METOPO (WP5)
Transforming the rural and political landscape: The implementation of the Land Reform in Thessaly and Macedonia
2017-2021
Scientific coordinator: Socrates Petmezas
The Research Group on Global and Mediterranean Economic and Social History studies the development, structure and transformations of the economies and societies of the Mediterranean, as well as their interaction with and integration into the larger globalizing world in the modern and contemporary eras. It undertakes the comparative study of economic development in different areas and time periods, and focuses on the economic, social, institutional and cultural change during the period of transition from the pre-industrial to the industrial world. Research is focusing on the living and work conditions of the Mediterranean populations and their social and geographical movements; the formation of land settlement and rural and social landscape patterns; the labour and the entrepreneurship in this world in movement; both big and small business, as well as formation and regulation of the markets, public policies and development of modern state institutions; innovation and inertia, technological and cultural transfers and their social preconditions.
Researchers pursue an interdisciplinary approach combining economic and social history with economics and economic geography, political and cultural theory and history, as well as labour and business history. Overall, the Department intends to foster a kind of history that pays equal attention to structures and actors -including class, gender and ethnic-national collective subjects.
In its field of interests, the Section on Global and Mediterranean Economic and Social History organises research projects, conferences, seminar courses and lectures and provides publications and open-access databases. In collaboration with University Departments it will organize and offer Programs of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies.
People
Leda Papastefanaki
Professor of Greek Economic and Social History
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina
Socrates Petmezas
Professor of Economic and Social Modern History
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
Curriculum vitae 
Andreas Lyberatos
Assistant Professor of Social and Economic History of the Modern Balkans
Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University (Athens)
Curriculum vitae 
Christos Hadziiossif
FORTH Distinguished member, Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary History
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
Christos Loukos
IMS Honorary Fellow, Professor Emeritus
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
Curriculum vitae Alumni
Research Projects
ARCHERS
Advancing Young Researchers’ Human Capital in Cutting Edge Technologies in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and the Tackling of Societal Challenges, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
2017-2020
Principal Investigator Christos Hadziiossif
Collaborator Researchers
Post-doctoral researchers
Eleni Kyramargiou
Phd candidates
Giorgos Gassias
Thanassis Niasiaras
Dimitra Kardakari
Funding Institution: Stavros Niarchos Foundation
2006
Αγλαΐα Κάσδαγλη, ‘Notarial acts as sources for social and cultural history: the Greek world under Venetian rule’/ «Οι νοταριακές πράξεις ως πηγή κοινωνικής καιπολιτισμικής Ιστορίας». Διεπιστημονικό συνέδριο (Unlocking the potential of texts: interdisciplinary perspectives on Medieval Greek) του ερευνητικού προγράμματος για τησύνταξη γραμματικής της δημώδους μεσαιωνικής ελληνικής γλώσσας, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities University of Cambridge, 18-19 Ιουλίου 2006. http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/grammarofmedievalgreek/unlocking/pdf/Kasdagli.pdf
IMS-FORTH and the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete co-organized two international conferences of Economic and Social History (organizers: Christos Hadjiiossif and Socrates Petmezas):
Credit Activities in Eastern Mediterranean : Economic and Social Aspects, ca. 1750-1920
Rethymno, 29-30 September 2000
Participants (apart from the organizers):
- Antonis Anastasopoulos (IMS-FORTH and University of Crete),
- Yannis Kokkinakis (University of Crete),
- Andreas Lyberatos (University of Crete),
- Stafanos Pesmazoglou (Panteion University),
- Murat Cizakca (Bahcesehir Universitesi),
- Evgenia Davidova (University of Portland),
- Edhem Eldem (Bogazici Universitesi),
- Olivier Feirtag (Universite Paris-X, Nanterre),
- Caglar Keyder (Bogazici Universitesi),
- Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici Universitesi).
Les Societes Mediterraneennes dans un Age de Globalisation et de Crise (1873-1896)
Rethymno, 25-27 August 2003
Participants (apart from the organizers):
- Christina Agriantoni (University of Thessaly),
- Yannis Kokkinakis (University of Crete),
- Anna Mahaira (University of Ioannina),
- Leda Papastefanaki (University of Ioannina),
- Iris Tzachili (University of Crete),
- Maurice Aymard (E.H.E.S.S.),
- Jean Batou (Universite de Lausane),
- Gerard Chastagneret (Caza Velazquez, Madrid),
- Mireille Corbier (C.N.R.S., Paris),
- Eyup Ozveren (Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, Ankara),
- Michael Palairet (University of Edinburg),
- Gilles Pecout (E.N.S./E.P.H.E. IVeme section, Paris),
- Maurizio Ridolfi (Universita della Tuscia, Viterbo),
- Mariano Esteban de Vega (Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca),
- Onur Yildirim (Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, Ankara).
