Mark Mazower at the Hellenic American Union for the presentation of the historical album A Greek Woman of History: Portraits of Women Who Lived During the 1821 Revolution, edited by Vasiliki Chatzigeorgiou and Matthildi PyrliThe Greek War of Independence of 1821 has its established pantheon of symbolic figures – and almost all of them are men, with only a few exceptions that highlight the absence of women from the historical narrative of the struggle. Invisible, yes, but not absent. This book focuses on women who lived during the years of the Greek Revolution and gathers photographs of them taken from the mid-reign of King Otto to the early years of King George I’s reign. These are the wives, mothers, and sisters of fighters and prominent politicians who witnessed firsthand the extraordinary events that led to the founding of the independent Greek state – often relegated to the footnotes of history, as noted on the book’s back cover. The book will be presented by: Mark Mazower, historian and author Christina Varda, historian and archivist Anastasia Kouli, art historian Matthildi Pyrli, philologist and archivist Vasiliki Chatzigeorgiou, historian of photography
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A Greek Woman of History
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Mark Mazower
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Mark Mazower is a historian and SNF Director of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. He has authored numerous books, including What You Did Not Say: A Russian Past and the Journey Home (Agra Publications, 2017) and The Greek Revolution (Alexandria Publications, 2021). |
Matthildi Pyrli
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Matthildi Pyrli is head of the Hellenism of Egypt Department and the Map Collection at ELIA-MIET. Her research interests include representations of modern Greece in the press during the second half of the 19th century. |
Vasiliki Chatzigeorgiou
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Vasiliki Chatzigeorgiou is head of the Photographic Archive at ELIA-MIET. Together with Matthildi Pyrli, she curated the photographic series AFELIA at MIET. Her research interests include the history of Greek photography and 19th-century Greek portraiture. |
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