Dr Panayiotis Diamadis holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sydney and has held academic and educational appointments across secondary and tertiary institutions in Australia. His professional experience includes university lecturing, postgraduate supervision in teacher education, and long-term secondary teaching in History and Geography.

He currently serves as Director of Archives and Heritage for the Cyprus Community of New South Wales, where he is responsible for the documentation, preservation, and public presentation of Cypriot Australian history through archival development, research, and public history initiatives.

Dr Diamadis is also Director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His research and teaching focus on genocide studies, modern Hellenic history, migration and diaspora studies, and issues of historical memory and recognition. He has published in academic and public history contexts and is co-author of From Genocide to Regeneration: The Photographs of George Devine Treloar, published by Unity in Philia

Qualifications

2017
Certificate in Hellenic Language and Culture Level C2
(Highest level, for qualification for university entry)
Centre for the Greek Language, Aristotelian University of Thessalonike, Hellas

2006
Doctor of Philosophy (Modern Greek/Political Science)
The University of Sydney

1996
Master of Arts, with Merit
The University of Sydney

1995
Graduate Diploma in Education - Secondary
The University of Sydney

1994
Bachelor of Arts
The University of Sydney

Achievements

Honours

• 2024 Order of AHEPA NSW Inc Ahepan of the Year for services to the Association and the Australian Hellenic community.
• 2020 the Athenian Association of NSW Hellenic Achievement Award in recognition of individuals and organisations who have made contributions to Hellenism in Australia and internationally.
• 2019 ‘Friend of Assyria’ Award for services to the Australian Assyrian community in the field of scholarship.
• 2001 Centenary of Federation Medal for Services to Journalism

Prizes

• 2022 Runner-up, Ron Rathbone Local History Prize for A History of the Bexley Bowling Club
• 2020 Blacktown City Mayoral History Prize for Mavropole: The Hellenic story of the Blacktown City district
• 2015 Runner-up, Ron Rathbone Local History Prize for Personal experience, Public memory: Rockdale’s monuments to military service
• 2012 Joint Winner, Ron Rathbone Local History Prize for Hellenism by the Bay: the relationship between the Australian Hellenic community and the City of Rockdale
  

Scholarships

• Federation of Pontian Associations of Australia travel grant to the 14^th Convention of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, American University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 14-18 July 2019.
• 2013 ANC-AUSTRALIA travel grant to the ‘Children and War’ International Conference, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
• 2010 The Gandel Holocaust Studies Program for Australian Educators (Jerusalem-Sydney-Melbourne)

Publications

• 2025 From Genocide to Regeneration: The photographs of George Devine Treloar co-authored with David W.G. Treloar, Unity in Philia Press 7

Between October 1922 and April 1926, retired British Army Major George Devine. Treloar served as the League of Nations Commissioner for Refugees in north-eastern Hellas, the frontline leader of the international relief effort on behalf of the survivors of the Hellenic, Armenian and Assyrian Genocides who had flooded into Hellas and other countries. This book will publish – for the first time – the complete collection of photographs taken by Treloar himself, images which illustrate the arrival and re-settlement of these people.

• 2022 ‘Going Home: Greeks and Cypriots in Australia 2010-2020’ American Hellenic Institute Foundation Journal, Spring 2022

A study of the experiences of the neometenastes (‘new migrants’) from Hellas and Cyprus to Australia since the eruption of the economic and social crisis of 2010-2018.
https://www.ahifworld.net/uploads/1/1/7/1/117198244/5_panayiotis_diamadis.pdf

• 2021 ‘Ankara’s Neo-Ottomanism Defies the Rule of Law’ American Journal of Contemporary Hellenic Issues Volume 12 Spring 2021

A research paper for the The American Hellenic Institute Foundation (AHIF) policy journal on the protection of Hellenism’s Exclusive Economic Zone (the combined EEZ of Hellas and Cyprus), the single issue which binds together all the national issues

that Hellenism faces globally. The threat to Hellenism continues to be the same aggressive Turkish imperialism it has had to deal with for almost a millennium.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59bbffe14c326d363fa7659c/t/60130a79adafc010ef7789b3/16118 60601312/2-Diamadis+Briefing+paper+EEZs.pdf

• 2020 Mavropole: The Hellenic story of the Blacktown City district

Second Prize in the 2020 Blacktown Mayoral History Prize. An exploration of the Hellenic presence in the Blacktown district from 1830 to the present, covering aspects such as toponyms, migration and settlement, the Orthodox Church of Saints Paraskevi and Barbara, enterprise and athletic pursuits.
https://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/Community/Awards-scholarships-and-competitions/Mayoral-History- Prize#section-1

• 2019 Editor, HSC History Extension - The Kircher Collection 5: major works from the class of 2019 St Ignatius’ College Riverview February 2020

Named after 17th Century Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher SJ, The Kircher Collection is a compendium of Higher School Certificate Major Works from the History, English, Music Extension and Visual Arts courses.
https://www.riverview.nsw.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/The-Kircher-Collection-2019-Works.pdf

