Revolutionizing Transitions: 50 Years since the Democratization of Portugal and Greece

The online seminar “Revolutionizing Transitions: 50 Years since the Democratization of Portugal and Greece”, with the participation of Guya Accornero, Kostis Korneti and Nikolaos Papadogiannis, discusses the fall of authoritarian regimes in Portugal and Greece, in the context of the 50th anniversary of these events, by revisiting the books “The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal“, ‘Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the ’Long 1960s’ in Greece” and “Militant around the Clock? Left-wing Youth Politics, Leisure and Sexuality in post-dictatorship Greece, 1974-198”, by the respective panelists.
The seminar will focus on the final phase of the dictatorship in both countries, as well as the initial period of the transition from dictatorship to democracy, from the perspective of student political, social and cultural resistance, discussing the failed liberalization processes of dictatorships, the importance of cultural and political resistance and democratization, introducing a comparison between the two cases that marked the beginning of what Samuel Huntington famously called the “third wave of democratization”.
Organized by Global Sixties, an interdisciplinary academic journal, the seminar will take place on Monday, December 9, at 2pm, on the Zoom platform, by registering at https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qkat88nDT4aYT3jBFqILRA#/registration