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Marilena Papadaki (BA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; MA & PhD, EHESS Paris) is a historian, specialized in the history and philosophy of international law, the history of international relations and the history of international institutions. Her studies focus on the analysis of the theory and action of French internationalists of the 20th century, while her PhD dissertation explores the life of Nicolas Politis (1872-1942), French academic and theorist of international law, Greek diplomat and politician, international lawyer and arbitrator. She has investigated the functioning of international political (League of Nations), legal (Permanent Court of International Justice) and academic (Hague Academy, Institute of International Law, etc.) institutions of the interwar period and has dealt with the origins of international cooperation in various key areas (such as the maintenance of international peace through the creation of a system of collective security, the implementation of a system of protection of minorities (especially in the Balkan region) and the path towards the recognition of human rights on the international stage). Furthermore, she has examined the historical path towards the recognition of genocide and the international repression of terrorism, the development of the European idea and unification during the interwar period, issues of violations of international law and the legitimacy of the presence of Allied troops in Thessaloniki during WWI, aspects of the history of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki and aspects related to the formation of the Greek state (ecclesiastical issues and broader issues of administrative integration of new territories). Recently, she has also been active in the promotion of local history by digital media at municipality level.
Teaching
2022 (October- )
International Hellenic University, Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies
- 2025: “Introduction in archival studies” (4th semester)
- 2024:
- History of Greek state and historical archives
- ‘EU institutions and archives’ (5th Semester)
- ‘Records Management’ (7th Semester)
- 2023: Records Management (7th Semester)
- 2022: Records Management (7th Semester)
2022 (March-July)
Greek Open University, SEP
Teaching position in post-graduate (master) programs
1. Master’s degree programme “Modern and Contemporary Greek History”
- 2021-2022 (winter semester): Teaching TEI53 “The Greek Geographical Space and the Powers of the World (1800-1922)”
- 2021-2023: Supervision of 3 diploma theses, TEIS
2. Master’s programme ITA “Contemporary Italian culture and special issues of terminology and interpretation”
- 2023-2024 (spring semester): Teaching ITA64 “Political Thought in 20th Century Italy. Political theories, international relations and diplomacy”
- 2024-2025 (winter and spring semesters): Teaching ITA64 “Political Thought in 20th Century Italy. Political theories, international relations and diplomacy”
- 2025 (spring semester): Supervision of 2 dissertations ITAΔE
2020-2021
University of West Attica, Department of Archival, Library and Information Systems
(within the framework of the Act “Acquisition of Academic Teaching Experience for Young Scientists with PhDs 2020-2021 at the University of West Attica”)
- Teaching the courses of A/A 91
- Modern and Contemporary European History – winter semester
- Modern Greek History-spring semester
Invited lecturer
- Basel, 10/04/2018: Universität Basel, Europainstitut – Institute for European Global Studies. Invited lecturer at the Seminar “Global History of Europe” (Μadeleine Herren Oesch) Title of seminar: “The idea of a European Union during the interwar period”
- Thessaloniki, 08/03/2018: Department of Modern and Contemporary history, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Invited lecturer. Postgraduate seminar.
- Thessaloniki, 02/05/2018: Seminar for Secondary Education teachers “The First World War in Thessaloniki”, Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki. Seminar title: “Greece at the Peace Conference (1919)”
- Paris, 16/01/2017: Invited lecturer, posgraduate seminar of the Centre des études turques, ottomanes balkaniques, et centrasiatiques of EHESS (Nathalie Clayer, Bernard Lory, Xavier Bougarel). Les sociétés sud-est européennes des XIXe-XXIe siècles au prisme des trajectoires individuelles. Title of seminar: “Nicolas Politis : un ‘intellectuel des gouvernements’ entre sphère juridique et sphère politique”
- Paris, 12/10/2009: Invited lecturer, postgraduate seminar La formation de l’État en Grèce: les mécanismes du contrôle et de la gestion des populations, XIXe- XXe siècles. Title of seminar: “Méthodologie de l’écriture de la biographie”
Publications
MONOGRAPH
1. Marilena Papadaki, Nicolas Politis (1872-1942) : La science au service de la construction d’une société internationale entre ordre et liberté, préf. Robert Kolb, Athens : Alexandreia [to be published]
EDITING
2. 100 χρόνια από τον Α’ Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο [World War I Centenary], ed. Marilena Papadaki, Thessaloniki: K. Koufa Foundation, 2015.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE VOLUMES
Teaching manual
3. Favio Farinella, Jimena Quesada, Raba, Papadakis, Cartolano, Bariffi, Medel, Derecho Internacional Público del siglo XXI y Pospandemia, Mauriticus: Editorial académica española, 2021 (pp. 605)
Journals
4. Papadaki, Marilena, « L’action des juristes internationalistes au service de la paix internationale à la fin du XIXe siècle : le cas de Nicolas Politis (1872-1942) », dans Du Pacifisme à la culture de la paix, Cahiers de la Méditerranée, no 91, déc. 2015, pp. 21-31.
