Dr Nikolaos Papadogiannis

• MA: Contemporary History and Politics
  Birkbeck College, University of London, 2018
• PhD
  Cambridge University, 2010
• Professional: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Professional: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Following my undergraduate studies in History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, I moved to London and received my MA in Contemporary History and Politics (with distinction in the dissertation) from Birkbeck, University of London in 2006. In 2010 I obtained my PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. Before joining the staff at Bangor in January 2017, I have worked as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin and a Teaching Fellow at the School of History of the University of St Andrews.  

I am currently a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society as well as of the Higher Education Academy. I have also served in 2016 as Co-Director of the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History of the University of St Andrews (ITSH), with which I am still affiliated as an external member. I am also a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Areas of teaching and supervision

BA

• War, Society and the Media (module convenor)
• Modern Politics in Action (module convenor)
• Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (module convenor)
• Postwar Europe, 1945-1992 (module convenor)
• Politics and Culture in Europe in the Long Sixties (Special Subject, module convenor)
• USA, 1945–9/11 (tutor; module convened by Professor Andrew Edwards)
• BA Dissertation supervisor

MA/MArts

• Documents and Sources, Modern (module convenor)
• Themes and Issues (contributor)
• MA Dissertation Supervision

PhD Supervision

• Mary Ikoniadou (Manchester Metropolitan University, external advisor), “Image and text in the construction of political and national imaginaries for the Greek political refugees: The case of Pyrsos illustrated magazine in the GDR, 1961-1968.” Thesis completed in 2018.
• Frida Tsokara (University of Ioannina, external advisor), “Politicised youth festivals in postauthoritarian Greece. Politicisation, socialisation, cultural expression”

BA

• War, Society and the Media (trefnydd y modiwl)
• Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (trefnydd y modiwl)
• Politics and Culture in Europe in the Long Sixties (pwnc arbennig, trefnydd y modiwl)
• USA, 1945–9/11 (tiwtor; yr Athro Andrew Edwards yw trefnydd y modiwl)
• Goruchwyliwr traethodau hir BA

MA/MArts

• Documents and Sources, Modern (trefnydd y modiwl)
• Goruchwylio traethodau hir

Goruchwylio myfyrwyr PhD

• Sara Vowles (prif oruchwyliwr): Protest in Britain from a transnational perspective, 1960s-1980s
• Mary Ikoniadou (Manchester Metropolitan University, cynghorwr allanol), “Image and text in the construction of political and national imaginaries for the Greek political refugees: The case of Pyrsos illustrated magazine in the GDR, 1961-1968.”
• Frida Tsokara (Prifysgol Ioannina, cynghorwr allanol), “Politicised youth festivals in postauthoritarian Greece". Politicisation, socialisation, cultural expression”

Current research

My research focuses on Europe in the 1960s and 1970s from a transnational perspective. My research interests include protest cultures, travel, youth lifestyles, gender, sexuality, migration, emotions and European identities. My doctoral thesis offered a cultural history of politics, examining left-wing youth politics in relation to leisure and sexuality in post-authoritarian Greece in the 1970s. For further details, see my profile on academia.edu.

Current Projects

• Transnational Youth Exchange Programmes and West German Youth Lifestyles, 1950s-1980s

The West German state placed emphasis on transnational youth exchange programmes from its establishment as a means of establishing close ties with other “Western” nations. My project examines the aims and impact of these exchange programmes, analyzing the extent to which they influenced youth lifestyles and informal cross-border tourism. The latter became increasingly popular among young people in West Germany from the 1960s on, but has largely been neglected in historical research. The project is simultaneously a history from above and from below: it helps illuminate the shaping of West German cultural diplomacy and of youth cultures in the context of the Cold War. The first stage of this project was funded by an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. A relevant article has been recently published in the Journal of Contemporary History.

