WaRs project records and documents public monuments, situated in sites of memory and capitals of prefectures in Greece, erected to honor events and persons related to WW II.
Our aim is to historically and aesthetically contextualize each monument and reflect on the social and political dynamics of its erection. It is an interdisciplinary program that intersects art history, history, cultural studies, public history and memory policies.
The research work was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “First Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment grant” (Project Number: 2961).
Areti Adamopoulou, is Professor of Art History at the University of Ioannina, Greece. Her publications, in Greek and English, focus on post-1945 art and national identity, Cold War exhibitions and diplomacy, the history of art history, the history of art institutions, contemporary art and the art market.
Alexandros Teneketzis, Researcher on the “WaRs” project, is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Patras, Greece. He also teaches Public History at the Hellenic Open University as an Adjunct Lecturer. He has published widely on public art and memory, the history of digital art and the history of museums
Anna Maria Droumpouki holds a BA in History and Archaeology, an MA in Museology and a PhD in Contemporary Greek and European History (all from the University of Athens). Since December 2021 she is Senior Research Associate at the History Department of the LudwigsMaximilian University in Munich working on the DFG project “The Worst Times Are Not Yet Over: Jewish Life in Post-War Greece, 1944–1949”.
Kostas Korres, is a historian and cultural manager. He holds a BA in European Civilization, and an MA in Education with the use of new technologies. He was a researcher at the ELTE University of Budapest, and currently a PhD Candidate at the University of the Aegean, and a Researcher at the Universities of Ioannina and Patras.
Konstantinos Argianas, holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Vienna. He also holds an MA in Art History from the University of Crete and a BA in History from the Ionian University (Greece). He is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Ioannina and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Cyprus University of Technology
Nikolaos Kostopoulos, is PhD candidate on Art History at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Patras, Greece. He holds a master degree in Art History at the Rijksuniv ersiteit Groningen, Department of History of Art, Architecture & Landscape.
