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George Giannakopoulos

@giannako.bsky.social
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Teaching Modern History @ City St George’s, among other things. Interested in empire, internationalism, southeastern European history & politics. www.geogian.com

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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some happy news: I’ve signed a contract with Princeton University Press for a book provisionally titled A Laboratory of Intervention: Greece and the Making of Modern International Order. I’m very excited to be working with Priya Nelson on the project. 🧵 1/2
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New article in The International History Review Part of a new project on Greece & the making of international order. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #InternationalHistory #Intervention #Sovereignty #Greece
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A ‘Corpus Vile’ of International Order: Protection, Coercion, and the British Blockade of Greece, 1850
This article reconstructs the British blockade of Greece in 1850 as an experiment in intervention short of war. Commonly remembered through the prism of the Pacifico Affair and Palmerstonian gunboa...
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Very grateful to hear from Manchester University Press that Holly Case had such kind words about my book. Her work in international and intellectual history has deeply shaped how I think about—and write—history.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Ahead of the US publication of his work 'The Interpreters' Georgios Giannakopoulos, is set to talk at Yale University. Monday 17 November, 12pm-1pm Luce Hall, Yale University @giannako.bsky.social events.yale.edu/event/after-...
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The Lausanne Project (TLP) @lausanneproject.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Today we launch a special series of podcasts about Cyprus, hosted by Alexandria Innes @andri-i.bsky.social and TLP convenor Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social thelausanneproject.com/2025/11/14/p...
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PODCAST – Episode 74: History and Memory of Partition
In the first of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Andrekos Varnava and Beyza Kiziltepe trace how Cyprus’s division continues to live in the memor…
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Had great fun discussing with Vlada Lilic The Interpreters in the new books network podcast. Check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/the-interpre... @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Georgios Giannakopoulos, "The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870-1930" (Manchester UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The portal “Greek Studies Now” offered me the space to reflect on the intellectual journey that led me to this project. gc.fairead.net/the-interpre...
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The Interpreters: Reading Empires, Nations, and Their Questions - Greek Studies Now
The Interpreters is, in that sense, a book about continuities—about how the languages of freedom, civilisation, and reform forged in the age of empire continue to shape the ways Europe imagines and ma...
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Thrilled to share that my book The Interpreters is out! It explores how Britain engaged with the politics of Southeastern Europe—national questions, federations, and minority rights—and how those debates echoed from the Balkans to Ireland. 🔗 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526160133/
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This has been a while in the making. Grateful to the great team @enghistrev.bsky.social
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
So, my forthcoming book has a website! Massive thanks to Michelle Tusan & Holly Case for their endorsements! More to come manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152616013...
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Manchester University Press - The interpreters
The interpreters - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The interpreters by Georgios Giannakopoulos
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Ozan Ozavci @ozanozavci1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
📣 Episode #60 of The Lausanne Project Podcast is out! 📣🎉 Nile Green talks about his new book, "Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah," walking us through their shifting stable of aliases and identities 👇🏼 thelausanneproject.com/2024/11/29/p...
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PODCAST – Episode 60: Inventing Ikbal
Nile Green walks Jonathan Conlin through Ikbal and Idries Shah’s unstable stable of aliases and identities.
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Not sure if a deal is imminent as this “exclusive suggests” but the Parthenon marbles story never seems to go away. I’ll be discussing this in 15’ live at BBC News amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Talks over return of Parthenon marbles to Athens are ‘well advanced’ | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
<strong>Exclusive: </strong>Keir Starmer reiterates support for British Museum reaching deal with Greek PM, who visits UK on Tuesday
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is pretty cool!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Stuart Hall PhD scholarship at Sussex: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
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Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex PGR Studentship : University of Sussex
PhD Scholarship, Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex Postgraduate Research Studentship
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🎓 Intersting new book on League of Nations: "Instruments of international order Internationalism and diplomacy, 1900–50" edt by Thomas Bottelier & @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social with chapters by @giannako.bsky.social @lukasschemper.bsky.social @kdstahl.bsky.social www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In light of the news that the ICC has just issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant along with one Hamas leader (the other two have been killed), this piece is once again relevant: www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/dont-...