• 2018 Editor, HSC History Extension - The Kircher Collection: major works from the class of 2017 St Ignatius’ College Riverview February 2018 (ISBN 9780959275803)
  Named after 17th Century Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher SJ, The Kircher Collection is a compendium of Higher School Certificate Major Works from the History, English and Music Extension courses, as well as Visual Arts.
• 2017 ‘Controversies Around Governmental and Parliamentary Recognition of the Armenian, Hellenic, and Assyrian Genocides’ Genocide: A Bibliographic Review Volume 11, pages 91-152

  Current controversies may be grouped around five key focal questions. What constitutes “recognition”? Why does formal recognition by governmental and parliamentary bodies matter? Why have the Hellenic and Assyrian Genocides “suddenly” emerged in a unity of “victimhood” with the Armenians? What forms has the expression of memory of the three genocides taken in countries including Australia? Should national and regional parliaments legislate denial of these genocides as “vilification” or “hate speech”?

• ‘Osmanlıdan Cumhuriyete miras: Anadolu’nun Türkleştirilmesinde Pontos Helen soykırımı’ [The Heritage of the Ottoman Empire: The genocide of the Pontos Hellenes in the Turkification of Anatolia] Dünyadan Çeviri 7 May 2017
  
  https://dunyadanceviri.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/pontos-helenleri-acilarinin-taninmasi-icin-adaletistiyor-panagiotis-diamantis/

Turkish translation of an aticle originally written in Hellenic. An introduction to the arguments for the destruction of the indigenous Christian Hellenic population of the Black Sea coastal region of Anatolia (modern Asiatic Turkey) constituting genocide under international law.

1. ‘The Ottoman Lieutenant: Another denialist ‘Water Diviner’ The Armenian Weekly
   April 2017, pages 7-8
   https://armenianweekly.com/2017/05/12/babkenian-diamadis-the-ottoman-
2. lieutenant/ “The Ottoman Lieutenant” follows in the footsteps of Russell Crowe’s
3. “Water Diviner,” an example of erasing the past with the sleight of a cinematic hand. The film presents an anachronistic interpretation of Australian sentiment towards Turkey in the immediate post-war period.
4. Editor, HSC History Extension - The Kircher Collection: major works from the class of 2016 St Ignatius’ College Riverview February 2017 (ISBN 9780959275803)
   https://www.riverview.nsw.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RIV148-Kircher-Collection-2016Digital.pdf

Named after 17th Century Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher SJ, The Kircher Collection is a compendium of Higher School Certificate Major Works from the History, English and Music Extension courses, as well as the Drama and Visual Arts courses.

Professional Development

Seminars and Conferences

• Presented numerous papers at academic and other conferences in Australia, Europe and Israel.
• ‘George Devine Treloar and the League of Nations Mission in Hellas 1922-1924’. Reconfiguring Social Economy Institutions: Cultural Embeddedness, Property Transformations, and Variables of Spatial Governance in the Long Run. II.
• Transitional Periods. Modernity. Reflexive Modernity Workshop Academy of Athens, November 2025 and 21 January 2026
• ‘Anzacs in the Middle East: Beyond Gallipoli History Teachers Association of Australia National Conference, Perth WA, 2 October 2025
• ‘Hellenes and Australia’s First Nations: Cultural and Athletic Interactions’ at the ‘Encounters of Transformation: Intercultural Relations between Greek and Indigenous Australians Symposium, UNSW School of Humanities & Languages
• ‘Pontian regional identity amongst the Australian Hellenic Diaspora into the 21^st century’ 4th International Conference on the Hellenic Diaspora, Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT, 31 May 2024
• ‘From Hydra to Parramatta: pallikaria or pirates’ Parramatta and District Historical Society, Sydney, 21 August 2023
• ‘Teaching Modern Greek through Australian Hellenic History’ New Ways with Modern Greek Teachers’ DET-AHEA Conference, Sydney, 26 May 2023
• ‘Pontian, Asia Minor and Thracian regional identities amongst the Hellenic Diaspora in Australia’ 3rd International Conference on the Hellenic Diaspora, Charles Darwin University, 26-28 May 2022
• ‘Genocide education in Australia’ 14th Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, International Association of Genocide Scholars, American University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 14-19 July 2019.
• ‘Survivors and Rescuers: Hellenic Genocide survivors who rescued Jews during the Shoah’ 13th International Conference on Greek Research, Flinders University, Tonsley Campus Adelaide South Australia, Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June 2019.
• ‘A renewed alliance: Hellas-Cyprus-Israel’ 13th International Conference on Greek Research, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June 2019
• ‘Pontos in the Australian press’. Guest lecture to the Pontian Studies Department, Aristotelian University of Thessalonike, Hellas (Greece), Wednesday 17 April.
• University students: leaders today and in the future’ Speaker at the 3rd Round
• Table Discussion of the Pontian University Student Societies, Technical University, Florina, Macedonia, Hellas, Sunday 21 April.