• The radicalisation of Greek migrants in West Germany, 1960s-1970s

This project analyses the impact of left-wing ideas and cultures on migrants of Greek origin residing in West Germany. It considers the impact of diverse conditions, especially of the protests around 1968 as well as of the establishment and the collapse of the Greek dictatorial regime. Part of this research has been published as an article in Contemporary European History. Expanding on a body of literature that explores the transnational dimensions of protest movements in the 1960s and the 1970s, this article addresses left-wing migrants of Greek origin living in West Germany. It demonstrates that these transnational dimensions were not mutually exclusive with the fact that at least some of those protestors felt that they belonged to a particular nation.

Ymchwil cyfredol 

Mae fy ymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar Ewrop yn y 1960au a'r 1970au o safbwynt trawswladol. Mae fy niddordebau ymchwil yn cynnwys diwylliannau protest, teithio, ffordd o fyw pobl ifanc, gender, rhywioldeb, mudo, emosiynau a hunaniaeth Ewropeaidd. Roedd fy nhraethawd hir doethurol yn ymdrin â hanes diwylliannol gwleidyddiaeth, gan edrych ar wleidyddiaeth pobl ifanc adain chwith mewn perthynas â hamdden a rhywioldeb yng Ngwlad Groeg ôl-awdurdodaidd y 1970au. Am ragor o fanylion, gweler fy mhroffil ar academia.edu. 

Projectau cyfredol

• Transnational Youth Exchange Programmes and West German Youth Lifestyles, 1950s-1980s

Roedd gwladwriaeth Gorllewin yr Almaen yn rhoi pwyslais ar raglenni cyfnewid ieuenctid trawswladol fel ffordd o sefydlu cysylltiadau agos â gwledydd "gorllewinol" eraill. Mae fy mhroject yn archwilio amcanion ac effaith y rhaglenni cyfnewid hyn, gan ddadansoddi i ba raddau roeddent yn dylanwadu ar ffordd o fyw pobl ifanc a thwristiaeth drawsffiniol anffurfiol. Daeth yr olaf yn gynyddol boblogaidd ymhlith pobl ifanc yng Ngorllewin yr Almaen o'r 1960au ymlaen, ond nid yw wedi cael llawer o sylw mewn ymchwil hanesyddol. Mae'r project yn edrych ar yr hanes o'r ddau safbwynt ar yr un pryd; mae'n gymorth i amlygu diplomyddiaeth ddiwylliannol Gorllewin yr Almaen a diwylliannau ieuenctid yng nghyd-destun y Rhyfel Oer. Ariannwyd cam cyntaf y project hwn gan gymrodoriaeth ymchwil ôl-ddoethurol yr Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.  Cyhoeddwyd erthygl beerthnasol yn y Journal of Contemporary History yn ddiweddar.

• The radicalisation of Greek migrants in West Germany, 1960s-1970s

Mae'r project hwn yn dadansoddi effaith syniadau a diwylliannau adain chwith ar ymfudwyr Groegaidd yn byw yng Ngorllewin yr Almaen. Mae'n ystyried effaith amodau amrywiol, yn enwedig y protestiadau a ddigwyddodd ym 1968 yn ogystal â sefydliad a chwymp yr unbennaeth yng ngwlad Groeg. Cyhoeddwyd rhan o'r ymchwil hwn mewn erthygl yn Contemporary European History. Mae'r erthygl yn ychwanegu at y llenyddiaeth sy'n trafod dimensiynau trawswladol mudiadau protest yn y 1960au a'r 1970au, ac yn trafod ymfudwyr Groegaidd adain chwith yn byw yng Ngorllewin yr Almaen. Mae'n dangos bod y dimensiynau trawswladol hyn yn cynnwys cysylltiad â'r ffaith bod o leiaf rhai o'r protestwyr hyn yn teimlo eu bod yn perthyn i genedl benodol.

