The role of the Diaspora in Greek American relations, 1974-2024 - BSA Upper House Seminar

Описание: Chaired by: Professor Eirini Karamouzi (American College of Greece/University of Sheffield), Dr Lamprini Rori (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Discussants: Professor Alexander Kitroeff (Haverford College) & Professor Constantinos Arvanitopoulos (Panteion University)

Abstract: The paper will explore the diaspora as an actor seeking to gain agency in Greek American relations. We aim to identify the characteristics of this community, its institutional identity and how it evolves over time, the extent and ways it intervenes within both Greek and American political elites, the specific issues it engages with, and what it manages to achieve. We are interested in the mechanisms, the fluctuations, and the stance it adopts the last 50 years of the Metapolitefsi.

Bios:

Eirini Karamouzi is Professor of Contemporary European History at the American College of Greece and the University of Sheffield. She has held fellowships at EUI, LSE, Yale University and the University of Tampere, and co-directs an AHRC-funded project, ‘Global Histories of Peace and Anti-Nuclear Activism’. She is also a co-editor of the McGill-Queen’s University Press book series on Global Nuclear Histories.

Dr Lamprini Rori is Assistant Professor in Political Analysis at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She received a BA in International and European Politics from the University of Macedonia (Greece), a MA in Political Sociology and Public Policy from Sciences Po Paris (IEP) and a MA in Political and Social Communication from Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne University (France), where she also defended her PhD (2015). Her doctoral dissertation examined how the professionalization of political communication affected the organizational change of socialist parties in Europe from the mid-1970s until 2012. Before joining the University of Athens, she was a tenured Lecturer in Politics at Exeter University in the UK (2018-2021), Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI (2020-2021), Early Career Fellow of the British School at Athens (2018-2019), post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford (2016-2017) and two-year EU Marie Curie Intra-European fellow (IEF), on the project “Social media and resurgent ethno-nationalism in Greece”, affiliated at Bournemouth University (UK) (2015-2017). Dr Rori is the Principal Investigator of the HFRI project “From Online Emotions to Offline Political Violence: OnE-Offence” (2023-2025), PI of “From Anti-Americanism to Americanophilia: The US on the kaleidoscope of the Greek society, 1974-2024” (2024-2025) and Investigator of the HFRI project “Detecting, Monitoring and Linking online Hate speech to offline Hate Crimes: DeMoLiSH” (2023-2025). She has also been PI of “Misinformation and Affective Polarisation in Political Behaviour” (2023) and of the 2018-2019 LSE Research Project “Low-intensity violence in crisis-ridden Greece: evidence from the radical right and the radical left”. She has coordinated the 2024 “EU&I” Voting Advice Application and the 2023 Voting Advice Application “What2vote”. She is currently member of the ECPR Steering Committee of the group on Political Violence, Member of Board of the Greek Political Science Association and Member of the Editorial Board of the Greek Social Sciences Review. For several years she has been member of board of the Greek Politics Specialist Group of the UK Political Studies Association, where she also served as Press Relations officer. She has participated in research projects on political behaviour in crisis-ridden Greece (hate speech and hate crime, violent extremism and radicalisation, youth political behaviour, radicalism, indignant movements) and the Greek diaspora. She has published on party change, elections, campaigns, the far right and the far left in Europe, political violence. Before academia, she worked as a political communications expert, drawing her experience form the French private sector (Agence Verte, Paris) and the Greek government.