Book Description

The conference on "The Greek World under Ottoman and Western Domination: 15th-19th Centuries," held at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York, on April 29, 2006, took place in conjunction with an exhibition on the same theme. The aim of the conference was to explore the multiple realities formed in Greek lands over the years between two crucial chronological termini: 1453 and 1821/1830. These dates may have been established as milestones in the historical trajectory of Greek society and culture, but they also represent two watershed moments of seminal importance for all of European history. The conference proceedings include, in addition to the editors, essays by renowned scholars in the field such as Dr. Nikos Karapidakis, Professor of Medieval History, Ionian University, Corfu; Dr. Dimitris Arvanitakis, Head of Historical Research Department, Benaki Museum, Athens; Dr. Elisabetta Molteni, Assistant Professor of History of Architecture, University Ca' Foscari, Venice; Dr. Evangelia Balta, Research Director, Institute of Neohellenic, Research/ National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens; Sinan Kuneralp, Historian, Publisher, Isis Press, Istanbul; Dr. Maria Constantoudaki-Kitromilides, Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology, University of Athens; Dr. Maria Vassilaki, Associate Professor of Byzantine and post-Byzantine Art, University of Thessaly, Volos; Dr. Sophia Handaka, Social Anthropologist, Department of Neohellenic Culture and Art Collections, Benaki Museum, Athens; Dr. Alfred Vincent, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney and Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales; and Dr. Peter Mackridge, Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek, University of Oxford.