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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 4h

Livestreaming:
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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 4h

Διάλεξη του Olivier Zeller με τίτλο "18th Century Announcement Papers as a source for social history. The example of Lyon" στο Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών, σήμερα στις 7:30μμ.
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Lecture by Olivier Zeller entitled XVIIIth Century Announcement Papers as a source for social history. The example of Lyon.

Lecture by Olivier ZellerProfesseur émérite des Universités chez Université Lumière Lyon-II entitled XVIIIth Century Announcement Papers as a source for social history. The example of Lyon

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 4d

If only I'd used Duolingo to improve my German rather than my Arabic during the first lockdowns...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

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Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social · 7d

New essay, my attempt to think about early modernity from a North American vantage point, in dialogue with the history of the wider early modern world, plus a reading of fossil fuel modernity as it relates to (imposes itself upon) the same landscape: jonathanparkesallen.substack.com/p/tracing-th...

Tracing the Path of Modernity in the Navajo Pueblito's Shadow

Reading Early Modern History and the Fossil Fuel Present in the Traces of the Dinetah

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Daphne Papadopoulou @daphnenews.bsky.social · 7d

Greece has yet to pay its share of the EMBO Installation Grants for 2025, leaving two awardees unable to form teams or begin projects nine months into the year.
www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1282...

Researcher brain gain plan risks becoming brain re-drain | eKathimerini.com

Greece’s attempt to lure back top scientists risks unraveling amid funding delays that have left researchers unable to start their work.

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 9d

Ο συναρπαστικός κόσμος της επιστήμης και της έρευνας στο Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών
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Ο συναρπαστικός κόσμος της επιστήμης και της έρευνας στο Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών

Ένα “ταξίδι” στον συναρπαστικό κόσμο της επιστήμης και της έρευνας έκαναν όσοι επισκέφθηκαν το Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών του Ιδρύματος Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας, στην παλιά πόλη …

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Will Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social · 9d

These images should live forever to sum up our era. It'll illustrate dozens of academic articles. Every single catch phrase and obsession of the DC-Dubai elite is there. You would think it's a parody by a leftist academic if you didn't know better.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 9d

My take is that Bibi just confirmed (for those who did not understand Trump's rant) that the deal will be unacceptable and that war will resume as before.

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 9d

The Summer 2025 issue of Keshif, Vol. 3, No. 3, has just been published. Worth taking a look!

journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/ke...

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025): Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025): Keshif: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions | Keshif

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imsforth.bsky.social @imsforth.bsky.social · 11d

👏👏👏#ΒραδιάΤουΕρευνητή χθες στο Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH!!

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 12d

Honored to see the GHOST project featuring so prominently in this discussion of A. Tunç Şen's (a member of our research team) magnificent book on astrology:
New Book Forgotten Experts and Grant-Funded Project "GHOST"
iserp.columbia.edu/news/new-boo...

New Book Forgotten Experts and Grant-Funded Project "GHOST" | Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP)

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Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social · 12d

latest interview for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Paris Papamichos discussing his new book on Saloniki @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024) - New Books Network

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imsforth.bsky.social @imsforth.bsky.social · 13d

Σας περιμένουμε σήμερα στο Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών για την #ΒραδιάΤουΕρευνητή!
🔹 Ταξιδέψτε στο αρχαίο περιβάλλον
🔹 Παιχνίδια γνώσης & ψηφιακές δράσεις
🔹 Το κόμικ «Μαγική Κλεψύδρα» για την ενάλια αρχαιολογία
🔹 Εξερευνήστε τη ναυτική ιστορία της Μεσογείου με το παιχνίδι SeaLiT

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imsforth.bsky.social @imsforth.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Βραδιά του Ερευνητή στο Ρέθυμνο!
Την Παρασκευή 26 Σεπτεμβρίου, στις 17:00, το Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών (ΙΜΣ-ΙΤΕ) ανοίγει τις πύλες του και σας προσκαλεί σε μια βραδιά αφιερωμένη στην επιστήμη, την τεχνολογία και τον πολιτισμό.

✨ Μια μοναδική εμπειρία για μικρούς και μεγάλους!

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 19d

The importance of academic boycott through the proceedings of a Knesset sub-committee.
main.knesset.gov.il/en/news/pres...

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 19d

Summertime when the livin' is easy

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Yasir YILMAZ @yasiryilmaz.bsky.social · 20d

New publication:

The story of Alberto/Albrecht Caprara and Georg Christoph von Kunitz in Istanbul in the summer of 1682, trying to convince Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha to extend the Peace of Vasvar...

www.academia.edu/144017901/Th...

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 20d

More from Tunç Şen's book (pp. 175, 185)

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 21d

I had forgotten that story (A. Tunç Sen, Forgotten Experts p. 141)

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 23d

I have the privilege of opening “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ forum in the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog ( @jhideas.bsky.social )‬ with an essay titled “The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas.”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas

by Mikkel Flohr This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

www.jhiblog.org

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Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · Sep 3

cc @audreytruschke.bsky.social

Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Very interesting!
www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/02/t...

The Franco-Indian Enlightenment of Sylvia Murr

by Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa

www.jhiblog.org

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forth-ite.bsky.social @forth-ite.bsky.social · Sep 1

Υπέροχα νέα: Το Podacst του ΙΤΕ είναι πλέον στον αέρα!
Στο πρώτο επεισόδιο, η αστροφυσικός Καθ. Βασιλική Παυλίδου συζητάει με την Ανθή Στρατάκη για ένα συναρπαστικό θέμα: τους Εξωγήινους!

Στο YouTube: youtu.be/i59rQ70poMY
στο Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0RMS...

Podcast "επικοινωνITE", Επεισόδιο 1"Εξωγήινοι: Είμαστε μόνοι στο σύμπαν;"

YouTube video by FORTH

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Sara Nur Yıldız @saranuryildiz.bsky.social · Aug 31

Caroline Finkel was arrested among 64 others for supporting Palestinian Action. We are all behind you, Caroline. What a dark times we live in. chiswickcalendar.co.uk/historian-fr...

Historian from Chiswick among those arrested for supporting Palestine Action - Chiswick Calendar News

Caroline Finkel; image Hachette publishers Protestors told they are facing ‘serious charges’ A historian living in Chiswick is one of 64 people named by the police as having been arrested […]

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