2019

• Published"Is there such a thing as a 'European' identity?".
  Papadogiannis, N., 21 May 2019, The Conversation.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
• PublishedBrexit from Greek Vantage Points: Changing Histories in the United Kingdom and Greece
  Papadogiannis, N., 8 Feb 2019, In : Contemporary European History. 28, 1, p. 27-30
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2018

• PublishedMilitant around the Clock? Left-wing youth politics, leisure and sexuality in post-dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981 (paperback edition)
  Papadogiannis, N., Nov 2018, Berghahn Books. 342 p. (Protest, Culture & Society)
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• Published“It’s all Greek to me? Combining transnational and social histories of modern Greece”
  Papadogiannis, N., 26 Oct 2018
  Research output: Other contribution
• PublishedInterviewed for the theme issue “Il ’68 degli altri” (The 1968 of the Others), QCode magazine
  Papadogiannis, N., Sep 2018
  Research output: Other contribution
• PublishedThe social history of modern Greece: a roundtable
  Avdela, E., Gallant, T., Papadogiannis, N., Papastefanaki, L. & Voglis, P., 2018, In : Social History. 43, 1, p. 105-125
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2017

• PublishedThe Politics of Culture in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus: Performing the Left since the Sixties
  Karakatsanis, L. (ed.) & Papadogiannis, N. (ed.), 27 Mar 2017, 2017 ed. Routledge. 322 p. (Routledge Advances in Mediterranean Studies)
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• PublishedGender in modern Greek historiography
  Papadogiannis, N., 2017, In : Historein. A review of the past and other stories. 16, 1-2, p. 74-101
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2016

• Published'Keeping with contemporary times': Social tourism and West German youth hostel organizations, 1950s-1980s
  Papadogiannis, N., Jul 2016, In : Journal of Contemporary History. 51, 3, p. 660-687 28 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedConsumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the Long 1960s
  Papadogiannis, N. (ed.), Kornetis, K. (ed.) & Kotsovili, E. (ed.), 11 Feb 2016, Bloomsbury. 304 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• PublishedPolitical travel across the 'Iron Curtain' and Communist youth identities in West Germany and Greece in the 1970s and 1980s
  Papadogiannis, N., 2016, In : European Review of History - Revue Europeenne d Histoire. 23, 3, p. 526-553 28 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2015

• PublishedMilitant around the Clock? Left-wing youth politics, leisure and sexuality in post-dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981
  Papadogiannis, N., 31 May 2015, Berghahn Books. 342 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• Published'The personal is political': Sexuality, gender and the Left in Europe during the 1970s
  Papadogiannis, N. & Gehrig, S., 2 Jan 2015, In : European Review of History - Revue Europeenne d Histoire. 22, 1, p. 1-15 15 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedRed and purple? Feminism and young Greek Eurocommunists in the 1970s
  Papadogiannis, N., 2 Jan 2015, In : European Review of History - Revue Europeenne d Histoire. 22, 1, p. 16-40 25 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2014

• PublishedTravel and the Greek migrant youth residing in West Germany in the 1960s-1970s
  Papadogiannis, N., 25 Nov 2014, In : Comparativ. 2
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedA (trans)national emotional community? Greek political songs and the politicisation of Greek migrants in West Germany in the 1960s and early 1970s
  Papadogiannis, N., Nov 2014, In : Contemporary European History. 23, 4, p. 589-614 26 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedTourism and Mobility in Europe since the Interwar period: Introduction
  Papadogiannis, N. & Siegfried, D., 2014, In : Comparativ.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2012

• PublishedBetween Angelopoulos and The Battleship Potemkin: Cinema and the making of young Communists in Greece in the initial post-dictatorship period (1974-1981)
  Papadogiannis, N., 3 May 2012, In : European History Quarterly. 42, 2, p. 286-308
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedFocus 'Complexities of 'Europe': Introduction
  Avramopoulou, E., Karakatsanis, L., Leckie, K., Papadogiannis, N. & Stammers, T., 2012, In : European Review. 20, 1, p. 1-9
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2011

• PublishedCommunist Youth Groups and Rock Music in Greece in the Late 1970s
  Papadogiannis, N., Jul 2011, Between the Avant Garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present. Brown, T. & Anton, L. (eds.). Berghahn Books
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• PublishedConfronting “imperialism” and “loneliness”: Sexual and gender relations among young Communists in Greece, 1974-1981
  Papadogiannis, N., 2011, In : Journal of Modern Greek Studies.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2009

