CB3 0AG,
Cambridge, UK
Areas of Specialization
20th-century European Cultural and Social History, with emphasis on the following fields:
· Transatlantic cultural flows and the historiography of the concept of “Americanisation”.
· Consumer cultures
· Youth cultures and youth protest movements in the 1960s and 1970s in Europe.
· Communist organizations in western Europe since 1945. The cultural turn in the historiography of communism.
· Gender identities and relations, particularly within protest movements.
Dissertation/Thesis working title and topic
“Culture” and “leisure” as contested fields in the making of communist youth identities in Greece in the period 1974-81.
Nikolaos Papadogiannis
Ph.D. Student in History
University of Cambridge
Degrees
M.A. 2006 Birkbeck, University of London (Contemporary History and Politics)
Certificate 2005 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Gender Studies)
B.A. 2005 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (History and Archaeology)
Principal Presentations and Publications
“H kafeteria sthn perifereia: prosarmogi sta katanalwtika ithi, neanikes kai gynaikeies taytotites” (Modern-style cafe in the Greek periphery: adaptation to consumer trends, youth and feminine identities) and “Festival politikwn organwsewn neolaias” (Youth festivals of political organisations), in: P. Panagiotopoulos, V. Vamvakas (eds), H Ellada ths dekaetias tou ´80. Koinwniko, politiko kai politismiko lexiko (Greece during the 1980s. Social, political and cultural dictionary, forthcoming, Athens 2009).
“Representing women: transnational flows and shifting feminine representations in the Greek eurocommunist youth organisation "Rigas Feraios", 1974-78”, to be published in the proceedings of “Revolutions and Sexualities: Cultural and Social Aspects of Political Transformations”, the eighth conference of the “Socialism and Sexualities” Network (supported by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam), edited by Lauren Kaminsky and Kathryn Tomasek. The online version is here →
“The debate on the “American Way of Life” between the main communist youths in Greece in the mid-1970s”(working paper, presented in “Designing a New Life: Aesthetics and Lifestyles of Political and Social Protest”, the second conference of the Marie-Curie funded “European Protest Movements” research program, which took place in Zürich in 7-10 March, 2007). For more, see→
“The construction of the communist youth identity through the discourse of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) about “culture” (politismos)”, presented in the 3rd PhD Symposium on Contemporary Greece organized by the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics, 13 June 2007. The online form of the paper can be viewed here in pdf →