Debating Confessions: Armenian Polemical Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century

Anna Ohanjanyan (Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts “Matenadaran”, Yerevan, Armenia, Pontica Magna program fellow at the NEC) will present a public lecture: Debating Confessions: Armenian Polemical Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century The early eighteenth century marked for the Armenians the apogee of the confessional age. In the two-fold geopolitical settings under the rule of…

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The Spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian Declarations of Philosophical Independence

Larry Wolff (Boston) The Spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian Declarations of Philosophical Independence Summary   The article compares some texts and cultural phenomena from Eastern Europe or East Central Europe, which would correlate cultural manifestations in the region with the distant trans-Atlantic developments emphasizing the principle and agenda of national independence At 1776 Ignacy…

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Self-identification between the East and the West: the Greek characteristics of the Balkan phenomenon at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries

    Sanya Velkova Self-identification between the East and the West: the Greek characteristics of the Balkan phenomenon at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries Summary   The text treats the issue of “situating” the Greeks’ national self-identification between the understanding of the historical past, belonging to the…

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