Giorgos 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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Mostafa 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.
Read moreOn 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).
Read moreThe presentation will focus on
1. The severe weather events in Crete and how they have been evolved in the last 20 years
2. Future climatic projections
3. Developing early warning systems at the local scale: the example of the Municipality of Rethymno
Lecture by Hülya Canbakal, Professor of History at Sabanci University (Istanbul), with the topic of "Reflections on the economics of gender inequality in the Ottoman Empire: the case of eighteenth-century Kandiye"
Read moreLecture by Dr Lora Gerd, Foreign correspondent of the CéSoR (Centre d' études en sciences sociales et religieux) at EHESS, Paris, with the topic of “Russian support for the church institutions of Greece: tradition, ideology and politics in the 19th century”
Read moreOn Wednesday 21 Septembert 2022, 7.30 pm, in the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Melissinou and Nikiforou Foka 130, Rethymno), Fernando Guirao will give a lecture on "The European Rescue of the Franco Regime, 1950-1975".
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