14th Annual Critical Finance Studies Conference
ConferenceKeynote Speakers:
Teresa Heffernan (St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS) “AI as the ‘New’ Oil”
Paul Langley (Durham University) “FinTech Capitalism”
RICONTRANS Hands-on Workshop in Alba Iulia, Romania
ERCHands-on Workshop
Religious art, visual culture and collective identities in Central and South-Eastern Europe (16th- early 20th century)
Location: Alba Iulia, Romania
Exhibition: “Russian Icons from Transylvania”
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8th PhD Candidates' Seminar 2022-2023
PhD Candidates' 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 Archaeology of UoC, IMS/FORTH and other collaborating universities and research institutes.
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International Conference "Branding Mediterranean Europe: Tourism, Transport, and National Identity, 1945-1990"
ConferenceCo-organized by the University of Sheffield, Centre of Excellence Food, Tourism and Leisure at the American College of Greece and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas.
Read moreCall for expressions of interest for two (2) temporary staff position under the framework of the research project FORTHistory
Call for expressions of interest for two (2) temporary staff position under the framework of the research project FORTHistory
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Lecture by Giorgos Sambatakakis, on the topic "Co-history, memory, amnesia. How do we (re)write a queer history of theatre?'
Lecture Series 2022-2023Giorgos Sambatakakis is an associate professor of Theater Studies at the Department of Theater Studies of the University of Patras. He deals with theater history and theory, directing theory and criticism, and the reception of ancient drama, while in recent years he has turned his interest to queer theory.
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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).
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