Our events will take place, as always, on Mondays at 16:00. They will be hosted by the ΚΕΝΙ (Center for Modern History Research of the Department of Political Science and History), room ΣΤ-1 on the 6th floor of the New Building of Panteion University (136, Syggrou Avenue). It will also be possible to attend via the following Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84098118415?pwd=3Fi4PY3q7BTdvOsTDTaexPDSVGVIaW.1

The events of the Winter semester are as follows:

October 12, 16:00–18:00

Dr. Alexandra Papadopoulou (post-doc researcher, IMS/FORTH): «The evolution of Spetses during the post-Revolutionary years (1832-1870). A maritime community in transition» (in Greek).

Discussant: ass. prof. Katerina Galani (Univ. of Piraeus)

November 9, 16:00–18:00

Dr. Eirini Kalogeropoulou-Yalçin (Bogazici University) [online in English]: «Household income, social stratification and the structure of agrarian production in the Vardar lowlands and Halkidiki, according to the 1844 Fiscal Temettüat Registers of the kaza of Thesaloniki».

Discussants: ass. prof. Antonis Hatzikyriakou (Panteion University) and Dr. Burcu Işil-Sevgener (Panteion University)

December 7, 16:00–18:00

ass. prof. Kleoniki Alexopoulou (University of Athens): «The Boom of Urban “Informal” Labor in Postcolonial Africa: Insights from Kinshasa, D.R.Congo».

Discussant: assoc. prof. Lambros Flitouris (University of Ioannina).

January 18, 16:00–19:00

Research panel on “Ports and Economic Organisation (19th – early 20th century)”, with the following speakers:

• prof. Katerina Galani (University of Piraeus), “The Maritime Centre of Piraeus during the Long Nineteenth Century: An Anachronism or a Historical Reality?”,
• Athanasios Nasiaras (University of Crete), “Thessaloniki in Transition: The Economic and Social Transformation of a Port City from the Early Twentieth Century to the End of the Interwar Period” and
• Giota Tourgeli (postdoctoral researcher, Panteion University), “The Port of Patras in the Early Twentieth Century: Business Networks and the Economics of Migration”.