Conferences and Workshops (Archive)

2021

The Greek War of Independence and the Ottomans: Impact, Perceptions and Transformation within and Beyond the Empire. 13 & 14 September 2021. Two-day Workshop.

The importance of antiquity for the 1821 Greek War of Independence: The revival and impact of ancient Greek philosophy on prominent intellectual leaders of the Modern Greek Enlightenment. 15 October 2021. Conference (in Greek) organised in cooperation with the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens

Testimonies and Research on Hiding during the Holocaust. 20 October 2021.  International webinar organised in cooperation with the Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Workshop on the Study of the Jews of Greece. The webinar served as a preamble to the international workshop “Jewish Responses to Persecution and Rescue Efforts during the Holocaust”, organised in 2022.

2020

Migrant reception and accommodation in the context of criminalization of assistance. 24 January 2020. Workshop by the Research Social Platform on Migration and Asylum (ReSOMA) in the context of the NIA-IMES-VU Winter School “Migration in the Margins of Europe”.

2019

Middle and Late Helladic Laconia: Competing principalities? – 12 & 13 April 2019. Early Career Scholar Conference organised in cooperation with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Laconia and the University of Groningen.

Political geographies of the Bronze Age Aegean – 29 May – 1 June 2019. Workshop organised in cooperation with the Belgian Archaeological School.

Coins for the Gods, coins for the merchants. Economy of the sacred compared to the economy of the profane – 24 & 25 October 2019.  International Conference organised in cooperation with the Belgian Archaeological School, The European Center for Numismatic Studies, the Italian Archaeological School and the Radboud University.

The ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for International Law and Human Rights? – 12 – 14 December 2019. International Conference organised in cooperation with the Danish Institute at Athens, the Norwegian Institute at Athens, the Swedish Institute at Athens and the Marangopoulos Foundation.

2018

Eric Schliesser’s Adam Smith Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker – 16 April 2018. Symposium.

Infrastructural Gap, State and the Commons – 12 May 2018. Infra-demos seminar organised in cooperation with the infra-demos project and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Data Modelling Workshop nodegoat – 15 June 2018. Workshop in cooperation with nodegoat.

2017

Fields, Sherds and Scholars: Recording and Interpreting Survey Ceramics – 24 & 25 February 2017. Early Career Scholar Conference organised in cooperation with the Belgian Archaeological School, the University of Amsterdam, the Catholic University of Louvain, and ARCHON Research School for Archaeology

International Mediterranean Survey Workshop – 26 & 27 February 2017. International Meeting.

Turkey in Transition (?). Before and After the Attempted Coup – 6 & 7 June 2017. International Conference.

Approaching Emotions. Interdisciplinary perspectives – 17 October 2017 . One day Conference organised in cooperation with the Acropolis Museum, the Onassis Foundation, the Belgian School at Athens and the Norwegian Institute at Athens.

A coin for the dead, coins for the living. Charon’s obol: the end of a Myth? – 23 – 25 November 2017. International Conference organised in cooperation with the Belgian School at Athens, the Italian School at Athens, the European Center for Numismatic Studies, the University of Lille-3-HALMA and Radboud University.

Theorizing Historical Culture – 1 & 2 December 2017. International Workshop organised in cooperation with historein (a review of the past and other stories) and the Hellenic Open University.

2016

Oikos, Taphos, Temenos. Iconography in Greek context – 26-27 February 2016. Conference organised in cooperation with the Belgian Archaeological School and the University of Thessaly.

Exhibiting Dress: Engaging with the past and the present – 28 May 2016. Conference organised in cooperation with the Hellenic Costume Society.

History Unwanted: Testimonies, silence and public memory – 30 September-1 October 2016. Dutch-Greek academic workshop.

Strategies of Remembrance in Greece under Rome – 19-21 October 2016. Early Career Scholar conference, organised in cooperation with Groningen University and Goethe University Frankfurt.

Herodotus in Modern Europe – 10-12 November 2016. Sixth session in the framework of the Colloquium series “The Role of Classics in the formation of European and National identities”.

Mortuary variability and social diversity in ancient Greece – 1-2 December 2016. Early Career Scholar Conference organised by T. Dijkstra (Groningen University) en N. Dimakis (Universiteit of Athens).

Jewish life after the return: Dutch and Greek experiences after the Holocaust – 10-11 December 2016. Dutch-Greek academic workshop.

Μετακινήσεις πληθυσμών στη Θεσσαλία κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου (Population movements in Thessaly during the Early Iron age) – 16 December 2016. Workshop organised by Eleni Papagiotopoulou (Groningen University).

2015

Migration in the margins of Europe. Methodological & epistemological themes – 24 January 2015. Round table discussion in the framework of the course “Migration in the Margins of Europe“. 

Introducing the Routledge Handbook of White Collar and Corporate Crime in Europe – 14 December 2015. Conference on the occasion of the publication of  “The Routledge Handbook of White Collar and Corporate Crime in Europe”.

2014

Ethnographies of Settled and New Immigrants Communities in Crisis-Ridden Greece — 9 January 2014.

Athens, Modern Capital and Historic City: New Challenges for Heritage Management. Managing Athens as a Tourism Destination 1914-2014: State Intervention, Social Practices and Contemporary Challenges — 7 April 2014.

The Dawn of Nationalists: Society and Politics in Contemporary Greece — 26 June 2014.

2013

New Directions in Migration Research: Research in Progress — 12 January 2013.

Greek Contests in an Age of (Ancient) Globalization — 28 January 2013.

Civic Honours: The politics of honour in the Greek cities of Roman Imperial times (1st-3rd c. AD)— 2 februari 2013.

AIPMA XII International Conference: Context and Meaning — 16–20 September 2013.

Logistics in a changing Europe — 4 October 2013.

Athens, Modern Capital and Historic City: New Challenges for Heritage Management. Redesigning the Historic Center of Athens: The Impact of Urban Regeneration Projects — 14 October 2013.

Athens, Modern Capital and Historic City: New Challenges for Heritage Management. Rebranding Athens: Culture, Tourism and Visitor Experience — 25 November 2013.

Athens, Modern Capital and Ηistoric City: New Challenges for Heritage ManagementThe Cultural Heritage of Athens: Contested Identities and Realities — 16 December 2013.

2012

Homer and the Art of Storytelling — 30 March 2012.

2011

Dutch Ethnographic Films — 23–25 May 2011.

Social Matter(s): Recent Approaches to Material Culture — 2 June 2011.

Themamiddag rond de economische crisis — 7 October 2011.

Philoxenia, Xenophobia and Violence — 4 November 2011.

Recent Developments in the Long-Term Archaeology of Greece — 13–15 December 2011.

2010

Early Helladic Laconia — 16 January 2010.

Subsistence, Economy and Society in the Greek World: Improving the integration of archaeology and science — 22–24 March 2010.

Introduction to the NIA — 8 October 2010.

2009

Recent Archaeological Research on Kephallonia, Ithaka and Zakynthos by the 35th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the Netherlands Institute at Athens — 30 October 2009.

The Role of Classics in the Formation of European and National Identities: Euripides in Modern Europe — 5–7 November 2009.

Geosciences and Archaeology. Reading the archaeological landscape — 7 December 2009.

National Dutch Archives and Greek History: Presentation of studies based on Dutch archive material and research perspectives — 14 December 2009.