Harris Athanasiades is professor of Public History in the Department of Political Science and History at the Panteion University. His publications, research interests and public interventions focus on Public History and the History of Education. His most known publication, The Withdrawn Books: Nation and School-history in Greece, 1858-2008 (Athens 2015 – in Greek), is an analysis of the confrontations over Greek school history and an anatomy of the dominant representations of our national past in the public sphere. The same problematique also unfolds in his following publications in English: “Liberals, Conservatives and Romantic Nationalists in interwar education policy in Greece” and  “The ‘Nation-killing’ textbook. The polemic over the history textbook ‘In modern and contemporary times’”.