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. The idea was to reflect on history and culture of all periods – ancient, medieval, early modern and modern – and of all kinds: economic, social, political, maritime, diaspora, local or global history; Ottoman, Venetian, Greek or Balkan history; history of science & technology, history of art, history of theatre, history of cinema, philosophy or philology; archaeology in combination with geophysics and geoinformatics. These are all disciplines studied by the ten research groups in IMS-FORTH. The conference gave the opportunity to meet, discuss and interact with foreign scholars across fields in history and culture that are studied by the research groups of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies.

Our speakers

• MICHELE BACCI
  Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
• CHRISTOPHER BALME
  Universität München, Germany
• SVEN BECKERT
  Harvard University, USA
• JAMES BELICH
  University of Oxford, UK
• STEPHANIE DONALD
  University of Technology, Australia
• DAVID EDGERTON
  King's College of London, UK
• SURAIYA FAROQHI
  University Ibn Haldun, Turkey
• DAVID STARKEY
  University of Hull, UK
• KATERINA HARVATI
  University of Tübingen, Germany
• NICHOLAS PURCELL
  University of Oxford, UK