Inquiring Temporal Otherness: Timekeeping and Attitudes towards Time in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire (16th-20th c.)
Rethymno, IMS-FORTH, 23-24 October 2015.
Participants (apart from the organizers):
- Salim Ayduz (University of Manchester)
- Mehmet Kendirci ( Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat)
- Μανώλης Αρκολάκης (ΕΑΠ)
The conference "Mining landscapes and enterprises in Greece, 19th-20th c." was organized by IMS-FORTH and the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation in Athens, 22 November 2019, in the framework of the research project METOPO (WP4).
Participants (apart from the organizer Leda Papastefanaki):
- Yannis Gonatidis
- Apostolos Delis
- Sakis Dimitriadis
- Domna Iordanidou
- Elias Kolovos
- Nikos Leonidakis
- Eleni Beneki
- Christos Tsakas
- Claire Tsakiris
IMS-FORTH co-organized, with the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Ioannina (Laboratory for historical research of modern and contemporary societies) and Université Lumière Lyon 2-LARHRA (ANR TIME-US programme), an early career and doctoral workshop entitled “Labour and gender in South-European manufacture, 19th -20th centuries. Comparative perspectives” (Praxi Network, Athens, 24.2.2020).
Participants (apart from the organizers Leda Papastefanaki and Manuela Martini):
- Görkem Akgöz
- Michalis Bardanis
- Thanasis Betas
- Stella Chatzopoulou
- Lisard Palau Elcacho
- Dimitris Kopanas
- Efrosyni Roupa
- Francesca Sanna
The conference «Morality and Economy» was organized in IMS-FORTH in Rethymno, 11-12 September 2020, in the framework of the research project "Moral economy. Issues of morality in the public discourse about market and profit in Greece, late 19th century-first half of the 20th century".
Participants (apart from the organizer Nikos Potamianos, IMS-FORTH):
- Nikos Alexis, Phd candidate, University of Crete
- Theodora Vetta, postodoctoral researcher, Panteion University
- Vassilis Georgakis, postgraduate student, University of Ioannina
- Eleni Gara, assistant professor, University of the Aegean
- Dora Dimanopouloy, Phd in contemporary history, EHESS
- Dionysis Drosos, professor, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
- Eleni Kaklamanou, postodoctoral researcher, IMS-FORTH / teaching philosophy in Hellenic Open University
- Vicky Karafoulidou, Special Teaching Staff, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
- Yannis Kokkinakis, assistant professor, University of Crete
- Dimitra Kofti, assistant professor, Panteion University
- Constantinos Lamprakis, Phd candidate, Panteion University
- Nikos Leonidakis, Phd candidate, University of Crete
- Elena Mamoulaki, postodoctoral researcher, University of Patras
- Costas Paloukis, Phd in modern and contemporary history, University of Crete / Historical archive of Th.P.A. S.A.
- Kaiti Papari, postodoctoral researcher, Freie Universität Berlin and University of Peloponnesus
- Leda Papastefanaki, assistant professor, University of Ioannina
- Socrates Petmezas, professor, University of Crete
- Marinos Sariyannis, principal researcher, IMS-FORTH
- Korinna Schönhärl, Senior Researcher, Goethe University of Frankfurt
- Nikos Serntedakis, associate professor, University of Crete
- Yannis Stavrakakis, professor, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
- Aris Tsantiropoulos, assistant professor, University of Crete
- Costas Fountanopoulos, Phd in modern and contemporary history, National Capodistrian University of Athens
- Eleni Fournaraki, assistant professor, University of Crete
- Maria Christina Hadjiioannou, principal researcher, Institute of Historical Research - National Hellenic Research Foundation
«Commodities in History: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Case Studies»
Webinar series, September - October 2022
The Department of Mediterranean and Global Economic and Social History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies organized the webinar series "Commodities in History: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Case Studies" held in 6 webinars in September - October 2022. You can watch the video live streams here.