The Lemnos Friends of ANZAC Association

The First World War in the Mediterranean ANZAC and the role of
Lemnos
International Conference : Lemnos, 26-28 June 2015

PROGRAMME

Friday, 26 June

18.00-19.00 Welcoming addresses

19.00-21.00
Chair: Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Professors at Rescue: American Classicists in the Aegean at
the End of the Great War
Vlasis Vlasidis, War and Remembrance: Constructing and maintaining Commonwealth
WWI Cemeteries in Greece (1920-1940)
Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Archaeology and Identity: Australians, Greeks, and
Gallipoli
Christos Boulotis, Excavating the Lemnian Past in the Backstage of the Great War

Saturday, 27 June

18.00-20.00
Chair: Vlasis Vlasidis
Dionysis Chourchoulis, Greek Plans for an Assault on the Straits, 1912-1914
Serhat Guvenc, The Significance of Lemnos in the Gallipoli Campaign: The Turkish
Perspective
Theofanis Vlachos, The Gallipoli Campaign as the first step of the Greek National
Schism
Marina Petraki, Lemnos to Gallipoli From Heaven to Hell

Sunday, 28 June

11.00-13.00
Chair: Serhat Guvenc
Zisis Fotakis, Lemnos and the Northern Aegean: Their Place in the Naval Policies of
Greece and the Great Powers
John B. Hattendorf, The United States Navy in the Mediterranean during World War
One
Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix, The French Navy in the Eastern Mediterranean 1914-18
Geoffrey Till, In Search of Manoeuvre: The British Approach to the Gallipoli
Campaign
13.15-14.00

Concluding remarks
Chair: Zisis Fotakis
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Turning Point of WWI
Hon. John Pandazopoulos, Military History Tourism and the Opportunities for Greece

Participants

Christos Boulotis, Archaeologist, Research Centre for Antiquity Academy of Athens

Dionysis Chourchoulis, Instructor of European History, Hellenic Open University
Zisis Fotakis, Hellenic Naval Academy, Pireaus
Serhat Guvenc, Professor of International Relations, Kadir Has University, Istanbul,
Turkey
John B. Hattendorf, Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History, Chairman, Maritime
History Department, and Director, Naval War College Museum, Naval War
College, USA
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Professor, Department of History, University of Athens
Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix, Charg de recherche et d'enseignement , Service historique
de la Dfense, France
Marina Petraki, Independent Scholar. Athens, Greece
Hon . John Pandazopoulos, President World Hellenic InterParliamentary Association.
Minister for Tourism and Major Events Victoria, Australia 1999-2006
Geoffrey Till, Emeritus Professor of Maritime Studies, Kings College London, and
Chairman of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies
Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Executive Officer, Australian Archaeological Institute
at Athens
Theofanis Vlachos, Army History Directorate/Hellenic Army General Staff
Vlasis Vlasidis, Assistant Professor Department for Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies,
University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The venue will be held at Varos Village Hotel on Lemnos