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 Mostafa Minawi (Cornell) with the topic "Ethno-racial Differentiation Comes to Istanbul"
Lecture Series 2022-2023Mostafa Minawi is associate professor of history at Cornell University. His latest book and subject of this talk is Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire, came out in late 2022.
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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 2022-2023On 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).
Read more7th PhD Candidates' Seminar 2022-2023
PhD Candidate Seminars 2022-2023The purpose of the seminars is the scientific discussion and exchange of views and arguments between professors, researchers and PhD candidates in Modern and Contemporary History of the Department of History and Archeology of UoC, IMS / FORTH and other collaborating universities and research institutes.
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Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου: Η Ερμούπολη της Σύρου (1821-1950) του Χρήστου Λούκου
Το Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών του Ιδρύματος Τεχνολογίας και οι Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης σας προσκαλούν στην παρουσίαση του βιβλίου του Χρήστου Λούκου με τίτλο Η Ερμούπολη της Σύρου.
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Online Lecture on «Catharsis and Therapy of the Emotions in Iamblichus» by Anne Sheppard
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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Seminar "Archipelago Network: Cycladic Material Knowledge" with Jacob Moe
The Сentre of Maritime History organizes the seminar "Archipelago Network: Cycladic Material Knowledge" at IMS.
Read moreCall for expressions of interest for one (1) postgraduate scholarship under the framework of the research project OLIMED
Call for expressions of interest for one (1) postgraduate scholarship under the framework of the research project: At the Crossroads of History, Industry, and Technology: Olive Oil Production in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Nineteenth Century (1839-1914)
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Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH has published the musical publication "Smyrna 1875 - Impressions Of Melodies"
This is a unique trilingual musical publication (in Greek, English and French - book with CD) by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (IMS- FORTH), with the music ensemble Checkmate in Two Flats.
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