Speaker Bio

Professor in Modern and Contemporary History and Rector of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece). She studied at the University of Athens (Department of History and Archaeology), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne where she also received her PhD. Senior Research Fellow at Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne (2010), Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University (2017) and at the University of Regensburg (2019). Awarded with the Nikos Svoronos Prize (1994), the Delphi Prize (2012), the Vikelas Plaque (2018), and the Award of Excellence in Academic Teaching Xanthopoulos-Pnevmatikos (2025). Author of several books and articles on the teaching of history, the history of historiography, national identity, historical memory, public history and the history of sports and the Olympic Games. Her last book received the National Essay Prize in Greece and was translated in English: Historical Memory in Greece, 1821-1930. Performing the Past in the Present (Routledge 2022).