Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Open lecture by Kostis Gkotsinas, Associate Researcher at the Institute for Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation entitled Drug Trafficking Routes in the Eastern Mediterranean (1900-1950)

Lecture Series 2025-2026

This presentation traces the pathways of illicit trafficking by focusing on the circulation of individuals (smugglers), products (illicit substances), and information (regarding both trafficking operations and their suppression). In doing so, it highlights the central trends and transformations that defined the illicit drug economy in the region during the first half of the 20th century. 

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Online Lecture on «"It is necessary that the good always has evil as its contrary." Proclus and Simplicius on Plato’s Theaetetus 176 a» by Carlos Steel

With the kind support of the A. S. Onassis Foundation (2023 grant), the research project “Between Athens & Alexandria. Platonism, 3rd-7th c. CE” (2022-2024), in collaboration with the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, organise a lecture series on late antique Neoplatonism.

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Halcyon Days in Crete XII Symposium "The Janissaries: Socio-Political and Economic Actors in the Ottoman Empire (17th-Early 19th Centuries)"

ERC

The Department of Ottoman History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies has organised since 1991 eleven International Symposia of Ottoman History in Rethymno under the title “Halcyon Days in Crete”. The symposia take place every three years with the participation of a number of renowned Ottomanists from around the world.

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Διαδικτυακή εσπερίδα - Νέες Τεχνολογίες και Ψηφιακές Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες

Ανθρωπιστικές και κοινωνικές επιστήμες στα ερευνητικά κέντρα. Δύο διαδικτυακές εσπερίδες του Ινστιτούτου Μεσογειακών Σπουδών – ΙΤΕ με αφορμή τα 40 χρόνια του Ιδρύματος Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας.

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