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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Three-day workshop organized under the framework of the research project “GHOST: Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities”
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Co-organised by the University of Crete and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS/FORTH)
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The conference aims to trigger reflection on the research of the history and culture in the Mediterranean and worldwide and to provide an overview of the scholarly trends in the last twenty years and the experts’ changing research agendas in the various fields studied at the Institute.
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Keynote Speakers:
Teresa Heffernan (St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS) “AI as the ‘New’ Oil”
Paul Langley (Durham University) “FinTech Capitalism”
Co-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.
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Co-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 be held at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH, Rethymno, Crete, 8-10 June 2023.
Rethymno, Crete, Greece
Venues: Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas; Student Cultural Center “Xenia”, University of Crete.
The organization of Red Sea Project X is a collaboration between the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete, the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, and the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and Program in Mediterranean Studies at Emory University. Our conference will be hosted by the University of Crete and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in the historic city of Rethymno, Crete, Greece. Details about lodging, program, and conference fees to follow on the conference website at redsea10.ims.forth.gr.
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Final Conference of the ERC Starting Grant 2016 project Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Transport during Globalization, 1850s-1920s.
RETHYMNO, 9-11 JUNE 2022
The recorded presentations of the conference can be found here
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