THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: Cyprus, Greece and Europe

CONFERENCE PROGRAM



FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015



5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. REGISTRATION

18:00 - 18:30 CONFERENCE OPENING - Short film

Greetings

PAPASAVVAS George

Chair of the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus

Yiannakis Kolokassides

Chairman of the Board of Directors, PROMETHEUS Research Institute

George Georgis

Member of the Conference Organizing Committee







18:30-20:00 SESSION 1

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR AND ITS INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE



Chair: George Kazamias

Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Cyprus



HERNANDEZ Jon

Historian

The Conflict in Spain: An Unresolved Issue

for European Democratic Memory



HASIOTIS Loukianos

Assistant Professor of History, Aristotle University

of Thessaloniki

The Civil War Behind the Front Lines:

The Military Role of Social Welfare

in Spain and Greece (1936-1950)



SATURDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2015



09:45-11:15 SESSION 2

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR IN THE CYPRIOT PRESS AND CULTURE



Chair: Nikos Moudouros

Specialist, Department of Turkish Studies, University of Cyprus



GEORGIS George

Associate Professor of Modern Greek History, University of Cyprus

The impact of the Spanish Civil War on Cyprus



MYARIS George

Modern Greek philologist, PhD candidate, University of Ioannina

From History to Art - Reflections of the Spanish

Civil War: Poetic references by Thodosis Pieridis

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DIMITRIOU Dimitra

Doctor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor, Department of Greek and Latin Studies, University of Cyprus

On the Road to "Cordoba": The Myth of Federico Garcia Lorca in Cypriot Poetry

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MAIS Christos

PhD Candidate, Leiden University

The Spanish Civil War in Greek Leftist Discourse



11:30-13:00 SESSION 3

CYPRUS' PARTICIPATION IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR



Chair: KATSOURIDIS Giannos

Scientific Director, PROMETHEUS Research Institute



STRONGOS Paul Philippou

Educator, Historian, and Researcher

‘ὦ ξεῖν’, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς

their words.’ Spanish Thermopylae:

The Contribution of Cypriots to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War



FILIPPS Dimitris

Lecturer in Spanish Culture at the Hellenic Open University

The pirates of democracy – the corsairs

of fascism: snapshots from the Spanish Civil War

in the Mediterranean



EVAGOROU Eleni

Researcher at INEP

The ideological dimension of the participation of Cypriot volunteers