International symposium "Globalization of revolutionary ideas in the wake of Napoleon", October 14-15

Thursday, October 14 - 09:00-17:30 and Friday, October 15, 2021 - 09:30-18:00 - Auditorium Georges Dumézil - Maison de la recherche
Inalco - Maison de la recherche - 2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris

Organizers:
Florica Mihuţ-Bohîlţea (University of Bucharest)
Nicolas Pitsos (BULAC, CREE-Inalco)
Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert (PLIDAM-Inalco)

Practical information:
mihaela-madalina.vartejanu-joubert@inalco.fr
cristina.birsan@inalco.fr

Globalization of revolutionary ideas in the Napoleonic wake: The 1820s from the Balkans to the Cordillera

Argumentary
The year 1821 saw the emergence of independence movements in both Ottoman provinces in south-eastern Europe - such as Morea - and in regions vassal to the Sultan - such as Wallachia and Moldavia. These uprisings added to the centrifugal tendencies already evident among Ottoman high-dignitaries eager to emancipate themselves from central authority and impose their own order in Epirus or Egypt, following the example of Ali pacha of Tepelen or Mehmet-Ali of Kavala.

This symposium has a dual objective. On the one hand, it aims to study events in the Balkans in the early 1820s as a historiographical whole. On the other, it aims to place them in an ideological and socio-political context that goes beyond the borders of this peninsula, establishing links and connections with actors and historical sequences occurring at the same time elsewhere in the world.