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On Saturday, April 16, 2022, at 11 a.m. from opposite ends of the globe, scholars Katerina Lagos & Othon Anastasakis will join HUC for The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974. Their academic expertise – they possess deep knowledge and understanding of European political volatility during the modern era – makes this a must-attend event in light of the war in Ukraine, the rise of authoritarianism, and the increasingly turbulent politics of the past few years, both in the United States and overseas. Anastasakis and Lagos have just co-edited The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past (2021).

From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that left a lasting mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, The Greek Military Dictatorship explores the junta’s attempts to impose authoritarian rule upon a rapidly modernizing country while navigating a complex international landscape. Focusing both on foreign relations as well as domestic matters such as economics, ideology, religion, culture and education, this book offers a fresh and well-researched study of a key period in modern Greek history.

Othon Anastasakis is Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), Senior Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the Prague School of Economics and Business. He is the author and editor of many books and articles including Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis: Greece and Beyond (2022), The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics, Economy and Society (2020), and Balkan Legacies of the Great War: The Past is Never Dead (2016). His research interests include populism, illiberalism and the far right, comparative European politics, migration and Greek diaspora, Balkan party politics, South East European geopolitics, Greek and Turkish foreign policies, Greek political economy, Russia, and the Balkans.

Katerina Lagos is Professor of History and Director of the Hellenic Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento. She is a modern Greek historian with expertise in the interwar period, minorities, education, fascism, dictatorship, World War II, and Jewish history. Her publications include "Interwar Greece: Its Generals, a Republic, and the Monarchy" (2020), and "Forced Assimilation or Emigration: Sephardic Jewry in Thessaloniki, 1917–1941" (2015). Dr. Lagos is currently working on a book on Jewish minorities in Greece and the Metaxas dictatorship.