Archive policy and national identity

Academics, researchers and writers tackle the burning issue of archive access and its links to national culture. Memory, identity, past, narrative: four concepts linked to archive access and use which also shed light on the multifaceted meaning of the archive. This discussion at the Onassis Stegi will be the first in a major series of events aimed at setting a dialogue in motion concerning different archive practices and their relationship to national culture.

Who administers and maintains an archive? What can be included in an archive and what cannot? How does the organization of an archive reflect social and academic structures? Who has access to an archive and how can this be changed in the Internet era? The difference between closed and open archives is a political as well as a legal issue. Today, perhaps more than ever, we are in a position to appreciate why archives are more than repositories of the past and understand that they are the spaces in which our relationship with the future takes shape.

Speakers

C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, Professor of Comparative Literature and Classical Studies, University of Michigan
Vasilis Lambropoulos
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Anastasios-Ioannis D. Metaxas
Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University
Dimitris Dimiroulis
Assistant Professor in the Theory of History and Historiography, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Contemporary Social History Archives
Vaggelis Karamanolakis
Assistant professor, Department of Mediaeval and Neohellenic Philology, University of Ioannina
Giannis Papatheodorou
Professor of Neohellenic Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Eri Stavropoulou
Postdoctoral researcher, Research Centre for Modern History, Panteion University
Anna Maria Droubouki