THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: Cyprus, Greece and Europe

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

FRIDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2015

17:30 - 18:00 REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS

18:00 - 18:30 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE - Short Film

Greetings

PAPASAVBAS George
President of the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus

KOLOKASIDIS Giannakis President of the Board of Directors PROMETHEUS Research Institute

GEORGIS George
Member of the Conference Organizing Committee

18:30-20:00 SESSION 1

THE SPANISH CIVIL CIVIL AND ITS INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE

Chairman: KAZAMIAS George
Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Cyprus

HERNANDEZ Jon
Historian

The Conflict in Spain: A Pending Case for European Democratic Memory

HASIOTIS Loukianos
Assistant Professor of History, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The Civil War in the “Home Front”:

The Militant 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

Chairman: MOUDOURS Nikos
Specialist Scientist, Department of Turkish Studies, University of Cyprus

GEORGIS George
Associate Professor of History of Modern Hellenism, University of Cyprus

The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Cyprus

MYARIS George
Neohellenist Philologist, PhD Candidate, University of Ioannina

From History to Art - Impressions of the Spanish

Civil War: Poetic References by Thodosis Pierides

DIMITRIOU Dimitra

Doctor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor, Department ISA, University of Cyprus

On the road to “Córdoba”: The myth of Federico Garcia Lorca in Cypriot poetry

MAES Christos

PhD Candidate Leiden University

The Spanish Civil War in Greek Left Discourse

11:30-13:00 SESSION 3

CYPRUS’ PARTICIPATION IN THE SPANISH CIVIL

Chairman: KATSOURIDIS Giannos

Scientific Director of the PROMETHEUS Research Institute

STRONGOS Paul Philippou

Educator, Historian and Researcher

‘I know’, tell the Lacedaemonians that we are here,

convinced by their words.’ Spanish Thermopylae:

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

PHILIPPIS 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