One-day Conference Book Launch Event | Athanasios Psalidas: “Archive’s Discourse”
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Researchers, academics, university students, and the general public.
Publication Date
June 2023
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The Onassis Foundation
Introduction
A new book by Professor Eleni Kourmantzi presents the Onassis Library and the Onassis Foundation with the opportunity to hold a one-day conference book launch event shedding light on the work of the great Modern Greek Enlightenment figure that is Athanasios Psalidas through the manuscripts and print editions of his writings. This protean persona is to be explored through a series of archival documents dating from the period 1786–1829, in ways that also spotlight the philosophical stance of humanism and the ideas of the Enlightenment.
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At this one-day conference being organized to launch the new book by Eleni Kourmantzi titled Athanasios Psalidas: “Archive’s Discourse”, the public will get the chance to discover the work, thought, and action of this educator, intellectual, and author of the Greek Enlightenment. Athanasios Psalidas is a historic figure inextricably connected to the shaping of educational practice, radical thought, and politico-revolutionary action for raising up the “fallen people” that were the Greeks living under Ottoman rule.
The aim of this book is to present readers with a series of unabridged archival documents grouped into apposite thematic sections, namely Private Life, Public Life, Teaching Endeavors, Political Life, Publications – Writings, and Poetics, thus ushering accurate historical facts into the present day. This book presents a characteristic and representative cross-section of Athanasios Psalidas’ multi-faceted pursuits, as brought to light by the manuscripts in his personal archive, which now form part of the Stamatis Krinos Archive held in Athens at the Central Service of the General State Archives of Greece, and by volumes of his published writings housed at the Onassis Library.This publication builds on two popular exhibitions of Athanasios Psalidas’ books and manuscripts presented in 2019 at the Onassis Library in Athens, and in 2020 at the General State Archives of Greece (Historical Archives – Museum of Epirus) in Ioannina.Publication Date: June 2023
Language: Greek
Pages: 597
Dimensions: 21cm × 28cm
Type: Print publication
Description: Hardback, fully illustrated
ISBN: 978-618-85928-7-2
Credits
Dr Anthony S. Papadimitriou, President of The Onassis Foundation
Dr Eleni Kourmantzi, Visiting Professor, "St. Cyril And St. Methodius" University Of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
Amalia Pappa, Deputy Director of The General State Archives Of Greece, Director Of Archival Research, Promotion, Communication, Conservation and Preservation
Apostolos Katsikis, Professor Emeritus Of The Department Of Primary Education, University Of Ioannina
Konstantinos sp. Staikos +, Architect, Book Historian, Founder of the ATON publishing house
