The Research Centre for the Humanities, drawing on the valuable experience of the RCH Researcher Seminars, launched a new series of seminars entitled “Thursdays at the RCH”. The objectives of the Centre remain steadfast: on the one hand, we work to strengthen the scientific dialogue in the humanities, and on the other hand, we provide researchers with a welcoming place to present their work, to discuss their research questions, to exchange views, knowledge and experiences with colleagues from Greece and abroad. In this context, the seminars have a special character as they are open to the public, but at the same time they have characteristics of working meetings, as they are based on the study of the speakers’ work, on dialogue and constructive exchange of views between the speaker, the discussants and the audience.
The seminars take place at the RCH offices (26 Mandrokleous Str., Neos Kosmos, ground floor) either in person and/or hybrid (i.e. with simultaneous online connection with speakers/discussants, if necessary) on Thursdays at 18.30-20.30.
Program
Series #2: November 2024 – June 2025
November 28, 2024 | Klairi Gianniri
Dimitra Klairi Gianniri | Museologist and Cultural Manager – Ph.D in Museology, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – RCH Fellow
“Archaeology in the Anthropocene era: How might an archaeology of care be shaped?”
December 19, 2024 | Spiros Chairetis
Spiros Chairetis | Visiting Lecturer, University of Duisburg-Essen – Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Communication, Media & Culture, Panteion University – RCH Fellow
“When humor was re-politicized: TV texts, celebrities, and online audiences”
January 23, 2025 | Christina Sakali
Christina Sakali | Dr. in Political Economy, University of Macedonia – RCH Fellow
“Financialization of housing and the role of the state: Institutions and practices of financialization in crisis Greece”
February 13, 2025 | Dimitra Vassiliadou
Dimitra Vassiliadou | Associate Professor of Social History of SE Europe (19th century), University of the Aegean
“Law, justice and ‘crimes against morality’ in Greece, 1914-1970”
February 27, 2025 | Alexandra Karamoutsiou
Alexandra Karamoutsiou | Postdoctoral Researcher – Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – RCH Fellow
“Social sustainability and D.I.Y. music urban communities: the improvised music studios of Thessaloniki as a springboard for interdisciplinary historiographical approaches”
March 20, 2025 | Maritina Leontsini
Maritina Leontsini | PhD in Modern European History, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Italian Language and Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – RCH Fellow
“Women journalists in the years of the Risorgimento. The case studies of Jessie Mario, Margaret Fuller and Cristina Trivulgio di Belgiojoso”
April 10, 2025 | Giorgos Pertsas
Giorgos Pertsas | PhD, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – RCH Fellow
“Digital Transformation as a Platforming Process: conceptual and socio-technical dimensions of Digital Platforms”
May 8, 2025 | Olga Giouleka
Olga Giouleka, Marie Sklodowska Curie cofund Fellow (Yufe4postdocs), University of Cyprus – RCH Fellow
“The Greek printed book in 16th and 17th century Spain”
May 22, 2025 | Melina Perdikopoulou
Melina Perdikopoulou | PhD in History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – RCH Fellow
“Charity and Power: Imarets as Political Tools in the Ottoman Empire”
June 12, 2025 | Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
Vangelis Papadimitropoulos | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economic and Regional Development, School of Political Science, Panteion University – RCH Fellow
“The model of open cooperativism”
Series # 1: February – June 2024
February 29, 2024 | Stelios Lekakis
Stelios Lekakis | Principal Research Associate, Centre for Landscape, Newcastle University
“Beyond private and public: The monument as a common good”
March 28, 2024 | Anna Karakatsouli
Anna Karakatsouli | Professor of European History, Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
“The book and the far-right in Greece after 1974: A militant and protected market”
April 25, 2024 | Anna Papaeti
Anna Papaeti | Dr. Anna Papaeti, Principal Investigator, ERC MUTE, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation
“Hearing and the ethics of witnessing”
23 Μαΐου 2024 | Yusuf Ziya Karabiçak
Yusuf Ziya Karabiçak | American School of Classical Studies at Athens
“The Ottoman Counter Revolution: The Patriarchate of Constantinople and Governance in Ottoman Europe, 1768-1828”
