist Federation of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 1985

Articles:
1. “Historical Time and National Space in Modern Greece”, in Hayashi Tadayuki and
Hiroshi Fukuda, Regions in Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Present, Sapporo,
Slavic Euroasian Studies 15, 2007, 205-227
2. “Multiple Paths to Citizenship. T.H.Marshall’s Theory and the Greek Case”, in
Steven Ellis, G.Halfdanarson, A.K. Isaacs (Eds), Citizenship in Historical
Perspective, Pisa, Plus, 2006, 65-70
3. With Dimitra Lambropoulou and Yannis Yannitsiotis, “Work and Gender in Greek
Historiography” in Berteke Waaldijk (Ed.), Professions and Social Identity. New
European Historical research on Work, Gender and Society, Pisa, Plus, 2006, 1-14
4. “The 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, 3-9 July 2005”, Ta Istorika,
43, (2005), 529-539
5. “The question of continuity in the Modern Greek Historiography” in P.Kitromilidis-
Tr.Sklavenitis (Ed.) Historiography of Modern and Contemporary Greece, 1833-
2002, Athens, Hllenic Centre of Research, 2004, Vol. 1, 53-65
6. Asking or Listening? The politics of Heritage”, Cogito, 1, 2004, 58-61
7. «The statues are not wreckages. The statues are in the Museum. On History and
Psychanalysis », Tetradia Museiologias, 1 (2004)14-18
8. “La deuxième vie de la langue Grecque”, Les Langues Classiques: La gestion d’un
capital culturel, Athènes-Thessalonique, Centre de la Langue Grecque, 2004, 97-101
9. a. “Modern Greek Historiography (1974-2000). The Era of Tradition from
Dictatorship to Democracy” in Ulf Brunbauer (ed.), (Re)Writing History.
Historiography in Southeast Europe after Socialism, Münster, LIT Verlag, 2004, 351-
378;
b. L’historiographie grecque moderne (1974-2000). L’ère de la tradition, de la
dictature a la democratie, Rue Descartes 51 (2006) 92-113
10. “Rebels and Bandits in the academic conferences” introduction to H. Fleischer
(editor) Grece ‘36-‘49. From the Dictatorship to the Civil War, Athens, Kastaniotis,
2003, 27-36
11. “Cognitive or Normative History?”, Ta Istorika, 38(2003)209-224
12. “The Ideological renovation” in Yannis Voulgaris end others (eds.) The Prospects of
Modernization in Greece, Athens, Kastaniotis, 2002, 53-64
13. “Identita e cittadinanza nella Grecia moderna” in Carlotta Sorba (a cura)
Cittadinanza. Individui, diritti socially, collettivita nellaa storia contemporanea, (Atti
del convegno annuale SISSCO, Padova, 2-3 dicembre 1999, Quaderni della Rassegna
degli Archivi di Stato 101, Roma 2002, 63-69 Roma
14. “Hercules, Amazons and the delicious crumpets. Representations of Gender and
Power in the Writings of Rigas”, Mnimon, 23 (2001)99-112
15. “History writing as the return of the Repressed”, in L.Passerini (ed.) European Ego-
Histoires, Special Issue of Historein, n. 3 (2001), 47-58
16. “L’ instrumentalisation de l’ histoire par la politique » in NADQ, Revue d’ Etudes et
de Critique Sociale (Alger) 14/15 (2001) 9-24
17. .“The Construction of National Time. The Making of the Modern Greek Historical
Imagination” in Jacques Revel and Giovanni Levi, Political Uses of the Past, Special
Issue of Mediterranean Historical Review, 16,1 (2001)27-42
18. “Modern Greek historiography in the last quarter of 20th century” in Syghrona
Themata, 76-77 (2001) 72-91
19. “From the Greek to the common our language” in A.F. Christides (ed.), History of the
Greek Language, Thessaloniki 2001, 963-971
20. “What should we remember and what should we forget? Memory, history and
responsibility” in Responsibility: From Principles to Practice, Council of Europe
Publishing, Strasbourg 2001, 50-54
21. “La storia della Grecia come costruzione di un tempo nazionale” Contemporanea,
Rivista di storia dell ‘800 e del ‘900, 4,1 (2001)155-169
22. “K.Paparrigopoulos”, in Greece, Books and Writers, Athens, National Book Centre of
Greece, 2001, 196-107
23. “The transformation of historical writing. From syntagnatic to paradigmatic syntax” in
Historein, 2 (2000) 47-54 [and in Nyhedsbrev.Netvaerk for Historieteori & Historiografi,
8 (2000) 10-17]
24. “On the poetics of History” Ta Istorika, 31 (1999) p.259-290.
