The Centre of Maritime History is participating in the 1st Summer School of Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Staff Exchanges (MSCA SE) 2023 project “PortADa: Port Arrivals Data. Automatic data collection for a large-scale comparative history of the 19th century shipping” in Argentina.
Read moreGelina Harlaftis, historian, professor of maritime history at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete and Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology, was Antonis Karagiannakis’ guest on Voice of Greece and the show “Fair Winds and Following Seas – Weekend Shift “, on Saturday, January 13th, 2024, at 8 am (Athens time).
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This is a unique trilingual musical publication (in Greek, English and French - book with CD) by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (IMS- FORTH), with the music ensemble Checkmate in Two Flats.
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The Crete University Press published the book "Η Γλυπτική στη Βενετική Κρήτη (1211-1669)" edited by Maria Vakondiou and Olga Gratziou. The publication came from the research program "Western Art in Crete" of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH).
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Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH has published a collective volume entitled Versions of moral economy. Historical and theoretical studies, edited by Nikos Potamianos. The volume is open access, available here.
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The collective volumes "Approaches to film history" and "Domestic Servants: Historical Subjects and Artistic Representations in the Greek-Speaking World (19th-21st Centuries)" edited by Panayiota Mini and Constantina Georgiadi, have been released.
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The Publications of the School of Philosophy of the University of Crete has recently published a collective volume edited by Eliza Anna Delveroudi and our own Nikos Potamianos.
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It is about Ship Operation Services, an unexplored, but fundamental aspect of the shipping industry.
For more Information about the digital mapping follow the link:
Ship operation services (19th - 20th century)
The book Working in Greece and Turkey. A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940 has been published by Berghahn New York-Oxford Publications.
Read moreDetailed interview of the archaeologist Nikos Tsivikis, associate researcher of IMS/FORTH, for the Institute's program entitled «Amorio Urban Archeology» which includes excavations in the Byzantine city of Amoros in Asia Minor in collaboration with the Anadolu University in Eskişehir.
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