Organizers: d\u00ebcolo\u0438\u0131ze hell\u03ac\u015f in collaboration with the Decolonial Initiative at Brown University
Convenors: Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University) and Konstantinos Thanasakis (The Laskaridis Foundation, Athens)
Language: English (but discussion can be both Greek and English, perhaps Turkish too)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Acropolis is again in the global news, following the recent and \nhighly controversial interventions. One of the things that the on-going \npublic debate has exposed is how little is publicly known about the rich\n and fascinating histories of this monumental landscape, beyond the \nclassical period. In this discussion, part of a series of activities on \n\u201cDecolonizing the Acropolis\u201d, we will present and discuss the \nhistorical, archaeological, architectural, artistic, and other evidence \non the Ottoman lives of the Acropolis landscape. Beyond the scholarly \nand public importance of this presentation, we hope that our panel will \nencourage archaeologists, artists, and heritage specialists to reflect \non how the Ottoman life of this monumental landscape can become more \nwidely known, commemorated, and incorporated into the various tours and \nother activities around the monument.Amongst the questions to be \nexplored are:- What do we know about the Ottoman Acropolis?- What was \nthe importance and the meaning of this landscape for the Ottoman, \nimperial and local, administration, and for the inhabitants of Athens?- \nHow did the various visitors to the site react to the Acropolis as an \nOttoman landscape?- How much of that Ottoman material presence remains \non site, despite the two centuries of national purification?- How can we\n make such a presence more widely known today?Speakers \/ Titles of \npresentations:1. \u015e\u00fckr\u00fc Ilicak (Institute for Mediterranean Studies, \nRethymno), \u201cThe Acropolis during the Greek Revolution: New Evidence from\n the Ottoman State Archives\u201d2. Tasos Tanoulas (Dr-NTU Athens, in charge \nof the Restorations of the Propylaia 1984-2010), \u201cThe Ottoman Acropolis \nin the frame of Decolonize Hellas: Factual and theoretical \nimplications\u201d3. Elizabeth Fowden (University of Cambridge), \u201cThe Holy \nRock in the City of Sages\u201d4. Dimitris Loupis (Historian, PhD candidate, \nHarvard University), \u201cSecuring Peace under the Shade of Marbled Past: \nThe Western Slope of the Acropolis of Athens during the Ottoman Era\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n