University Seminar in Modern Greek

Selling Sex in Interwar Salonica: Prostitution, Mobility, and Urban Space

University Seminar in Modern Greek

Selling Sex in Interwar Salonica: Prostitution, Mobility, and Urban Space

Dimitris Mitsopoulos (Columbia University)
Hamilton 613 and Online
02 █ December █ 2025
16 █ 00 - 17 █ 30 EST

PhD History candidate Dimitris Mitsopoulos will explore the history of sex work in interwar Salonica, situating it within the city’s transformation from a multiethnic imperial port into a nationalized urban center in the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on police records, League of Nations reports, and press, his seminar will consider how prostitution was shaped by overlapping processes of refugee resettlement, wartime militarization, state management of venereal diseaseand the restructuring of the urban space.

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