CALL FOR PAPERS - The Shadow of the Aegean

The "Shadow of the Aegean" conference, hosted by the Chair of South-Eastern European History Department at Justus Liebig University Gießen and the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, will explore the ongoing impacts of the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange. The event will investigate how the exchange is remembered, forgotten, and passed down through generations. Key topics include refugee identity, memory dynamics, commemoration and forgetting, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. The conference invites interdisciplinary submissions from fields as history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies (see the full Call for Papers below).

Submissions should be sent to migrationsgeschichten@uni-giessen.de by 1 November 2025. 

Greek Muslims waiting for their passage to Turkey in the northern Greek port city of Kavalla in 1924