Call for Papers for the Conference: 100 Years since the Founding of the Communist Party of Cyprus, 1926-2026: Origins, Continuities, Legacy

Deadline for Submissions: 10 April 2026

Organizers:

  • Department of Political Science and Governance/School of Law of the University of Nicosia,
  • Research Office on Polity and Public Policy of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences Letters, and Arts,
  • Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus,
  • Foundation for Parliamentarism and Participatory Democracy of the House of Representatives
  • Department of History, Politics and International Studies of the Neapolis University,
  • Promitheas Research Institute, and
  • Τhe Cyprus Review

Proposals are invited for the international conference 100 Years since the Founding of the Communist Party of Cyprus, 1926-2026, to be held at the University of Nicosia on 15-16 June 2026. The conference seeks an interdisciplinary assessment of the party’s formation, ideas, organizational forms, and the social, political, and cultural impacts of the CPC and the Cypriot left more broadly.

Indicative themes:

  • Colonial context, Cypriot labor movement, international linkages
  • Ideology and political thought
  • Legal and constitutional dimensions
  • The CPC’s involvement in the anti-colonial movement, relations with the Turkish Cypriot community
  • The CPC under proscription and in clandestinity
  • Electoral presence and political competition
  • Political economy, class, gender, migration, culture and memory
  • Archives, methodologies, and historiography
  • People and the party’s human geography, leading figures, biographical and oral histories
  • Organization and intra-party processes, youth and trade union structures, relations with mass organizations
  • Propaganda, the press and political communication, cultural production and public history

Working languages: Greek and English.
We invite both individual papers and thematic panels.

Submission guidelines: abstract of up to 250 words and a short bio of up to 100 words. Please also indicate the presentation language and any technical requirements. Final selection will be based on academic quality and thematic relevance.

Submission of proposals as above may take place via email in the address: [email protected], by 10 April 2026

Conference Scientific Committee

  • Katsourides Yiannos, University of Nicosia
  • Alexiou Dionysos, Foundation for Parliamentarism and Participatory Democracy of the House of Representatives
  • Emilianides C. Achilles, Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts/University of Nicosia
  • Iakovides Kyriakos, Neapolis University
  • Ioannou Christina, The Cyprus Review/University of Nicosia
  • Menelaou Menelaos, Promitheas Research Institute
  • Papapolyviou Petros, University of Cyprus
  • Sakellaropoulos Spyros, Panteion University