25. “Garibaldians, Socialists and the War of 1897”, in The War of 1897, Athens, Etaireia
Spoudon, 1999, p.163-178 ; “1897: les socialistes, les garibaldiens et la guerre” in Paul
Aubert (ed) Crise espagnole et renouveau ideologique et culturel en Mediterranee, fin
XIX siecle, Aix-en-Provance, Publications de l’ Universite, 2006, 109-116
26. “Welfare policy in Greece (1909-1940). From the private needs to the social
question”, MIRE, Comparing Social Welfare Systems in Southern Europe, Paris 1997,
93-108
27. “Mazzini, mazzinianesimo e Grecia” in Ιl Mazzinianesimo nel Mondo, Istituto Domus
Mazziniana, Pisa 1996
28. “The Canon of European Identity: Transmission and Decomposition”, Modern Greek
Studies, 3 (1995),129-138 and in Luisa Passerini (ed) The Question of European
Identity: A Cultural Historical Approach, EUI Working Papers, Florence 1998, 53-60
29. “The Long Revolution in Time. The reduction of worktime in international
perspective: ILO and Greece, in Ιnter-war years”, Forum Seminar, Gender and the
Use of Time, Florence 1995
30. Entries in Thomas Lane (Ed.) Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders,
Westport Conneccticut, Greenwood Press, 1995
31. “Gunnar Hering writing his autobiography”, Sygxrona Themata, 56 (1995)56-60
32. “Critical Notes on the Theories of the Nation”, Simeio, 2 (1994)
33. “The Structure of National Time in Modern Greek Historiography” in Conference in
Memory of C.Th. Dimaras, Athens 1994, 171-199
34. “Pantelis Pouliopoulos: How Theory is Inscribed on Society?”, Istorika 18(1993) p.
241-254
35. “Istituzioni e politica sociale in Grecia”, in D. Cacamo e G. Platania (eds) Il sud- est
europeo tra passato e presente, Cosenza 1993, 83-89
36. “Le Crise dans les Balkans et le nationalisme en Grece” in Science(s) Politique(s),2-3
(1993) 179-193
37. “Problems on the Making of the Greek Working Class”, in In Memory of Nikos
Svoronos, Athens 1992, 237-262
38. “Garibaldi e garibaldini verso Creta nel 1866-1869”, Rassegna Storica del
Risorgimento Italiano, 80,3 (1993),316-343
39. “Should we redefine the concept of the Left?” O Politis, 115(1991)36-45
40. “On the Ideology of the 30’s Generation”, Theoria kai Koinonia, 3 (1990)7-22
41. “On Populism”, in Istorika, 10 (1988)13-28
42. “On the Historiography of the Greek Labour Movement” Sygxrona Themata, 35-37
(1988) 161-170
43. “Approaches on the History of Students’ Movement” in Panepistimio, Ideologia kai
Paideia, Athens 1989, vol. I, 327-333
44. “Labour Policy in Inter-War Years”, in Acts of the Conference on E.Venizelos, Athens
1988, 169-185
45. “E. Venizelos and the International Labour Office”, in Christos Chatjiossif (ed.)
Venizelismos kai Astikos Eksygxronismos, University of Crete Press, 1988, 225-270
46. “Il problema dell’ Unificazione nazionale in Italia ed in Grecia. Un confronto nella
storiografia greca” in Ιndipendenza e Unita nazionale in Italia ed in Grecia, Firenze
1987, 25-34
47. “L’ Unificazione italiana e la Grecia”, in Risorgimento greco e fillelenismo italiano,
Roma 1986, 165-177
48. “The Reception of Marxism in 19th c. Greece” in P.Noutsos (ed.) K. Marx and
Philosophy, Athens 1987, 307-321
49. “The Refraction of Radicalism in Greece, 1830-1850” Ta Istorika, 1 (1983) 121-144
50. “Un dibattito sull’ Unificcazione italiana nella stampa radicale delle Isole Ionie”,
Saggi di storia del giornalismo, Genova 1982,331-338
51. “Liberals in the Revolution of 1862. The Political Association Rigas Fereos”,
Mnimon,8 (1980),9-46

Current Projects:
- European Science Foundation, Writing National Histories (ongoing project): The Canon of
European Historiography
- Cliohnet project: Work and Gender. Research and teaching agenda. (ongoing project)