The loss of Professor Iryna Ponomaryova, 1958-2024

Iryna Ponomaryova was a great lady. A woman full of life, radiant, smiling and always well meaning; she had made her neighbors in Rethymno happy with her little yard full of colourful flowers. Iryna was an educated and productive scholar, a beautiful and dynamic woman, a very friendly and good colleague. She will be greatly missed.

Latest version of the new publication "Port-Cities of the northern shore of the Black Sea:  Institutional, Economic and Social Development, 18th – early 20th Centuries" and two new books are available

We would like to inform you that the last version of our new publication by Evrydiki Sifneos, Oksana Υurkova  and Valentina Shandra (eds), Port-Cities of the northern shore of the Black Sea:  Institutional, Economic and Social Development,  18^th – early 20^th Centuries, Black Sea History Working Papers, volume 2, Rethymnon, 2021, has been uploaded. This last version includes the misplaced last chapter 18 “Perceptions of Odessa in a Changing World. The Rise of a Port-City and its Public Image Among the Greeks by professor Nassia Yakovaki.

New Publication: Evrydiki Sifneos, Oksana Υurkova and Valentina Shandra (eds), Port-Cities of the northern shore of the Black Sea: Institutional, Economic and Social Development, 18th – early 20th Centuries, Black Sea History Working Papers, volume 2, Ret

NEW PUBLICATION!  Τhe Centre of Maritime History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH has the pleasure to announce the publication of the volume by Evrydiki Sifneos, Oksana Υurkova  and Valentina Shandra (eds), Port-Cities of the northern shore of the Black Sea:  Institutional, Economic and Social Development,  18^th – early 20^th Centuries, Black Sea History Working Papers, volume 2, Rethymnon, 2021 which forms the eighth book published from our ongoing project.

Mariupol Regional Museum. Greek collection.

Solidarity to our colleagues in Ukraine

The Black Sea project was a project of unification, communication, academic dialogue and scientific exchange. It was built to bring scholars together beyond borders: Ukrainians, Russians, Greeks, Turks, Georgians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Moldavians. It dreamt of a Black Sea not cut in half, of a sea that connects, does not separate. A sea of Peace not War. We thought the 21^st century will bring prosperity, dialogue, friendship not hate.

NEW PUBLICATION! Maria Christina Chatziioannou and Apostolos Delis (eds), Linkages of the Black Sea with the West. Navigation, Trade and Immigration

NEW PUBLICATION! Maria Christina Chatziioannou and Apostolos Delis (eds), Linkages of the Black Sea with the West. Navigation, Trade and Immigration, Black Sea History Working Papers, volume 7, Rethymnon, 2020 

NEW PUBLICATION! Gelina Harlaftis, Victoria Konstantinova, Igor Lyman, Anna Sydorenko and Eka Tchkoidze (eds), Between grain and oil from the Azov to the Caucasus: the port-cities of the eastern coast of the Black Sea, late 18th – early 20th century

NEW PUBLICATION! Gelina Harlaftis, Victoria Konstantinova, Igor Lyman, Anna Sydorenko and Eka Tchkoidze (eds), Between grain and oil from the Azov to the Caucasus: the port-cities of the eastern coast of the Black Sea, late 18th – early 20th century, Black Sea History Working Papers, volume 3, Rethymnon, 2020

NEW PUBLICATION! Gelina Harlaftis, Creating Global Shipping Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c.1820–1970, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019

NEW PUBLICATION! Gelina Harlaftis, Creating Global Shipping Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c.1820–1970, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019

Call for papers "The Russian Empire and the Mediterranean in the Age of Global Revolutions", Moscow, February 2021

Call for papers 4th International Conference in Economic and Social History "Varieties of Capitalism in the Mediterranean (18th-20th c.)", Corfu, 1-3 October 2020

Call for Papers “Odessa, Cosmopolitanism, Modernism”, A research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, June 28-July 3, 2020, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“Odessa, Cosmopolitanism, Modernism”

A research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation

June 28-July 3, 2020, Feldman building, Givat Ram Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

XIX World Economic History Congress. First call for Sessions (closes on June 30, 2019)

The 19^th gathering of the World Economic History Congress will convene July 25 – 30, 2021 in Paris, France. The Executive Committee of the IEHA welcomes proposals from all members of the international economic history community, whatever their institutional affiliation or status, as well as from scholars in related disciplines.

Establishment of the new Centre of Maritime History at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 25-26 April 2018

What is Maritime History?

NEW PUBLICATION! Evrydiki Sifneos, Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities, Brill, Leiden, Boston 2018

NEW PUBLICATION! Evrydiki Sifneos, Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities, Brill, Leiden, Boston 2018

NEW PUBLICATION! Katerina Galani, British Shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars. The Untold Story of a Successful Adaptation, Brill, Leiden, Boston 2017

NEW PUBLICATION! Katerina Galani, British Shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars The Untold Story of a Successful Adaptation, Brill, Leiden, Boston 2017

50th Annual ASEEES Convention Celebrating ASEEES' 70th Anniversary, 6-9 December 2018, Boston, MA, USA

50th Annual ASEEES Convention Celebrating ASEEES' 70th Anniversary, 6-9 December 2018, Boston, MA, USA

Call for Papers 14th International Conference on Urban History (Rome, 29/8-1/9/2018)

14th International Conference on Urban History “Urban Renewal and Resilience. Cities in comparative perspective” Rome, 29/8-1/9/2018. The call for paper proposals submission is now open until October 5th, 2017.  Paper proposals can be submitted on the website http://eauh2018.ccmgs.it/

CONFERENCE ON: “Knowledge Exchange. Europe and the Black Sea Region, ca. 1750 – 1850”

Conference organized by University of Graz, Southeast European History and Anthropology, Mozartgasse 3, A-8010 Graz, Austria 29-30 September 2017 https://geschichte.un

CONFERENCE ON: "Waves of Globalization" 18th World Economic History Congress will be held in Boston, USA, from Sunday, 29 July to Friday, 3 August 2018

CONFERENCE ON: "Waves of Globalization"

НОВОЕ ИЗДАНИЕ! Port-Cities of the western shore of the Black Sea: Economic and Social Development, 18th – early 20th centuries (volume 1)

НОВОЕ ИЗДАНИЕ! Constantin Ardeleanu and Andreas Lyberatos (eds), Port-Cities of the western shore of the Black Sea: Economic and Social Development, 18th – early 20th centuries, Black Sea History Project Working Papers, volume 1, 2016

НОВОЕ ИЗДАНИЕ! The Economic and Social Development of the Port–Cities of the Southern Black Sea Coast,Late 18th (volume 5)

НОВОЕ ИЗДАНИЕ! Edhem Eldem, Sophia Laiou,Vangelis Kechriotis (eds), The Economic and Social Development of the Port–Cities of the Southern Black Sea Coast,Late 18th – Beginning of the 20th century, Black Sea History Project Working Papers, volume 5

Seminar at Columbia University, 24 March 2017 "BLACK SEA HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY"

Seminar at Columbia University, 24 March 2017 "BLACK SEA HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY: RESEARCH AND WRITING".

Apostolos Delis earned a prestigious ERC starting grant at Maritime History

Apostolos Delis, Researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS), earned a prestigious ERC starting grant at Maritime History.

Gelina Harlaftis, New Director of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Institute of Research and Technology (Hellas)

Gelina Harlaftis, New Director of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Institute of Research and Technology (Hellas)

NEW! Statistics Black Sea

NEW! We have uploaded the statistics of exports/imports of the port cities.