Conference Calls by Elisavet Papalexopoulou
"Europe is now in a state of change and in a crisis such as has not been known since Charlemagne"... more "Europe is now in a state of change and in a crisis such as has not been known since Charlemagne". This is not a quote from an EU politician negotiating a treaty, but from Leibniz's comments on the Nordic War of 1712. Reinhard Koselleck points out in his essay on crisis that it is through Leibniz that the concept has entered the area of philosophy of history, hence opening the category, until then mostly used in medicine and jurisprudence, to different interpretations and definitions. Crisis is, therefore, both a metaphor and a discipline-bound category with a specific meaning. The medical concept of crisis is that of a tipping point at which the patient would either recover or worsen. This conception of crisis, then, contains both a temporal aspect and a call for discerning, decisive judgement. Is it the case that a sense of crisis calls out for historians to act as doctors, diagnosing the ills of our world? How does this sense of crisis change the way we think about the times we live in, the past that shaped them, and the future to come? What understanding of "normal times" is it that the crisis interrupts? Today, surrounded by a widespread use of this term in a variety of contexts, when we hear much about the pandemic about economic, public and health crises, we propose a step back in order to take a look at the possible meanings of the term at its temporalities. How does its contemporary use help or hinder our understanding of historical events? How is our conception of time and history shaped by and in exceptional times? Does history have a special role to play when the old order seems to have reached a point of crisis? How does history serve as a tool or a metaphor to investigate pre-crisis pasts and post-crisis futures? With those questions serving as an inspiration, we are looking for contributions in area of intellectual history (broadly understood), dealing with crisis and temporalities.
Call for papers for the 2020 annual conference of the International Society for Intellectual Hist... more Call for papers for the 2020 annual conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, hosted at the European University Institute, Florence, 27-29 May 2020. The theme is 'Transcultural Conversations' and the deadline for submissions is 15 November 2019. See the call for more details. Note: The primary author of this piece is Ann Thomson and we are posting it here in our capacity as members of the conference organising committee at the host institution.
Call for papers for the first Graduate Conference in Intellectual History at the European Univers... more Call for papers for the first Graduate Conference in Intellectual History at the European University Institute in Florence, 23-24 January 2020. The theme of the conference is 'Transcultural Conversations' and our keynote speaker is Dr Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle). Deadline for submission of abstracts is 25 November 2019. See the call for more details.
Conference Programmes by Elisavet Papalexopoulou
Intellectual history at the EUI has thrived in recent years, manifest in the activities of the In... more Intellectual history at the EUI has thrived in recent years, manifest in the activities of the Intellectual History Working Group (IHWG) and its series of workshops, entitled 'the EUI School of Intellectual History', now in its fifth continuous year. The aim of these workshops has been to 'eavesdrop', as it were, upon conversations within the intellectual past -narrow or broad, direct or indirect, conventional or unconventional -and to then elucidate those dialogues into a broader discussion on the evolving nature and direction of intellectual history itself. It is in this spirit that we now invite submissions for papers at the first EUI Graduate Conference in Intellectual History.
Conference Presentations by Elisavet Papalexopoulou
"Intellectual History: Studies, Challenges, Possibilities" European University Institute, 2019
Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, 2021
"Beyond Suffrage" Workshop, Warwick University part of the "To the Barricades" project, 2019
Papers by Elisavet Papalexopoulou
Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2021
The life and work of female thinkers within the Greek cultural space in the beginning of the nine... more The life and work of female thinkers within the Greek cultural space in the beginning of the nineteenth century (1800–1832) allows a contextualization of the intellectual developments of the time surrounding the Greek revolution. By translating philosophical texts and pedagogical works, writing memoirs, and engaging in philhellenic activities, women of the upper classes who self-identified as Greek created spaces where they could participate politically. Examining their textual and non-textual attempts to do so, we gain a broader understanding of the societal and material restrictions they faced and their strategies to negotiate and navigate them. We also gain insight into the intellectual genealogy of the Greek Revolution as a pluralistic phenomenon
Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2021
The life and work of female thinkers within the Greek cultural space in the beginning of the nine... more The life and work of female thinkers within the Greek cultural space in the beginning of the nineteenth century (1800–1832) allows a contextualization of the intellectual developments of the time surrounding the Greek revolution. By translating philosophical texts and pedagogical works, writing memoirs, and engaging in philhellenic activities, women of the upper classes who self-identified as Greek created spaces where they could participate politically. Examining their textual and non-textual attempts to do so, we gain a broader understanding of the societal and material restrictions they faced and their strategies to negotiate and navigate them. We also gain insight into the intellectual genealogy of the Greek Revolution as a pluralistic phenomenon
Conference Programmes (Organised) by Elisavet Papalexopoulou
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Papers by Elisavet Papalexopoulou
Conference Programmes (Organised) by Elisavet Papalexopoulou