2-6 February 2024
MigraMedia, KICK-OFF MEETING, Berlin & Hildesheim

Saturday 12 November 2022
Film Screening ΑΠ’ ΤΑ ΚΟΚΑΛΑ ΒΓΑΛΜΕΝΑ (WELCOME TO ALL SAINTS) by Sotiris Goritsas
Followed by a discussion with the director. (in the context of the action "Greek Cinema: Film Adaptation - Theory and Practice" under the auspices and funding of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports)

Saturday 5 November 2022
Film Screening Η ΔΕΞΙΑ ΤΣΕΠΗ ΤΟΥ ΡΑΣΟΥ (THE RIGHT POCKET OF THE ROBE) by Yiannis Lapatas
Followed by a discussion with the director. (in the context of the action "Greek Cinema: Film Adaptation - Theory and Practice" under the auspices and funding of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports)

Saturday 15 October 2022
Film Screening ΣΚΛΑΒΟΙ ΣΤΑ ΔΕΣΜΑ ΤΟΥΣ (SLAVES IN THEIR BONDS) by Tonis Lykouressis
Followed by a discussion with the director and with screenwriter M. Vardaka. (in the context of the action "Greek Cinema: Film Adaptation - Theory and Practice" under the auspices and funding of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports)

Saturday 8 October 2022
WORKSHOP: "Crete-related Conflicts, Ruptures, and Tensions in Cinema: From Minoan Antiquity to the 20th Century"
13th International Congress of Cretan Studies
Thematic Axis: Upheavals, Ruptures, Discontinuities, Risings
(Agios Nikolaos, 5-9 October 2022)

Organization: Laboratory of Image, Sound and Movement, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, FORTH, PI: Panayiota Mini

Presentations:

• Maria Elena D’Amelio (Professor of  Media Studies, Università degli Studi della Repubblica  di San Marino)
  “Beautiful Bodies: Masculinities, Antiquity, and the Peplum Genre”
• Grigoris Voskakis  (PhD. Candidate in Film History, UoC, -  Philologos)
  “Η  Κρητική Επανάσταση στη μεγάλη οθόνη:  μελέτη  των (ποικίλων) συγκρούσεων στην  κινηματογραφική διασκευή  του Πατούχα”
• Ioanna Georgia Athousaki  (MA student in Theater and Film Studies, Dept of Philology, UoC &  IMS, FORTH)
  “Ruptures and Secrecy in 1897 Crete through Nikos Koundouros’s Film Style in Bordello  (1985)”
• Panagiotis Dendramis (PhD. in Film History,  Instructor at the Stavrakos Cinema and  Television School)
  “Cinematic Depictions of the 1922 Mikrasiates and Tourkokritikoi Refugees:  A Comparative Analysis of Two Greek Documentaries”
• Panayiota Mini (Associate Professor of Film History, Dept of Philology, UoC, & Collaborating Faculty Member, IMS, FORTH)
  “Cretan Muslims’ 1923 Life Disruption in My Grandfather’s People: The Trauma of Displacement and the Gain of Understanding”
• Stefanos Farantopoulos (MA student in Theater and Film Studies, Dept of Philology, UoC, &  IMS, FORTH. Filmmaker/ Editor)
  “A Comparative Study and Film Analysis of Newsreels on the 1941 Battle of Crete”
• Maria Spythouri (Undergraduate Student, Dept of  Philology, UoC)
  “Φιλόξενα Χωριά: ένα ντοκιμαντέρ για τις εμπειρίες και τις μνήμες των Ανωγειανών από τον Β΄ Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο”
• Yorgos Andritsos (Ph.D. in History. Secondary Education Instructor
  “Άλλος δρόμος δεν υπήρχε”
• Katerina Komi (Ph.D. Candidate in Film History, Dept of  Philology, UoC)
  “When Christ was Recrucified in Kritsa: Tensions, Conflicts, and their Overcoming in Celui qui doit mourir’s Production in Crete” 
• Konstantina Georgiadi (Researcher in Theater Studies, IMS - FORTH)
  “Η μετατροπή της τραγωδίας του Ρωμαίου και της Ιουλιέτας του Σαίξπηρ σε μοχλό διακωμώδησης της κρητικής βεντέτας στην ταινία Η Νεράιδα και το παληκάρι (1969)”

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
WORKSHOP Screen Adaptation Studies.
Participants:  Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University), Jana Dudková (Institute of Theatre and Film Research, CRΑ, Slovak Academy of Sciences), Joyce Goggin (University of Amsterdam),  Katerina Komi (University of Crete), Panayiota Mini (University of Crete, & IMS- FORTH), Shannon Wells-Lassagne (University of Burgundy)

Program: https://www.ims.forth.gr/en/news-item/view?id=1305

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Dr. Jana Dudková, Institute of Theatre and Film Research, CRA, Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Lecture: "Distrust in the State Machinery in Contemporary Slovak Adaptations"

27-28 June 2019
[Nomades artcore] in collaboration with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies present work in progress_clear_project #2

20 May 2019
Małgorzata Budzowska 
Lecture: “The Myth of Phaedra and its Contemporary Polish Stagings”

12 April 2019
Experiential workshop by Nelli Karra

11 April 2019
Nelli Karra
Lecture: “An approach to the creative process through the Deaf Theater of Greece and the ‘Arxi’ Drama School of Nelli Karra”

4-5 April 2019
Two lectures by Chrysanthi Sotiropoulou (University of Patras).  
“The relation of animation film with other arts: pictorial art, music, theater, dance” 
&
“European short films. Communication and art education opportunities”

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Directing Ancient Greek Tragedy in the Digital Era
Lecture by Aggeliki Poulou (Dr. of Theater Studies, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation)

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
Stories of Trust and Documentary Cinema
Screening of The Man who Disturbed the Universe (2000) by Stavros Psillakis and a discussion with the director.

Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd of November 2018
Approaches to Film History
Conference with the participation of Drs., Ph.D. candidates and graduate and undergraduate students of the Department of Philology of the University of Crete.
With the Support of the Special Account for Research Funds and of The Department of Philology of the University of Crete.