The Center for European Studies
and the Byzantine Mellon Workshop
in cooperation with
The Center for the Humanities
are pleased to present a lecture by

Despina Christodoulou
University of Cambridge & Athens

entitled:

“The Contest for Byzantium as
Greek National History”

Thursday, 12 December 2002
L170 Elvehjem Museum of Art
4:30 p.m.

Dr. Despina Christodoulou holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge
and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens.
Her research and publications focus on the idealization of Athens and Sparta in
19th-century France and Germany. Dr. Christodoulou has also translated a number
of modern Greek works into English, the most recent of which is a study on the
Macedonian Struggle (1904-08). Her talk will address the background to this conflict
and the subsequent Balkan Wars while placing the emergence of Byzantine history in
Greece in its political and cultural context, i.e. nation formation.