Manolis Pagkalos
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Dr Manolis Pagkalos is Associate Professor in the Humanities at Zhejiang A&F University, PRC. Previously, he has been Research Fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Greece, and he has taught at the University of Groningen (2020-2022) and the University of Leicester (2014-2020). Moreover, he has been invited as a Visiting Lecturer in Brno, Czechia (Masaryk University, 2021), Sao Paolo, Brazil (USP, 2022-2023), Changchun, China (IHAC-NENU, 2023), and Mexico City, Mexico (UNAM, 2023). He holds a bachelor’s degree (BA Hons. 2010, Athens) in History and Archaeology and a master’s degree and PhD in Ancient History (MA 2014; PhD 2018, Leicester). His research deals with memory and the reception of the past in ancient and modern communities and its use in socio-politics. Other research interests include ancient numismatics (iconography, ideology, circulation, economy), epigraphy, and digital humanities.
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(Current) Jiyang College, Zhejiang A&F University, PRC.
Research Center for the Humanities (Athens);
University of Groningen (NL);
University of Leicester (UK)
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The ‘Language of Change’ project explores how various agents appropriated socio-political changes in familiar narratives to negotiate political power during the long Hellenistic period. It focuses on literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and material culture to investigate narrative construction mechanisms, explore changes in ideology and practices, and question their development and reception diachronically. The approach, first, considers the civic level as the immediate context and recipient of any ‘language’ changes. Then, the examination swifts to the broader political context of the period to highlight the relation between language as an instrument and the political practices for (civic) identity and the image-making of the (ruling) elite.
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Memory Studies; Reception (Antiquity and Modernity); Numismatics; Epigraphy; Hellenistic Greece; Late Republic; Cross-cultural Interactions; Digital Humanities