• PublishedFrom coherence to fragments: ‘1968’ and the making of youth politicisation in Greece in the 1970s
  Papadogiannis, N., 2009, In : Historein. A review of the past and other stories. 9, 17 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2020

• European Social Science History Conference

  Session: Sexuality and youth travel in Europe in the 1950s-1980s; Leiden University

  Mar 2020

  Activity: Participation in conference (Organiser)

2019

• German History Society annual conference, 2019

  Sep 2019

  Activity: Participation in conference (Speaker)
• Workshop on the history of sex work, taking place at Durham University

  Jul 2019

  Activity: Participation in workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
• International Society for Cultural History annual conference, entitled "Global Cultural Histories"

  International Society for Cultural History annual conference, entitled "Global Cultural Histories"

  Jun 2019

  Activity: Participation in conference (Speaker)
• Same-sex travel to Mykonos and Eressos in the 1970s-1980s

  Invited talk, part of the "Sovereignty, Space and Aesthetics: Greece and Europe in the World" workshop. Event jointly organised by Rutgers University-Newark and Simon Fraser University

  Jun 2019

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
• Can Tourism Be Sustainable?

  Performance supported by the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas and hosted at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 2019

  Apr 2019

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)
• Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Journal)

  Apr 2019

  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• “Same-sex practices and spatial mobility in Greece, 1970s-1980s”

  Invited Talk at the Modern Greek Studies seminar series, Oxford University

  Mar 2019

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
• “Institutional and cultural change in Greece in the 1960s and the 1970s”.

  Invited masterclass

  Feb 2019

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
• “Internationalism and organised cross-border youth travel in Western Europe during the Cold War”.

  Invited talk at the seminar series on transnational history hosted by Northumbria University, Newcastle University, Durham University and the University of Sunderland.

  Feb 2019

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
• Free University of Brussels (ULB) COFUND Marie-Curie scheme. (Publisher)

  Reviewer for the Free University of Brussels (ULB) COFUND Marie-Curie scheme.

  Jan 2019

  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Interview

  Interviewed by the ASKI (Contemporary Social History Archives) on the history of Greek migrants who resided in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. The interview was part of the radio show on history that the ASKI are running in collaboration with the popular radio station “Sto Kokkino”.

  Jan 2019

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)
• Oxford University Press (Publisher)

  Jan 2019

  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Journal of Greek Media & Culture (Journal)

  Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal since January 2019.

  2019 →

  Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)

2018

• Photo exhibition “Glimpses on Greek migrants in Edinburgh”

  Photo exhibition “Glimpses on Greek migrants in Edinburgh”, The Safari Lounge, Edinburgh, 5 November- 2 December. The exhibition received an enthusiastic welcome by Greek migrants and other residents of Edinburgh.

  Nov 2018

  Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)
• Social Movement Studies (Journal)

  Jul 2018

  Activity: Publication peer-review (Peer reviewer)
• Migration, Protest and Institutional Responses in Western Europe in the 1960s-1980s

  Workshop attracting both early-career and established scholars from Bangor University and Edge Hill University

  30 Apr 2018

  Activity: Participation in workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)
• Helping make the desert blossom? Organised Youth Travel from West Germany to Israel, internationalism and Holocaust memories, 1950s-1980s

  6 Apr 2018

  Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)
• European Social Science History Conference

  I served as the Chair and the Discussant for the following session: "A Mutually Beneficial Relationship? Professional Advocacy, Social Movements and Democratization Processes"

  4 Apr 2018

  Activity: Participation in conference (Chair)
• Transnational Mobility, Cultural Diplomacy and Youth Lifestyles in West Germany, 1950s-1980s

  Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Colloquium, Oxford University

  16 Mar 2018

  Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)

2017

• Unruly diplomats? Organised Cross-Border Youth Mobility, Cultural Internationalism and West German Youth Lifestyles, 1950s-1980s

  Manuscript workshop, Institute for Transnational and Spatial History, University of St Andrews

  6 Oct 2017

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

External funding 

1) 2012-2013: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2 years. Project: the history of youth tourism in West Germany and Greece from a comparative and transnational perspective during the 1960s. Value: around £65,000.

