Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Call for Papers - Red Sea Project X: Red Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions

Paper proposal submission deadline has been extended to December 31, 2021! 

Paper proposal length: 300 words (maximum)
Paper proposal submission period: September 1, 2021–December 31, 2021

Red Sea Project X: Red Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions
July 6-9, 2022

Venues: Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas;
Student Cultural Center “Xenia”, University of Crete.

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Ninth seminar meeting on «The Other Mediterranean or the Mediterranean’s Other? The Red Sea in History» by Alexis Wick

Global Economic History and the History of the Seas

The seminar meeting will be presented on Monday 22 November 2021, at 16:00 (Greece time) by Alexis Wick, Associate Professor of History, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Koç University, on the topic of The Other Mediterranean or the Mediterranean’s Other? The Red Sea in History.

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Lecture by Jesse Obert with the topic "Violence and State Formation on Crete in the Age of Hoplite Warfare, c. 700-400"

Lecture Series 2021-2022

Lecture by Jesse Obert with the topic "Violence and State Formation on Crete in the Age of Hoplite Warfare, c. 700-400"
* Access to the IMS-FORTH premises for the workshop will be restricted, according to anti-COVID 19 regulations, to persons with certificate of complete vaccination or certificate of overcome COVID-19 disease. The use of masks and antiseptic is compulsory. (max. capacity 7 persons).

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Online Book Launch: Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840 - 1940

In this virtual event there will be a presentation of the volume Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840 – 1940, Papastefanaki, Leda, and M. Erdem Kabadayı, eds. (Vol. 33, International Studies in Social History, Edited by Marcel van der Linden. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020)

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