Τhree-year fellowship to Ms. Sophia Katopi with the programme "Heraklitus II - Enhancing Human Research Potential through Doctoral Research"

• February 8, 2011
• Research Highlights

Ms. Sophia Katopi, collaborator with the Project “Western Art in Crete during the Venetian period” and a doctoral candidate at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete with the PhD subject: "The Venetian Loggia of Candia: the history of the building from the time of its construction to the 20th century”, got a three-year fellowship (2010-2013) with the Programme "Heraklitus II - Enhancing Human Research Potential through Doctoral Research". Ms. Katopi was the 11th among 97 successful proposals in the thematic action "Humanities, Education Sciences, Cultural Sciences and Arts" with the final point 10.

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Translation of Proceedings of Three International Symposiums by turkish publishing house Küre Yayınları

• February 2, 2011
• Research Highlights

The Turkish publishing house Küre Yayınları agreed to translate the proceedings of three international symposia of the Programme for Turkish Studies (E. Zachariadou ed., Halcyon Days IV: The Kapudan Pasha, His Office and His Domain, Rethymno 2002· A. Anastasopoulos ed., Halcyon Days V: Provincial Elites in the Ottoman Empire, Rethymno 2005· A. Anastasopoulos ed., Halcyon Days VI: The Eastern Mediterranean Under Ottoman Rule: Crete, 1645-1840, Rethymno 2008).

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Mr. Yiannis Spyropoulos was awarded a three-year fellowship (2010-2013) with the Programme "Heraklitus II - Enhancing Human Research Potential through Doctoral Research".

• February 2, 2011
• Distinctions

Mr. Yiannis Spyropoulos, doctoral candidate in the Programme of Post-Graduate Turkish Studies, which is run by the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete jointly with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, got a three-year fellowship (2010-2013) with the Programme "Heraklitus II - Enhancing Human Research Potential through Doctoral Research". Mr. Spyropoulos (PhD subject: "The Crete Janissaries as a Military Body and as a Lobby, from the second half of the 18th century till the abolition of the janissaries (1826)") was the 71st from among 97 successful proposals in the thematic action "Humanities, Education Sciences, Cultural Sciences and Arts" with final point 9.19.

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Geo- and Landscape Αrchaeological Ιnvestigations in central Italy

Lecture Series 2010-2011

• December 16, 2010
• Events

The Laboratory of Geophysical - Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeo-environment at the Institute for Mediterranenan Studies/FORTH cordially invites you to a presentation by Michael Teichmann (University of Kiel, Graduate School "Human Development in Landscapes" / Germany) with subject the Geo- and Landscape Αrchaeological Ιnvestigations in central Italy. The presentation will take place at the Institute for Mediterranenan Studies (Nikiforou Foka 130 & Mellisinou, Old Town, Rethymno) this Thursday December 15th 2010 at 8:00pm and is open to the public. The presentation will be in English.

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Crete University Press has published the volume K. Lappas, A. Anastasopoulos, E. Kolovos (eds), In memoriam Pinelopi Stathi. Studies in History and Philology

• December 9, 2010
• Research Highlights

Crete University Press has published the volume K. Lappas, A. Anastasopoulos, E. Kolovos (eds), In memoriam Pinelopi Stathi. Studies in History and Philology.

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Book presentation by Olga Graziou "Crete in the Late Medieval Era. The Testimony of Ecclesiastical Architecture"

• November 25, 2010
• Research Highlights

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Press release

• September 22, 2010
• Press Releases

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Inauguration of the new building

• September 19, 2010
• Events

On Sunday, September 19th 2010, at 17.45 p.m., the inauguration of the new building of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies will take place. It will be named after the deceased President of the Foundation for Research and Technology, native from Rethymno, the late Stelios Orphanoudakis.

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EXHIBITION AT THE INAUGURATION

• September 19, 2010–October 8, 2010
• Events

ALEKOS LEVIDES
PAINTING FOR BOOK COVERS

INAUGURATION
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19th 2010, 17.45 a.m.
DURATION : 19th SEPTEMBER to 8th OCTOBER 2010

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20th symposium of the International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (Comité Internationale des Etudes Pré-ottomanes et Ottomanes)

• August 23, 2010
• Research Highlights

The Institute for Mediterranean Studies, together with the University of Crete, accepted to organize the 20th symposium of the International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (Comité Internationale des Etudes Pré-ottomanes et Ottomanes), which will take place in Rethymno in Summer 2012.

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Τheatrical archive of Nikolaos Laskaris

• August 20, 2010
• Announcements

The research program Sources of Modern Greek Theatre History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies has from now on in its possession the theatrical archive of Nikolaos Laskaris (1868-1945). Laskaris is one of the most significant 19th -20th century playwrights and the first historian of Modern Greek Theatre. The archive has been donated to the Institute by his granddaughter Ioli Antonopoulou.

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Lecture by Shirine Hamadeh

Lecture Series 2009-2010

• May 12, 2010
• Events

The Postgraduate Programme of Turkish Studies of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies invites you to the seminar lecture of Dr Shirine Hamadeh (Rice University) "On Streets: Beggars, vagrants, prostitutes and the filth of Istanbul (1703-1839)". The lecture will take place in the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Wednesday, May 19, at 8:30 p.m.

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