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To achieve this, the lecture will combine macro-level findings from extant scholarship with micro-level novel evidence from the Ottoman Greeks of the United States Digital History Project at Flagler College. \n\nThe lecture will cover the following subjects:\n\u2022\tThe displacement of Ottoman Greek migrants from their communities during World War I and the Greco-Turkish War.\n\u2022 Experiences of Ottoman Greek migrants fleeing from the cities of Izmir, Ordu, \u015eark\u00f6y, Semendire, and \u00dcrg\u00fcp.\n\u2022 Experiences of Ottoman Greeks during their settlement in Michigan.\n\u2022 Experiences of second- and third-generation descendants of Ottoman Greeks during their formative years in Michigan.\n\nDr. Yiorgo Topalidis received a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Florida in 2022. Yiorgo\u2019s research interests are emigration from the Ottoman Empire to the US and White identity construction, contestation, and transgenerational memory transfer. 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Drawing on poets\u2019 own reflections, it explores how today\u2019s poets position themselves not as a detached aesthetic figure, but as an engaged agent, deeply implicated in the historical, political, and affective landscapes of their time. Contemporary Greek poets articulate a dynamic dialogue with the past, engaging with personal and collective histories, past traumas, and the longue dur\u00e9e of Greek cultural memory. In their work, poetry becomes a site where language registers the immediate pressures of socio-political reality: austerity, precarity, migration, gendered and racialized violence, and the restructuring of public space. The poet of the twenty-first century emerges as a figure who inhabits contradiction, between private vulnerability and public intervention, historical burden and utopian projection. This lecture argues that contemporary Greek poetry offers not only aesthetic innovation but also a form of political thinking: a practice that interrogates reality, reclaims history, and reimagines the collective horizon.\n\nAthina Rossoglou is a graduate of the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University. She has pursued studies in European Civilization and holds a postgraduate degree in Public History. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Ionian University. Her research examines Greek poetry of the 21st century, with particular emphasis on the ways in which it engages with the concepts of history, nationhood, public space, and identity formation. 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