Brégianni Catherine

Catherine Brégianni
Doctoral Studies
1995 DEA on History, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Thesis: Les mécanismes bancaires et l'Etat en Grèce. Le cas de la Banque Agricole.
1929-1940
2000 PhD on Modern History, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Ph.D thesis : Les Banques, l'agriculture et l'Etat. Stratégies de crédit et politique agraire en
Grèce, de 1861 à 1940 [cf. publications]
Career
2003-. Senior Researcher (since 2011), Modern Greek History Research Centre, Academy of
Athens. In the Centre she participates at the Programme “ Ionian Biographies” and she works
on the research plan “Aspects and perceptions of the Ionian rural and urban territory”.
2008-. External Researcher in the Centre of Culture, Research and Documentation Bank of
Greece.
2001-2011. Tutor, Hellenic Open University. Courses : Social and Economic History of Europe
(2001-2003, 2006-2011) & History of Europe(2002-2006.)
1999-2004. Associate researcher in the Hellenic Bank Association, keeping a permanent
column on the subject of banking and numismatic history at the Association’s Bulletin.
During her doctoral studies, she participated in research projects supported by the Historical
Archives of the Agricultural Bank and the Historical Archives of National Bank. She had also
work as an archivist at the Archives of the Bank of Greece (2000-2001).
She has published various articles on Modern Greek Economic and Social History and she has
participated at international congresses, were she had also organised and/or co-organised
specialised sessions, mainly on the subject of cooperative institutions. Since 2014 she is an
Affiliated Researcher at LaDéHis -CRH/EHESS, were she participates in the collective project «
Politiques et statistiques économiques des institutions internationales durant
l’entre-deux-guerres » [http://ladehis.ehess.fr/index.php?564]. She is a member of the
Association Française d’Histoire Economique and she had organised various sessions in
international conferences of economic and business history, mainly on the topics of European
Monetary History and comparative research on cooperative institutions.
I. Books and edition of collective volumes
1. Nomisma. Politics and Ideology in the Greek State (1833-1940). Athens, Academy of
Athens, Athens, Academy of Athens, 2011 (in Greek).
2.History and Historiography. New perceptions. Patras, Hellenic Open University, 2008, (in
Greek).
3. Les Banques, l’agriculture et l’Etat. Stratégies de crédit et politique agraire en Grèce, de
1861 a 1940 , pref. Sp. Asdrachas, Lille, Presses Universitaires Septentrion, 562 pp.
4. Co-direction (with H. Gardikas-Katsiadakis) and introduction Agricultural cooperatives in
South and Central Europe, 19
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century: a comparative approach
, Academy of Athens, 2013.
5. Three Conferences on International Monetary History, ed. G. Depeyrot with the collaboration
of C. Brégianni and M. Kovalchuk, Wetteren, Moneta, 2013.
II. Articles and chapters in collective volumes (selective list, language of publication
French, English)
1. «La métonymie littéraire : Représentations de l'espace économique dans la la littérature
grecque, XIXe-XXe s.», Bulletin of the Center for the Study of Modern Greek History, III (2003),
p. 187-207.
2. «Images narratives ioniennes du XIXe siècle et abstraction d'espace : Solomos, Polylas,
Théotokis», Neoellinica Historika, 1 (2008), p. 13-34.
3. "La utopia rural de un régimen autoritario. La politica cooperativista durante la dictatura de
Mataxas (Grecia, 1936-1940)", Historia Agraria , 42 (2007), σ. 327-351
4. «Réseaux techniques et concepts de modernisation. Les cas des chemins de fer
thessaliens», Cahiers de la Méditerranée, 73 (2009), p. 291-306. [http://cdlm.revues.org/].
5. «Pouvoir politique et hiérarchies sociales dans les Îles Ioniennes au XIXe siècle : Les formes
de l'autorité britannique», in Des marges aux frontières. Les puissances et les îles en
Méditerranée à l'époque moderne, ed. A. Brogini, M. Ghazali, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2010,
p. 388-403.
6. «L'influence maçonnique sur l'hellénisme durant la dernière période ottomane et les
symboles de l'Etat grec», Diffusions et circulations des pratiques maçonniques en Europe et en
Méditerranée XVIII-XIXe siècles, ed. P.- Y. Beaurepaire, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2012.
[ http://www.eabh.info/fileadmin/bulletin/pdf/bulletin2012_2.pdf ]
8. ''Monetary Crises in Greece during the 19th Century. Greek Membership in the Latin
Monetary Union and Numismatic Issues'' in Moneys and Economies during 19th Century (from
Europe to Asia), ed. G. Dépeyrot, Weteren, Moneta, 2012, p. 27-38.
9. ''Monetary mechanisms and numismatic representations in the era of the first globalisation:
the Greek paradigm of the 19th century'', in Depeyrot, Brégianni, Kovalchuk, op. cit., p. 19 –
43.10. ''Stories and myths : Greek gold transferts during the World War II and beyond'', in
Depeyrot, Brégianni, Kovalchuk, op. cit., p. 261-271.
