![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is founding director of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, which opened at Reid Hall in Paris in fall 2018 and which brings together scholars with leading artists, writers, composers and film-makers from around the world. His most recent book is What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home (Other Press, 2017), a family history. 'Salonica, City of Ghosts' By Mark Mazower Conquest, 1430 Beginnings Before the city fell in 1430, it had already enjoyed seventeen hundred years of life as a Hellenistic, Roman and. He is currently exploring the theme of the unburied dead with theater director Theodoros Terzopoulos. In 2016 he made a film Techniques of the Body, a meditation on the refugee crisis in Greek history, with director Constantine Giannaris. He comments on international affairs and reviews books for the Financial Times, the Nation, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and others. His current interests include the history of the Greek war of independence, and the historical evolution of the Greek islands in the very long run. Wallach Professor of History, specializes in modern Greece, 20th-century Europe, and international history. Spring 2023: Tuesdays, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Education In City of Ghosts, Mark Mazower offers up a particularly exotic slice of Ottoman life, a detailed panorama of the city of Salonica, once the empire’s chief European port, now a largely ignored corner of northern Greece. ![]()
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