Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Sixth International Conference of the Mediterranean Maritime History Network (MMHN) - Registration now open

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The Centre of Maritime History in the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymnon announces the Sixth International Conference of the Mediterranean Maritime History Network (MMHN), which will take place at the Centre of Maritime History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno from the 27th to the 31st of May 2024.

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Online Lecture on «"It is necessary that the good always has evil as its contrary." Proclus and Simplicius on Plato’s Theaetetus 176 a» by Carlos Steel

With the kind support of the A. S. Onassis Foundation (2023 grant), the research project “Between Athens & Alexandria. Platonism, 3rd-7th c. CE” (2022-2024), in collaboration with the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, organise a lecture series on late antique Neoplatonism.

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Halcyon Days in Crete XII Symposium "The Janissaries: Socio-Political and Economic Actors in the Ottoman Empire (17th-Early 19th Centuries)"

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The Department of Ottoman History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies has organised since 1991 eleven International Symposia of Ottoman History in Rethymno under the title “Halcyon Days in Crete”. The symposia take place every three years with the participation of a number of renowned Ottomanists from around the world.

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