2nd International Conference OpenEARTH 2024
LIFEFollowing the success of OpenEARTH-1, we are excited to invite you to the 2nd International Conference OpenEARTH 2024, hosted by the Laboratory of Geophysical - Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeo-environment of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies. The event will take place from 26-28 November in Rethymno, Crete. Join us as we explore innovative strategies for addressing climate change impacts on agriculture, water management, and sustainable practices. For more details and registration, please visit the official conference website: OpenEARTH 2024.
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Film screening and film literacy activities "Io, Capitano" (2023, dir. Matteo Garrone)
On 21 and 28 November 2024, in the framework of the MigraMedia project (Erasmus+ Projekt 2023-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000154375), an educational action on migration in cinema was held at the Experimental High School of Rethymnon, by the Laboratory of Image, Sound and Movement IMS-FORTH and the 'Cinema Club' of the Experimental High School. Matteo Garrone’s film Io, Capitano (2023) was screened and discussed with the students of the Club and activities to raise awareness on migration issues took place.
The activity was carried out in the framework of the collaboration between the IMS-FORTH Laboratory of Image, Sound and Movement and the "Cinema Club" of the Experimental High School of Rethymnon in the context of MigraMedia.
Read moreCall for the filling of one (1) postdoctoral researcher position within the research project "Phylogenies probing Grammar" ERC Advanced Grants 2022
ERCCall for the filling of one (1) postdoctoral researcher position within the research project "Phylogenies probing Grammar. Exploring morphosyntax at different scales of language change" ERC Advanced Grants 2022
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Book Talk: "Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World" by Uğur Zekeriya Peçe, Lehigh University
Lecture Series 2024-2025The lecture will be given in English.
Uğur Zekeriya Peçe is an Assistant Professor of History at Lehigh University. Drawing on Crete’s multilayered legacy of violence and tracing the Muslims displaced from the island because of civil war in the 1890s, this talk weaves together a story of intercommunal and environmental violence, European military intervention, displacement, and mass protest. Uğur Zekeriya Peçe explores the transformation of Muslim Cretans from silenced refugees in the 1890s to loud protesters after 1908, arguing that the islanders energized late Ottoman politics and society.
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Παρουσίαση Βιβλίου - Ιστορία Των Επιχειρήσεων Ωνάση (1924–1975)
Η παρουσίαση του βιβλίου θα γίνει την Τρίτη 19 Νοεμβρίου 2024, 19:00 στον Ιανό, στη Θεσσαλονίκη.
Read moreCall for applications for one (1) PhD scholarship in the framework of the JANET research programme (H2020-ERC-StG-2019)
ERCCall for applications for one (1) PhD scholarship in the framework of the research programme JANET - ‘Janissaries in Ottoman Port-Cities: Muslim Financial and Political Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean’ (H2020-ERC-StG-2019), GA 849911
Read moreCall for Applications - Winter School "Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources"
Summer schoolsCall for Applications
Winter School
Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources
March 17-25, 2025
Rethymno (Greece),
Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH
Call for the filling of (1) postgraduate scholarship position in the framework of the research project "PhylProGramm"
ERCCall for the filling of (1) postgraduate scholarship position in the framework of the research project "Phylogenies probing Grammar. Exploring morphosyntax at different scales of language change", 101096554
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International Conference: Interpersonal Relations in Crisis in Greco-Roman Literature
HFRIThe present conference aims to study interpersonal relationships in crisis as they are portrayed in Greco-Roman literature. It is organised in the framework of the project LACRIMALit, IMS/FORTH, with the collaboration of the Postgraduate Programme in Classical Studies of the University of Crete. MA, PhD and early career researchers have been selected through a call for abstracts. They have the opportunity to present their research and to exchange ideas with the members of the LACRIMALit project, as well as with senior researchers who also participate in the conference. The conference focuses on the delineation of literary characters in the context of crisis, as they are presented in Greco-Roman literature.
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Lecture by the Department of Modern History of the Department of History & Archaeology of the University of Crete with title: Archaeology of the Ludlow Massacre and the Story of Louis Tikas…a Greek American Hero
Lecture by the Department of Modern History of the Department of History & Archaeology of the University of Crete.
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