Hamilakis Yannis

The archaeological construction of Europe: orientalism, myths of whiteness, and the Global South
Yannis Hamilakis, Professor of Archaeology and Modern Greek Studies at Brown University, USA (“Archaiologia, ethnos kai fyli”/“Archaeology, Nation and Race”, “Archaiologia kai Evropaiki Neoterikotita”/“Archaeology and European Modernity”), discusses with Manolis Pimplis, Chania Book Festival director, about how archaeological accounts of the “Minoans” proclaimed Crete, cradle of the “first European civilization”, how archaeologists contributed to the Europeanization of Greece and the production of a geopolitics of whiteness, and how we could rethink Greece in the context of the debate on the Global South.

Co-organized by Eikostos Protos Publishing

3rd Chania Book Festival 2024