Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Nasos Argyriou: Natural hazards threatening the cultural heritage of Rethymno

IMS meets Rethymno

The Municipality of Rethymnon and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) are organizing for the year 2025 a series of lectures addressed to the general public of our city. In these talks, open to everyone, the Institute's researchers will present elements of their research work in an accessible way, followed by a discussion.

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Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου της Χριστίνας Αγριαντώνη, Ερμούπολη Σύρου, 1823-1940. Μια πρώιμη βιομηχανική πόλη στο Αιγαίο

Την Τετάρτη 12 Νοεμβρίου 2025, στις 19.30, στην αίθουσα διαλέξεων του Ινστιτούτου Μεσογειακών Σπουδών, θα γίνει η παρουσίαση του βιβλίου της Χριστίνας Αγριαντώνη, Ερμούπολη Σύρου, 1823-1940. Μια πρώιμη βιομηχανική πόλη στο Αιγαίο

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Τέχνες: Πόπη Σφακιανάκη, Παναγιώτης Ιωάννου και Κωνσταντίνα Γεωργιάδη

IMS meets Rethymno

The Municipality of Rethymnon and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) are organizing for the year 2025 a series of lectures addressed to the general public of our city. In these talks, open to everyone, the Institute's researchers will present elements of their research work in an accessible way, followed by a discussion.

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Από τη νεότερη ιστορία της Κρήτης. Αντώνης Αναστασόπουλος, Γιάννης Σπυρόπουλος και Πέτρος Καστρινάκης

IMS meets Rethymno

The Municipality of Rethymnon and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) are organizing for the year 2025 a series of lectures addressed to the general public of our city. In these talks, open to everyone, the Institute's researchers will present elements of their research work in an accessible way, followed by a discussion.

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Book launch: Nikos Potamianos, Της αναιδείας θεάματα. Κοινωνική ιστορία της αποκριάς στην Αθήνα, 1800-1940 [Social history of the Athens carnival, 1800-1940], Cretan University Press 2020.

Lecture Series 2020-2021

Open Lecture Series of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH 2021

Two online discussions  on the history of carnival and the way carnival has been studied by social sciences and humanities are organized by IMS-FORTH, the journal Ta Historica and Cretan University Press. Follow the link here.

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Fifth seminar meeting on “The seas of the Indian Ocean: Thalassology and Global History of the pre-modern”

Global Economic History and the History of the Seas

The Department of Mediterranean and Global Economic and Social History and the Centre of Maritime History of the IMS/FORTH will organise, during the present academic year 2020/21, a series of seminar meetings on the «Global Economic Ηistory and the History of the Seas», using the zoom platform.

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Fourth seminar meeting on “The seas of the Indian Ocean: Thalassology and Global History of the pre-modern”

Global Economic History and the History of the Seas

The Department of Mediterranean and Global Economic and Social History and the Centre of Maritime History of the IMS/FORTH will organise, during the present academic year 2020/21, a series of seminar meetings on the «Global Economic Ηistory and the History of the Seas», using the zoom platform.

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Third seminar meeting on “The global history of bourgeois classes in Eastern Mediterranean in the age of Imperialism, 1850-1914”

Global Economic History and the History of the Seas

The Department of Mediterranean and Global Economic and Social History and the Centre of Maritime History of the IMS/FORTH will organise, during the present academic year 2020/21, a series of seminar meetings on the «Global Economic Ηistory and the History of the Seas», using the zoom platform.

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Second seminar meeting on the “The “true” History of the Seas and Thalassology. Sailing on the Black Sea”

Global Economic History and the History of the Seas

The Department of Mediterranean and Global Economic and Social History and the Centre of Maritime History of the IMS/FORTH will organise, during the present academic year 2020/21, a series of seminar meetings on the «Global Economic Ηistory and the History of the Seas», using the zoom platform.

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