Post-Phanariot Relationship of Ottoman Rums and Romanians at the End of the 19th century: Cultural Interactions and Regional Networks
Tuesday April 23rd, 2024 | 4pm PDT |
Speaker: Silvana Rachieru, University of Bucharest
Working Group
Ongoing Ottomans and Post-Ottomans working group
For details contact Hilal Tümer and Aliosha Bielenberg
Past Events
Digital Humanities and Aegean/Mediterranean Mobilities
Co-organized by Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) and Andreas Guidi (INALCO Paris) with the generous support of the France-Berkeley Fund
Categories and quotas: The selection of Jewish migrants from Greece by Zionist organisations in British Mandatory Palestine (1920-1939)
Wednesday March 27th, 2024 | 10am PDT, 6pm CET| Zoom
Speaker: Esther Saltiel-Ragot, Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Chair in Comparative Law, EHESS Paris
2024 Nikos Kazantzakis Lecture
Faith and Doubt in Modernity: Nikos Kazantzakis’ Loss of Faith in a European Context
Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
Speaker: Nektaria Klapaki, University of Washington
Honorary Guests:
Niki Stavrou, CEO, Kazantzakis Estate
The Hon. Socrates Sourvinos, Consul General of Greece
The Career - and the Many Genres - of Nikos Kazantzakis
Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 Noon PDT | Zoom lecture
Co-sponsored by Northern California Chapter of the Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis Society
Speaker: Professor Peter Bien, Dartmouth College
For zoom link, please email philliou@berkeley.edu and pcl@franchiselawadvocates.com
Digital Humanities and Aegean/Mediterranean Mobilities
Co-organized by Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) and Andreas Guidi (INALCO Paris) with the generous support of the France-Berkeley Fund
The untold story of ship logbooks: The contribution of digital methods to the history of navigation in the nineteenth century
Thursday October 5th, 2023, 12pm | 201 Philosophy Hall & Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Apostolos Delis, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Crete), Fulbright Fellow (Yale)
Navigating change: studying the social transformation of La Ciotat’s maritime society during the sail-to-steam transition.
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 Noon PDT | Zoom lecture
Speaker: Dr. Kalliopi Vasilaki, IMS-FORTH
Digital Refuge: Presenting and Preserving Refugee Narratives
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 Noon PST | Zoom lecture
Co-organized by Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) and Andreas Guidi (INALCO Paris) with the generous support of the France-Berkeley Fund
Speaker: Katerina Linos, UC Berkeley Law
2021 Berkeley-IMS FORTH Lecture Series in Mediterranean Studies
Organized in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Department of History and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), with the support of the European Research Council. Learn more
- January 25: SeaLiT: Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s
- March 29: Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities
- May 10: RICONTRANS: Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda: Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th - early 20th c.)
- September 20: Janissaries in Ottoman Port-Cities: Muslim Financial and Political Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Conference
November 4-6, 2021: New Dimensions of 1821: The Greek War of Independence at 200
Lectures
- April 18th 2023 : Nikos Kazantzakis visiting scholar program celebration with keynote addresses from Professor Kavouras and Nikki Stavrou, the General Director of the N. Kazantzakis Estate
- California Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis and EU Ambassador to the US Stavros Lambrinidis, California, the EU and the Future of the Transatlantic Relationship
- Speros Paravantes (IES Senior Fellow), Building Bridges or a Bridge Too Far? The ‘Macedonia’ Name Agreement and the Past, Present and Future of Greek Interstate Relations
- Paul Blustein (Centre for Governance Innovation), Laid Low: Inside the Crisis that Overwhelmed Europe and the IMF
- Evangelos Venizelos (Former Deputy Prime Minister of Greece), Greece and the Refugee Crisis
- Gikas Hardouvelis (Former Greek Minister of Finance), Economic Distress inside the European Monetary Union: Post-Election Risks of the Greek Economy