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Don’t Go to War With the ICC
America can help Israel without attacking the court.
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
For those interested in Greek politics, here’s a conversation in the English edition of “To Vima” on developments in the right wing www.tovima.com/politics/out...
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Out Again: Samaras’ Expulsion Reminiscent of Decades-Old Rift - tovima.com
Antonis Samaras’ ousting highlights New Democracy’s ongoing identity crisis
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Rod Dacombe @rod-dacombe.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Tough, moving, brave and utterly compelling reading by my fantastic DPE colleague Paul Sagar. Some of you will find this hard to read. But it is essential that you do.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
About to do some more filming for the Canadian TV series Red River Gold. Here’s my blog about Wolseley, whose, let’s say ‘colourful’, account of the Red River Expedition launched him on his illustrious & bloody military career across the British Empire. alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-ver...
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The Very Model of a Modern Major Liar?
By Alan Lester The Red River Expedition with Colonel Garnet Wolseley’s boat featured flying the ensign at Kakabeka Falls, Frances Anne Hopkins, 1877: We understand the British Empire’s military cam…
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Intellectual History & Friends Part 3 is here! Do let me know if there is anyone I should add or if you would like to be added go.bsky.app/MX1ZBPL
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Collections Researcher The National Archives #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ694/c...
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Collections Researcher at The National Archives
Recruiting now: Collections Researcher on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Holly 🍓 Cooper @hollyscooper.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
⭐️ Exciting News ⭐️ Race & Resistance is excited to officially announce our 2025 conference, RESISTANCE, RENEWAL, REIMAGINATION: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain🚨 ⏳CfP deadline: 13th January 2025 📅 7th March 2025 📍University of Oxford Huge thanks to our sponsor, Black Academic Futures⭐
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on! www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...
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Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South
The Opportunity
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Edward Jones Corredera @edjonesc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hello new followers! My book Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America just came out! academic.oup.com/book/58846 Over the next few days I will use this 🧵 to praise the ideas/books of others - friends, mentors, and enemies - that informed my own Stay tuned!
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
CFP for the @drinkingstudies @womenandalcoho1 conference, co-organised with the @wellcometrust "Drinking Cultures" project, hosted by @drlucycogan at @ucddublin next June. Our theme this year is 'Dangerous Pleasures?'. Please RT (and submit an abstract) www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-...
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Dr Philip W Blood MBA @philipwblood.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
War in History and Society, in a time of global conflict! go.bsky.app/UfGipcf
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Harris Mylonas @harrismylonas.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
📌 The new issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social [52.5] is now online 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Cover photo: Véronique Labonté Keep reading, keep citing
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Pretty excited to return to my hometown for the first time since I left home for work, and some olive oil harvesting by one of Greece’s oldest surviving Roman baths. Orders anyone? 😁
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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Really looking forward to discussing on Thursday 3 excellent books on the past & present of peacekeeping, state building & decolonisation by Ksenyia Oksamytna, Geoff Swenson & @drmargottudor.bsky.social that speak to each other in many creative ways. Join us IP& OL👇👇🏿 www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Peacekeeping and Statebuilding: From Decolonisation to the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan | City, Un...
Join Dr Geoffrey Swenson, Dr Margot Tudor, and Dr Kseniya Oksamytna as they launch their books that address historical and contemporary aspects of international peacekeeping and statebuilding.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Call for reviews! We are seeking proposals for book reviews to be commissioned for future issues @global-ih.bsky.social. If you have a proposal that fits the journal themes, email our chief editor, Rosario López. Early career researchers welcome - please share! www.tandfonline.com/action/journ...
Detail from a Woman Writing with a Quill by Adelaide Labille-Guiard, 1787
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
My new review article on "Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon", by Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings and Sarah C. Dunstan, is out in Global Intellectual History: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SGGRN...
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Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Dion has just--disgracefully--been made redundant by the University of Chichester, so we should all be subscribing to his excellent new Substack at full price anyway, which makes this special offer an act of exceptional generosity on his part.
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