5. Papadaki, Marilena, « Nicolas Politis, une approche biographique », Monde(s), Profession : Juristes internationalistes, n° 7 mai 2015, pp. 45-64.
6. Papadaki, Marilena, “The Government Intellectuals: Nicolas Politis-An Intellectual Portrait”, European Journal of International Law, 2012 23: pp. 221-231 (contribution au symposium “The European Tradition in International Law: Nicolas Politis”).
Collective volumes
7. Papadaki Marilena, “Creating traditions of international justice: the case of Nicolas Politis”, in P. Sean Morris (ed.), Transforming the politics of international law: The advisory committee of jurists and the formation of the World Court in the League of Nations, London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 199-212.
8. Papadaki Marilena, “Current aspects of an incomplete integration: the case of the ‘New Countries'”, C. Voulgaris, K. Kostis, S. Rizas (eds.), The Great Transformation: State and politics in Greece of the 20th century, Athens: Patakis Publications, 2020, pp. 274-306. [in Greek]
9. Papadaki Marilena, “French international lawyers in the service of international peace during the early 20th century: the case of Nicolas Politis (1872-1942)” in J. Olmstead (Ed.), Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First World War, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 47-60.
10. Papadaki Marilena, “Kalliopi Koufa (1936- ): first Greek female academic of Public International Law” in Immi Tallgrenn (ed.), Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. [to be published]
Proceedings of conferences-meetings
11. Papadaki, Marilena, “The emergence of international responsibility after the First World War”, in Marilena Papadaki (ed.), World War I Centenary, Thessaloniki: K. Koufa, 2015, pp. 72-85. [in Greek]
12. Papadaki Marilena, “The Allied Army of the Orient (1915-1919) in the light of legal sources: issues of legitimacy and interaction with local communities”, Proceedings of the International Conference “The Allied Army of the Orient in Thessaloniki, 1915-1918: the city and its representations”, (Byzantine Museum, 18-19 September 2018), Thessaloniki: Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki, 2020, pp. 91-100.
13. Papadaki Marilena “Greek-French relations during the Paris Peace Conference (1919): the case of Nikolaos Politis (1872-1942)”, International Conference “The Paris Peace Conference through the prism of French-Greek relations of the early 20th century”, French School of Athens, National Research and Study Foundation “Eleftherios K. Venizelos”, Athens, 14 December 2019, 2022.
14. Papadaki Marilena, “The ‘systematic extermination’ of the Christian element as presented before the Committee of the Authors of War Crimes and Penalties”, in Taner Akcam, Theodosios Kyriakides and Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis (Ed.), The Genocide of Christian populations in the Ottoman Empire and its aftermath (1908-1923), Routledge, 2023, pp. 173-197.
15. Papadaki, Marilena, “The Hungarian Optans Cases before the Romanian-Hungarian Mixed Arbitration Tribunal: International Lawyers, the League of Nations and the Judicialization of International Relations, in Hélène Ruiz Fabri, Michel Erpelding (Eds.), The Mixed Arbitral Tribunals, 1919-1939: An Experiment in the International Adjudication of Private Rights, Studies of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law 25, Nomos, Luxemburg, 2023, pp. 363-382.
16. Papadaki Marilena, “Politics and instrumentalization of international law institutions: the case of the Lausanne Convention on the exchange of Greek and Turkish populations (1923)”, From Sevres to Lausanne, Athens: Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament for Parliamentarism and Democracy, National Foundation for Research and Studies “Eleftherios Venizelos”, 2024 pp. 271-296.
17. Papadaki Marilena, “The legal school of social objectivism and its contribution to the development of international criminal justice after the First World War: the case of Nikolaos Politis (1872-1942)”, in Vidali, S, Gasparinatou, M., Georgoulas, S., Themelis, O., Kasapoglou, A., Koros, D., Koulouris, N.K., Kouroutzas, Ch., Papanikolaou, G., Petsas, J., Spirea, S., Stamouli, E. (Ed.), Social Reality, Critical Discourse and the Criminal Phenomenon, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Hellenic Society for the Study of Crime and Social Control, Athens: EEMEKE, 2025, pp. 225-241.
18. Papadaki Marilena, “From the Commission (1919) of authors of war crimes and sanctions to the Commission for the Suppression of Terrorism (1937): the reception of the concept of international terrorism in the interwar period”, in History of Crime and Justice (editor of the volume, E. Avdela).
Education
2018-2021
Postdoctoral study
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Department of History and Archeology
Title of research project: “Greece before the Permanent Court of International Justice (1920-1940)”
2016
PhD in History and civilizations
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS-Paris)
Title of dissertation: “Nicolas Politis (1872-1942) : La science au service de la construction d’une société internationale entre ordre et liberté”
[Nicolas Politis (1872-1942) : science in the service of the construction of an international society between liberty and order]
Supervisors: Kostas Kostis, Nathalie Clayer
2005
D.E.A. in History and civilizations
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS-Paris)
2003
B.A. in History and Archeology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2002
Programme “SOCRATES-ERASMUS”
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
1998
Certificate of studies
Trigg County High School, KY, USA