11.''The Ottoman Empire and the West in the middle of the 19th century: Greek bankers and
merchants in Istanbul observed by Andreas Sygros in his autobiography''
in G. Depeyrot (ed.), When Orient and Occident meet, Wetteren, Moneta, 2014, p. 37-48.
12. "Politique agraire et agencement de la population rurale en Grece dans
l'entre-deux-guerres", in Migration of peoples and capital in the Mediterranean during the 20th
century, Florence, Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, 2005. C.D. Rom,
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13. "Economy and Society in South Peloponnesus: the organisation of agricultural
co-operatives in Messenia from the beginning of the 20th century up to World War II.", en
collaboration de Dr. I. Karakatsianis, in H. Gardikas-Katsiadakis, C. Brégianni, op. cit., p.
161-176.
14. «Banking system and Agricultural cooperatives in Greece (1914-1936): institutional
renovation or economic decline?», in H. Gardikas-Katsiadakis, C. Brégianni, Agricultural
cooperatives in South and Central Europe, 19th-20th century: a comparative approach,
introduction par C. Brégianni, Athens, Academy of Athens, 2013, p. 49-74.
15. ''Printing of banknotes of the Bank of Greece by the Bank of France (1934-1936). A
description of interwar banking practices'', Numismatic Chronicles, 28, 2010, p. 105-127 [publ.
in English and Greek].
16. ''Money and the echo of history'', Νομισματικά Χρονικά/Numismatic Chronicles, 30, 2012.
III. Papers in International Conferences (selective list)
1. "Economic osmosis and images of monetization: Idealizing State's power in Greek coins of
the 19th century'', paper presented in the International Conference ''European Economic and
Business development", Hellenic Open University/ Historical Archives of the National Bank of
Greece, Athens, 27-29 Νοεμβρίου 2003.
2. "Intégration économique et aspects de modernité autour d'un réseau ferroviaire périphérique.
Thessalie, XIX e s. ". XII International Conference on Urban History "European City in
comparative perspective", Athens, 27-30 October 2004.
3."Some rural myths of the Greek authoritarianism: Cooperative policy and ideological
perception of agriculture. 1936-1940", ΧΙV International Economic History Conference,
International Economic History Association, Helsinki, 21-25 August 2006.
4. "Degrees of protectionism : Agriculture and cooperatives in Greece from 1914 to 1936'', IX
International Conference of the Spanish Economic History Association, Μurcia, 9-12 Septemper
2008.
5. "Une perception économique des réseaux techniques : Organisation de l'espace et réseaux
bancaires durant les années trente'', ΧΙV International Economic History Conference,
International Economic History Association, Utrecht , 3-7 August 2009
[http://www.wehc2009.org/programme].
6. ''Some help to the people and to the markets: Greek agricultural cooperatives as an
institutional intervention (1914-1936)'', 15th European Business History Association Annual
Conference, Athens 24-26 August 2011.
7. ''The Gold-Exchange Standard, the Great Depression and Greece; Lessons (?) from the
Interwar Greek Default'', University Bayreuth, Germany, Symposium on "The euro: (Greek)
tragedy or Europe's destiny? Economic, historical and legal perspectives on the common
currency", 11, 12 January 2012
8.''Dès la microanalyse à l'aperçu historique des réseaux coopératives: Economie et société en
Thessalie dès l'aube du 20ème siècle jusqu'à la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale'' [in collaboration
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with Dr. A. Antoniou], XVIth World Economic History Congress 2012, International Economic
History Association, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9th-13th July 2012, Session:
Cooperatives and associational networks. A comparative analysis, 19th and 20th centuries,
organisée par Candido Román Cervantes and Torsten Lorenz.
9.''La Dépression internationale de l'entre-deux-guerres et l'économie rurale grecque
(1928-1935). Crise agraire et commercialisation de la production'', II International Conférence of
Rural History, Berne 19-22 août 2013, Session Long-term effects of agrarian crisis and agrarian
depression on commercial networks (1750-2000), organised by H. Laurent.
10. ''Micro-regions, central agricultural policy and visual representations of agrarian change:
Rural cooperatives and modernisation in the interwar Messinia (1926-1935)''
in 17th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association 2013, ''Innovation and
Growth'', Uppsala, Session: Co-operatives as organisational and institutional innovation''
organized by C. Brégianni.
11. ''Greece in the Latin Monetary Union (1867-1928): Money as an echo of economic
interconnection and cultural transfer'', Fourth European Congress on World and Global History,
Paris 2014, 4-6 September 2014, Session Greece and its Foreign Relationships in the 19th
century, organized by K. Korinna Schönhärl
12. '' Agrarian myths and economic stereotypes in the interwar Mediterranean; rural
cooperatives under authoritarianism (the case of the 30's Greek dictatorship)'', in XVIII
International Conference of the European Business History Association, University of Utrecht,
August 2014, Session Agricultural Cooperatives in 19th-20th century North and South Europe :
local institutions, economy(ies) and the State, organised by C. Brégianni.
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