Second Meeting of Balkan History - Reconsidering Balkan rebellions in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman era: concepts, interpretative frameworks and methodologies
This meeting aims at questioning the concepts, theoretical approaches and methodologies used by researchers to deal with rebellions and contestations of power in the longue durée of Balkan history, i.e. during Ottoman and post-ottoman times.
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3rd Meeting: The Cretan Connection "When Villains Write their History: Political Banditry in the Balkans and Asia Minor through Ego-documents"
The project will bring together scholars from the region in an international team. These researchers will present ego-documents written in different languages, having previously studied them according to a common grid of questions.
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Δεύτερο Σεμινάριο Υποψηφίων Διδακτόρων 2025
PhD Candidate Seminars 2025Σκοπός των σεμιναρίων είναι η επιστημονική συζήτηση και ανταλλαγή απόψεων και επιχειρημάτων μεταξύ διδασκόντων, ερευνητών και υποψηφίων διδακτόρων Νεότερης και Σύγχρονης Ιστορίας του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του ΠΚ, του ΙΜΣ/ΙΤΕ και άλλων συνεργαζόμενων πανεπιστημιακών και ερευνητικών ιδρυμάτων.
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Nikos Potamianos: The Carnival and Women: Stories from the Carnival of Athens 1800-1940
IMS meets RethymnoIn his lecture, Nikos Potamianos, a researcher at the IMS-ITE, will present how women participated in the Athenian carnival from the final years of Ottoman rule until the Second World War.
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Workshop "Imaging the cultural dynamics in the transition zones with geoinformatics"
The Laboratory of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenvironment (GeoSat ReSeArch Lab) of Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) of Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), in collaboration with the PROSPECT International Thematic Network and COASTLINE Project will organize the workshop.
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RICONTRANS concluding conference "Orthodox Hegemony and Art. Transfer of Russian religious art to the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (late 16th - early 20th centuries)"
The Principal Investigator of project RICONTRANS: Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda: Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th to early 20th century) [H2020-ERC-COG-2018 grant agreement No 818791] Dr. Yuliana Boycheva is happy to invite you to the concluding conference that will take place on January 23 and 24 at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies.
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Film screening and film literacy activities "Twice a Refugee"-Hamidiyeh (2023)
On 16 January 2025, in the framework of the MigraMedia project (Erasmus+ Projekt 2023-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000154375), an educational action on migration in cinema was held at the Experimental High School of Rethymnon, by the Laboratory of Image, Sound and Movement IMS-FORTH and the 'Cinema Club' of the Experimental High School. The documenary of the Filmming Team of the 2nd Junior High School of Chania Twice a Refugee-Hamidiyeh (2023) was screened, and activities to raise awareness on refugee issues took place.
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PhD Candidate Seminars 2025Σκοπός των σεμιναρίων είναι η επιστημονική συζήτηση και ανταλλαγή απόψεων και επιχειρημάτων μεταξύ διδασκόντων, ερευνητών και υποψηφίων διδακτόρων Νεότερης και Σύγχρονης Ιστορίας του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του ΠΚ, του ΙΜΣ/ΙΤΕ και άλλων συνεργαζόμενων πανεπιστημιακών και ερευνητικών ιδρυμάτων.
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Online Lecture on «Porphyry on the Prologue of Plato's Timaeus» by Luc Brisson
With the kind support of the A. S. Onassis Foundation, the research project “Between Athens & Alexandria. Platonism, 3rd-7th c. CE” (2022-2024), in collaboration with the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, organise a monthly lecture series on late antique Neoplatonism.
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Presentation of the book by Alkistis Iliadi entitled "A Love with a P"
On Tuesday, December 10, at 19:00, the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, its Director, Professor of Maritime History Gelina Harlaftis and BIBLIOSKOPIO Publications organize a presentation of the book by Alkistis Iliadi entitled "A Love with a P".
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