Simyrdanis Kleanthis, Postdoc Researcher of GeoSat ReSeArch Lab (Lab of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenviroment) of F.O.R.T.H. earned the "Endeavour Scholarship and Fellowship - 2017" from the Australian Government, Department of Education and Training.
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Gianluca Cantoro, Postdoc Researcher of GeoSat ReSeArch Lab (Lab of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenviroment) of F.O.R.T.H., together with Cristina Tsigonaki (Assistant professor at the Univ. of Crete) and Stefania Michalopoulou (PhD candidate at the University of Athens), earned a research grant from the Research Center for the Humanities (John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation and Stavros Niarchos Foundation funding) for the project "HIGH-ABOVE-THE-MOUNTAINS, Fossil Built Landscapes on Mountainous Uplands from the Sky".
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Gianluca Cantoro, Postdoc Researcher of GeoSat ReSeArch Lab (Lab of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeoenviroment) of F.O.R.T.H. earned a Fellowship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation for the project "CRETE-FROM-ABOVE, Fossil Built Landscapes on Cretan Mountains and Satellite Islands Investigated from the Sky".
Read moreThe Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FO.R.T.H. announces that the Marie Curie Fellowship proposal Mediterranean insularities and ‘miniature continents’: Space, landscape and agriculture in early modern Cyprus and Crete, submitted by Dr Antonis Hadjikyriacou under the supervision of Assistant Professor Elias Kolovos (Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, collaborator of the IMS) has been favourably evaluated (95.7/100) by the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission with the assistance of independent experts. The negotiation process for the conclusion of a Grant Agreement has already begun.
Read moreMs. Sophia Katopi, collaborator with the Project “Western Art in Crete during the Venetian period” and a doctoral candidate at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete with the PhD subject: "The Venetian Loggia of Candia: the history of the building from the time of its construction to the 20th century”, got a three-year fellowship (2010-2013) with the Programme "Heraklitus II - Enhancing Human Research Potential through Doctoral Research". Ms. Katopi was the 11th among 97 successful proposals in the thematic action "Humanities, Education Sciences, Cultural Sciences and Arts" with the final point 10.
Read moreThe Turkish publishing house Küre Yayınları agreed to translate the proceedings of three international symposia of the Programme for Turkish Studies (E. Zachariadou ed., Halcyon Days IV: The Kapudan Pasha, His Office and His Domain, Rethymno 2002· A. Anastasopoulos ed., Halcyon Days V: Provincial Elites in the Ottoman Empire, Rethymno 2005· A. Anastasopoulos ed., Halcyon Days VI: The Eastern Mediterranean Under Ottoman Rule: Crete, 1645-1840, Rethymno 2008).
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Crete University Press has published the volume K. Lappas, A. Anastasopoulos, E. Kolovos (eds), In memoriam Pinelopi Stathi. Studies in History and Philology.
Read moreThe Institute for Mediterranean Studies, together with the University of Crete, accepted to organize the 20th symposium of the International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (Comité Internationale des Etudes Pré-ottomanes et Ottomanes), which will take place in Rethymno in Summer 2012.
Read moreCrete University Press, published in the series Humanities/History of Theatre, the Wishes of an Eagle, Wings of a Butterfly (Πόθος αετού και φτερά πεταλούδας): Nikos Kazantzakis' Early Drama and the European Avant-Garde. A Contribution to the Study of Decadence in the Modern Greek Theatre of the early 20th century, by Antonis Glytzouris.
Read moreThe volume "Ottoman Architecture in Greece" (Hellenic Ministry of Culture) has been published with contributions by the research group of the Programme of Turkish Studies, IMS/FORTH (Antonis Anastasopoulos, Elias Kolovos, Marinos Sariyannis).
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