Institute for Mediterranean Studies
Lecture by Giorgos Sambatakakis, on the topic "Co-history, memory, amnesia. How do we (re)write a queer history of theatre?'

Lecture by Giorgos Sambatakakis, on the topic "Co-history, memory, amnesia. How do we (re)write a queer history of theatre?'

Lecture Series 2022-2023

Giorgos Sambatakakis is an associate professor of Theater Studies at the Department of Theater Studies of the University of Patras. He deals with theater history and theory, directing theory and criticism, and the reception of ancient drama, while in recent years he has turned his interest to queer theory.

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Online Lecture on «Ladders of Virtue and Inspiration: Harmonizing Porphyry and Iamblichus in Later Platonist Exegesis» by Michael Griffin

Online Lecture on «Ladders of Virtue and Inspiration: Harmonizing Porphyry and Iamblichus in Later Platonist Exegesis» by Michael Griffin

Within the framework of the Research Project “Between Athens & Alexandria. Platonism, 3rd-7th c. CE” (2022-2024) supported by the A. S. Onassis Foundation, the IMS-FORTH, in collaboration with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s Center for Hellenistic Studies (ACHS), organises a monthly online lecture series on late antique Neoplatonism (3rd-7th c. CE).

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Lecture by Veneta Ivanova (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences) with the topic "Occult Communism: Culture, Science and Spirituality in Late Socialist Bulgaria"

Lecture Series 2022-2023

On Wednesday 10th of May 2023, 8.30 pm, at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH (Melissinou and Nikiforou Foka 130, Rethymno), Veneta Ivanova will speak with the topic of " Occult Communism: Culture, Science and Spirituality in Late Socialist Bulgaria".

Veneta Ivanova is a Research Fellow at the “Unit for Balkan, Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies” of the Research Centre for Modern History at Panteion University for Social and Political Sciences, Athens. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the College of William & Mary (2018–2019) and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2017–2018). She is a historian of Eastern and Southeastern Europe who obtained her PhD in 2017 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research centers on the interplay between socialism, occultism, religion, science, and utopia in twentieth-century Europe. Together with Augusta Dimou and Theodora Dragostinova, she is the co-editor of collective volume Re-Imagining the Balkans: How to Think and Teach a Region (2023, De Gruyter Oldenbourg).

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