Can we really predict our future by looking back at our past? Why don’t we learn from the mistakes of our ancestors? Dr. Konstantinos D. Karatzas is a historian specializing in political and racial violence; he is an Americanist with a particular interest in African-American history. His work focuses on the interpretation of collective memory, political identities, cultural transfers and oral history: areas that he has also examined during his MA studies at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. He has been the recipient of several research fellowships in Europe and the United States; he received the first-ever scholarship for doctoral studies in American History from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY).

Konstantinos Karatzas has been a guest scholar at, among others, the University of Kent, the Universities of Zaragoza and Alcala de Henares, Adam Mickiewicz University in Europe, and the Universities of Ohio, Kentucky, Oklahoma and South Florida in the United States. He is a member of the editorial team of the European Journal of American Culture (EJAC), as well as of several historical and scholarly associations worldwide. He serves as a member of the board, reviewer and conference organizer of the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (LCIR), and he is a research fellow at both the Institute of International Economic Relations and the Interdisciplinary Research Foundation in Poland.

Furthermore, he is the founder of www.historyclusters.org platform while he is to publish his latest book Violence and Memory in the United States: The Case of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot in 2018. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx