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CLOSEThe Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is dedicated to the study of the political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental history of the Greek world and the wider regions where Hellenism has flourished, from prehistoric antiquity to the present day.
The Institute was established in 2012 through the merger of the three humanities research institutes of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (CGRA, CBR, andCINR), the oldest research centers in Greece devoted exclusively to historical and philological studies.
The IHR carries out research and educational activities that focus on historical documentation and interpretation, the production and dissemination of new knowledge, and the training of emerging scholars. In doing so, it contributes both to national self-understanding and to the international scholarly presence of Greece.
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Διοργάνωση: Τομέας Βυζαντινών Ερευνών (ΤΒΕ/ΙΙΕ)
November 04, 2025 - May 28, 2026
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In this podcast, Valentin Schneider, Research Collaborator in the Institute of Historical Research, talks about the German Occupation Database. What is this database? What kind of information does it include? How does the digitisation of the archive help research? How does the German administration record war crimes? How are the excessive German losses during the Battle of Crete justified? Is the German occupation of Greece and eastern Europe different than the one in western Europe? How many German soldiers came to Greece during the war?
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The new, annual, open-access journal Witnessing: A Journal of Critical Humanities and Socially Engaged Arts has been published in December 2025.
Thoroughly interdisciplinary, the journal deals with the study of the past and present, through the looking glass of history, sound, listening and the notion of witnessing. Witnessing aims at enriching and critically informing perceptions about listening, sound, violence, resistance, and marginalization, cultivating a space for critical thinking and critical o/auralities, rupturing and transgressing the boundaries of national archives and archives of violence.
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.
The initiative is endorsed by the Demos Center, the Institute of Hellenic Culture and Liberal Arts, ACG; the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
January 27 - May 26, 2026
In this podcast, Hariclia Brecoulaki, Senior Research in the Institute of Historical Research, talks about colour in antiquity. What is colour? How was it made? Where was colour used? How did ancient writers talk about colour? Is it true that they thought that the sea is red? Was the Parthenon really painted with bright colours?
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In this podcast, Vyron Antoniadis, Senior Researcher in the Institute of Historical Research, talks about ancient roads, with particular reference to Crete. What is a road? How do we study roads in antiquity? How do modern tools, such as GIS, contribute to archaeological research? What is the relationship between roads and cemetaries?
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Events
This year’s numismatic seminar will be held in hybrid mode. The aim of the seminar is to demonstrate the strength of the numismatic research in Greece by pointing out the links and interactions of the discipline with history and archaeology.
Organised by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) and the École française d’Athènes (EFA).
19:00
French School in Athens, (6 Didotou str.) & Online
This year’s numismatic seminar will be held in hybrid mode. The aim of the seminar is to demonstrate the strength of the numismatic research in Greece by pointing out the links and interactions of the discipline with history and archaeology.
Organised by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) and the École française d’Athènes (EFA).
19:00
French School in Athens, (6 Didotou str.) & Online
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.
The initiative is endorsed by the Demos Center, the Institute of Hellenic Culture and Liberal Arts, ACG; the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
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.
The initiative is endorsed by the Demos Center, the Institute of Hellenic Culture and Liberal Arts, ACG; the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
Διοργάνωση: Τομέας Βυζαντινών Ερευνών (ΤΒΕ/ΙΙΕ)
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Διοργάνωση: Τομέας Βυζαντινών Ερευνών (ΤΒΕ/ΙΙΕ)
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The Seminars on Greek and Roman Antiquity aim at presenting the most recent findings of research on the ancient Greek and Roman World, as well as on the wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean. They aspire to engage all disciplines relating to the study of the ancient world, focusing both on the written sources and on the material evidence, through the participation of experienced as well as younger scholars.
Co-organised by the Institute of Historical Research of the NHRF, the Department of History and Archaeology of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and the École Française d’Athènes.
October 2025 – June 2026
French School in Athens (6 Didotou str., Athens) & Online
The Seminars on Greek and Roman Antiquity aim at presenting the most recent findings of research on the ancient Greek and Roman World, as well as on the wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean. They aspire to engage all disciplines relating to the study of the ancient world, focusing both on the written sources and on the material evidence, through the participation of experienced as well as younger scholars.
Co-organised by the Institute of Historical Research of the NHRF, the Department of History and Archaeology of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and the École Française d’Athènes.
October 2025 – June 2026
French School in Athens (6 Didotou str., Athens) & Online
Recent publications
Strapped for Cash: Needy Soldiers, Reluctant Authorities
Studies on Military Payments in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Edited by: Panagiotis P. Iossif, Evangeline Markou
Peloponnesian Senate: A political institution of the Greek Revolution
Conference Proceedings, Tripoli and Stadio Tegeas, 6-8 November 2020
Edited by: Dimitris Dimitropoulos, Vassilis Panayotopoulos, Maria Christina Chatziioannou
Nationalist Movements and Philhellenism
Proceedings of the International Conference, 4-6 February 2021
Edited by: Sophia Matthaiou, Alexandra Sfoini, Maria Christina Chatziioannou
Archaeology of Colour
Technical Art History Studies in Greek and Roman Painting and Polychromy
Edited by: Hariclia Brecoulaki
The economy in the years of the Revolution
Proceedings of International Conference, 1-2 October 2021
Edited by: Dimitris Dimitropoulos, Maria Christina Chatziioannou
At the Sources of European Poetry in Roman and in Frankish Lands
Epic and Lyric Poetry, Romances (IX-XIV Centuries)
Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos
Main page image: Photo: Giannis Voulgarakis