In this podcast, Eleutherios Despotakis, Researcher in the Institute of Historical Research, talks about the practice of matheteia, training, in Venetian Crete, during the late medieval period (14th-15th centuries). What exactly was the practice of matheteia? What was the relationship between matheteia and the society of Chandax (modern Herakleion)? Did girls learn to read and write? Who were the teachers and how were they paid?

In this podcast, Christy Constantakopoulou, Senior Researcher in the Institute of Historical Research, and Vyron Antoniadis, Senior Researcher in the Institute of Historical Research, talk about the history of Delos during the archaic and classical periods.

In this podcast, Kostas Tampakis, Senior Researcher in the Institute of Historical Research, talks about the relationship between scientific research and Orthodox religion in the 19th and 20th century. What was the relationship between sciences and orthodoxy in the modern Greek state? Why were there trials for atheism in Volos in the 20th century? Does anti-communist speech and propaganda have anything to do with Orthodox religion and sciences?

Organised by: Université de Lorraine/SAMA, National Hellenic Research Foundation, École française d’Athènes, Institut universitaire de France, College Year in Athens

Muhabbet is an initiative aiming at bringing together scholars, students, and people interested in the shared social history and cultural heritage of the East Mediterranean. We wish to hold discussions about our common legacies in an informal and friendly environment, like that of the coffeehouses, which originated in the Ottoman East Mediterranean, where people used to come together to develop amicable conversations called muhabbet.

Organized by: The Institute of Hellenic Culture and Liberal Arts, The American College of Greece, the Ottoman History Program at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, and the Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Organised by: Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali – Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, within the framework of the research project “Biographing the State: A Digital Prosopography of the Greek Public Administration (19th century)”, implemented under the action funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) titled “Funding of Basic Research (Horizontal Support for all Sciences)” of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0”, with funding from the European Union – NextGenerationEU (Project ID: H.F.R.I. 15056).