A survey of Greek presence in Asia Minor from antiquity to the early twentieth century, with particular attention to its various cultural and artistic expressions. The lecture will be rounded off with a presentation of the work devoted to the study of Hellenism in Asia Minor by the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens.

Paschalis Kitromilides is a Greek-Cypriot political scientist and intellectual historian. His expertise is on the history of political thought. He has been director of the Center for Asia Minor Studies since 1980 and was Director of the Institute of Neohellenic Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation (2000-2011). He has held visiting appointments at Harvard and Brandeis Universities, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the European University Institute and the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti. He is a full member of the Academy of Athens since 2020 at the chair of the History of Political Thought. He is the author or editor of over fifty books and over two hundred and sixty articles and book reviews in academic journals and collective volumes in Greek and English. Besides English and Greek, his books have appeared in Russian, Romanian, Serbian and Bulgarian.