Thanos Veremis, Professor Emeritus of Political History at the University of Athens and founding member of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy will be giving a lecture entitled "THE GREEK CRISIS: WHEN THE SEGMENTARY COMMUNITY MEETS WITH POPULISM" at the Great Hall of the Hellenic Centre , on Saturday the 1st of June at 16:30 in the afternoon.
In his talk Professor Veremis discusses the contours of Greek society from the foundation of the nation state until recently and deals with the reproduction of such pre-modern features based on familism in our present ʽsegmentaryʼ society. Sound political leadership kept this form of society at bay during the 19th and a good part of the 20th centuries. The decaying political caste of the recent decade have unleashed the segmentary society, magnified by populism, a new import in Greece.
Organised by the Society for Modern Greek Studies and the Hellenic Centre.
Source: The Hellenic Centre
May 28, 2013
