Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Research Projects

GEOTECHNICAL Characterization

Geotechnical Characterization of Selected Sites Greece Through the Integrated Use of Geophysical and Geotechnical Methods

The purpose of this research proposal is to aggregate geotechnical and seismological data at selected sites and correlate them with geophysical data in order to calibrate and correlate the individual methods.

GeoDIAMETRIS

Integrated Geoinformatics Technologies for Time-Lapse Monitoring of Land Pollution from the Disposal of Olive-oil Mills Wastes - GeoDIAMETRIS

Integrated Geoinformatics Technologies for Time-Lapse Monitoring of Land Pollution from the Disposal of Olive-oil Mills Wastes - GeoDIAMETRIS

Observatory for the Water Management of E. Mediterranean

Observatory for the Water Management of E. Mediterranean

The Observatory for Water Management of E. Mediterranean aims to organize activities for the management of water taking a leading role that will also include training and information actions.

Observatory for the Cultural & Environmental Resources of the Municipality of Neapolis, Lasithi

Observatory for the Cultural & Environmental Resources of the Municipality of Neapolis, Lasithi

The Cultural and Environmental resources of the Municipality of Neapolis intends to promote the cultural and landscape heritage of the Municipality to the wider public, using a number of multimedia, the cartographic display of archaeological sites or areas of distinct geomorphological peculiarities.

Greek artists in the West, 15th -19th century

Greek artists in the West, 15th -19th century

This program aims at a deeper understanding of Greek artists' work by way of collecting biographical evidence, identifying and documenting their work, and assessing the quality of their production. The program also seeks to investigate the identity of the artists' commissioners and their status within the new cultural environment.

History of the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans (18th-20th c.)

History of the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans (18th-20th c.)

The main objective of the project is the contribution to a better understanding of the urban phenomenon in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern and contemporary period, through a comparative approach that permits us to go beyond the limitations of the national framework within which usually take place the historical studies.

Register of Greek poetry 1801-1850

Register of Greek poetry 1801-1850

The main objectives of the project is the systematic inventorying of all Modern Greek poems, whether published or not, onymous or anonymous, written or published during the above-mentioned period (folk songs are excluded), together with classification both in printed form as well as data base according to author and collection, title and first verse.

Digital Crete

Digital Crete: Mediterranean Cultural Itineraries

Digital Crete aims towards the creation of a cultural information system, consisting of digitized documentation and information regarding the cultural heritage of the island of Crete, from prehistory to the modern periods.

Archive of Modern Greek Prosody: the romantic ballad

Archive of Modern Greek Prosody: the romantic ballad

The aim of the project is the research, study and charting of a completely new unresearched genre of the Greek romantic period(1821-1880), the romantic ballad. The research of independently published books and journals of the period 1821-1882 will enable the locating and cataloguing of all poems which could be characterised as ballads, as well as a first concise description of the course of Greek ballad-writing before Giorgios Byziinos.

Poetical texts of the revival of ancient metres in the 19th century

Poetical texts of the revival of ancient metres in the 19th century

The aim of the project is the study and charting of a little-researched area of Greek poetry of the 19th century, of poetical texts which were presented as a revival of ancient metres. With the research of independently published books, and perhaps subsequently journals of the period from 1821 to the end of the 19th century, all poems which could be considered as belonging to the category of the revival of ancient metres will be located, recorded in an electronic database, and digitalised in an electronic archive.

Bibliographical guide to the poems of Giorgos Seferis

Bibliographical guide to the poems of Giorgos Seferis

The aim of the project was to create a bibliographic guide to the poetry of George Seferis.

Western Art in Crete

First period

Archive of Greek prose

Archive of Greek prose

The aim of the project was to map Greek fiction (novels and short stories) from 1830-1880.

First Period

The city in modern times

This project, in collaboration with the General State Archives of Cyclades, aimed mainly at the creation of an exemplary database for Ermoupolis of Syros (19th-20th century), by processing the most important sources that are available for the city: municipal registers, population censuses, civil records, notarial and judicial records, proceedings of the municipal council, archives of educational and philanthropic institutions, and other evidence that constitute series.

Itanos

Itanos Archaeological Research Program

The archaeological research program at Itanos began in 1994 under the scientific patronage of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of Rethymno and the French School of Archaeology at Athens. In collaboration with the XXIVth Ephoria of Prehistorical and Classical Antiquities, a team from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne conducted an archaeological survey in the surroundings of Itanos.

The Christian communities of Cappadocia

The Christian communities of Cappadocia

The project of study of the Christian communities of Cappadocia focuses on the historical development of those communities from the mid-18th century

Archive of Modern Greek prosody

Archive of Modern Greek prosody

The main products of the project are the Archive of Modern Greek Prosody, which is today housed at the IMS and is at the disposal of all interested researchers, and the Bibliography of Modern Greek Prosody (2000). The Archive includes the classified entries of the bibliography either in photocopied or printed form.

Archaeology and Politics

Archaeology and Politics

The objective of the project, which aspires to create a study centre for the history of archaeology in Crete, is the investigation into the direct or indirect influence of political considerations in the development of the discipline of archaeology in Greece.

Korais as Classical Philologist

Korais as Classical Philologist

The purpose of the research program was to investigate Korai's contribution to the restoration of the texts of ancient Greek writers, based mainly on his criticisms and corrective remarks contained in anecdotal manuscripts or inserted in the margins of his personal library, preserved in the Korai Library of Chios as well as the evaluation of Korai's entire literary activity and its integration into the European literary literature of his day.