One-day Conference Book Launch Event | Athanasios Psalidas: “Archive’s Discourse”

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 Details

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 Eleni Kourmantzi
Academic Editor, Archival Research, Selection & Organization of Documentary Materials, Section Introductions
Ioannis Vanakakis, Philologist, M.A.
Transcription of Documentary Materials
With Contributions By
Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President Of Greece

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
Documents Courtesy of
General State Archives of Greece
Onassis Education
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Effie Tsiotsiou
Executive Director and Director of Education, Onassis Foundation
Vicky Gerontopoulou
Onassis Library Coordinator
Onassis Culture
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Afroditi Panagiotakou
Director Of Culture, Onassis Foundation
Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Deputy Director Of Culture, Onassis Foundation
Christina Kosmoglou
Publications Manager
Publication Design
Aton―Efi Zerva, Eleni Mavroidi (Typesetting & Layout) | Theodoros Kovaios (Cover Design)