2) 2017: Small grant by the Contemporary Social History Archives (Greece) to produce an article on culture in post-1974 Greece.

3) 2018, Council for European Studies Small Events grant (secondary proposer): Grant that enabled the organisation of a series of public events on the history of migration, Glasgow, November 2018. Value: 1000 US dollars.

Administrative Tasks

1. Director of the Postgraduate Taught Programmes of the School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences (since August 2018)
2. Administrator of the website of the School of History and Archaeology (2017-18)
3. Member of the Admissions Team, School of History and Archaeology, Bangor University (since 2017)

Administrative Experience

1. Organiser of the “Left-wing Cultures in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus since the 1960s” at Bangor University, 3 May 2017.
2. Co-director and co-organiser of the activities of the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History, University of St Andrews, August 2016-January 2017.
3. Convener of the Late Modern History Seminar, School of History, University of St Andrews, August 2016-January 2017.
4. Co-organiser of the international interdisciplinary workshop “Tourism and Mobility in Greece during the 20th century”, Athens, 20 December 2013.
5. Co-organiser of the international interdisciplinary conference “Between Commerce, Education and Adventure. Tourist experience in Europe since the Interwar Period”, Potsdam, 19-20 September 2013, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
6. Co-convener of the international interdisciplinary conference “Complexities of European Identities”, CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Cambridge, 20-21 November 2009. The conference was funded by the CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities).
7. Co-convener of the international interdisciplinary conference “‘The personal is political’: Politics, Lifestyle and Culture in Europe in the 1970s”, 26-27 August, 2009, University of Cambridge. The conference was funded by the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge as well as the Society for Modern Greek Studies.
8. Co-convener of the graduate conference “Gender and Identity in contemporary Greece”, which took place on 18 October 2008 in Oxford. The conference was funded by the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, Department of Modern Languages of the University of Oxford and Society for Modern Greek Studies.
9. Among the founding members and group leader of the Contemporary (post-1945) History Workshop at the University of Cambridge in 2008-09. In this academic year, the workshop attracted the Doctoral Student Workshop Fund, which enabled us to cover the cost of the keynote lecture delivered by Dr M Conway.
10. Among the founding members as well as member of the steering group of the interdisciplinary research group “European Encounters and Identities”. The group ran from October 2008 to June 2010 at the University of Cambridge, funded by the CRASSH. Website: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/188/european-identities.htm .

Public engagement/Impact-related activities

Aims:

a) Strengthening social connectivity among migrants and the indigenous population in Britain

b) The promotion of socially sustainable mass tourism

I have contributed to The Conversation, the Foreign Affairs, the Project Syndicate and the Journal of Modern Greek StudiesOccasional Papers. I have been interviewed by journalists working for German as well as for Greek radio stations (Deutschlandfunk and ERA, respectively).

I have presented alongside Elli-Maria Charalampidou on how to approach “sustainability” in a nuanced manner in the context of the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April 2017 as well as in the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, Fringe Festival, 27 August 2017. The latter show is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiFdRbkm420&t=2119s(Part 1) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmpGFC17ic0&t=5s (Part 2).

I have been consulted and interviewed by the directors of the documentary entitled “Voices of the city”, Thessaloniki, April 2013. The documentary explores the contemporary history of Thessaloniki and has been produced and directed by a number of high school teachers of history residing in that city and aimed at high school pupils and their parents.

I have co-created and I have been running alongside sociologist and journalist D Notarakis the blog entitled “Salty Decks. Back packs, slow ferries and vivid memories. Maritime Youth Travel in the Mediterranean since the 1960s”: https://saltydecks.wordpress.com/ 

Finally, I have participated in public workshops as well as delivered public lectures on migration from Southern to Northern Europe as well as on the current crisis in Southern Europe.